Learn how to build a full-stack application with Backbone.js by taking advantage of JavaScript modules, workflow automation, and Backbone’s interface building blocks. In this practical guide, Patrick Mulder takes experienced backend developers and JavaScript programmers through the steps necessary to create a fully functional single-page application.

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This slim biography is in a series from LifeCaps that looks at "lesser known or sometimes forgotten lives". After the recent Turing Year and the forthcoming biopic, the assertion that "few people knew about one of the greatest heroes of the war—a mild-mannered, eccentric mathematician from the University of Cambridge" may be mistaken. Intended primarily as an e-book it's also available as print on demand.

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Based on Big Nerd Ranch's iOS Bootcamp, this guide by Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass and Christian Keur teaches iOS concepts and coding in tandem. Updated and expanded to cover iOS 7 and Xcode 5 this 4th edition leads you through the essential tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications, providing the understanding and  confidence you need to tackle iOS projects of your own. 

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Written by members of the Java EE documentation team at Oracle, this two-volume task-oriented, example-driven guide to developing enterprise applications provides new and intermediate Java programmers with a deep understanding of the platform. Volume 1 introduces platform basics, including resource creation, resource injection, and packaging.

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Get the most out of Samsung’s Galaxy S5 smartphone right from the start. With clear instructions from technology expert Preston Gralla, this Missing Manual gives you a guided tour of Samsung's new flagship phone, including great new features such as the fingerprint scanner, heart rate sensor, and Download Booster.

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A complete beginner's guide to the EV3 kit from robotics expert Laurens Valk. This full color book teaches you fundamental programming and robotics skills as you build and program six increasingly sophisticated robots that move, monitor sensors, and respond to their environments including an autonomous robotic arm and a humanoid that walks and talks.

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Learn how to program with Python from beginning to end with Michael Driscoll's book for beginners and intermediate programmers. After Python basics, he covers a subset of the Python standard library. There's a series of tutorials and the final part of the book is on 3rd party modules and also covers creating a module and its packaging and distribution.

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With over 100 recipes to help you develop iOS applications with Xamarin, Dimitris Tavlikos provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills to be part of the mobile development era, using C#. Starting from installing the necessary tools, he covers everything you need to develop an application ready to be deployed plus best practices for interacting with the device hardware, such as the GPS, compass, and accelerometer.

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If you have questions about using Intuit's small buinsess accounting package QuickBooks, Gail Perry and Michelle Long provide answers in a visual step-by-step format with lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions. Numbered steps guide you through each task including new QuickBooks features for 2014 - Income Tracker, Bank Feeds, and Rules.

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Presents a comprehensive overview of modern mathematical concepts, models, methods and tools with applications in computer graphics, computer vision and machine learning. Hongyu Guo covers 15 topics arranged in three parts: algebra, geometry and topology, with an emphasis on tensors and manifolds, and there's a separate part on applications.

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In this step-by-step guide to creating dynamic websites, Robin Nixon first explore each technology separately and then shows how to use them together, demoing up valuable web programming practices along the way. At the end of the book, you’ll put everything together to build a fully functional social networking site.

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