Practical Python for Beginners is a friendly step-by-step guide for new programmers who want to learn Python without confusion, pressure, or overwhelming theory. This book introduces Python basics through clear explanations, simple examples, and useful beginner projects. Readers learn how to think in steps, use variables, work with decisions and loops, organize data with lists and dictionaries, write functions, handle files, debug common mistakes, and build confidence through small practic...

Somewhere past the tenth title, a growing list of ebooks stops fitting in your head. Subtitles drift between stores, a corrected file never replaces the old one, and a royalty statement arrives that nobody can match to an edition. This manual gives you a working system built from a spreadsheet, a folder layout, checklists and three short Python scripts. You will set up a master register, keep metadata identical everywhere, understand how identifiers are assigned and recorded, validate and ...

A practitioner's handbook on building sagas for distributed transactions, told through one running example: a digital reading platform's purchase flow — charge the card, grant access, sync the library, send the receipt — spanning four services with no shared database and no distributed lock. Starting from why cross-service transactions don't compose and why two-phase commit isn't the answer here, the book builds the same purchase saga three times: as an orchestrated state machine, as a cho...

For most of its history,.NET was a managed runtime for business applications. The pitch was productivity: garbage collection, a rich standard library, and a JIT compiler that handled the hard parts of code generation for you. If you needed raw speed, you reached for C++ or Rust. That era is over..NET Systems Programming is a practical guide to the platform as it exists today — a platform that ships with Span, stackalloc that works from safe code, ref struct, hardware intrinsics, Native AOT...

You drew the load balancer, the cache, the sharded database, and the message queue. You said "eventually consistent" with confidence. You got the job. Nobody in that interview asked what happens when the cache stampedes at 2 a.m., when the shard key you picked in month one makes resharding in month fourteen a multi-quarter project, or when "eventually consistent" turns out to mean something different to you than it does to the teammate who built the billing service. The interview tested wh...

Kotlin is the language Android development settled on and the JVM ecosystem is embracing. It is concise, null-safe, coroutine-native, and fully interoperable with Java. This book teaches it end to end — from syntax and data classes to coroutines and Kotlin Multiplatform. You will cover the type system and null safety, functions and higher-order functions, classes and sealed hierarchies, generics and variance, collections and sequences, and the coroutine model that makes structured concurre...

Logging, security, transactions, caching, retries — these concerns cut across every service method in every enterprise application, and implementing them manually produces the same boilerplate in hundreds of places. Aspect-Oriented Programming removes that duplication. This book teaches AOP on both sides of the enterprise divide. It covers AspectJ, the reference implementation whose vocabulary shaped every AOP framework after it. It covers Spring AOP, the proxy-based framework used by most...

Object-oriented programming is not a single thing. It is a family of ideas that C#, Java, and Python realize in strikingly different ways. This book teaches the paradigm by showing every concept three times — once in each language — so you can move between them without losing your footing. It begins with encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, then moves into abstract classes, interfaces, and the case for composition over inheritance. It covers design patterns, generics, exception hi...

People partway through an isotretinoin course (the drug long sold as Accutane) keep saying some version of the same thing: nobody told them it would be like this. Not the acne clearing up — the paperwork, the chapped-everything, the joints that suddenly ache, the mood swings nobody warned them about, and the mistake they made three months after finishing that undid half the progress. Isotretinoin Side Effects Month by Month is the walkthrough that general acne books only mention in a cauti...

Practical Algorithms with Python is a hands-on guide for beginner-to-intermediate developers, self-taught programmers, computer science students, data analysts, and working developers who want to improve their algorithmic problem-solving skills. The book explains practical ways to think through programming problems using data structures, search strategies, graph traversal, optimization patterns, and basic machine-learning concepts. Readers learn how to choose the right structure for a prob...

Scala is the language that refuses to choose between object-oriented and functional programming. This book shows you how to use both — together. Scala in Practice is a hands-on guide to writing real Scala code. Through working examples and production-tested patterns, you will learn case classes, pattern matching, immutable collections, higher-order functions, Option and Either for error handling, type classes with given/using, and concurrent programming with Futures. You will build a compl...

Explore the engineering principles behind game engines designed for the original PlayStation. This practical guide covers memory management, low-level programming, resource pipelines, graphics integration, frame-time budgeting, hardware coordination, and performance optimization. Through C code examples, implementation sketches, and worked engineering projects, readers learn how to organize and optimize software for a resource-constrained console. Ideal for retro-game developers, systems p...