Getting Started with Cubieboard
by Olliver M. Schinagl
Embedded platforms are interesting because they combine two fun fields. On one side, there is open source software, and on the other side, there is open source hardware. But a little further from that, we have electronics (AVR-microcontrollers), which can be very interesting and fun to work with. Cubieboard is a powerful single board computer, similar to Raspberry Pi, that supports multiple operating system...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Charles R. Portwood II
The Yii framework is a high-performance, fast, open source, and a rapid development PHP framework that can be used to develop modern web applications. It provides the toolkit for developing both personal projects and enterprise applications. Yii's component-based architecture lets developers build modules so that they aren't customizing the underlying code base and so that anything they build is e...
Price: $47.53 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun 
by Marco Schwartz
Internet of Things (IoT) is currently a growing trend in the technology space, and the Arduino Yún is the perfect board to get started with building IoT projects. This book covers many of the powerful features of the Arduino Yún via four exciting projects. The first project is all about sending weather measurements data to a Google Docs spreadsheet for easy online visualization. The second one is about bu...
Price: $13.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Python Tools for Visual Studio 
by Martino Sabia, Cathy Wang
Python Tools for Visual Studio is a free and open source plugin for Visual Studio from Microsoft. It enables developers to use all the major productivity features of Visual Studio in their projects. The powerful integrated code navigation and code completion tools (IntelliSense) in PTVS empower developers to significantly speed up the coding process.PTVS provides a unique IDE for either Python or IronPython...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Unity Game Development Scripting
by Kyle D'Aoust
The intuitive and powerful Unity game engine is one of the most widely used and best loved packages for game development. Unity scripting is an essential but challenging skill to master in order to create custom game elements. Learning modular scripting allows you to rewrite as little code as possible as you deploy your scripts to multiple projects and work easier, quicker, and more efficiently than before....
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Practical Data Science Cookbook
by Tony Ojeda, Sean Patrick Murphy, Benjamin Bengfort, Abhijit Dasgupta
Starting with the basics, this book will cover how to set up your numerical programming environment, introduce you to the data science pipeline (an iterative process by which data science projects are completed), and guide you through several data projects in a step-by-step format. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly familiarize yourself with the process and learn how...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids
by Daniel Bates
Technology today is growing rapidly, with all sorts of cool gadgets, applications, and games made thanks to the rise of computer programming. The Raspberry Pi is a crafty device that has promoted the teaching of basic computer science in schools, catching the attention of both young and old. Although learning to program offers a unique set of skills that allows you to explore your creative side, it has its ...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Pieter van der Westhuizen
Bootstrap, a leading open source frontend framework, takes care of typography, form layouts, and user interface components, allowing a developer to focus on writing code. Integrating ASP.NET's powerful components can further enhance its capabilities. This book guides you through the process of creating an ASP.NET MVC website from scratch using Bootstrap.You will learn about various Bootstrap components...
Price: $32.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Richard Grimmett
Robots are quickly bursting from the world of science fiction right into our own living rooms. The small-but-mighty BeagleBone Black embedded processor provides the power and capability to program your own robotic projects using its complete Linux development environment.Mastering BeagleBone Robotics lets you push your creativity to the limit through complex, diverse, and fascinating robotic projects right ...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Marco Schwartz, Stefan Buttigieg
Arduino is an open source microcontroller built on a single-circuit board that is capable of receiving sensory input from the environment and controlling interactive physical objects.The first few projects of this book will focus on displaying tweets within your app by connecting to Twitter, controlling basic functions of the Arduino board, and connecting an Arduino-powered weather station to an Android pho...
Price: $48.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014