by Bradley Austin Davis, Karen Bryla, Phillips Alexander Benton
Virtual reality has long been the domain of researchers and developers with access to specialized hardware and proprietary tools. With the appearance of the Oculus Rift VR headset, the game has changed. Using standard programming tools and the intuitive Oculus SDKs, you can deliver powerful immersive games, simulations, and other virtual experiences that finally nail the feeling of being in the middle of th...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
by Richard Lawson
The Internet contains the most useful set of data ever assembled, largely publicly accessible for free. However, this data is not easily reusable. It is embedded within the structure and style of websites and needs to be carefully extracted to be useful. Web scraping is becoming increasingly useful as a means to easily gather and make sense of the plethora of information available online. Using a simple lan...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook 
by Tiago Antao
If you are either a computational biologist or a Python programmer, you will probably relate to the expression "explosive growth, exciting times". Python is arguably the main programming language for big data, and the deluge of data in biology, mostly from genomics and proteomics, makes bioinformatics one of the most exciting fields in data science.Using the hands-on recipes in this book, ...
Price: $54.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
JavaScript Regular Expressions
by Loiane Groner, Gabriel Manricks
Regular expressions are patterns or templates that allow you to define a set of rules in a natural yet vague way, giving you the ability to match and validate text. Therefore, they have been implemented in nearly every modern programming language. JavaScript's implementation allows us to perform complex tasks with a few lines of code using regular expressions to match and extract data out of text.This ...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Python Programming for Arduino
by Pratik Desai
The future belongs to applications and services that involve connected devices, requiring physical components to communicate with web-level applications. Arduino combined with the popular open source software platform Python can be used to develop the next level of advanced Internet of Things (IoT) projects with graphical user interfaces and Internet-connected applications.Starting with designing hardware p...
Price: $30.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Jurie-Jan Botha
A web application can quickly turn into a complex orchestration of many smaller components, each one requiring its own bit of maintenance. Grunt allows you to automate all the repetitive tasks required to get everything working together by using JavaScript, the most popular programming language.Grunt Cookbook offers a host of easy-to-follow recipes for automating repetitive tasks in your web application...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Ankur Goel
Neo4j is an open source graph database written in Java. Graph databases provide an excellent way to get richer insight into data and lower the bar for entry into the data science world. Starting with a practical and vital introduction to Neo4j and various aspects of Neo4j installation, you will learn how to connect and access Neo4j servers from programming languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, and Scala. Yo...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Joseph Howse
OpenCV is a grand collection of image processing functions and computer vision algorithms. It is open source, it supports many programming languages and platforms, and it is fast enough for many real-time applications. What a lot of gadgets we can build with such a handy library!Taking inspiration from the world of James Bond, this book adds a spark of adventure and computer vision to your daily routine. Pr...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
PhoneGap 4 Mobile Application Development Cookbook
by Zainul Setyo Pamungkas
Developing mobile applications often feels intimidating. Especially when building cross-platform application. We have to learn a specific programming language to build an application for each platform. PhoneGap makes cross-platform mobile application development faster and easier by using web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.This book gives you practical lessons on how to build a world class ...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Nick Pentreath
Apache Spark is a framework for distributed computing that is designed from the ground up to be optimized for low latency tasks and in-memory data storage. It is one of the few frameworks for parallel computing that combines speed, scalability, in-memory processing, and fault tolerance with ease of programming and a flexible, expressive, and powerful API design.This book guides you through the basics of Spa...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015