FREE EBOOK - Robotics, AI, and Humanity 
by Joachim von Braun, Margaret S. Archer, Gregory M. Reichberg, Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo
This open book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance implications within medicine and health care, employment, transport, manufacturing, agriculture, and armed conflict. While there has been considerable attention devoted to robotics/AI applications ...
Price: $59.99 | Publisher: Springer | Release: 2021
FREE EBOOK - Understanding the DOM
by Tania Rascia
JavaScript is the de facto programming language of the web, but the language itself does not include any built-in method for working with input/output (I/O), such as graphics display and sound. Instead, the web browser provides an API for accessing the HTML document in a tree structure known as the Document Object Model (DOM). The combination of JavaScript and the DOM is what allows us to create interactive...
Publisher: DigitalOcean | Release: 2020
Architecture Patterns with Python
by Harry Percival, Bob Gregory
As Python continues to grow in popularity, projects are becoming larger and more complex. Many Python developers are taking an interest in high-level software design patterns such as hexagonal/clean architecture, event-driven architecture, and the strategic patterns prescribed by domain-driven design (DDD). But translating those patterns into Python isn't always straightforward.With this hands-on guide...
Price: $34.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
FREE EBOOK - JavaScript: The First 20 Years
by Allen Wirfs-Brock, Brendan Eich
How a sidekick scripting language for Java, created at Netscape in a ten-day hack, ships first as a de facto Web standard and eventually becomes the world's most widely used programming language. This paper tells the story of the creation, design, evolution, and standardization of the JavaScript language over the period of 1995-2015. But the story is not only about the technical details of the language...
Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2020
Practical Machine Learning with Rust
by Joydeep Bhattacharjee
Explore machine learning in Rust and learn about the intricacies of creating machine learning applications. This book begins by covering the important concepts of machine learning such as supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, and the basics of Rust. Further, you'll dive into the more specific fields of machine learning, such as computer vision and natural language processing, and look a...
Price: $19.21 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
IoT Machine Learning Applications in Telecom, Energy, and Agriculture
by Puneet Mathur
Apply machine learning using the Internet of Things (IoT) in the agriculture, telecom, and energy domains with case studies. This book begins by covering how to set up the software and hardware components including the various sensors to implement the case studies in Python. The case study section starts with an examination of call drop with IoT in the telecoms industry, followed by a case study on energy a...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
70 Tips and Tricks for Mastering the CISSP Exam
by R. Sarma Danturthi
Learn how to think and apply knowledge in a practical way. Tackling the CISSP exam is vastly different from simply understanding the subject matter. Even the most experienced security professionals can fail because the questions are tricky and ask the test taker to pick the best of the options given.The CISSP exam conducted by ISC2 is the hardest and most rewarded cybersecurity examination. The test has sev...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
by Juan J. Merelo
Explore Raku problems and solutions using the latest version of the Raku programming language. In Raku Recipes, the emphasis is on applying Raku code to various important tasks and applications including data science, analytics, microservices, and desktop/console applications. There are also fun one-liner script recipes and instructions on how to create mini-languages of your very own.All in all, over 70 re...
Price: $36.00 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
SQL Server 2019 AlwaysOn, 3rd Edition
by Peter A. Carter
Get a fast start to using AlwaysOn, the SQL Server solution to high-availability and disaster recovery. This third edition is newly-updated to cover the 2019 editions of both SQL Server and Windows Server and includes strong coverage of implementing AlwaysOn Availability Groups on both Windows and Linux operating systems. The book provides a solid and accurate understanding of how to implement systems requi...
Price: $35.58 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch
by Jeremy Howard, Sylvain Gugger
Deep learning is often viewed as the exclusive domain of math PhDs and big tech companies. But as this hands-on guide demonstrates, programmers comfortable with Python can achieve impressive results in deep learning with little math background, small amounts of data, and minimal code. How? With fastai, the first library to provide a consistent interface to the most frequently used deep learning applications...
Price: $45.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020