Vikram Chandra is the award-winning author of two acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories - and has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a writer. In his extraordinary new book he looks at the connection between these two worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both?

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With more than 60 practical and creative hacks, Ruth Suehle and Tom Callaway help you turn this inexpensive yet powerful Linux computer into the centerpiece of some cool electronics projects. Want to create a controller for a camera or a robot? Set up Linux distributions for media centers or PBX phone systems? That’s just the beginning of what you’ll find.

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In this pocket-sized guide, William R. Stanek delivers ready answers for administering storage, security, and networking features in Windows Server 2012 R2. Zero in on core tasks through quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists. You'll get the focused information you need to save time and get the job done.

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How a handful of geeks and mavericks dragged the computer out of corporate back rooms and laboratories and into our living rooms and offices. It is a tale not only of extraordinary innovation and vision but also of cunning business deals, boardroom tantrums and acrimonious lawsuits. Here you will find some of the most intelligent and eccentric people you could hope to meet.

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Want to build apps for Android devices? Marko Gargenta and Masumi Nakamura show experienced object-oriented programmers how to use Android's basic building blocks to create user interfaces, store data, connect to the network, and more. You'll build a Twitter-like application throughout the course of this book, adding new features with each chapter. See our review of the original edition.

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With the subtitle "Adventures in Better Web Apps", Jack Moffitt and Frederic Daoud sample framework options with ideas that will help you create better apps. Between them they use modern programming languages from Ruby and JavaScript to Erlang, Haskell, and Clojure, employ unique architectures, live client-side instead of server-side, or embrace type systems.

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Long-time agile coach and enterprise architect Mario Cardinal shows how to create executable specifications and use them to test software behavior against requirements. Writing for analysts, architects, developers, and managers, he shows how to trawl requirements incrementally, and makes a strong case for the iterative discovery of requirements.

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Practical advice and insights to help you create and publish apps to a worldwide market from authors Edward Moemeka and Elizabeth Lomasky who have deep Windows 8 app development experience. Learn how to make the most of Microsoft’s APIs for hooking into Windows 8 on all devices, including the core ideas of promises and the asynchronous programming model.

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Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Few people know that women were a significant presence in the early decades of computing in both the United States and Britain. Indeed, programming in postwar years was considered woman's work.

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Jason Ouellette gives you practical, technical guidance for using the newest Force.com releases in your own custom cloud applications. New coverage in this third edition includes Developer Console, JSON, Streaming and Tooling APIs, Bulk API, Force.com Canvas, REST integration and an all-new chapter on mobile user interfaces.

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If you've used a more traditional object-oriented language, such as C++ or Java, JavaScript probably doesn't seem object-oriented at all. It has no concept of classes, and you don't even need to define any objects in order to write code. Nicholas Zakas  explores JavaScript's object-oriented nature, revealing the language's unique implementation of inheritance and other key characteristics.

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Updated for both Python 3.4 and 2.7 by Mark Lutz, this convenient pocket guide, now in its firth edition, is the perfect on-the-job quick reference. You’ll find concise, need-to-know information on Python types and statements, special method names, built-in functions and exceptions, commonly used standard library modules, and other prominent Python tools. The handy index lets you pinpoint exactly what you need.

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