Developing Conversational Interfaces for iOS 
by Martin Mitrevski
Learn how to incorporate your own conversational interfaces into iOS applications. This book will help you work comfortably multiple frameworks, including Apple's Speech and SiriKit frameworks; Google's API.AI conversational interfaces platform; and Facebook's Wit.ai. You'll explore the basics of natural language processing on iOS and see how to develop sentiment analysis with Apple'...
Price: $19.32 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Aravind Shenoy, Anirudh Prabhu
Learn how to use lightweight CSS framework alternatives to build intuitive websites. This book presents five project examples that use Skeleton, Miligram, UI Kit, Material Design Lite and Susy. This no-nonsense introduction will help you understand the concept of designing interactive websites using these frameworks with ease. Each framework is demonstrated through a practical project in an easy-to-understa...
Price: $22.11 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Objective-C for Absolute Beginners, 4th Edition
by Stefan Kaczmarek, Brad Lees, Gary Bennett, Mitch Fisher
Learn Objective-C and its latest release, and learn how to mix Swift with it. You have a great idea for an app, but how do you bring it to fruition? With Objective-C, the universal language of iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. Using a hands-on approach, you'll learn how to think in programming terms, how to use Objective-C to construct program logic, and how to synthesize it all into working apps. Gary Benne...
Price: $34.05 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Geoff Hulten
Produce a fully functioning Intelligent System that leverages machine learning and data from user interactions to improve over time and achieve success.This book teaches you how to build an Intelligent System from end to end and leverage machine learning in practice. You will understand how to apply your existing skills in software engineering, data science, machine learning, management, and program managem...
Price: $30.17 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Bikramaditya Singhal, Gautam Dhameja, Priyansu Sekhar Panda
Understand the nuts and bolts of Blockchain, its different flavors with simple use cases, and cryptographic fundamentals. You will also learn some design considerations that can help you build custom solutions.Beginning Blockchain is a beginner's guide to understanding the core concepts of Blockchain from a technical perspective. By learning the design constructs of different types of Blockchain, you w...
Price: $26.63 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Michael Stueben
Improve your coding skills and learn how to write readable code. Rather than teach basic programming, this book presumes that readers understand the fundamentals, and offers time-honed best practices for style, design, documenting, testing, refactoring, and more. Taking an informal, conversational tone, author Michael Stueben offers programming stories, anecdotes, observations, advice, tricks, examples, and...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Mastering 3D Printing in the Classroom, Library, and Lab
by Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
Learn how to manage and integrate the technology of 3D printers in the classroom, library, and lab. With this book, the authors give practical, lessons-learned advice about the nuts and bolts of what happens when you mix 3D printers, teachers, students, and the general public in environments ranging from K-12 and university classrooms to libraries, museums, and after-school community programs.Take your exis...
Price: $25.32 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Program the Internet of Things with Swift for iOS, 2nd Edition
by Ahmed Bakir
Learn how to build apps using Apple's native APIs for the Internet of Things, including the Apple Watch, HomeKit, and Apple Pay. You'll also see how to interface with popular third-party hardware such as the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and the FitBit family of devices.Program the Internet of Things with Swift and iOS is an update to the previous version and includes all new Swift 4 code. This book is a...
Price: $28.47 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Modern API Design with ASP.NET Core 2
by Fanie Reynders
Use ASP.NET Core 2 to create durable and cross-platform web APIs through a series of applied, practical scenarios. Examples in this book help you build APIs that are fast and scalable. You'll progress from the basics of the framework through to solving the complex problems encountered in implementing secure RESTful services. The book is packed full of examples showing how Microsoft's ground-up rew...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Practical Enterprise Data Lake Insights
by Saurabh Gupta, Venkata Giri
Use this practical guide to successfully handle the challenges encountered when designing an enterprise data lake and learn industry best practices to resolve issues.When designing an enterprise data lake you often hit a roadblock when you must leave the comfort of the relational world and learn the nuances of handling non-relational data. Starting from sourcing data into the Hadoop ecosystem, you will go t...
Price: $24.14 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018