If you want to learn to program, Python is an excellent way to start. This hands-on guide takes you through the language one step at a time, beginning with basic programming concepts before moving on to functions, recursion, data structures, and object-oriented design. This updated second edition has a more direct focus on Python 3 and added coverage of list comprehensions and additional data structures.

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People are happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with. Self-selecting teams give people that choice. With this case study of how New Zealand's biggest e-commerce company completely restructured its business through self-selection discover hoe to build well-designed and efficient teams to get the most out of your organization, with step-by-step instructions on how to set up teams quickly and efficiently. 

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In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with AngularJS in your Microsoft .NET environment. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on your .NET skills and knowledge, helping you quickly learn the essentials of AngularJS, and use it to streamline any web development project. Q&A sections, quizzes, and exercises help you build and test your knowledge.

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Is your organization rapidly accumulating more information than you know how to manage? This updated edition, written for business managers, IT managers, and information professionals can maximize the value of corporate information and data assets, helps you create an enterprise search solution based on more than just technology. Martin White shows you how to plan and implement a managed search environment that meets the needs of  business.

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In just 24 lessons of one hour or less discover how to harness Hadoop’s power on a flexible, scalable cloud platform using Microsoft’s newest business intelligence, visualization, and productivity tools. With a straightforward, step-by-step approach Manpreet Singh and Arshad Ali help show you how to provision, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot HDInsight and use Hadoop cloud services to solve real analytics problems. You’ll gain more of Hadoop’s benefits, with less complexity even if you’re completely new to Big Data analytics.

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Sets out to teach you the basics quickly so that you can solve problems, make things, and do cool stuff. In each chapter, Eric Matthes explains a new programming concept and includes a set of exercises to help reinforce your new knowledge.  Three hands-on projects, a simple video game, using data visualization techniques to make interactive graphs and charts, and a simple Web application put your new programming skills into practice, so it's not just syntax and theory. 

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The Intel Edison is a crowning achievement of Intel's adaptation of its technology into maker-friendly products. They've packed the dual-core power of the Atom CPU, combined it with a sideboard microcontroller brain, and added in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy, and a generous amount of RAM (1GB) and flash storage (4GB). Stephanie Moyerman, a research scientist with Intel's Smart Device Innovation Team, teaches you everything you need to know to get started making things with Edison, the compact and powerful Internet of Things platform.

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Django is a powerful system for creating modern, dynamic websites. In this step-by-step, beginner-friendly guide, Django consultant and trainer Andrew Pinkham reveals how websites operate; how Django makes building websites easy; how to write Python code that leverages its immense capabilities; and how to build solutions that are robust, reliable, and secure. You’ll start simply and learn to solve increasingly challenging problems: mastering new features and understanding how Django’s architecture shapes their behavior, and gaining essential knowledge for working with any web framework, not just Django.

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Whether you are just starting out or an Excel novice, this is your comprehensive, go-to guide for Excel 2016. Whether you use Excel at work or at home, you will be guided through the powerful new features and capabilities by Excel Guru John Walkenbach to take full advantage of what the updated version offers. Learn to incorporate templates, implement formulas, create pivot tables, analyze data, and much more.

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Written by the authors of C# 6.0 in a Nutshell, Joseph and Ben Albahari this easy to browse pocket sized guide provides instant help for C# 6.0 programmers.Practical and tightly focused, it tells you what you need to know without long introductions or bloated samples. Intended as a quick reference or as a guide to get you rapidly up to speed if you already know Java, C++, or an earlier version of C#.

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The authoritative resource for any programmer who wants to learn Go. It shows how to write clear and idiomatic Go to solve real-world problems. The book does not assume prior knowledge of Go nor experience with any specific language, so you’ll find it accessible whether you’re most comfortable with JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Java, or C++. Written by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan  it features hundreds of examples of Go code that cover the whole language, its most important packages, and a wide range of applications.

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Python is a powerful programming language that's easy to learn and fun to play with. But once you've gotten a handle on the basics, what do you do next? This collection of "Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer" from indie hardware maker Mahesh Venkitachalam is intended to inspire you to use Python to make art and music, build simulations of real-world phenomena, and interact with hardware like the Arduino and Raspberry Pi. 

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