In this guide Robert Henning systematically addresses challenges such as getting to grips with how nodes and scenes work while learning a new interface along with GDScript. Henning starts with nodes and scenes, Godot’s way of organizing everything, then explores both 2D and 3D game creation, adding key elements such as players, enemies, collectibles, and lighting effects that make games pop visually. Later chapters get hands-on with Godot’s scripting language, GDScript, to bring game ideas to life.

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This book shows how adding WiFi to the Raspberry Pi Pico turns this low-cost, small form factor device into a true IoT device. Harry Fairhead explains how the extra capabilities added to the Pico W open up loads of opportunities, but only if you are prepared to do battle with the two libraries that provide networking and security – Lightweight Internet Protocol (lwIP) and Mbed Transport Layer Security (mbedTLS), respectively. This book provides a guide to these libraries along with examples of what you can do with them - information that isn't readily available. This second edition has been updated to cover the second generation Pico 2W as well as the original Pico W and has been extended to cover FreeRTOS, which offers significant advantages when working with lwIP and mbedTLS.

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This book is a deeply researched insider’s account of Google’s epic two-decade campaign to dominate online advertising by any means necessary.  Former advertising executive, Ari Paparo, tells the story of how Google, starting in the mid-2000s with its initial near-monopoly on text ads, began to look for ways to obtain a similar stranglehold on the display advertising market.

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This book shows how to create and deploy microservices-based applications using the latest versions of Spring Boot, Java, and Spring Cloud. Magnus Larsson starts with simple microservices and progresses to complex distributed applications, explaining essential functionality and deploying microservices using Kubernetes and Istio along the way. This edition covers Java 24, Spring Boot 3.5, and Spring Cloud 2025, featuring updated code examples and replacing deprecated APIs. Topics include Spring’s Ahead of Time (AOT) module, observability, distributed tracing, and Helm for Kubernetes packaging.

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Subtitled "Solving problems with Q# and Qiskit", this book takes you beyond quantum basics and shows you how to take on practical quantum problem solving and programming using Q# and Qiskit. Author Mariia Mykhailova, a principal quantum applications software developer at PsiQuantum, shows how to write quantum programs using Qiskit and Q#, along with how to test your quantum code using common testing tools like pytest.

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In this book, subtitled "Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism", Leif Weatherby presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a convergence of computation and language, Weatherby contends that AI does not simulate cognition, as widely believed, but rather creates culture. This evolution in language, he finds, is one that we are ill-prepared to evaluate, as what he terms “remainder humanism” counterproductively divides the human from the machine without drawing on established theories of representation that include both.

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This is a hands-on guide for developers who want to master the command line; not just to get around, but to build a fast, flexible, and portable development environment. Dave Kerr says this isn’t a tour of shell commands; it’s a blueprint for creating workflows that scale across machines, teams, and projects. The book goes from keystroke-level efficiency to composing powerful pipelines, writing reliable scripts, and automating common development tasks. Later chapters take it further: managing your configuration with Git, customizing your shell setup, and working seamlessly across remote sessions using tools like Vim and tmux.

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With a strong focus on practical engineering applications, in this book Patrick D.T. O’Connor and Andre V. Kleyner offer a balanced blend of reliability theory and real-world applications. This edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect the latest advancements in industry practices and state-of-the-art reliability engineering. Every chapter has been refreshed with new material, and two new chapters ― Repairable Systems and Human Reliability ― have been added.

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In this book, subtitled "Write a Native x64 Debugger From Scratch", Sy Brand shows how to master the inner workings of your x64 Linux system and expand your OS expertise by writing your very own debugger using C++. The book covers the entire process of building a debugger for x64 Linux systems using C++. As go from an empty filesystem folder to a fully fledged debugger capable of setting breakpoints, stepping through code, and manipulating variables.

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This book shows how Rails can be used to produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly. Sam Ruby and Dave Thomas start with a step-by-step walkthrough of building a real application, then move on to look in depth at the built-in Rails features. 

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In this book John Vince explains a comprehensive range of mathematical techniques and problem-solving strategies associated with computer games, computer animation, special effects, virtual reality, CAD and other areas of computer graphics in this completely revised and expanded seventh edition.

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In this book Mark C. Layton introduces the planning and execution approaches that can help complete projects more quickly, with higher quality and using fewer resources. The book lays out the principles and practices of agile techniques in jargon-free language that anyone can understand. Readers will learn all the important terms, tools, and concepts, so they can infuse agility into their projects.

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