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Haskell Bookcamp builds your skills with production-quality Haskell code by creating interesting projects. As you work through each application, you will master Haskell basics and functional programming and dip into the language's advanced features. Haskell's abstract concepts can be confusing--so you will learn them from the ground up with real-world examples rather than tedious academic exercises. Learn how to structure real-world applications, work with the Haskell toolchain effectively and what to look out for when writing critical sections in the programme's logic. Best of all, each project in this book is fully extensible and customisable, so you can keep tinkering with your favourites! About the reader For readers who know how to program in an object-orientated language.
Open up How Computers Make Books, and you will learn how computers use math and computer science to lay out and produce a book. Explore text, fonts, and means of putting ink onto the page. Dive into the history of typesetting and printing and see how that history informs today's technology for both physical books and eBooks. You will learn the importance of both mathematical calculation and artistic taste and how only a combination of the two leads to beautiful books. By the time you are done reading, you will have a better understanding of how computer science can solve problems and the complex technology that went into every book you own. About the reader This book is for everyone--from those clueless but curious about computer science to tech professionals interested in the ingenious solutions created to solve the big problems of printing.
about the book ASP.NET Core in Action, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide to creating web applications with ASP.NET Core 7.0. You'll quickly progress from HTTP concepts to advanced framework customization. Illustrations and annotated code make learning visual and easy, while hands-on examples demonstrate logins, dependency injection, security, and more. This updated edition covers the latest features and new paradigms of ASP.NET Core 7, such as minimal APIs and minimal hosting. About the reader For intermediate C# developers.
Creativity is essential to being a successful programmer. Each chapter in The Creative Programmer introduces you to a new theme of creativity that is derived from scientifically sound research. Discover the importance of communication, how constraints can make you more creative, methods to improve your critical thinking, and more. Short stories, examples, and exercises will help you understand each new idea and clearly demonstrate how you can apply them to programming. You will even be able to track your progress against a scientifically validated Creative Programming Problem Solving Test! Along the way, you will enjoy examples and stories that show what makes creative technical geniuses tick. About the reader For programmers of all experience and skill levels.
Grokking Concurrency is a friendly guide for any developer, perplexed about concurrency. It focuses on the fundamentals, explaining concurrent programming and asynchrony in a math and jargon-free way. Fun illustrations and diagrams make complex concepts easy to understand. The book presents the most important concurrency features with examples in the accessible Python language. No matter what language you use, you'll learn best practices for implementing concurrency. About the reader For readers who know the basics of programming. Examples are in Python.
Statistics Slam Dunk: Statistical analysis with R on real NBA data is an interesting and engaging how-to guide for statistical analysis using R. It is packed with practical statistical techniques, each demonstrated using real-world data taken from NBA games. In each chapter, you will discover a new (and sometimes surprising!) insight into basketball, with careful step-by-step instructions on how to generate those revelations. You will get practical experience cleaning, manipulating, exploring, testing, and otherwise analysing data with base R functions and useful R packages. R's visualisation capabilities shine through in the book's 300 visualizations, and almost 30 plots and charts including Pareto charts and Sankey diagrams. Much more than a beginner's guide, this book explores advanced analytics techniques and data wrangling packages. You will find yourself returning again and again to use this book as a handy reference! About the reader Requires a beginning knowledge of basic statistics concepts. No advanced knowledge of statistics, machine learning, R - or basketball - required.
Acing the System Design Interview teaches you how to effectively demonstrate your system design expertise in an interview environment. In this in-depth guide, author Zhiyong Tan shares what he has learned on both sides of the interview table. The book's serious technical overviews cover everything there is to know about system design - from the frameworks for functional partitioning, to different API paradigms. You will learn how to quickly assess a question, identify an advantageous approach, and then clearly articulate it to an interviewer. A structured approach to preparing for your interview, handy note-taking techniques, and self-evaluation templates help you prep and assess how you did, and therefore improve your future performance. Along the way, you will also learn appropriate questions to ask your interviewer and methods to take good interview notes. About the reader For software engineers, software architects, and engineering managers looking to advance their careers.
