Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is a critically acclaimed, bestselling space flight simulator game that has a bit of a learning curve. In this book, five KSP nerds—including an astrophysicist—teach you everything you need to know to get a nation of tiny green people into space

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This sixth edition of the Big Nerd Ranch guide to iOS programming has been updated for Xcode 8, Swift 3, and iOS 10. Aaron Hillegass takes you through the concepts, tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications, to give you the know-how and confidence you need to tackle iOS projects of your own.

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Subtitled "Know Your Network", the idea behind this book, now in its third edition, is to show you how to assess network security by attacking it yourself. Author Chris McNab shows you the tools and techniques that professional security analysts use to identify and assess risks in government, military, and commercial networks.

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wxPython is a GUI toolkit that can be used with Python 2 and 3. In this cookbook Michael Driscoll has over 50 tips, tricks and answers to questions for those who want to use it to create cross-platform desktop user interfaces. It is aimed at users of both Python 2 and 3 who also have a basic understanding of wxPython.

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This book shows how to solve real data science problems with Hadoop and Spark. Authors Ofer Mendelevitch, Casey Stella, and Douglas Eadline draw on their experience with Hadoop and big data to bring together everything you need: high-level concepts, deep-dive techniques, real-world use cases, practical applications, and hands-on tutorials.

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In this book in the Deitel Developer series, Harvey Deitel teaches programming and explores Microsoft s C# 6 and .NET by presenting concepts in the context of 170+ fully coded and tested apps, complete with syntax shading, code highlighting, code walkthroughs, program outputs and software development tips.</p>

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The Laravel PHP web frameworks offers speed, simplicity, and a large ecosystem of tools that can be used to build new sites and applications with clean, readable code. In this practical guide, Matt Stauffer starts with a high-level overview and examples to help experienced PHP web developers get started with Laravel quickly.

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If you're comfortable with HTML, CSS and JavaScript and you want to learn CSS, you're the ideal reader for this book by Oswald Campesato. The book is part of the Pocket Primer series, and is accompanied by a DVD with code, videos, and graphics included. This Pocket Primer serves as a starting point for deeper exploration of CSS3.

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The subtitle of this book is Rapid, Confident, Maintainable Code, and author Dr. Venkat Subramaniam shows that whether you use Node.js, Express, MongoDB, jQuery, AngularJS, or directly manipulate the DOM, you can test-drive JavaScript, repaying your investment in writing tests with code that's predictable and cost-effective to change.

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If you want to learn how to program but do not know where to start, this is the right book and the right language for you. From the first page, our unique self-paced approach will help you build competence and confidence in your programming skills. And Python is the best language ever for learning how to program because of its simplicity and breadth two features that are hard to find in a single language. 

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When you need to analyze terabytes of data, this book shows you how to do it efficiently with Pig. Author Alan Gates is co-founder of Hortonworks and an original member of the engineering team that took Pig from a Yahoo! Labs research project to a successful Apache open source project. This second edition, updated with programming examples, provides comprehensive coverage on key features such as the Pig Latin scripting language and the Grunt shell.

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In this book, author Colin Smith explains everything photographers need to know about drones and quadcopters in order to take their photography to new levels. No matter what model of drone is being used ―DJI, 3DR, Yuneec, GoPro―to take good photographs you need to learn how to put this new gear to good use for aerial photography.

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