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  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

    by Ben Horowitz ...
    Ben Horowitz, cofounder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential leadership advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • Visualizing Biological Data with ggplot2

    by William G. Vilchez ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series
    We are currently living in an era where technology is constantly advancing, which leads to the generation of large volumes and many types of data. Consequently, the ability to transform complex data into clear and attractive visualizations has become essential. Visualizing Biological Data with ggplot2 encourages readers to explore the power of visualization in biology, combining science and art to ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Psychology of Software Teams

    by Cat Hicks ...
    To build the future, we need new ways of supporting software teams. This book will give you a secret weapon: the psychology that creates resilience for developers, sustainable practices for software teams, and innovation for organizations. You’ll learn from rigorous empirical evidence gathered from top engineering organizations and thousands of developers around the world, revealing powerful ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Observability Engineering

    Achieving Production Excellence

    by Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda ...
    Observability is the only way to engineer, manage, and improve the business-critical systems that customers depend on every day—and as the complexity of software grows, so does the need for observability. With this thoroughly revised second edition, authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda take inventory of the current state of the field and explain how practitioners can evolve ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Making Embedded Systems

    Design Patterns for Great Software

    by Elecia White ...
    Interested in developing embedded systems? Since they don't tolerate inefficiency, these systems require a disciplined approach to programming. This easy-to-read guide helps you cultivate good development practices based on classic software design patterns and new patterns unique to embedded programming. You'll learn how to build system architecture for processors, not for operating systems, and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Code

    The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

    by Charles Petzold ...
    The classic guide to how computers work, updated with new chapters and interactive graphics"For me, Code was a revelation. It was the first book about programming that spoke to me. It started with a story, and it built up, layer by layer, analogy by analogy, until I understood not just the Code, but the System. Code is a book that is as much about Systems Thinking and abstractions as it is about ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Effective Software Engineer

    How ICs at Every Level Can Leverage AI, Prioritize High-Value Work, and Lead Beyond Their Role

    by Addy Osmani ...
    The software engineering landscape is constantly evolving, and the demands on engineers intensify with each technological and methodological shift. In such an environment, being a good coder isn't enough—true effectiveness goes beyond technical skills.This book is designed as a guide for individual contributors who want to level up to meet the challenges of a changing industry. Author Addy Osmani ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • iOS18與SwiftUI程式設計全面剖析

    by 朱克剛 ...
    作者以多年的iOS教學經驗寫成本書，由淺入深幫助想踏入行動裝置程式設計領域的人快速掌握iOS程式設計技巧。本書以SwiftUI框架為核心，透過簡單幾行程式碼就可以完成一個高品質App界面，並透過詳細的解說，讓讀者能充分理解程式意義。iOS開發環境與SDK每年推陳出新，程式設計技巧每年均有變化，舊的寫法往往已不再支援，新的寫法又必須花大量時間看官方文件才能掌握，本書秉持過去一貫精神，永遠以最新的開發環境、最新的SDK框架以及最新的語法呈現經典範例。因此本書將是新手不可或缺，老手也必須放在電腦內的一本重量級工具書。本書特別為 EPUB 流動格式排版，非常適合各式螢幕尺寸閱讀，即便在手機上也可輕鬆瀏覽。作者介紹：朱克剛，資深電腦書籍作者，超過三十年的教學經驗，每年在大專院校與職訓單位開設無數資訊類課程，幫助各階層學員降低進入資訊職場門檻。本書承襲過去十年來一貫的專業與品質，讓讀者掌握最新 iOS ... Read more

    $8.90 USD

  • Running Local LLMs with LM Studio

    Downloading, Serving, and Building Private AI Apps

    by Tobias Renholt ...
    "Running Local LLMs with LM Studio: Downloading, Serving, and Building Private AI Apps"For experienced developers, platform engineers, and technical builders who want the power of modern language models without surrendering control to the cloud, this book offers a rigorous guide to LM Studio as a serious local AI runtime. It moves beyond casual desktop experimentation to show how local models can ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Genius of Lisp

    by Cees de Groot ...
    Journey through the fascinating story of Lisp: How it came about and why it was designed the way it was. Meet the geniuses involved in its creation, including Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, and the father of Lisp and artificial intelligence, John McCarthy. Lisp has informed the design of most programming languages in use today, and to learn how Lisp was constructed is to learn what programming is all ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Software Architecture

