Learn Lua for iOS Game Development 
by Jayant Varma
So you have a great game idea for iPhone or iPad, but Objective-C just seems a bit daunting. What are your alternatives? The App Store is very picky about languages, but there is hope: Lua is a versatile, lightweight, fast, and easy to learn language that you can use to build your iOS games and get them accepted into the App Store.Learn Lua for iOS Game Development walks you through the Lua basics, then sho...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
by Drew Conway, John Myles White
If you're an experienced programmer interested in crunching data, this book will get you started with machine learning - a toolkit of algorithms that enables computers to train themselves to automate useful tasks. Authors Drew Conway and John Myles White help you understand machine learning and statistics tools through a series of hands-on case studies, instead of a traditional math-heavy presentation....
Price: $18.12 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Ash Maurya
We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We're building more products than ever before, but most of them fail - not because we can't complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product.What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That's the promise of Running ...
Price: $11.15 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by MC Brown
CouchDB is a new breed of database for the Internet, geared to meet the needs of today's dynamic web applications. With this concise introduction, you'll learn how CouchDB's simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data makes it ideal for the type of data and rapid response users now demand from your applications-and how easy CouchDB is to set up, deploy, maintain, and scale.The co...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Simon St. Laurent, Edd Dumbill, Eric J Gruber
If you're a web developer or designer ready to learn Rails, this unique book is the ideal way to start.Rather than throw you into the middle of the framework's Model-View-Controller architecture, Learning Rails 3 works from the outside in. You'll begin with the foundations of the Web you already know, and learn how to create something visible with Rails' view layer. Then you'll tack...
Price: $5.75 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Building Web Applications with Erlang
by Zachary Kessin
Why choose Erlang for web applications? Discover the answer hands-on by building a simple web service with this book. If you're an experienced web developer who knows basic Erlang, you'll learn how to work with REST, dynamic content, web sockets, and concurrency through several examples. In the process, you'll see first-hand that Erlang is ideal for building business-critical services.Erlang ...
Price: $15.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Programming Interactivity, 2nd Edition
by Joshua Noble
Ready to create rich interactive experiences with your artwork, designs, or prototypes? This is the ideal place to start. With this hands-on guide, you'll explore several themes in interactive art and design - including 3D graphics, sound, physical interaction, computer vision, and geolocation - and learn the basic programming and electronics concepts you need to implement them. No previous experience ...
Price: $13.60 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition
by Tom White
With this digital Early Release edition of Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form - the author's raw and unedited content - so you can take advantage of this content long before the book's official release. You'll also receive updates when significant changes are made. Ready to unleash the power of your massive dataset? With the latest edition of thi...
Price: $4.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Kord Davis, Doug Patterson
What are your organization's policies for generating and using huge datasets full of personal information? This book examines ethical questions raised by the big data phenomenon, and explains why enterprises need to reconsider business decisions concerning privacy and identity. Authors Kord Davis and Doug Patterson provide methods and techniques to help your business engage in a transparent and product...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Allen B. Downey
Expand your Python skills by working with data structures and algorithms in a refreshing context - through an eye-opening exploration of complexity science. Whether you're an intermediate-level Python programmer or a student of computational modeling, you'll delve into examples of complex systems through a series of exercises, case studies, and easy-to-understand explanations.You'll work with...
Price: $17.56 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012