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Learning TensorFlow.js

by Gant Laborde ...

Given the demand for AI and the ubiquity of JavaScript, TensorFlow.js was inevitable. With this Google framework, seasoned AI veterans and web developers alike can help propel the future of AI-driven websites. In this guide, author Gant Laborde (Google Developer Expert in machine learning and the web) provides a hands-on end-to-end approach to TensorFlow.js fundamentals for a broad technical ... Read more

$47.99 CAD

Given the demand for AI and the ubiquity of JavaScript, TensorFlow.js was inevitable. With this Google framework, seasoned AI veterans and web developers alike can help propel the future of AI-driven websites. In this guide, author Gant Laborde (Google Developer Expert in machine learning and the web) provides a hands-on end-to-end approach to TensorFlow.js fundamentals for a broad technical
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The Science of Citizen Science

Edited by Katrin Vohland, Anne Land-zandstra, Luigi Ceccaroni, Rob Lemmens, Josep Perelló, Marisa Ponti, Roeland Samson, Katherin Wagenknecht ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientists ... Read more

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This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientists
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Learning SQL

Generate, Manipulate, and Retrieve Data

by Alan Beaulieu ...

As data floods into your company, you need to put it to work right away—and SQL is the best tool for the job. With the latest edition of this introductory guide, author Alan Beaulieu helps developers get up to speed with SQL fundamentals for writing database applications, performing administrative tasks, and generating reports. You’ll find new chapters on SQL and big data, analytic functions, and ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

As data floods into your company, you need to put it to work right away—and SQL is the best tool for the job. With the latest edition of this introductory guide, author Alan Beaulieu helps developers get up to speed with SQL fundamentals for writing database applications, performing administrative tasks, and generating reports. You’ll find new chapters on SQL and big data, analytic functions, and
... Read more
Getting Started with Visual Studio 2019

Learning and Implementing New Features

by Dirk Strauss ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Know how to use the features of Visual Studio 2019 and utilize the IDE correctly to become your one-stop solution for creating quality code. Learn what's new in VS 2019 and explore the existing features of Visual Studio so you can use them more efficiently.Getting Started with Visual Studio 2019 begins with an overview of Visual Studio and explores new features such as Visual Studio Live Share, ... Read more

$56.99 CAD

Know how to use the features of Visual Studio 2019 and utilize the IDE correctly to become your one-stop solution for creating quality code. Learn what's new in VS 2019 and explore the existing features of Visual Studio so you can use them more efficiently.Getting Started with Visual Studio 2019 begins with an overview of Visual Studio and explores new features such as Visual Studio Live Share,
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Modern CMake for C++

Discover a better approach to building, testing, and packaging your software

by Rafal Swidzinski ...

Write comprehensive, professional-standard CMake projects and ensure the quality and simplicity of your solutionsPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF formatKey FeaturesUnderstand and automate compilation and linking with CMakeManage internal and external dependencies easilyAdd quality checks and tests as an inherent step for your buildsBook Description... ... Read more

$41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Write comprehensive, professional-standard CMake projects and ensure the quality and simplicity of your solutionsPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF formatKey FeaturesUnderstand and automate compilation and linking with CMakeManage internal and external dependencies easilyAdd quality checks and tests as an inherent step for your buildsBook Description...
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Practical Web Analytics for User Experience

How Analytics Can Help You Understand Your Users

by Michael Beasley ...

Practical Web Analytics for User Experience teaches you how to use web analytics to help answer the complicated questions facing UX professionals. Within this book, you'll find a quantitative approach for measuring a website's effectiveness and the methods for posing and answering specific questions about how users navigate a website. The book is organized according to the concerns UX ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

Practical Web Analytics for User Experience teaches you how to use web analytics to help answer the complicated questions facing UX professionals. Within this book, you'll find a quantitative approach for measuring a website's effectiveness and the methods for posing and answering specific questions about how users navigate a website. The book is organized according to the concerns UX
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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Public Health in Developed and Developing Countries

18th International Conference, ICOST 2020, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 24–26, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Mohamed Jmaiel, Mounir Mokhtari, Bessam Abdulrazak, Hamdi Aloulou, Slim Kallel ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in June 2020.*The 17 full papers and 23 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They cover topics such as: IoT and AI solutions for e-health; biomedical and ... Read more

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This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in June 2020.*The 17 full papers and 23 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They cover topics such as: IoT and AI solutions for e-health; biomedical and
... Read more
21 Recipes for Mining Twitter

Distilling Rich Information from Messy Data

by Matthew A. Russell ...

