by Matei Zaharia, Holden Karau, Andy Konwinski, Patrick Wendell
Data in all domains is getting bigger. How can you work with it efficiently? Recently updated for Spark 1.3, this book introduces Apache Spark, the open source cluster computing system that makes data analytics fast to write and fast to run. With Spark, you can tackle big datasets quickly through simple APIs in Python, Java, and Scala. This edition includes new information on Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, set...
Price: $32.23 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Anton Kovalyov
JavaScript is arguably the most polarizing and misunderstood programming language in the world. Many have attempted to replace it as the language of the Web, but JavaScript has survived, evolved, and thrived. Why did a language created in such hurry succeed where others failed?This guide gives you a rare glimpse into JavaScript from people intimately familiar with it. Chapters contributed by domain experts ...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson
Why spend time on coding problems that others have already solved when you could be making real progress on your Ruby project? This updated cookbook provides more than 350 recipes for solving common problems, on topics ranging from basic data structures, classes, and objects, to web development, distributed programming, and multithreading.Revised for Ruby 2.1, each recipe includes a discussion on why and ho...
Price: $25.05 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Using the C++ Standard Template Libraries 
by Ivor Horton
Using the C++ Standard Template Libraries is a contemporary treatment that teaches the generic programming capabilities that the C++ 14 Standard Library provides. In this book, author Ivor Horton explains what the class and function templates available with C++ 14 do, and how to use them in a practical context.You'll learn how to create containers, and how iterators are used with them to access, modify...
Price: $43.44 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Practical Business Analytics Using SAS
by Venkat Reddy Konasani, Shailendra Kadre
Practical Business Analytics Using SAS: A Hands-on Guide shows SAS users and businesspeople how to analyze data effectively in real-life business scenarios.The book begins with an introduction to analytics, analytical tools, and SAS programming. The authors - both SAS, statistics, analytics, and big data experts - first show how SAS is used in business, and then how to get started programming in SAS by impo...
Price: $31.10 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
SQL Server T-SQL Recipes, 4th Edition
by Jason Brimhall, Jonathan Gennick, Wayne Sheffield
SQL Server T-SQL Recipes is an example-based guide to the Transact-SQL language that is at the core of SQL Server. This edition has been lightly updated for SQL Server 2014 and provides ready-to-implement solutions to common programming and database administration tasks. Learn to create databases, create in-memory tables and stored procedures, insert and update data, generate reports, secure your data, and ...
Price: $42.80 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Pro T-SQL Programmer's Guide, 4th Edition
by Miguel Cebollero, Michael Coles, Jay Natarajan
Pro T-SQL Programmer's Guide is your guide to making the best use of the powerful, Transact-SQL programming language that is built into Microsoft SQL Server's database engine. This edition is updated to cover the new, in-memory features that are part of SQL Server 2014. Discussing new and existing features, the book takes you on an expert guided tour of Transact-SQL functionality. Fully functionin...
Price: $45.64 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by David Pollak, Vishal Layka
Beginning Scala, 2nd Edition takes a down-to-earth approach to teaching Scala that leads you through simple examples that can be combined to build complex, scalable systems and applications.This book introduces you to the Scala programming language, its object-oriented and functional programming characteristics, and then guides you through Scala constructs and libraries that allow you to assemble small comp...
Price: $36.22 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Genetic Algorithms in Java Basics 
by Lee Jacobson, Burak Kanber
Genetic Algorithms in Java Basics is a brief introduction to solving problems using genetic algorithms, with working projects and solutions written in the Java programming language. This brief book will guide you step-by-step through various implementations of genetic algorithms and some of their common applications, with the aim to give you a practical understanding allowing you to solve your own unique, i...
Price: $39.80 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by Waqar Malik
There's a new language in town. Swift is Apple's new, native, fast, and easy to learn programming language for iOS and OS X app development. It's their "Objective-C without the C". If you are an iOS developer or planning to become one, learning Swift is your #1 priority, and Learn Swift on the Mac tells you everything you need to get up to speed, well, swiftly.You'll st...
Price: $31.95 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015