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Write Great Code, Volume 1, 2nd Edition: Understanding the Machine

Randall Hyde - No Starch Press
Format: Paperback

Understanding the Machine, the first volume in the landmark Write Great Code series by Randall Hyde, explains the underlying mechanics of how a computer works.Like the highly regarded first edition, this second edition of Understanding the Machine covers machine organization and computer...
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Basics of Web Design: HTML5 & CSS

Terry Felke-Morris - Pearson; 5th edition
Format: 5th Edition

For introductory courses in Web Design is a foundational introduction to beginning web design and web development. The text provides a balance of "hard" skills such as HTML 5, CSS, and "soft" skills such as web design and publishing to the Web, giving students a well-rounded...
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PowerShell Cookbook: Your Complete Guide to Scripting the Ubiquitous Object-Based Shell

Lee Holmes - O'Reilly Media; 4th edition
Format: 4th Edition

How do you use PowerShell to navigate the filesystem, manage files and folders, or retrieve a web page? This introduction to the PowerShell language and scripting environment provides more than 400 task-oriented recipes to help you solve all kinds of problems. Intermediate to advanced system...
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Mastering Apache Pulsar: Cloud Native Event Streaming at Scale

Jowanza Joseph - ?O'Reilly Media; 1st edition
Format: 1st Edition

Every enterprise application creates data, including log messages, metrics, user activity, and outgoing messages. Learning how to move these items is almost as important as the data itself. If you're an application architect, developer, or production engineer new to Apache Pulsar, this...
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C Software Design: Design Principles and Patterns for High-Quality Software

Klaus Iglberger - O'Reilly Media
Format: 1st Edition

Good software design is essential for the success of your project, but designing software is hard to do. You need to have a deep understanding of the consequences of design decisions and a good overview of available design alternatives. With this book, experienced C developers will get a thorough,...
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You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All

Adrian Hon - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation - and what we can do about it Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges...
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Effective Python: 90 Specific Ways to Write Better Python

Brett Slatkin - Addison-Wesley Professional
Format: Paperback

Updated and Expanded for Python 3 It's easy to start developing programs with Python, which is why the language is so popular. However, Python's unique strengths, charms, and expressiveness can be hard to grasp, and there are hidden pitfalls that can easily trip you up. This...
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Troubleshooting iOS: Solving iPhone and iPad Problems

Paul McFedries - Apress
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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Your Linux Toolbox

Julia Evans - No Starch Press
Format: Paperback

The awesome Linux zines you love, now as a fancy box set!Ever wished you could spy on your computer with a handy incantation or bewitch your programs to debug themselves--now you can by becoming a Linux wizard! Okay, reading these zines won't actually make you a wizard, but you'll sure...
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The Musician's Guide to Audio

Craig Anderton
Format: Paperback


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