Learn to Program with App Inventor
by Lyra Blizzard Logan
You've swiped and tapped your way through countless apps, but have you ever created one? Now you can, thanks to Learn to Program with App Inventor. In less than an hour, you'll be able to build and run your first app!App Inventor is a free software for making Android apps. All you need is a PC with an Internet connection to build your app, and a mobile phone for testing. You'll use a simple d...
Price: $22.23 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2019
by Jonathan E. Steinhart
Many coders are unfamiliar with the underlying technologies that make their programs run. But why should you care when your code appears to work? Because you want it to run well and not be riddled with hard-to-find bugs. You don't want to be in the news because your code had a security problem.Lots of technical detail is available online but it's not organized or collected into a convenient place....
Price: $33.14 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2019
by John Calcote
The GNU Autotools make it easy for developers to create software that is portable across many Unix-like operating systems, and even Windows. Although the Autotools are used by thousands of open source software packages, they have a notoriously steep learning curve.Autotools is the first book to offer programmers a tutorial-based guide to the GNU build system. Author John Calcote begins with an overview of h...
Price: $31.00 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2019
by Alexander Dean, Valentin Crettaz
Event Streams in Action is a foundational book introducing the ULP paradigm and presenting techniques to use it effectively in data-rich environments.Many high-profile applications, like LinkedIn and Netflix, deliver nimble, responsive performance by reacting to user and system events as they occur. In large-scale systems, this requires efficiently monitoring, managing, and reacting to multiple event stream...
Price: $17.48 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2019
by Timo Tuominen
RxJava for Android Developers teaches you how to build fast, fluid, and reactive mobile apps for Android with RxJava.For Android developers, writing multithreaded apps can be as challenging as it is necessary. RxJava simplifies complex threading operations, maintaining proper synchronization as you switch seamlessly from thread to thread. RxJava also brings the benefits of reactive programming to your apps ...
Price: $23.97 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2019
by Nicolai Parlog
Java's much-awaited "Project Jigsaw" is finally here! Java 11 includes a built-in modularity framework, and The Java Module System is your guide to discovering it. In this new book, you'll learn how the module system improves reliability and maintainability, and how it can be used to reduce tight coupling of system components.Packaging code into neat, well-defined units makes it easier t...
Price: $24.18 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2019
C++ Concurrency in Action, 2nd Edition
by Anthony Williams
This bestseller has been updated and revised to cover all the latest changes to C++ 14 and 17! C++ Concurrency in Action, 2nd Edition teaches you everything you need to write robust and elegant multithreaded applications in C++17.You choose C++ when your applications need to run fast. Well-designed concurrency makes them go even faster. C++ 17 delivers strong support for the multithreaded, multiprocessor pr...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2019
Serverless Applications with Node.js
by Slobodan Stojanovic, Aleksandar Simovic
Serverless Applications with Node.js walks you through building serverless apps on AWS using JavaScript. Inside, you'll discover what Claudia.js brings to the table as you build and deploy a scalable event-based serverless application, based around a pizzeria that's fully integrated with AWS services, including Lambda and API Gateway. Each chapter is filled with exercises, examples, tips, and more...
Price: $32.85 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2019
by Tommaso Teofili
Deep Learning for Search teaches you how to improve the effectiveness of your search by implementing neural network-based techniques. By the time you're finished with the book, you'll be ready to build amazing search engines that deliver the results your users need and that get better as time goes on!Deep learning handles the toughest search challenges, including imprecise search terms, badly inde...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2019
by Geoffrey Lessel
Phoenix is a modern web framework built for the Elixir programming language. Elegant, fault-tolerant, and performant, Phoenix is as easy to use as Rails and as rock-solid as Elixir's Erlang-based foundation. Phoenix in Action builds on your existing web dev skills, teaching you the unique benefits of Phoenix along with just enough Elixir to get the job done.Modern web applications need to be efficient ...
Price: $28.47 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2019