FREE EBOOK - Mastering iOS Game Development 
by Miguel DeQuadros
iOS is an operating system for Apple manufactured phones and tablets. Mobile gaming is one of the fastest-growing industries, and compatibility with iOS is now becoming the norm for game developers. SpriteKit is part of the native SDK from Apple, and enables developers to make simple entry into game development without unnecessary overhead and a long learning process. SpriteKit also provides other functiona...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Chandramani Tiwary
In the past few years the generation of data and our capability to store and process it has grown exponentially. There is a need for scalable analytics frameworks and people with the right skills to get the information needed from this Big Data. Apache Mahout is one of the first and most prominent Big Data machine learning platforms. It implements machine learning algorithms on top of distributed processing...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
PostgreSQL Server Programming, 2nd Edition
by Usama Dar, Hannu Krosing, Jim Mlodgenski, Kirk Roybal
This book will show you that PostgreSQL is so much more than a database server. In fact, it could even be seen as an application development framework, with the added bonuses of transaction support, massive data storage, journaling, recovery, and a host of other features that the PostgreSQL engine provides.You will get to grips with creating libraries of useful code, grouping them into even more useful comp...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Mainak Mitra
With Gradle, you can efficiently build automation framework along with some flexible alternatives to customized build logic. This book starts with sound basics about build automation and how Gradle fits into this automation. It then moves on to give you a good exposure on Groovy - a scripting language used to write Gradle - and helps you understand a key elements of Groovy programming language. In the follo...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Femi Anthony
Python is a ground breaking language for its simplicity and succinctness, allowing the user to achieve a great deal with a few lines of code, especially compared to other programming languages. The pandas brings these features of Python into the data analysis realm, by providing expressiveness, simplicity, and powerful capabilities for the task of data analysis. By mastering pandas, users will be able to do...
Price: $35.14 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
LibGDX Cross-Platform Development Blueprints
by Indraneel Potnis
LibGDX is a very popular open source game framework for the Java programming language. It features deployment to multiple platforms with the same code base and it is very fast. Its vast amount of features makes it very easy to learn and master game development without knowing the low-level details.LibGDX Cross-platform Development Blueprints teaches you the concepts of game development using the LibGDX fram...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Ben Augarten
APIs are at the core of every serious web application. Express.js is the most popular framework for building on top of Node.js, an exciting tool that is easy to use and allows you to build APIs and develop your backend in JavaScript. Express.js Blueprints consists of many well-crafted tutorials that will teach you how to build robust APIs using Express.js.The book covers various different types of applicati...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Simon Bailey
AngularJS stepped up to offer a comprehensive solution to frontend development with minimal dependencies and a clear set of objectives.This book follows the AngularJS philosophy and offers guidance on how to approach testing components that make up the AngularJS framework. At the start of the book, you will explore how to configure your system to run unit and end-to-end tests. Following this, you'll be...
Price: $6.96 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
QGIS Python Programming Cookbook
by Joel Lawhead
QGIS Python Programming will teach you how to write Python code that works with spatial data to automate geoprocessing tasks in QGIS. It will cover topics such as querying and editing vector data and using raster data. You will also learn to create, edit, and optimize a vector layer for faster queries, reproject a vector layer, reduce the number of vertices in a vector layer without losing critical data, an...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Viktor Farcic, Alex Garcia
Test-driven development (TDD) is a development approach that relies on a test-first procedure that emphasises writing a test before writing the necessary code, and then refactoring the code to optimize itThe value of performing TDD with Java, one of the most established programming languages, is to improve the productivity of programmers, the maintainability and performance of code, and develop a deeper und...
Price: $49.33 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015