by Amir Shevat
From Facebook Messenger to Kik, and from Slack bots to Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and email bots, the new conversational apps are revolutionizing the way we interact with software. This practical guide shows you how to design and build great conversational experiences and delightful bots that help people be more productive, whether it's for a new consumer service or an enterprise efficiency produc...
Price: $19.61 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2017
by JP Vossen, Carl Albing
For system administrators, programmers, and end users, shell command or carefully crafted shell script can save you time and effort, or facilitate consistency and repeatability for a variety of common tasks. This cookbook provides more than 300 practical recipes for using bash, the popular Unix shell that enables you to harness and customize the power of any Unix or Linux system.Ideal for new and experience...
Price: $23.95 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2017
by Allen Downey, Laurent Rosenfeld
Want to learn how to program and think like a computer scientist? This practical guide gets you started on your programming journey with the help of Perl 6, the younger sister of the popular Perl programming language. Ideal for beginners, this hands-on book includes over 100 exercises with multiple solutions, and more than 1,000 code examples so you can quickly practice what you learn. Experienced programme...
Price: $50.24 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2017
by Travis Lowdermilk, Jessica Rich
Despite the wide acceptance of Lean approaches and customer-development strategies, many product teams still have difficulty putting these principles into meaningful action. That's where The Customer-Driven Playbook comes in. This practical guide provides a complete end-to-end process that will help you understand customers, identify their problems, conceptualize new ideas, and create fantastic product...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2017
by David Robinson, Julia Silge
Much of the data available today is unstructured and text-heavy, making it challenging for analysts to apply their usual data wrangling and visualization tools. With this practical book, you'll explore text-mining techniques with tidytext, a package that authors Julia Silge and David Robinson developed using the tidy principles behind R packages like ggraph and dplyr. You'll learn how tidytext and...
Price: $24.80 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2017
by Ben Albahari, Joseph Albahari
When you need answers for programming with C# 7.0, this tightly focused reference tells you exactly what you need to know - without long introductions or bloated examples. Easy-to-browse and ideal as a quick reference, this guide will help experienced C#, Java, and C++ programmers get up to speed with the latest version of the C# language.All programs and code snippets in this book are available as interact...
Price: $6.42 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2017
iOS 11 Swift Programming Cookbook
by Vandad Nahavandipoor
iOS 11, Swift 4, and Xcode 9 provide many new APIs for iOS developers. With this cookbook, you'll learn more than 170 proven solutions for tackling the latest features in iOS 11 and watchOS 4, including new ways to use Swift and Xcode to make your day-to-day app development life easier. This collection of code-rich recipes also gets you up to speed on continuous delivery and continuous integration syst...
Price: $3.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2017
by Ben Crothers
Do you feel like your thoughts, ideas, and plans are being suffocated by a constant onslaught of information? Do you want to get those great ideas out of your head, onto the whiteboard and into everyone else's heads, but find it hard to start? No matter what level of sketching you think you have, Presto Sketching will help you lift your game in visual thinking and visual communication.In this practical...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2017
by Holden Karau, Rachel Warren
Apache Spark is amazing when everything clicks. But if you haven't seen the performance improvements you expected, or still don't feel confident enough to use Spark in production, this practical book is for you. Authors Holden Karau and Rachel Warren demonstrate performance optimizations to help your Spark queries run faster and handle larger data sizes, while using fewer resources.Ideal for softw...
Price: $27.31 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2017
Mobile App Development with Ionic, Revised Edition 
by Chris Griffith
Learn how to build app store-ready hybrid apps with Ionic, the framework built on top of Apache Cordova (formerly PhoneGap) and Angular. This revised guide shows you how to use Ionic's tools and services to develop apps with HTML, CSS, and TypeScript, rather than rely on platform-specific solutions found in Android, iOS, and Windows Universal.Author Chris Griffith takes you step-by-step through Ionic&#...
Price: $38.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2017
