Generative AI with Python and TensorFlow 2 
by Joseph Babcock, Raghav Bali
In recent years, generative artificial intelligence has been instrumental in the creation of lifelike data (images, speech, video, music, and text) from scratch. In this book you will unpack how these powerful models are created from relatively simple building blocks, and how you might adapt these models to your own use cases.You will begin by setting up clean containerized environments for Python and getti...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2021
FREE EBOOK - Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi, 2nd Edition
by David Crookes, PJ Evans, Rosie Hattersley, Nicola King, Phil King, KG Orphanides, Mark Vanstone
Discover how to set up Raspberry Pi to play classic games in the brand new version of our retro gaming guide. In this 164-page book, you'll learn how to build a portable games machine, assemble a full-sized arcade cabinet, and emulate classic computers and consoles. Our step-by-step guides make each build easy! Plus you'll even learn to program your own versions of classic arcade games using Pytho...
Publisher: Raspberry Pi Press | Release: 2021
FREE EBOOK - The Julia Express
by Bogumil Kaminski
Julia is a high-level, dynamic programming language. Its features are well suited for numerical analysis and computational science.Julia works with other languages (C, Python, R, Rust, C++, SQL, JavaScript, ...)The Purpose of this open book is to introduce programmers to the Julia programming by example. This is a simplified exposition of the language....
Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2021
Learning Test-Driven Development 
by Saleem Siddiqui
Your code is a testament to your skills as a developer. No matter what language you use, code should be clean, elegant, and uncluttered. By using test-driven development (TDD), you'll write code that's easy to understand, retains its elegance, and works for months, even years, to come. With this indispensable guide, you'll learn how to use TDD with three different languages: Go, JavaScript, a...
Price: $53.16 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2021
Deep Reinforcement Learning in Unity
by Abhilash Majumder
Gain an in-depth overview of reinforcement learning for autonomous agents in game development with Unity.This book starts with an introduction to state-based reinforcement learning algorithms involving Markov models, Bellman equations, and writing custom C# code with the aim of contrasting value and policy-based functions in reinforcement learning. Then, you will move on to path finding and navigation meshe...
Price: $49.42 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
Software Engineering for Absolute Beginners
by Nico Loubser
Start programming from scratch, no experience required. This beginners' guide to software engineering starts with a discussion of the different editors used to create software and covers setting up a Docker environment. Next, you will learn about repositories and version control along with its uses. Now that you are ready to program, you'll go through the basics of Python, the ideal language to le...
Price: $33.47 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
TensorFlow 2.x in the Colaboratory Cloud
by David Paper
Use TensorFlow 2.x with Google's Colaboratory (Colab) product that offers a free cloud service for Python programmers. Colab is especially well suited as a platform for TensorFlow 2.x deep learning applications. You will learn Colab's default install of the most current TensorFlow 2.x along with Colab's easy access to on-demand GPU hardware acceleration in the cloud for fast execution of deep...
Price: $40.26 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
Advanced Analytics with Transact-SQL
by Dejan Sarka
Learn about business intelligence (BI) features in T-SQL and how they can help you with data science and analytics efforts without the need to bring in other languages such as R and Python. This book shows you how to compute statistical measures using your existing skills in T-SQL. You will learn how to calculate descriptive statistics, including centers, spreads, skewness, and kurtosis of distributions. Yo...
Price: $32.55 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
Data Science at the Command Line, 2nd Edition
by Jeroen Janssens
This thoroughly revised guide demonstrates how the flexibility of the command line can help you become a more efficient and productive data scientist. You'll learn how to combine small yet powerful command-line tools to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data. To get you started, author Jeroen Janssens provides a Docker image packed with over 100 Unix power tools-useful whether you work wit...
Price: $54.85 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2021
by KC Tung
This easy-to-use reference for TensorFlow 2 design patterns in Python will help you make informed decisions for various use cases. Author KC Tung addresses common topics and tasks in enterprise data science and machine learning practices rather than focusing on TensorFlow itself.When and why would you feed training data as using NumPy or a streaming dataset? How would you set up cross-validations in the tra...
Price: $22.01 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2021