You have an idea in your head. But you’re stuck simmering on it because you just don’t know if it’s the right one to pursue or people will use your product, let alone pay for it. The uncertainty is overwhelming, so you do nothing. Poornima Vijayashanker has founded 3 startups and personally guided 100+ people who have launched products. Her book provides a roadmap so you too can launch a winning software product.

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AngularJS is one of the new web development technologies. Designed to simplify the development and testing of web applications, it also provides structure for the entire development process. Brad Dayley shows you how to create web applications that have a well-structured, reusable code base that will be easy to maintain. You’ll also learn about  AngularJS’s MVC approach for implement well-designed and well-structured web pages and web applications.

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Subtitled Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies, covers bitcoin basics and the technical operation of bitcoin. From using a bitcoin wallet to buy a cup of coffee, to running a bitcoin marketplace with hundreds of thousands of transactions, or collaboratively building new financial innovations that will transform our understanding of currency and credit, this book will help you engineer money. Andreas Antonopoulos helps unlock the API to a new economy 

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This new edition of "A Short Course on the Basics" by Raymond Gallardo et al is based on the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE 8) and so introduces the new features, including lambda expressions, default methods, aggregate operations, and more. An accessible and practical guide for programmers of any level, this book focuses on how to use the rich environment provided by Java to build applications, applets, and components.

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Legendary Silicon Valley programming instructor Ellie Quigley has fully updated and focused her classic text on today’s key Perl applications, especially automation, testing, data extraction, and legacy code maintenance. She has also revised this edition to reflect “modern Perl” practices that have emerged since Perl 5.10. Quigley illuminates every technique with focused, classroom-tested code examples.<ASIN:0133760812>

A beginner's Ruby book from Zed  Shaw. Learn Ruby by working through 52 exercises. Read them. Type their code precisely. (No copying and pasting!) Fix your mistakes. Watch the programs run. As you do, you’ll learn how software works; what good programs look like; how to read, write, and think about code; and how to find and fix your mistakes using tricks professional programmers use. Accompanying DVD contains 5+ hours of content.

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Subtitled Functional Programming + Objects this book by Dean Wampler and Alex Payne gets you up to speed on a JVM language that has the benefits of a modern object model, functional programming, and an advanced type system. This second edition covers recent language features, with new chapters on pattern matching, comprehensions, and advanced functional programming.

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Alex Holmes provides over 100 tested, instantly useful techniques that will help you conquer big data, using Hadoop. This revised new edition covers changes and new features in the Hadoop core architecture, including MapReduce 2. Brand new chapters cover YARN and integrating Kafka, Impala, and Spark SQL with Hadoop. There are also new and updated techniques for Flume, Sqoop, and Mahout./

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The industry is moving from object-oriented languages to functional languages and new programming languages arm you with the tools and idioms you need to refine your craft. Go on a step-by-step journey through the most important paradigms of our time while learning Lua, Factor, Elixir, Elm, Julia, MiniKanren, and Idris. 

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Agile has revolutionized the way teams approach software development, but with dozens of agile methodologies to choose from, the decision to "go agile" can be tricky. In this practical book with the Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene provide a grounding you in agile’s underlying principles, then describe four  popular agile methods: Scrum, extreme programming (XP), Lean, and Kanban.

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Not many book's have the author's name included in their titles. In its original edition, 20 years ago this book was the first to be devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques needed to transform an experienced SQL programmer into an expert. Now, in its fifth edition, it remains the only book written by a SQL master that teaches programmers and practitioners to become SQL masters themselves! 

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Systematically revised and updated for the newest APIs, this guide to building robust, commercial-grade Android apps by Joseph Annuzzi Jr, Lauren Darcey & Shane Conder brings together techniques for the entire app development cycle, including design, coding, testing, debugging, and distribution. With the addition of quizzes and exercises in every chapter, it is intended for both professional and classroom use.

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