Millions of public Twitter streams harbor a wealth of data, and once you mine them, you can gain some valuable insights. This short and concise book offers a collection of recipes to help you extract nuggets of Twitter information using easy-to-learn Python tools. Each recipe offers a discussion of how and why the solution works, so you can quickly adapt it to fit your particular needs. The ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

Millions of public Twitter streams harbor a wealth of data, and once you mine them, you can gain some valuable insights. This short and concise book offers a collection of recipes to help you extract nuggets of Twitter information using easy-to-learn Python tools. Each recipe offers a discussion of how and why the solution works, so you can quickly adapt it to fit your particular needs. The
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Foundations of Programming Languages

by Kent D. Lee ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This clearly written textbook provides an accessible introduction to the three programming paradigms of object-oriented/imperative, functional, and logic programming. Highly interactive in style, the text encourages learning through practice, offering test exercises for each topic covered. Review questions and programming projects are also presented, to help reinforce the concepts outside of the ... Read more

$70.49 CAD

This clearly written textbook provides an accessible introduction to the three programming paradigms of object-oriented/imperative, functional, and logic programming. Highly interactive in style, the text encourages learning through practice, offering test exercises for each topic covered. Review questions and programming projects are also presented, to help reinforce the concepts outside of the
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Practical Time Series Analysis

Master Time Series Data Processing, Visualization, and Modeling using Python

by PKS Prakash, Avishek Pal ...

Step by Step guide filled with real world practical examples.Key FeaturesGet your first experience with data analysis with one of the most powerful types of analysis—time series.Find patterns in your data and predict the future pattern based on historical data.Learn the statistics, theory, and implementation of Time Series methods using this example-rich guideBook DescriptionTime Series Analysis ... Read more

$41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Step by Step guide filled with real world practical examples.Key FeaturesGet your first experience with data analysis with one of the most powerful types of analysis—time series.Find patterns in your data and predict the future pattern based on historical data.Learn the statistics, theory, and implementation of Time Series methods using this example-rich guideBook DescriptionTime Series Analysis
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Dart for Absolute Beginners

by David Kopec ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Dart for Absolute Beginners enables individuals with no background in programming to create their own web apps while learning the fundamentals of software development in a cutting edge language. Easily digested chapters, while comprehensive enough to explore the whole domain, are aimed at both hobbyists and professionals alike. The reader will not only gain an insight into Dart, but also the ... Read more

$95.79 CAD

Dart for Absolute Beginners enables individuals with no background in programming to create their own web apps while learning the fundamentals of software development in a cutting edge language. Easily digested chapters, while comprehensive enough to explore the whole domain, are aimed at both hobbyists and professionals alike. The reader will not only gain an insight into Dart, but also the
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Product Management for UX People

From Designing to Thriving in a Product World

by Christian Crumlish ...

"This is the book to read if you're thinking of a career transition from UX to product." —Ellen Chisa, Founder in Residence, Boldstart VenturesUser experience designers and researchers are wrestling with product management—as a peer discipline, a job title, a future career—or simply wondering exactly what it entails. In Product Management for UX People, Christian Crumlish demystifies product ... Read more

$49.49 CAD

"This is the book to read if you're thinking of a career transition from UX to product." —Ellen Chisa, Founder in Residence, Boldstart VenturesUser experience designers and researchers are wrestling with product management—as a peer discipline, a job title, a future career—or simply wondering exactly what it entails. In Product Management for UX People, Christian Crumlish demystifies product
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Code Generation with Roslyn

by Nick Harrison ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn how Roslyn's new code generation capability will let you write software that is more concise, runs faster, and is easier to maintain. You will learn from real-world business applications to create better software by letting the computer write its own code based on your business logic already defined in lookup tables.Code Generation with Rosyln is the first book to cover this new capability. ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

