Developing 2D Games with Unity 
by Jared Halpern
Follow a walkthrough of the Unity Engine and learn important 2D-centric lessons in scripting, working with image assets, animations, cameras, collision detection, and state management. In addition to the fundamentals, you'll learn best practices, helpful game-architectural patterns, and how to customize Unity to suit your needs, all in the context of building a working 2D game.While many books focus on 3D g...
Price: $22.25 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2019
Quick Start Guide to Penetration Testing 
by Sagar Rahalkar
Get started with NMAP, OpenVAS, and Metasploit in this short book and understand how NMAP, OpenVAS, and Metasploit can be integrated with each other for greater flexibility and efficiency. You will begin by working with NMAP and ZENMAP and learning the basic scanning and enumeration process. After getting to know the differences between TCP and UDP scans, you will learn to fine tune your scans and efficient...
Price: $25.56 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2019
by Edward Pollack
Take a deep dive into the many uses of dynamic SQL in Microsoft SQL Server. This edition has been updated to use the newest features in SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017 as well as incorporating the changing landscape of analytics and database administration. Code examples have been updated with new system objects and functions to improve efficiency and maintainability.Executing dynamic SQL is key to larg...
Price: $30.40 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2019
Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe
by Bruce Williams, Ben Wilson
Your domain is rich and interconnected, and your API should be too. Upgrade your web API to GraphQL, leveraging its flexible queries to empower your users, and its declarative structure to simplify your code. Absinthe is the GraphQL toolkit for Elixir, a functional programming language designed to enable massive concurrency atop robust application architectures. Written by the creators of Absinthe, this boo...
Price: $35.01 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2018
Oracle Database 12c Release 2 Real Application Clusters Handbook
by K. Gopalakrishnan, Sam R. Alapati
Through clear instruction and detailed examples, Oracle Database 12c Real Application Clusters Handbook: Concepts, Administration, Tuning & Troubleshooting teaches how to build, configure, and maintain a dynamic enterprise computing infrastructure. This thoroughly revised edition covers best uses for the latest tools and features - all from the practical standpoint of a working DBA.You will discover how...
Price: $44.64 | Publisher: McGraw-Hill | Release: 2018
Practical Object-Oriented Design, 2nd Edition
by Sandi Metz
Object-oriented programming languages exist to help you create beautiful, straightforward applications that are easy to change and simple to extend. Unfortunately, the world is awash with object-oriented (OO) applications that are difficult to understand and expensive to change. Practical Object-Oriented Design, Second Edition, immerses you in an OO mindset and teaches you powerful, real-world, object-orien...
Price: $35.53 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2018
by James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson
To deliver real value, you must understand what your customers truly value, and solve the problems they really need solved. Business analysis can help you do this - and it's as crucial in agile environments now as it always has been. In Business Analysis Agility, leading experts James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson show how to perform business analysis in an agile way: trying new things, adapting to change...
Price: $35.92 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2018
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals, 4th Edition
by John L. Viescas
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals has earned worldwide praise as the clearest, simplest tutorial on writing effective queries with the latest SQL standards and database applications. Now, author John L. Viescas has updated this hands-on classic with even more advanced and valuable techniques.Step by step, Viescas guides you through creating reliable queries for virtually any current SQL-based database. He demyst...
Price: $35.81 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2018
Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap
by Simone Chiaretta
Front-End Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap is the professional's guide to fast, responsive web development. Utilizing the most popular combination of web technologies for Microsoft developers, this guide provides the latest best practices and ASP.NET MVP guidance to get you up to speed quickly. The newest ASP.NET - now called ASP.NET Core - is leaner, easier to use, and less bound to th...
Price: $30.25 | Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2018
Beginning Programming with Python For Dummies, 2nd Edition
by John Paul Mueller
Python is a remarkably powerful and dynamic programming language that's used in a wide variety of application domains. Some of its key distinguishing features include a very clear, readable syntax, strong introspection capabilities, intuitive object orientation, and natural expression of procedural code. Plus, Python features full modularity, supporting hierarchical packages, exception-based error handling,...
Price: $2.34 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2018