.NET MAUI in Action teaches you to build cross-platform applications with the skills you already have as a .NET developer. There's no platform-specific knowledge needed to get started; you'll learn everything you need about Android, iOS, and more through the book's hands-on guidance. You'll dive straight into creating apps and rapidly progress from "Aloha World" to To-Do list apps, a movie recommender app, and eventually a full-stack solution using enterprise architecture patterns. You'll also learn how to use GitHub Actions to deploy robust, testable, and maintainable apps. Learn how to deliver a consistent look and feel for your apps across platforms while tailoring your user experience to relevant devices. Throughout, you'll use the built-in controls of .NET MAUI and learn how to develop your own custom solutions. You'll soon be confidently delivering complex apps without mastering platform-specific skill sets. About the reader For experienced .NET developers.
Take control of your personal data. Learn how companies manipulate and exploit your data and what you can do to access, delete, and monetise it yourself. The data you generate every day makes big companies rich. In Data for All, bestselling author John K Thompson outlines how this one-sided data economy is about to come to a dramatic end. Thompson pulls back the curtain to reveal the true nature of data ownership and explains how you can turn your data from an exploited resource into a financial asset. More about the book Both a handbook and a manifesto, Data for All is a must-read for anyone who wants to take control of their personal data. It lays out how businesses collect, use, and exploit data, providing a clear explanation of how the legislation overturns the existing system. By following this direct and accessible guide, you will completely change the way you handle your data. In this fascinating book, you will learn how to oversee who accesses your data, how much different types of data are worth, and how to keep private details private. You wil soon stop being a passive source of free data, and start earning a "data dividend"--hundreds or thousands of dollars paid out simply for your daily online activities. About the reader This text is for anyone curious or concerned about how their data is used, and what they can do to reclaim ownership. No technical knowledge is required. About the author John K. Thompson is an international technology executive with over 35 years of experience in the fields of data, advanced analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was an executive partner at Gartner, and he was responsible for the advanced analytics business unit of the Dell Software Group. John is the author of Analytics Teams: Harnessing Analytics and Artificial Intelligencefor Business Improvement and co-author of Analytics: How to win with Intelligence. He holds a bachelor of science degree in Computer Science from Ferris State University and an MBA in Marketing from DePaul University.
Bayesian Optimization in Action teaches you how to build Bayesian Optimisation systems from the ground up. This book transforms state-of-the-art research into usable techniques that you can easily put into practice -- all fully illustrated with useful code samples. You will hone your understanding of Bayesian Optimisation through engaging examples -- from forecasting the weather to finding the optimal amount of sugar for coffee and even deciding if someone is psychic! Along the way, you will explore scenarios with multiple objectives, when each decision has its own cost, and when feedback is in the form of pairwise comparisons. With this collection of techniques, you will be ready to find the optimal solution for everything -- from transport and logistics to cancer treatments. About the reader For machine learning practitioners who are confident in math and statistics.
Think Like a CTO is full of step-by-step guidance for succeeding as a Chief Technology Officer. Author Alan Williamson has mentored numerous CTOs who have been catapulted into the big leagues by private equity investment, acquisition, and rapid growth. In this book, he shares his hard-won lessons on how to survive and thrive in the fast-paced role. Inside you'll find practical frameworks for solving common challenges, including conducting bias-free interviewing, setting up meaningful performance reviews, and establishing teams built around a clear charter of responsibilities. Each chapter explores real scenarios CTOs face and includes the invaluable advice of veteran CTOs, recruitment specialists, and other industry experts. Harness the advice and tools in this book, and you'll soon be making data-driven decisions and putting your own brand of leadership on your CTO role.
Great search is all about delivering the right results. Today's search engines are expected to be smart and understand the nuances of natural language queries, as well as each user's preferences and context. AI-Powered Search is an authoritative guide to applying leading-edge data science techniques to search. It teaches you how to build search engines that automatically understand the intention of a query in order to deliver significantly better results. Author Trey Grainger is an expert on leading techniques for crowdsourced relevancy and semantic search and has helped develop numerous algorithms which have transformed search. Working through code in interactive notebooks, you will deploy intelligent search systems that deliver real-time personalisation and contextual understanding of each user, domain, and query through a self-learning search platform that can tune its own results automatically. About the reader For software developers or data scientists familiar with the basics of search engine development.
Guide machine learning projects with the techniques in this unique project management guide. Managing Machine Learning Projects is a comprehensive guide to delivering successful machine learning projects from idea to production. The book is laid out as a series of fictionalised sprints that take you from pre-project requirements and proposal development all the way to deployment. You will discover battle-tested techniques for ensuring you have the appropriate data infrastructure, coordinating ML experiments, and measuring model performance. With this book as your guide, you will know how to bring a project to a successful conclusion, and how to use your lessons learned for future projects. About the reader This book is for anyone interested in better management of machine learning projects. No technical skills are required!