Learn how Roslyn's new code generation capability will let you write software that is more concise, runs faster, and is easier to maintain. You will learn from real-world business applications to create better software by letting the computer write its own code based on your business logic already defined in lookup tables.Code Generation with Rosyln is the first book to cover this new capability.
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Experimental Studies in Learning Technology and Child–Computer Interaction

by Michail Giannakos ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book is about the ways in which experiments can be employed in the context of research on learning technologies and child–computer interaction (CCI). It is directed at researchers, supporting them to employ experimental studies while increasing their quality and rigor. The book provides a complete and comprehensive description on how to design, implement, and report experiments, with a focus ... Read more

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This book is about the ways in which experiments can be employed in the context of research on learning technologies and child–computer interaction (CCI). It is directed at researchers, supporting them to employ experimental studies while increasing their quality and rigor. The book provides a complete and comprehensive description on how to design, implement, and report experiments, with a focus
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Ways of Knowing in HCI

Edited by Judith S. Olson, Wendy A. Kellogg ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This textbook brings together both new and traditional research methods in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Research methods include interviews and observations, ethnography, grounded theory and analysis of digital traces of behavior. Readers will gain an understanding of the type of knowledge each method provides, its disciplinary roots and how each contributes to understanding users, user ... Read more

$115.99 CAD

This textbook brings together both new and traditional research methods in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Research methods include interviews and observations, ethnography, grounded theory and analysis of digital traces of behavior. Readers will gain an understanding of the type of knowledge each method provides, its disciplinary roots and how each contributes to understanding users, user
... Read more
Stencyl Essentials

Build beautiful, unique, cross-platform games rapidly with the free Stencyl 2D game engine and toolset

by Richard Sneyd ...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are a computer game enthusiast who has always wanted to know what it takes to build a playable game, or maybe you would like to expand your programming knowledge so that you can develop great computer games using a solid game engine and toolkit, then this book is for you.What you will learnDiscover the key benefits of Stencyl, its technical structure, and what ... Read more

$28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are a computer game enthusiast who has always wanted to know what it takes to build a playable game, or maybe you would like to expand your programming knowledge so that you can develop great computer games using a solid game engine and toolkit, then this book is for you.What you will learnDiscover the key benefits of Stencyl, its technical structure, and what
... Read more
Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope

by Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, Scott B Weingart ...

The Digital Humanities have arrived at a moment when digital Big Data is becoming more readily available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This pioneering book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

The Digital Humanities have arrived at a moment when digital Big Data is becoming more readily available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This pioneering book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to
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Beginning Django CMS

by Nigel George ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Build a world-class website in less than a week with Django CMS. Beginning Django CMS shows you how to simply and easily write a dynamic website with a full content management system in the backend. It is written for Internet developers who are sick and tired of dealing with complicated, bloated website frameworks that are a pain to build and a nightmare to maintain. Django CMS is an Open Source ... Read more

$56.99 CAD

Build a world-class website in less than a week with Django CMS. Beginning Django CMS shows you how to simply and easily write a dynamic website with a full content management system in the backend. It is written for Internet developers who are sick and tired of dealing with complicated, bloated website frameworks that are a pain to build and a nightmare to maintain. Django CMS is an Open Source
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Beginning Julia Programming

For Engineers and Scientists

by Sandeep Nagar ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Get started with Julia for engineering and numerical computing, especially data science, machine learning, and scientific computing applications. This book explains how Julia provides the functionality, ease-of-use and intuitive syntax of R, Python, MATLAB, SAS, or Stata combined with the speed, capacity, and performance of C, C++, or Java. You’ll learn the OOP principles required to get you ... Read more

$95.99 CAD

Get started with Julia for engineering and numerical computing, especially data science, machine learning, and scientific computing applications. This book explains how Julia provides the functionality, ease-of-use and intuitive syntax of R, Python, MATLAB, SAS, or Stata combined with the speed, capacity, and performance of C, C++, or Java. You’ll learn the OOP principles required to get you
... Read more
Photographic Rendering with VRay for SketchUp

by Brian Bradley ...

