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Get going with Amazon Echo and Alexa in easy steps

NICK VANDOME · In Easy Steps Limited
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback

The days of only being able to search for items on computers using text searches are long gone: voice search is rapidly becoming one of the most popular ways to find content on computing devices and the web. One of the leaders in this area is the Amazon Echo: a high-quality speaker which...
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership

Harvard Business Review · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace?If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones...
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Test Driven Development in Ruby: A Practical Introduction to TDD Using Problem and Solution Domain Analysis

Bala Paranj · Apress
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Learn the basics of test driven development (TDD) using Ruby. You will carry out problem domain analysis, solution domain analysis, designing test cases, and writing tests first. These fundamental concepts will give you a solid TDD foundation to build upon. Test Driven Development in Ruby...
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CompTIA A Certification Study Guide, Tenth Edition

Jane Holcombe · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 1136
Format: Paperback

A highly effective study system for the CompTIA A exams -- fully updated for the 2019 versions of the examsWith hundreds of accurate practice questions and hands-on exercises, CompTIA A Certification Study Guide, Tenth Edition (Exams 220-1001 & 220-1002) teaches you what you need...
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Shoshana Zuboff · PublicAffairs
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.Shoshana Zuboff's interdisciplinary breadth and depth...
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Mastering AutoCAD 2019 and AutoCAD LT 2019

George Omura · Sybex
Pages: 1088
Format: Paperback

The world's favorite guide to everything AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT - updated for 2019! Mastering AutoCAD 2019 and AutoCAD LT 2019 is the world's all-time best-selling guide to the world's most popular drafting software. Packed with tips, tricks, techniques, and tutorials, this...
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Troubleshooting iOS: Solving iPhone and iPad Problems

Paul McFedries · Apress
Pages: 171
Format: Print book

Understand and solve many different kinds of iPhone and iPad problems. This book covers both general troubleshooting techniques applicable in a wide variety of situations as well as specific fixes for topics such as networking, apps, photos, the battery, and syncing.
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How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing

Matthias Felleisen · The MIT Press
Pages: 792
Format: Paperback

A completely revised edition, offering new design recipes for interactive programs and support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming.This introduction to programming places computer science at the core of a liberal arts education....
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Concurrency in Go: Tools and Techniques for Developers

Katherine Cox-Buday · O'Reilly Media
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback

Concurrency can be notoriously difficult to get right, but fortunately, the Go open source programming language makes working with concurrency tractable and even easy. If you're a developer familiar with Go, this practical book demonstrates best practices and patterns to help you incorporate...
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Ansible: Up and Running: Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way

Lorin Hochstein · O'Reilly Media
Pages: 430
Format: Paperback

Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages - it's minimal in nature, you don't need to install anything on your nodes, and it has an easy learning curve. With this updated second edition, you'll learn how to be productive with...
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Agile Web Development with Rails 5.1

Sam Ruby · Pragmatic Bookshelf
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

Learn Rails the way the Rails core team recommends it, along with the tens of thousands of developers who have used this broad, far-reaching tutorial and reference. If you're new to Rails, you'll get step-by-step guidance. If you're an experienced developer, get the comprehensive,...
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Photoshop Elements 2018 For Dummies

BARBARA OBERMEIER · For Dummies
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

The top-selling book on Photoshop Elements - updated in a new edition Photoshop Elements offers photo editors of all skill levels the power to turn run-of-the-mill images into beautiful works of art - and Photoshop Elements 2018 For Dummies shows you how. Those new to photo editing who are looking...
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Google Power Search: The Essential Guide to Finding Anything Online With Google

Stephan M Spencer · Koshkonong
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback

What would happen to your productivity if your Web searches always quickly returned the most relevant results? Over the course of a year, you could recover days of time wasted on inefficient searches and irrelevant results; and by mastering Google's search refinement operators and lesser-known...
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Reactive Applications with Akka.NET

Anthony Brown · Manning Publications
Pages: 375
Format: Paperback

Developing applications in a reactive style ensures that the experience is always responsive. Akka.NET is a framework for building distributed, message-driven applications which are able to stay responsive for the user even in the face of failure or when faced with more users. It makes...
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Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code

Primavera De Filippi · Harvard University Press
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

Since Bitcoin appeared in 2009, the digital currency has been hailed as an Internet marvel and decried as the preferred transaction vehicle for all manner of criminals. It has left nearly everyone without a computer science degree confused: Just how do you "mine" money from ones...
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