Tiny CSS Projects develops your CSS skills through 12 delightfully creative mini-projects. Each project sets you up with a premade HTML skeleton to use as a foundation for your work. You will build up your portfolio of common and useful web designs including a loading screen, eCommerce checkout, and animated social media buttons. As you tackle each tiny project, you will learn about animation, transitions, layout, styling forms, and even typography. All the skills you master are easy to transfer to full-size applications! About the reader For readers who know the basics of HTML and frontend development. No previous experience of CSS is required.
Unlock Go’s unique perspective on program design, and start writing simple, maintainable, and testable Go code.In Go by Example you will learn how to: Write and test idiomatic and easy-to-maintain Go programs from scratch Design and structure maintainable and testable command-line applications, concurrent programs, and web servers Test Go according to best practices Spot common Go anti-patterns Understand what makes Go different from other languages Go by Example is a practical guide to writing high-quality code that’s easy to test and maintain. The book is full of best practices to adopt and anti-patterns to dodge. It explores what makes Go so dramatically different from other languages and how you can still leverage your existing skills into writing excellent Go code. Aimed at Go beginners looking to graduate to serious Go development, this book will help you write and test command line applications, web API clients and servers, concurrent programs, and more. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Writing well-designed Go code takes more than just porting across skills you’ve learned in other languages. You’ll need to understand Go’s unique way of working to ensure your programs don’t spiral out of control. This book is the perfect primer on Go’s hidden mechanics that will help you code more effective Go. About the book Go by Example teaches you to write well-designed and maintainable code in Go. By concentrating on Go’s unique characteristics, you’ll learn how to stop fighting against the language and start delivering idiomatic code that’s simple, adaptable, and testable. You’ll learn how to deliver applications and how to extend code with robust testing. Easy-to-understand visualizations and step-by-step examples help explain Go’s complexities without oversimplification. About the reader For experienced programmers who are new to Go programming. About the author Inanc Gumus has over 25 years of experience in software engineering. For the last eight years, he has been working as a consultant for Go programming, focusing on best practices and testing. Inanc is also an occasional open-source contributor to the official Go test package and teaches Go to more than 100,000 developers through his online courses, his blog, his YouTube channel, and his GitHub repository with over 20,000 stars.
About the book In Graph Neural Networks in Action you will create deep learning models that are perfect for working with interconnected graph data. Start with a comprehensive introduction to graph data's unique properties. Then, dive straight into building real-world models, including GNNs that can generate node embeddings from a social network, recommend eCommerce products, and draw insights from social sites. This comprehensive guide contains coverage of the essential GNN libraries, including PyTorch Geometric, DeepGraph Library, and Alibaba's GraphScope for training at scale. About the reader For Python programmers familiar with machine learning and the basics of deep learning.
Everything you need to implement stream processing on Apache Kafka using Kafka Streams and the kqsIDB event streaming database.Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition guides you through setting up and maintaining your streaming processing with Kafka. Inside, you’ll find comprehensive coverage of not only Kafka Streams, but the entire toolbox you’ll need for effective streaming—from the components of the Kafka ecosystem, to Producer and Consumer clients, Connect, and Schema Registry. In Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition you’ll learn how to: Design streaming applications in Kafka Streams with the KStream and the Processor API Integrate external systems with Kafka Connect Enforce data compatibility with Schema Registry Build applications that respond immediately to events in either Kafka Streams or ksqlDB Craft materialized views over streams with ksqlDB This totally revised new edition of Kafka Streams in Action has been expanded to cover more of the Kafka platform used for building event-based applications. You’ll also find full coverage of ksqlDB, an event streaming database that makes it a snap to create applications that respond immediately to events, such as real-time push and pull updates. Foreword by Jun Rao. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Enterprise applications need to handle thousands—even millions—of data events every day. With an intuitive API and flawless reliability, the lightweight Kafka Streams library has earned a spot at the center of these systems. Kafka Streams provides exactly the power and simplicity you need to manage real-time event processing or microservices messaging. About the book Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition teaches you how to create event streaming applications on the amazing Apache Kafka platform. This thoroughly revised new edition now covers a wider range of streaming architectures and includes data integration with Kafka Connect. As you go, you’ll explore real-world examples that introduce components and brokers, schema management, and the other essentials. Along the way, you’ll pick up practical techniques for blending Kafka with Spring, low-level control of processors and state stores, storing event data with ksqlDB, and testing streaming applications. What's inside Design efficient streaming applications Integrate external systems with Kafka Connect Enforce data compatibility with Schema Registry About the reader For Java developers. No knowledge of Kafka or streaming applications required. About the author Bill Bejeck is a Confluent engineer and a Kafka Streams contributor with over 15 years of software development experience. Bill is also a committer on the Apache Kafka? project. Table of Contents PART 1 1 Welcome to the Kafka event streaming platform 2 Kafka brokers PART 2 3 Schema Registry 4 Kafka clients 5 Kafka ConnectPART 3 6 Developing Kafka Streams 7 Streams and state 8 The KTable API 9 Windowing and timestamps 10 The Processor API 11 ksqlDB 12 Spring kafka 13 Kafka Streams Interactive Queries 14 Testing
Build your skills with React and its ecosystem fast. There's no slow theory and tedious history. You'll dive into React code right from the very first chapter. The book teaches you how React thinks, introducing ways of structuring your architecture that even work with large teams. React Quickly, Second Edition is a practical guide to React for busy web developers. Following over 100 carefully chosen and clearly explained examples, you'll learn React development using your existing JavaScript and web development skills. This totally rewritten second edition is full of brand new topics, including chapters on functional components, static site generations, and CSS in JS.
In Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An in-depth guide to AWS, the Wittig brothers give you a comprehensive, practical introduction to deploying and managing applications on the AWS cloud platform. With a sharp focus on the most important AWS tasks and services, they will save you hours of unproductive time. You will learn hands-on as you complete real-world projects like hosting a WordPress site, setting up a private cloud, and deploying an app on containers. About the reader Written for mid-level developers, DevOps or platform engineers, architects, and system administrators. This revised third edition features new chapters on containerization, along with a variety of AWS innovations. You will also learn how automating your infrastructure with IAC is a game changer for your cloud deployment, delivering a massive boost to efficiency and quality. You will learn how to: Leverage globally distributed data centers to launch virtual machines Enhance performance with caching data in-memory Secure workloads running in the cloud with VPC and IAM Build fault-tolerant web applications with ALB and SQS
In Evolutionary Deep Learning you'll master a toolbox of EC techniques that can be applied to any stage of the deep learning pipeline--from data collection, to hyperparameter tuning, and even optimizing network architecture. Hands-on examples demonstrate genetic algorithms and other EC approaches in action, and apply evolutionary deep learning to network topology, criterion loss and rewards, generative modeling, and reinforcement learning. Google Colab notebooks make it easy to experiment and play around with each exciting example. By the time you've finished reading, you'll be ready to build deep learning models as self-sufficient systems you can efficiently adapt to changing requirements.
Razor Pages lets you build, configure, and deploy amazing dynamic ASP.NET websites with ease. In ASP.NET Core Razor Pages in Action you will learn: Building, configuring, and publishing a data-driven website Creating a complete web application step-by-step Forms for collecting and processing user data Connecting to databases from a Razor Page Protecting areas of a Razor Page from unauthorized access with ASP.NET Identity Using Object Relational Mapping tools to work with data in Razor Pages applications Generating CRUD pages using scaffolding gestures Generating and sending email from your web application ASP.NET Core Razor Pages in Action teaches you to develop dynamic websites using the powerful Razor Pages framework, .NET 6, and ASP.NET. Razor Pages generates HTML on the server, and is the perfect choice for eCommerce sites, intranet services, content management systems, and other apps that require reliability. In this book, you'll use Razor Pages to build a complete application for booking city breaks, learning to iterate amazing new features chapter-by-chapter. about the technology Razor Pages sits on top of .NET 6 as a key part of ASP.NET Core, and has become the recommended tool for any developer building websites with Microsoft technologies. The page-focused framework is great for building dynamic websites that change frequently, and simplifies the process of building complex applications.
Have you ever asked yourself, "How do I do that in Python?" If so, you'll love this practical collection of the most important Python techniques. About the book Python How-To is full of techniques and best practices for writing readable and maintainable Python code, with careful cross-referencing that reveals how the same concept can be used in different contexts. Each chapter stands alone, so you can dip in whenever you need a practical solution to a common Python problem. About the reader For beginning to intermediate Python programmers.