This book is filled with examples explaining the theoretical concepts behind them. Filled with ample screenshots, diagrams, and final rendered images, this book will help readers develop an understanding of photographic rendering with V-Ray. If you are a SketchUp user who would love to turn your favourite modelling application into a 'virtual photography studio', then this book has been designed ... Read more

$34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book is filled with examples explaining the theoretical concepts behind them. Filled with ample screenshots, diagrams, and final rendered images, this book will help readers develop an understanding of photographic rendering with V-Ray. If you are a SketchUp user who would love to turn your favourite modelling application into a 'virtual photography studio', then this book has been designed
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Learn WinUI 3.0

Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development

by Alvin Ashcraft ...

A beginner\\'s guide to building Windows applications with WinUI for UWP and desktop applicationsKey FeaturesCreate modern Windows 10 applications and gain access to UI controls that were previously limited to UWP applicationsDiscover how to modernize your existing Win32 apps with a modern Windows 10 UILearn to embed a single page application (SPA) in a WinUI application with a web framework like ... Read more

$47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A beginner\\'s guide to building Windows applications with WinUI for UWP and desktop applicationsKey FeaturesCreate modern Windows 10 applications and gain access to UI controls that were previously limited to UWP applicationsDiscover how to modernize your existing Win32 apps with a modern Windows 10 UILearn to embed a single page application (SPA) in a WinUI application with a web framework like
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Mastering MongoDB 3.x

An expert's guide to building fault-tolerant MongoDB applications

by Alex Giamas ...

An expert\\'s guide to build fault tolerant MongoDB applicationKey Features\[\*\] Master the advanced modeling, querying, and administration techniques in MongoDB and become a MongoDB expert\[\*\] Covers the latest updates and Big Data features frequently used by professional MongoDB developers and administrators\[\*\] If your goal is to become a certified MongoDB professional, this book is your ... Read more

$33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

An expert\\'s guide to build fault tolerant MongoDB applicationKey Features\[\*\] Master the advanced modeling, querying, and administration techniques in MongoDB and become a MongoDB expert\[\*\] Covers the latest updates and Big Data features frequently used by professional MongoDB developers and administrators\[\*\] If your goal is to become a certified MongoDB professional, this book is your
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KI-Innovationen: Wie die Technologie die Grenzen verschiebt Künstliche Intelligenz verstehen und nutzen: Ein AI-Buch

by Jhon Dujardin ...

KI-Innovationen: Wie die Technologie die Grenzen verschiebt Künstliche Intelligenz verstehen und nutzen: Ein AI-BuchWenn Sie von der Kraft der künstlichen Intelligenz fasziniert sind, ist dieses Buch genau das Richtige für Sie. Egal, ob Sie neu im Thema sind oder bereits ein Experte, hier finden Sie Einsichten und Kenntnisse, die Ihr Verständnis für KI und die Werkzeuge vertiefen, die unsere Welt ... Read more

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KI-Innovationen: Wie die Technologie die Grenzen verschiebt Künstliche Intelligenz verstehen und nutzen: Ein AI-BuchWenn Sie von der Kraft der künstlichen Intelligenz fasziniert sind, ist dieses Buch genau das Richtige für Sie. Egal, ob Sie neu im Thema sind oder bereits ein Experte, hier finden Sie Einsichten und Kenntnisse, die Ihr Verständnis für KI und die Werkzeuge vertiefen, die unsere Welt
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Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2017

Using .NET Core and Modern JavaScript Frameworks

by Philip Japikse, Kevin Grossnicklaus, Ben Dewey ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn how to build web applications from three Microsoft MVPs. After building the data application layer using Entity Framework Core and a RESTful service using ASP.NET Core, you will then build the client side web application three ways: first, using ASP.NET Core, then using Angular 2, and, finally, using React. You will be able to compare and contrast these UI frameworks and select the best one ... Read more

$63.99 CAD

Learn how to build web applications from three Microsoft MVPs. After building the data application layer using Entity Framework Core and a RESTful service using ASP.NET Core, you will then build the client side web application three ways: first, using ASP.NET Core, then using Angular 2, and, finally, using React. You will be able to compare and contrast these UI frameworks and select the best one
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