Book Watch Archive


Assembly x64 Programming (In Easy Steps)
Wednesday, 10 November 2021

This book shows hows how to write code to create your own computer programs. Mike McGrath devotes separate chapters to demonstrating how to store and manipulate data in 64-bit registers, how to control program flow, and how to create reusable blocks of code in program functions. It includes demonstrations of parallel processing with 128-bit Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) and 256-bit Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX).

<ASIN:1840789522>

 
How to Hack Like a Ghost (No Starch Press)
Monday, 08 November 2021

This book, subtitled "Breaching the Cloud", takes you deep inside the mind of a hacker as you carry out a fictionalized attack against a tech company, teaching cutting-edge hacking techniques along the way. Go deep into the mind of a master hacker as he breaks into a hostile, cloud-based security environment. Sparc Flow invites you to shadow him every step of the way, from recon to infiltration, as you hack a shady, data-driven political consulting firm.

<ASIN:1718501269>

 
Make: Electronics: Learning by Discovery 3rd Ed (Make Community)
Friday, 05 November 2021

This book teaches electronics using a system developed by Charles Platt to enable an experience that is fascinating, fun, and memorable. Readers learn by building their own circuits and by making their own mistakes. In fact, mistakes are an important part of the experience. The book encourages you to "burn things out and mess things up" to find out for yourself the limits of electronic components. You'll blow a fuse and watch an overloaded LED, and you can cut open a relay to see how it works inside.

<ASIN:1680456873>

 
Kotlin Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd Ed
Wednesday, 03 November 2021

Based on Big Nerd Ranch’s popular Kotlin Essentials course, and written for Kotlin 1.4, in this guide David Greenhalgh and Josh Skeen show you how to work effectively with the Kotlin programming language through hands-on examples and clear explanations of key Kotlin concepts and foundational APIs. 

<ASIN:0136891055>

 
Advanced Git, 2nd Ed (Razeware)
Monday, 01 November 2021

This book, subtitled "Understanding Git Collaboration & Workflows" is for anyone who wants to use version control with Git in their software development process. Jawwad Ahmad and Chris Belanger start with a look under Git’s hood, then move on to more complicated scenarios including merge conflicts, rebasing and more. Later chapters move on to common workflows using Git.

<ASIN:1950325504>

 
CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money (Wiley)
Friday, 29 October 2021

Dubbed "CryptoDad" for his impassioned plea to Congress to acknowledge and respect cryptocurrencies as the inevitable product of a fast-growing technological wave and a free marketplace, Chris Giancarlo is considered one of "the most influential individuals in financial regulation." This book describes Giancarlo’s own reckoning with the future of the global economy and lays out the fight for a Digital Dollar.

<ASIN:‎ 111985508X>

 
Python Microservices Development 2nd Ed (Packt)
Wednesday, 27 October 2021

Building microservices architecture that is efficient as well as lightweight into your applications can be challenging due to the complexity of all the interacting pieces. This book shows how to overcome these issues and craft applications that are built as small standard units using proven best practices and avoiding common pitfalls. Simon Fraser and Tarek Ziadé use hands-on examples to illustrate how to build efficient microservices using Quart, SQLAlchemy, and other modern Python tools.

<ASIN:1801076308>

 
Go Programming (In Easy Steps)
Monday, 25 October 2021

This book is aimed at non-programmers and starts from first principles showing how to write code. In later chapters Mike McGrath demonstrates how to store information in data structures, how to control program flow using control structures, and how to create re-usable blocks of code in program functions. There are complete step-by-step example programs that demonstrate each aspect of coding, together with screenshots that illustrate the actual output when each program is executed.

<ASIN:1840789190>

 
Conversational AI: Chatbots that work (Manning)
Friday, 22 October 2021

This book teaches readers to create the kind of AI-enabled assistants used by the customer service industry. Andrew Freed shows how to build effective conversational AI that can automate common inquiries and address customers' most common problems. The book covers the essential technical and creative skills for designing successful AI solutions, from coding process flows and training machine learning, to improving your written dialog.

<ASIN:1617298832>

 
Learn to Code by Solving Problems (No Starch Press)
Wednesday, 20 October 2021

This book is a practical introduction to programming using Python. Dr. Daniel Zingaro uses coding-competition challenges to teach you the mechanics of coding and how to think like a savvy programmer. This beginner’s book shows how to solve interesting problems drawn from real coding competitions and build your programming skills as you go.

<ASIN:1718501323>

 
Introduction to Visual SLAM (Springer)
Monday, 18 October 2021

This book offers an introduction to the visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) technology, which is a component for many applications in robotics, wearable devices, and autonomous driving vehicles. Xiang Gao and Tao Zhang start from very basic mathematic background knowledge such as 3D rigid body geometry, the pinhole camera projection model, and nonlinear optimization techniques.

<ASIN:‎ 9811649383>

 
Go Brain Teasers (‎Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Friday, 15 October 2021

This book contains 25 short programs that will challenge your understanding of Go. Like any big project, the Go developers had to make some design decisions that at times seem surprising. In this book Miki Tebeka uses those quirks as a teaching opportunity. Some of the teasers are from the author's experience shipping bugs to production, and some from others doing the same. Challenge yourself and challenge your assumptions to gain a more in-depth understanding of integers, strings, Unicode, compiler behavior, and a variety of subtle programming gotchas that might otherwise trip you up.

<ASIN:1680508997>

 
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