Get ready to code like a pro in Rust! This hands-on guide dives deep into memory management, asynchronous programming, and Rust design patterns and explores essential productivity techniques like testing, tooling, and project management. In Code Like A Pro in Rust you will learn: Essential Rust tooling Core Rust data structures Memory management Design patterns for Rust Testing in Rust Asynchronous programming for Rust Optimized Rust Rust project management Code Like A Pro in Rust is a fast-track guide to building and delivering professional quality software in Rust. You'll upgrade your basic knowledge of Rust with conventions, best practices, and veteran's secrets that are normally only learned through years of experience. Skip the fluff and get right to the heart of this powerful modern language, including Rust's support for asynchronous programming and integrating Rust with codebases written in other languages. about the technology Programmers prize Rust for its safety, performance, and security. However, its strict syntax and tricky memory management can make it challenging to master. This practical guide shows you how to balance Rust's trade offs, lessen its cognitive load, and rapidly bring your productivity to a professional level. about the book Code Like a Pro in Rust shows you how to quickly create and ship Rust programs without wasting time on language quirks, compiler problems, and unexpected complexities. It builds on your existing Rust knowledge with design patterns and shortcuts direct from veteran Rust contributor Brenden Matthews. You'll learn to use important Rust tooling like rust-analyzer, Clippy, and Cargo, as well as best practices for unit testing and code optimization. By the time you're done, you'll be writing high quality code with less maintenance overhead.
Graphs are the natural way to understand connected data. This book explores the most important algorithms and techniques for graphs in data science, with practical examples and concrete advice on implementation and deployment. In Graph Algorithms for Data Science you will learn: Labeled-property graph modeling Constructing a graph from structured data such as CSV or SQL NLP techniques to construct a graph from unstructured data Cypher query language syntax to manipulate data and extract insights Social network analysis algorithms like PageRank and community detection How to translate graph structure to a ML model input with node embedding models Using graph features in node classification and link prediction workflows Graph Algorithms for Data Science is a hands-on guide to working with graph-based data in applications like machine learning, fraud detection, and business data analysis. It's filled with fascinating and fun projects, demonstrating the ins-and-outs of graphs. You'll gain practical skills by analyzing Twitter, building graphs with NLP techniques, and much more. You don't need any graph experience to start benefiting from this insightful guide. These powerful graph algorithms are explained in clear, jargon-free text and illustrations that makes them easy to apply to your own projects. about the technology Graphs reveal the relationships in your data. Tracking these interlinking connections reveals new insights and influences and lets you analyze each data point as part of a larger whole. This interconnected data is perfect for machine learning, as well as analyzing social networks, communities, and even product recommendations. about the book Graph Algorithms for Data Science teaches you how to construct graphs from both structured and unstructured data. You'll learn how the flexible Cypher query language can be used to easily manipulate graph structures, and extract amazing insights. The book explores common and useful graph algorithms like PageRank and community detection/clustering algorithms. Each new algorithm you learn is instantly put into action to complete a hands-on data project, including modeling a social network! Finally, you'll learn how to utilize graphs to upgrade your machine learning, including utilizing node embedding models and graph neural networks.
Google Anthos in Action comes directly from the Anthos team at Google. This comprehensive book takes a true DevOps mindset, considering Google-tested patterns for how an application is designed, built, deployed, managed, monitored, and scaled. In a cloud-centric world, all deployment is becoming hybrid deployment. Anthos is a modern, Kubernetes-based cloud platform that enables you to run your software in multi cloud, hybrid, or on-premises deployments using the same operations tools and approach. With powerful automation features, it boosts your efficiency along the whole development lifecycle. Google Anthos in Action demystifies Anthos with practical examples of Anthos at work and invaluable insights from the Google team that built it. Developers will love how having a consistent platform across clouds brings a massive performance boost by standardizing the application across deployment targets, as well as how Anthos makes it easy to modernize legacy applications to cloud native infrastructure. Operations pros will appreciate how simple it is to integrate Anthos with CI/CD pipelines, automate security and policy management, and work with enterprise-level Kubernetes. Each concept is fully illustrated with exercises and hands-on examples, so you can see the power of Anthos in action.
Learn the big skills of C programming by creating bite-size projects! Work your way through these 21 fun and interesting tiny challenges to master essential C techniques you'll use in full-size applications. Tiny C Projects builds and hones your C programming skills with interesting and exciting challenges. You'll expand your C programming portfolio by creating useful utility programs, fun games, password generators, directory utilities, and more. Each program you create starts out simple and then deepens as you explore approaches and alternatives you can use to achieve your goals. Once you're done, you'll find it easy to scale up the skills you've learned from tiny projects into real applications.
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