by Owen Yamauchi
A couple of years ago, Facebook switched its production servers from a PHP-to-C++ compiler to their own HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) and then launched a new version of PHP to run on HHVM called Hack. This comprehensive guide - written by a member of the core HHVM and Hack teams at Facebook - shows you how to get up and running with both HHVM and Hack.What makes them useful? The HHVM engine is faster and mo...
Price: $7.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
iOS 9 Programming Fundamentals with Swift
by Matt Neuburg
Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode IDE, the Cocoa Touch framework, and Swift 2.0 - the latest version of Apple's acclaimed programming language. With this thoroughly updated guide, you'll learn Swift's object-oriented concepts, understand how to use Apple's development tools, and discover how Cocoa provides the underlying functional...
Price: $4.25 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Swift Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
by Anthony Gray
Get quick answers for developing and debugging applications with Swift, Apple's multi-paradigm programming language. Updated to cover the latest features in Swift 2.0, this pocket reference is the perfect on-the-job tool for learning Swift's modern language features, including type safety, generics, type inference, closures, tuples, automatic memory management, and support for Unicode.Designed to ...
Price: $11.85 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Programming WCF Services, 4th Edition
by Juval Lowy, Michael Montgomery
Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling guide to Microsoft's unified platform for developing modern, service-oriented applications on Windows. Hailed as the definitive treatment of WCF, this guide provides unique insight, rather than documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building maintainable, extensible, and reusable WCF-based applications.Authors Juval...
Price: $50.46 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
FREE EBOOK - Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python
by Al Sweigart
Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python teaches you how to program in the Python language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game, and then teaches the programming concepts from the examples. Games include Guess the Number, Hangman, Tic Tac Toe, and Reversi. This book also has an introduction to making games with 2D graphics using the Pygame framework.Programming isn't hard. ...
Price: $7.48 | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2015
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
by Al Sweigart
If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you?In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand - no prior programming experience required.Step-by-step instru...
Price: $20.98 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2015
by Eric Matthes
Python Crash Course is a fast-paced, thorough introduction to Python that will have you writing programs, solving problems, and making things that work in no time.In the first half of the book, you'll learn about basic programming concepts, such as lists, dictionaries, classes, and loops, and practice writing clean and readable code with exercises for each topic. You'll also learn how to make your...
Price: $7.99 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2015
by Amit Saha
Doing Math with Python shows you how to use Python to delve into high school-level math topics like statistics, geometry, probability, and calculus. You'll start with simple projects, like a factoring program and a quadratic-equation solver, and then create more complex projects once you've gotten the hang of things.Along the way, you'll discover new ways to explore math and gain valuable pro...
Price: $17.02 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2015
Reactive Programming with RxJS
by Sergi Mansilla
Reactive programming is revolutionary. It makes asynchronous programming clean, intuitive, and robust. Use the RxJS library to write complex programs in a simple way, unifying asynchronous mechanisms such as callbacks and promises into a powerful data type: the Observable. Learn to think about your programs as streams of data that you can transform by expressing what should happen, instead of having to pain...
Price: $7.18 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2015
Getting Started with Julia Programming
by Ivo Balbaert
Julia is a new open source programming language that is used in the field of data science computing. It was created to solve the dilemma between high-level slow code and fast but low-level code, and the necessity to use both to achieve high performance. This book will give you a head start to tackle your numerical and data problems with Julia. Your journey will begin by learning how to set up a running Juli...
Price: $35.10 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015