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What will you learn from this book?Its no secret the world around you is becoming more connected, more configurable, more programmable, more computational. You can remain a passive participant, or you can learn to code. With Head First Learn to Code youll learn how to think computationally and how to write code to make your computer, mobile device, or anything with a CPU do things for you. Using the Python programming language, youll learn step by step the core concepts of programming as well as many fundamental topics from computer science, such as data structures, storage, abstraction, recursion, and modularity.Why does this book look so different?Based on the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory, Head First Learn to Code uses a visually rich format to engage your mind, rather than a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep. Why waste your time struggling with new concepts? This multi-sensory learning experience is designed for the way your brain really works.

The book is perfect for makers new to leatherworking, as well as experienced leatherworkers who want to understand how to integrate new digital fabrication tools into their workbench. Written by an experienced leatherworker and programmer, this is a resource that makers will turn to again and again.

Minecraft for Makers explores the intersection of this creative and beloved electronic game with the real world. It gives readers the opportunity to take familiar objects from the game - such as blocks, jack o'lanterns, and mobs - and make real-world versions of them.

Make: Volume 57 is all about cheap computers and microcontrollers! First, go in depth with maker luminary Limor Fried and the rockstars at Adafruit in our cover story. Then, take a look at the coolest new boards that should be on your radar this year, or make your own with the new Voltera V-One desktop circuit board printer.

Zero to Maker is the career guide for the maker movement. Fun and readable, it's the fastest way to understand and join in our digital manufacturing future.

Feature engineering is a crucial step in the machine-learning pipeline, yet this topic is rarely examined on its own. With this practical book, youll learn techniques for extracting and transforming featuresthe numeric representations of raw datainto formats for machine-learning models. Each chapter guides you through a single data problem, such as how to represent text or image data. Together, these examples illustrate the main principles of feature engineering.Rather than simply teach these principles, authors Alice Zheng and Amanda Casari focus on practical application with exercises throughout the book. The closing chapter brings everything together by tackling a real-world, structured dataset with several feature-engineering techniques. Python packages including numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, and Matplotlib are used in code examples.Youll examine:Feature engineering for numeric data: filtering, binning, scaling, log transforms, and power transformsNatural text techniques: bag-of-words, n-grams, and phrase detectionFrequency-based filtering and feature scaling for eliminating uninformative featuresEncoding techniques of categorical variables, including feature hashing and bin-countingModel-based feature engineering with principal component analysisThe concept of model stacking, using k-means as a featurization techniqueImage feature extraction with manual and deep-learning techniques

If you want to push your Java skills to the next level, this book provides expert advice from Java leaders and practitioners. Youll be encouraged to look at problems in new ways, take broader responsibility for your work, stretch yourself by learning new techniques, and become as good at the entire craft of development as you possibly can.Edited by Kevlin Henney and Trisha Gee, 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know reflects lifetimes of experience writing Java software and living with the process of software development. Great programmers share their collected wisdom to help you rethink Java practices, whether working with legacy code or incorporating changes since Java 8.A few of the 97 things you should know:"e;Behavior Is Easy, State Is Hard"e;Edson YanagaLearn Java Idioms and Cache in Your BrainJeanne BoyarskyJava Programming from a JVM Performance PerspectiveMonica Beckwith"e;Garbage Collection Is Your Friend"e;Holly K CumminsJava's Unspeakable TypesBen Evans"e;The Rebirth of Java"e;Sander MakDo You Know What Time It Is?Christin Gorman

Have you ever felt frustrated working with someone else's code? Difficult-to-maintain source code is a big problem in software development today, leading to costly delays and defects. Be part of the solution. With this practical book, you'll learn 10 easy-to-follow guidelines for delivering Java software that's easy to maintain and adapt

The coloring book includes 12 images from the O'Reilly Animal image archive, converted for coloring by O'Reilly designer Karen Montgomery. These beautiful reproductions of 19th century engravings are printed on heavyweight paper with nothing on the back to compromise your own colorful masterpieces.

Delve into classic projects like building a tin can camping stove and making your own signature cocktail bitters, then organize your cupboard with a periodic table of spices and construct a superior, microcontroller-driven cold brew coffee tower.

Your new product is ready to launch and youre itching to tell potential customers all about it. But how do you make your message stand out above all the noise and marketing clutter? Take the guesswork out of content management with this hands-on guide. Youll learn how to produce and manage powerful content pieces that speak directly to customers and compel them to respond.Author Laura Busche walks you through content strategies and tactics drawn from business, design, and psychology insights. Packed with examples and exercises, this book teaches you how to tell your story with engaging copy, potent images, and striking designall carefully orchestrated through well-oiled production management. Solopreneurs, startups, marketing managers, and execs will learn 10 Essential Steps to Content Success, with deep dives into:Content strategy: understand your audience, choose and prioritize channels, and find your brands core themes, voice, and toneContent creation: craft an engaging experience with content formats and copywriting formulas and templatesContent management: organize, delegate, and supervise tasks; optimize the content production process to reuse successful patterns

This practical book presents a data scientist's approach to building language-aware products with applied machine learning.

This hands-on guide shows developers and systems administrators familiar with Hadoop how to install, use, and manage cloud-born clusters efficiently. You'll learn how to architect clusters that work with cloud-provider features-not just to avoid pitfalls, but also to take full advantage of these services.

Manage your data with a system designed to support modern application development. Updated for MongoDB 4.2, the third edition of this authoritative and accessible guide shows you the advantages of using document-oriented databases.

