Exploring BeagleBone, 2nd Edition 
by Derek Molloy
Exploring BeagleBone is a hands-on guide to bringing gadgets, gizmos, and robots to life using the popular BeagleBone embedded Linux platform. Comprehensive content and deep detail provide more than just a BeagleBone instruction manual-you'll also learn the underlying engineering techniques that will allow you to create your own projects. The book begins with a foundational primer on essential skills, and t...
Price: $29.78 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2019
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
Building Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps Using XAML
by Dan Hermes, Nima Mazloumi
Leverage Xamarin.Forms to build iOS and Android apps using a single, cross-platform approach. This book is the XAML companion to the C# guide Xamarin Mobile Application Development. You'll begin with an overview of Xamarin.Forms, then move on to an in-depth XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language) primer covering syntax, namespaces, markup extensions, constructors, and the XAML standard. XAML gives us ...
Price: $26.70 | 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 Ralph Lecessi
Reduce development time by organizing your programs as chains of functional interfaces and see that the advantages of using functional interfaces include the flexibility and power of inlined functional chains and reuse of functional methods utilized throughout the Java API. You'll see how complex logical expressions can be reduced to chains of predicates and how chains of comparators can be used to sort dat...
Price: $31.16 | 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
Microsoft Excel 2019 Pivot Table Data Crunching
by Bill Jelen, Michael Alexander
Renowned Excel experts Bill Jelen (MrExcel) and Michael Alexander help you crunch data from any source with Excel 2019 pivot tables. Use Excel 2019 pivot tables and pivot charts to produce powerful, dynamic reports in minutes instead of hours, to take control of your data and your business. Even if you've never created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage all their remarkable flexibility a...
Price: $26.13 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2019
by Jon Skeet
C# in Depth, 4th Edition is your key to unlocking the powerful new features added to the language in C# 5, 6, and 7. Following the expert guidance of C# legend Jon Skeet, you'll master asynchronous functions, expression-bodied members, interpolated strings, tuples, and much more.The powerful, flexible C# programming language is the foundation of .NET development. Even after two decades of success, it's stil...
Price: $36.67 | Publisher: Manning | 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: $28.14 | 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: $40.99 | Publisher: McGraw-Hill | Release: 2018