Book Watch Archive


Mathematics for Machine Learning (Cambridge University Press)
Friday, 24 April 2020

In this book, authors Marc Peter Deisenroth, Aldo Faisal and Cheng Soon Ong cover the fundamental mathematical tools needed to understand machine learning including linear algebra, analytic geometry, matrix decompositions, vector calculus, optimization, probability and statistics.These topics are traditionally taught in disparate courses, making it hard for data science or computer science students, or professionals, to efficiently learn the mathematics. This self contained textbook bridges the gap between mathematical and machine learning texts.

<ASIN:110845514X>

 
Building React Apps with Server-Side Rendering (Apress)
Wednesday, 22 April 2020

in this book subtitled "Use React, Redux, and Next to Build Full Server-Side Rendering Applications",  author Mohit Thakkar shows how to build and deploy React applications using the Next.js framework to fully render server-side HTML on every web page. The core of the book covers using Next.js to create a fast and secure solutional React application that renders content on the server-side, protects sensitive information, and optimizes response times. The book also covers other fun and interesting topics such as Bootstrap 4, JSX (JavaScript XML), and adding styling to your React applications.

<ASIN:1484258681>

 
Expert C++ (Packt)
Monday, 20 April 2020

In this book subtitled "Become a proficient programmer by learning coding best practices with C++17 and C++20's latest features",authors Vardan Grigoryan and Shunguang Wu aim to teach the intricacies of the language, techniques, C++ tools, and the new features introduced in C++20. They start by exploring the latest features of C++, and then move on to advanced techniques such as multithreading, concurrency, debugging, monitoring, and high-performance programming, as well as object-oriented programming principles and the C++ Standard Template Library.

<ASIN:1838552650>

 
The Age of Algorithms (Cambridge University Press)
Friday, 17 April 2020

In this book, authors Serge Abiteboul and Gilles Dowek argue that algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science, industry, society, but the authors argue that algorithms are what we made them. And they will be what we want them to be: it's up to us to choose the world we want to live in.

<ASIN:1108745423>

 
Google BigQuery (O'Reilly)
Wednesday, 15 April 2020

This Definitive Guide covers Google BigQuery, the query engine that lets you conduct interactive analysis of large datasets.  Authors Valliappa Lakshmanan, tech lead for Google Cloud Platform, and Jordan Tigani, engineering director for the BigQuery team, provide best practices for modern data warehousing within an autoscaled, serverless public cloud. BigQuery enables enterprises to efficiently store, query, ingest, and learn from their data in a convenient framework. With this book, you’ll examine how to analyze data at scale to derive insights from large datasets efficiently.

<ASIN:1492044466>

 
MATLAB Programming (De Gruyter)
Monday, 13 April 2020

The book presents fundamentals, data, statement structures, control structures, function writing and bugging of MATLAT programming. Author Dingyu Xue then presents algebraic computation, transcendental function evaluations and data processing. Advanced topics such as MATLAB interface design, object-oriented programming and graphical user interface design are also addressed. As its subtitle, Mathematical Problem Solutions suggests, this is a textbook and it originated at Tsinghua University,  a major research university in Beijing.

<ASIN:3110663562>

 
Coders (Penguin)
Friday, 10 April 2020

This book, with the subtitle "The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World" is an anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers. Author Clive Thompson asks who they are, how they think, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause. Thompson gets close to some of the great programmers of our time, including the creators of Facebook's News Feed, Instagram, and Google's cutting-edge AI.

<ASIN:0735220581>

 
Hands-On High Performance with Go (Packt)
Wednesday, 08 April 2020

This Golang book aims to teach how to construct idiomatic Go code that is reusable and highly performant. Author Bob Strecansky starts with an introduction to performance concepts, then shows how to implement Go data structures and algorithms along with exploring data manipulation and organization to write programs for scalable software.

<ASIN:1789805783>

 
Java Performance 2nd Ed (O'Reilly)
Written by Kay Ewbank   
Monday, 06 April 2020

In this practical book subtitled "In-Depth Advice for Tuning and Programming Java 8, 11, and Beyond", author Scott Oaks takes the approach that anyone who works with Java should be adept at understanding how code behaves in the Java Virtual Machine including the tunings likely to help performance. This updated second edition helps you gain in-depth knowledge of Java application performance using both the JVM and the Java platform

<ASIN:1492056111>

 
Competing with Unicorns (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Friday, 03 April 2020

Today's tech unicorns develop software differently, according to Jonathan Rasmusson, author of this book. He says they've developed a way of working that lets them scale like an enterprise while working like a startup, and that these techniques can be learned.This book, subtitled "How the World's Best Companies Ship Software and Work Differently", takes you behind the scenes and shows you how companies like Google, Facebook, and Spotify do it. The book aims to use their insights, so your teams can work better together, ship higher-quality product faster, innovate more quickly, and compete with the unicorns

<ASIN:1680507230>

 
Modern Full-Stack Development (Apress)
Wednesday, 01 April 2020

This book explores what React, Node, TypeScript, Webpack, and Docker have to offer individually, and how they all fit together in modern app development. Author Frank Zammetti begins with explanations of the individual elements, then expands to constructing two different real-world apps. By the end, readers should have a solid grasp of building apps with React, Node.js, and TypeScript, as well as how Webpack can be used to optimize and organize your code, and how Docker can be used to run the apps.

<ASIN:1484257375>

 
Django 3 Web Development Cookbook 4th Ed (Packt)
Monday, 30 March 2020

The fourth edition of Django Web Development Cookbook is updated with Django 3's latest features to show how to develop web projects using the Django web framework. Authors Aidas Bendoraitis and Jake Kronikaa start from creating a virtual environment and project structure for building Python web apps before going on to building models, views, forms, and templates for web apps and then integrate JavaScript in Django apps to add more features. The book will take you through uploading and processing images, rendering data in HTML5, PDF, and Excel, using and creating APIs, and navigating different data types in Django.

<ASIN:1838987428>

 
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