Danny Kopec, Shweta Shetty and Christopher Pileggi discuss the importance of developing critical-thinking methods and skills, and provide a precise description of a well-known Al problem coupled with an effective graphical representation. Includes discussion of possible approaches to solving each problem together with the best solution; code or pseudo-code implementing the solution algorithm, and academic references.

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The perfect way to get started with SQL Server operations, including maintenance, backup and recovery, high availability, and performance monitoring. In about an hour a day over a month you'll learn, from Microsoft MVP Don Jones, exactly what you can do, and what you shouldn't touch. Most importantly, you'll learn the day-to-day tasks and techniques you need to keep SQL Server humming along smoothly.

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Michael Welschenbach has everything you need to know to write professional-level cryptographic code. In this expanded, improved 2nd edition the chapter about random number generation has been completely rewritten and recent improvements in primality testing and the latest cryptographic techniques are covered.

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Get your Raspberry Pi up and running starting with the basics: adding hardware, installing and configuring Debian Linux, and customizing the Pi's firmware to get the most out of your hardware. Maik Schmidt's full color guide is targeted at beginners in computing and programming, but a small electronics project and setting up a web server assume some intermediate skills.

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Learn how today’s client-side technologies and web APIs work with various Java tools. Casimir Saternos provides the big picture of client-server development, and then takes you through many practical client-server architectures. You’ll work with hands-on projects in several chapters to get a feel for the topics discussed.

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The 2014 release of SQL Server Integration Services provides enhancements for managing extraction, transformation, and load operations, plus expanded in–memory capabilities, improved disaster recovery, increased scalability, and much more. The catch is that your workflow must change. Here is your roadmap to success with SSIS. 

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Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang, introduces this powerful language in small steps, giving you a complete overview of Erlang and how to use it in common scenarios.The second edition has been extensively rewritten with seven news chapters covering the latest Erlang features.

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A problem-solution based guide to the Windows Phone 8 platform. Recipes are grouped according to features of the platform and ways of interacting with the device. Solutions are given in C# and XAML, so you can apply your existing .NET skills and apply them to this new platform. If you already have a Windows Phone 7 apps to upgrade, Lori Lalonde and David R. Totzke even have a recipe for that.

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This practical guide shows what it takes to design usable REST APIs that evolve over time and and create powerful and secure applications, using the tools designed for the world’s most successful distributed computing system: the World Wide Web. You’ll explore the concepts behind REST, learn different strategies for creating hypermedia-based APIs, and put everything together with a step-by-step guide to designing a RESTful Web API.

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Optimize your database server to be fast, efficient, and highly secure. In this hands-on tutorial Gethyn Ellis explores the new features of SQL Server 2014 along with giving real world examples. Learn how to design your SQL Server 2014 infrastructure by combining on-premise and Windows Azure-based technology and implement the new InMemory OLTP database engine.

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You know what's even better than playing games? Creating your own. Even if you're an absolute beginner, Chris Strom will teach you how to make your own online games with interactive examples. You'll learn programming using nothing more than a browser, seeing 3D results as you type, and real-world programming skills in JavaScript, the language of the web.

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Teaches you everything from JavaScript language fundamentals to advanced topics, including objects, functions, and the browser’s document object model. You won’t just be reading—you’ll be playing games, solving puzzles, pondering mysteries, and interacting with JavaScript in ways you never imagined. And writing lots of real code for web applications.

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