by Simon A. Kingaby
Design and build innovative, custom, data-driven Alexa skills for home or business. Working through several projects, this book teaches you how to build Alexa skills and integrate them with online APIs. If you have basic Python skills, this book will show you how to build data-driven Alexa skills. You will learn to use data to give your Alexa skills dynamic intelligence, in-depth knowledge, and the ability ...
Price: $36.66 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
by Ben Coepp
Get started quickly with Qt, the popular open source C++ framework for building C++-based applications and games. This book will have you building both fully functional desktop and mobile applications in no time, including some simple game applications. Introducing Qt 6 begins by guiding you in setting up your tools and environment, and then walks you through the first "baby steps" of Qt framework...
Price: $28.72 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
Azure Kubernetes Services with Microservices
by Kasam Ahmed Shaikh, Shailesh S. Agaskar
Design and implement scalable microservices using Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) and other Azure Services. This book will help you understand why and when to choose microservices as a solution for modernization and how to use Azure DevOps to implement CI/CD for deploying microservices.The book starts with an introduction to the evolution to microservices and AKS along with its components. You will learn de...
Price: $53.65 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
by Sean Whitesell, Rob Richardson, Matthew D. Groves
Know the fundamentals of creating and deploying microservices using .NET 6 and gain insight from prescriptive guidance in this book on the when and why to incorporate them.The microservices architecture is a way of distributing process workloads to independent applications. This distribution allows for the independent applications to scale and evolve separately. It also enables developers to dismantle large...
Price: $48.44 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
by Jayven Nhan
Embark on a journey to build an augmented reality world. This book puts theory into practical application by building unique augmented reality apps specific to each chapter's topic.You'll learn to engineer successful, well-designed, and comprehensive augmented reality applications for Apple devices. First, uncover the foundation of augmented reality on Apple platforms. Understand the building bloc...
Price: $34.47 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
Beginning VFX with Autodesk Maya
by Abhishek Kumar
Dive into the nuances of visual effects (VFX) design, from planning to execution, using Autodesk Maya. This book introduces the methods and techniques required for your first foray into 3D FX generation from scratch. You will start with the fundamentals of visual effects, including a history of VFX, tools and techniques for creating believable visual effects, and popular tools used in the industry. Next, yo...
Price: $48.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
Modern Parallel Programming with C++ and Assembly Language
by Daniel Kusswurm
Learn the fundamentals of x86 Single instruction multiple data (SIMD) programming using C++ intrinsic functions and x86-64 assembly language. This book emphasizes x86 SIMD programming topics and technologies that are relevant to modern software development in applications which can exploit data level parallelism, important for the processing of big data, large batches of data and related important in data s...
Price: $41.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
by Benjamin Schmeling, Maximilian Dargatz
Building applications for Kubernetes is both a challenge and an opportunity - a challenge because the options and complexity to develop for Kubernetes are evolving rapidly, an opportunity because, if done right, your applications will go into production quicker, scale easier, and run smoother.This book outlines the impact of Containers and Kubernetes on modern software development and discusses the applicat...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
by Gianpiero Moioli
Master the basics of 3D modeling for art, architecture, and design by exploring Blender 3.0. This book explains modeling, materials, lighting, painting, and more with Blender and other external tools.You will configure a 3D architectural environment and set up the workflow of an art and design project within Blender. You will use Blender's main tools - mesh modeling and sculpting - to create virtual ob...
Price: $40.80 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
C++ Software Interoperability for Windows Programmers
by Adam Gladstone
Get up-to-speed quickly and connect modern code written in C#, R, and Python to an existing codebase written in C++. This book for practitioners is about software interoperability in a Windows environment from C++ to languages such as C#, R, and Python. Using a series of example projects, the book demonstrates how to connect a simple C++ codebase packaged as a static or dynamic library to modern clients wri...
Price: $37.83 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
