Cross-Platform Desktop Applications 
by Paul B. Jensen
Desktop application development has traditionally required high-level programming languages and specialized frameworks. With Electron and NW.js, you can apply your existing web dev skills to create desktop applications using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And those applications will work across Windows, Mac, and Linux, radically reducing development and training time.Cross-Platform Desktop Applications gui...
Price: $11.49 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
Type-Driven Development with Idris
by Edwin Brady
Stop fighting type errors! Type-driven development is an approach to coding that embraces types as the foundation of your code - essentially as built-in documentation your compiler can use to check data relationships and other assumptions. With this approach, you can define specifications early in development and write code that's easy to maintain, test, and extend. Idris is a Haskell-like language wit...
Price: $40.27 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
by Dmitry Jemerov, Svetlana Isakova
Developers want to get work done - and the less hassle, the better. Coding with Kotlin means less hassle. The Kotlin programming language offers an expressive syntax, a strong intuitive type system, and great tooling support along with seamless interoperability with existing Java code, libraries, and frameworks. Kotlin can be compiled to Java bytecode, so you can use it everywhere Java is used, including An...
Price: $31.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
by Paul P. Daniels, Luis Atencio
On the web, events and messages flow constantly between UI and server components. With RxJS, you can filter, merge, and transform these streams directly, opening the world of data flow programming to browser-based apps. This JavaScript implementation of the ReactiveX spec is perfect for on-the-fly tasks like autocomplete. Its asynchronous communication model makes concurrency much, much easier.RxJS in Actio...
Price: $43.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
by Dominik Picheta
Nim is a multi-paradigm programming language that offers powerful customization options with the ability to compile to everything from C to JavaScript. It can be used in any project and illustrates that you don't have to sacrifice performance for expressiveness!Nim in Action is your guide to application development in Nim. You'll learn how Nim compares to other languages in style and performance, ...
Price: $35.59 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
by Gabriel Ford, Sadie Ford, Melissa Ford
Can 8-year-olds write computer programs? You bet they can! In Scratch, young coders use colorful blocks and a rich graphical environment to create programs. They can easily explore ideas like input and output, looping, branching, and conditionals. Scratch is a kid-friendly language created by MIT that is a safe and fun way to begin thinking like a programmer, without the complexity of a traditional programm...
Price: $19.50 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
FREE EBOOK - Understanding API Security 
by Justin Richer, Antonio Sanso
Gone are the days when it was acceptable for a piece of software to live in its own little silo, disconnected from the outside world. Today, services are expected to be available for programming, mixing, and building into new applications. The web-based Application Programming Interface, or API, is how services make themselves available in this dynamic world. By exposing an API, a service can find new life ...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
by Brian Godsey
Data collected from customers, scientific measurements, IoT sensors, and so on is valuable only if you understand it. Data scientists revel in the interesting and rewarding challenge of observing, exploring, analyzing, and interpreting this data. Getting started with data science means more than mastering analytic tools and techniques, however; the real magic happens when you begin to think like a data scie...
Price: $30.96 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
by Jim R. Wilson
JavaScript is the backbone of the modern web, powering nearly every web app's user interface. Node.js is JavaScript for the server. This greatly expanded second edition introduces new language features while dramatically increasing coverage of core topics. Each hands-on chapter offers progressively more challenging topics and techniques, broadening your skill set and enabling you to think in Node.js.Wr...
Price: $27.99 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2017
by Erica Sadun
Apple's Swift programming language has finally reached stability, and developers are demanding to know how to program the language properly. Swift Style guides you through the ins and outs of Swift programming best practices. This is the first best practices book for serious, professional Swift programmers and for programmers who want to shine their skills to be hired in this demanding market.A style g...
Price: $18.95 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2017