by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Examine the history of smart homes, how technology shapes our lives, and ways you can think about the home when developing new products. This book presents the opportunities in the homespace that will come from understanding the history and multiple players that have contributed to the development of the home in general.You'll start by breaking down the historical, societal and political context for th...
Price: $32.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Karl Beecher
This book takes a humorous slant on the programming practice manual by reversing the usual approach: under the pretence of teaching you how to become the world's worst programmer who generally causes chaos, the book teaches you how to avoid the kind of bad habits that introduce bugs or cause code contributions to be rejected.Why be a code monkey when you can be a chaos monkey? OK, so you want to become...
Price: $25.07 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Raspberry Pi for Arduino Users
by James R. Strickland
Leverage your Arduino skills in the Raspberry Pi world and see how to cross the two platforms into sophisticated programs.The Arduino and Raspberry Pi communities overlap more than you might think. Arduinos can be expanded to have network capabilities with a variety of "shields", all of which increase the cost and complexity of the system. By contrast, Raspberry Pis all run Linux, which is a very ...
Price: $22.34 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Objective-C for Absolute Beginners, 4th Edition
by Stefan Kaczmarek, Brad Lees, Gary Bennett, Mitch Fisher
Learn Objective-C and its latest release, and learn how to mix Swift with it. You have a great idea for an app, but how do you bring it to fruition? With Objective-C, the universal language of iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. Using a hands-on approach, you'll learn how to think in programming terms, how to use Objective-C to construct program logic, and how to synthesize it all into working apps. Gary Benne...
Price: $34.05 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Michael Stueben
Improve your coding skills and learn how to write readable code. Rather than teach basic programming, this book presumes that readers understand the fundamentals, and offers time-honed best practices for style, design, documenting, testing, refactoring, and more. Taking an informal, conversational tone, author Michael Stueben offers programming stories, anecdotes, observations, advice, tricks, examples, and...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Carlo Milanesi
Learn to program with Rust in an easy, step-by-step manner on Unix, Linux shell, macOS and the Windows command line. As you read this book, you'll build on the knowledge you gained in previous chapters and see what Rust has to offer.Beginning Rust starts with the basics of Rust, including how to name objects, control execution flow, and handle primitive types. You'll see how to do arithmetic, all...
Price: $24.75 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Philip Seamark
Attention all SQL Pros, DAX is not just for writing Excel-based formulas! Get hands-on learning and expert advice on how to use the vast capabilities of the DAX language to solve common data modeling challenges.Beginning DAX with Power BI teaches key concepts such as mapping techniques from SQL to DAX, filtering, grouping, joining, pivoting, and using temporary tables, all aimed at the SQL professional. Joi...
Price: $23.70 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Learn Data Analysis with Python 
by A.J. Henley, Dave Wolf
Get started using Python in data analysis with this compact practical guide. This book includes three exercises and a case study on getting data in and out of Python code in the right format. Learn Data Analysis with Python also helps you discover meaning in the data using analysis and shows you how to visualize it.Each lesson is, as much as possible, self-contained to allow you to dip in and out of the exa...
Price: $17.96 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Building Games with Ethereum Smart Contracts
by Kedar Iyer, Chris Dannen
Learn how to take your existing knowledge of Ethereum and Solidity to the next level. Hone your development skills and become more familiar with the syntax of the Solidity language by working through well-tested, well-documented intermediate-level sample projects.You will begin by covering the basics of Ethereum, Solidity, and gaming theory. From there, you will move onto sample projects that use smart cont...
Price: $28.06 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Modern API Design with ASP.NET Core 2
by Fanie Reynders
Use ASP.NET Core 2 to create durable and cross-platform web APIs through a series of applied, practical scenarios. Examples in this book help you build APIs that are fast and scalable. You'll progress from the basics of the framework through to solving the complex problems encountered in implementing secure RESTful services. The book is packed full of examples showing how Microsoft's ground-up rew...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018