by Tarek Amr, Rayna Stamboliyska
Your indispensable guide to mastering the efficient use of D3.js in professional-standard data visualization projects. You will learn what data visualization is, how to work with it, and how to think like a D3.js expert, both practically and theoretically.Practical D3.js does not just show you how to use D3.js, it teaches you how to think like a data scientist and work with the data in the real world. In Pa...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
Beginning RPG Maker MV, 2nd Edition 
by Darrin Perez
Create your very own role playing game using the RPG Maker MV game development engine. You'll go through tutorials and exercises that will take you from installing the software to putting the final touches upon your first project. Beginning RPG Maker MV has been designed with the complete beginner in mind who has little to no experience with the engine. It includes full JavaScript code, replacing the o...
Price: $60.00 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
.NET Development Using the Compiler API
by Jason Bock
This is the first book to describe the recent significant changes to the .NET compilation process and demonstrate how .NET developers can use the new Compiler API to create compelling applications. As an open source compiler, the Compiler API now makes its code available for anyone to use. In this book, you'll get a concise, focused view of this tremendous resource for developers, who can now use any p...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
by Michael Lopp
Read hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp's perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The Third Edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing ...
Price: $25.04 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi
by Tanay Pant
Build a voice-controlled virtual assistant using speech-to-text engines, text-to-speech engines, and conversation modules. This book shows you how to program the virtual assistant to gather data from the internet (weather data, data from Wikipedia, data mining); play music; and take notes. Each chapter covers building a mini project/module to make the virtual assistant better. You'll develop the softwa...
Price: $29.68 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
by Deane Barker
Looking to select a web content management system (CMS), but confused about the promises, terminology, and buzzwords? Do you want to understand content management without having to dive into the underlying programming? This book provides a clear, unbiased overview of the entire CMS ecosystem - from platforms to implementations - in a language- and platform-agnostic manner for project managers, executives, a...
Price: $27.57 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Chris Dawson, Ben Straub
For your next project on GitHub, take advantage of the service's powerful API to meet your unique development requirements. This practical guide shows you how to build your own software tools for customizing the GitHub workflow. Each hands-on chapter is a compelling story that walks you through the tradeoffs and considerations for building applications on top of various GitHub technologies.If you'...
Price: $14.97 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Michael Nash, Wade Waldron
When it comes to big data processing, we can no longer ignore concurrency or try to add it in after the fact. Fortunately, the solution is not a new paradigm of development, but rather an old one. With this hands-on guide, Java and Scala developers will learn how to embrace concurrent and distributed applications with the open source Akka toolkit. You'll learn how to put the actor model and its associa...
Price: $19.07 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
Algorithms in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
by George T. Heineman, Gary Pollice, Stanley Selkow
Creating robust software requires the use of efficient algorithms, but programmers seldom think about them until a problem occurs. This updated edition of Algorithms in a Nutshell describes a large number of existing algorithms for solving a variety of problems, and helps you select and implement the right algorithm for your needs - with just enough math to let you understand and analyze algorithm performan...
Price: $43.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
FREE EBOOK - Designing Scalable JavaScript Applications
by Emmit Scott
If you've ever written a non-trivial JavaScript application, you know that creating a code base that's easy to maintain and scales well over time is no small feat. The complexity only grows as the project becomes larger. While it's impossible to plan for every change that could possibly happen over the life of a project, you can help future-proof your front-end architecture by designing softw...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2016