High-quality images have an amazing power of attraction. Just add some stunning photos and graphics to your website or app and watch your user engagement and conversion numbers climb. It can be tricky, but with this practical guide, youll master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internetwithout adversely affecting site performance.Youll learn the nuts and bolts of color theory, image formats, storage and management, operations delivery, browser and application behavior, the responsive web, and many other topics. Ideal for developers, this book also provides useful tips, tricks, and practical theory for processing and displaying powerful images that wont slow down your online product.Explore digital image theory and the different formats availableDive into JPEGs, SVG and vector images, lossless compression, and other formatsUse techniques for downloading and rendering images in a browser, and for loading images on mobile devices and cellular networksExamine specific rendering techniques, such as lazy loading, image processing, image consolidation, and responsive imagesTake responsive images to the next level by using content negotiation between browser and server with the Client Hints HTTP standardLearn how to operationalize your image workflowContributors include Colin Bendell, Tim Kadlec, Yoav Weiss, Guy Podjarny, Nick Doyle, and Mike McCall from Akamai Technologies.

Industrial Revolutionaries is the second volume in William Gurstelle's unique exploration of history's great inventors. Each chapter revisits the life and times of one of the important inventors of the Industrial Revolution. Uniquely, this book also gives you step-by-step instructions for recreating the invention yourself.

There are many excellent R resources for visualization, data science, and package development. Hundreds of scattered vignettes, web pages, and forums explain how to use R in particular domains. But little has been written on how to simply make R work effectivelyuntil now. This hands-on book teaches novices and experienced R users how to write efficient R code.Drawing on years of experience teaching R courses, authors Colin Gillespie and Robin Lovelace provide practical advice on a range of topicsfrom optimizing the set-up of RStudio to leveraging C++that make this book a useful addition to any R users bookshelf. Academics, business users, and programmers from a wide range of backgrounds stand to benefit from the guidance in Efficient R Programming.Get advice for setting up an R programming environmentExplore general programming concepts and R coding techniquesUnderstand the ingredients of an efficient R workflowLearn how to efficiently read and write data in RDive into data carpentrythe vital skill for cleaning raw dataOptimize your code with profiling, standard tricks, and other methodsDetermine your hardware capabilities for handling R computationMaximize the benefits of collaborative R programmingAccelerate your transition from R hacker to R programmer

This practical book delivers a deep introduction to Apache Flink, a highly innovative open source stream processor with a surprising range of capabilities.

The workbenches of hobbyists, hackers, and makers have become overrun with microcontrollers, computers-on-a-chip that power homebrewed video games, robots, toys, and more. In Making Things Talk, Tom Igoe, one of the creators of Arduino, shows how to make these gadgets talk.

Edible Inventions: Cooking Hacks and Yummy Recipes You Can Build, Mix, Bake, and Grow will show you some unusual ways to create a meal, and help you invent some of your own.

Kid Crafts introduces younger children to the magic of electronics through the softer side of circuits! Young explorers will learn about electronics through sewing and craft projects aimed at maker parents and their children, elementary school teachers, and kids' activity leaders.

A wave of new technology has rekindled the dream of virtual reality. But what can you really do with it? We take a look at how Makers are embracing VR to build digital worlds and real-life interfaces with them, and show you how too.

Robots are a quintessential maker passion. Whether you are diving into a kit or building a bot from scratch, anyone can make a robot nowadays. Volume 55 shows you how to build an adorable, 3D-printed balancing bot, how to assemble a Strandbeest-style walker with Lego, and how to find the right robot kit for your needs with our handy overview of what is on the market today. Plus, learn programming by playing with robots, and get started with a shared operating system designed specifically for robotic projects.More than 24 projects, including:Build a Harry Potter-themed lamp controlled by a Raspberry Pi-powered magic wandMake a sweet 3D-printed camera that snaps animated GIFsAssemble a random yes/no circuit you can control with a hidden switchConstruct a dazzling LED-matrix handbagAnd much more.

The Customer-Driven Playbook details a complete end-to-end process to help large teams and organizations learn from their customers, conceptualize new ideas, and build products their customers will love.

In this issue we go back to the basics to teach you fundamental Maker skills. Our Skill School is packed with over 60 skills to help you get started or refine your craft. In this issue we also check in with some of the famous Makers we have featured over the last ten years for their tips and tricks.

Linux for Makers is the first book that explains the Linux operating system specifically for Makers, as opposed to programmers and administrators. By gaining a deeper understanding of Linux, Makers can add another useful tool to their kit that will help them build their projects more easily.

Forrest M. Mims is a revered contributor to Make: magazine, where his popular columns about science-related topics and projects for Makers are evergreen treasures. Collected together here for the first time, these columns range from such simple projects to such challenging builds as an ultra-sensitive twilight photometer.

Data science teams looking to turn research into useful analytics applications require not only the right tools, but also the right approach if theyre to succeed. With the revised second edition of this hands-on guide, up-and-coming data scientists will learn how to use the Agile Data Science development methodology to build data applications with Python, Apache Spark, Kafka, and other tools.Author Russell Jurney demonstrates how to compose a data platform for building, deploying, and refining analytics applications with Apache Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, d3.js, scikit-learn, and Apache Airflow. Youll learn an iterative approach that lets you quickly change the kind of analysis youre doing, depending on what the data is telling you. Publish data science work as a web application, and affect meaningful change in your organization.Build value from your data in a series of agile sprints, using the data-value pyramidExtract features for statistical models from a single datasetVisualize data with charts, and expose different aspects through interactive reportsUse historical data to predict the future via classification and regressionTranslate predictions into actionsGet feedback from users after each sprint to keep your project on track

In this practical book, C.J. Date provides a model for type inheritance that is not programming-language-specific. This model provides programmers who specialize in one language the broader background to understand and implement types in other languages. Exercises are included with most chapters.

With this practical guide, you'll learn how to put search engine optimization (SEO) methodology into practice, including the research, data analysis, and constant experimentation required to build an SEO program specific to your organization that can help you improve search results.