    A Modern Engineering Approach

    by Mark Richards, Neal Ford ...
    Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of software architecture's many aspects, with five new chapters covering the latest insights from the field. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Software Engineer's Guidebook

    Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups

    by Gergely Orosz ...
    In my first few years as a developer I assumed that hard work was all I needed. Then I was passed over for a promotion and my manager couldn’t give me feedback on what areas to improve, so I could get to the senior engineer level. I was frustrated; even bitter: not as much about missing the promotion, but because of the lack of guidance.By the time I became a manager, I was determined to support ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Head First Design Patterns

    by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson ...
    What will you learn from this book?You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel, so you look to Design Patterns: the lessons learned by those who've faced the same software design problems. With Design Patterns, you get to take advantage of the best practices and experience of others so you can spend your time on something more challenging. Something more fun. This book shows you the patterns ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Practical TLA+

    Planning Driven Development

    by Hillel Wayne ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Learn how to design complex, correct programs and fix problems before writing a single line of code. This book is a practical, comprehensive resource on TLA+ programming with rich, complex examples. Practical TLA+ shows you how to use TLA+ to specify a complex system and test the design itself for bugs.You’ll learn how even a short TLA+ spec can find critical bugs. Start by getting your feet wet ... Read more

    $46.09 USD

  • Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

    by Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce ...
    Series series Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck)
    Test-Driven Development (TDD) is now an established technique for delivering better software faster. TDD is based on a simple idea: Write tests for your code before you write the code itself. However, this "simple" idea takes skill and judgment to do well. Now there's a practical guide to TDD that takes you beyond the basic concepts. Drawing on a decade of experience building real-world systems, ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Refactoring

    Improving the Design of Existing Code

    by Martin Fowler ...
    Series series Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)
    Martin Fowler’s guide to reworking bad code into well-structured codeRefactoring improves the design of existing code and enhances software maintainability, as well as making existing code easier to understand. Original Agile Manifesto signer and software development thought leader, Martin Fowler, provides a catalog of refactorings that explains why you should refactor; how to recognize code that ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Modern Software Engineering

    Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster

    by David Farley ...
    Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your CodeIn Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their colleagues.Writing for programmers, managers, and technical leads at ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

    Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures

    by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani ...
    There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best practices--that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures.Architecture veterans and practicing consultants Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Hands-On Game Development with WebAssembly

    Learn WebAssembly C++ programming by building a retro space game

    by Rick Battagline ...
    Make your WebAssembly journey fun while making a game with itKey FeaturesCreate a WebAssembly game that implements sprites, animations, physics, particle systems, and other game development fundamentalsGet to grips with advanced game mechanics in WebAssemblyLearn to use WebAssembly and WebGL to render to the HTML5 canvas elementBook DescriptionWithin the next few years, WebAssembly will change the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Scaling Fast

    Software Engineering Through the Hockeystick

    by Swizec Teller ...
    What happens when your startup hits the hockey stick?Customers are flooding in, deadlines are relentless, and your engineering team is drowning in technical debt. Scaling isn’t optional—it’s survival.InScaling Fast: Software Engineering Through the Hockeystick, veteran startup engineer Swizec Teller shares hard-won lessons from leading teams through hypergrowth. From women’s health startups ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Test Driven Development

    By Example

    by Kent Beck ...
    Quite simply, test-driven development is meant to eliminate fear in application development. While some fear is healthy (often viewed as a conscience that tells programmers to "be careful!"), the author believes that byproducts of fear include tentative, grumpy, and uncommunicative programmers who are unable to absorb constructive criticism. When programming teams buy into TDD, they immediately ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Information Technology

    An Introduction for Today's Digital World

    by Richard Fox ...
    This book presents an introduction to the field of information technology (IT) suitable for any student of an IT-related field or IT professional. Coverage includes such IT topics as IT careers, computer hardware (central processing unit [CPU], memory, input/output [I/O], storage, computer network devices), software (operating systems, applications software, programming), network protocols, binary ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Developer's Guide to AI

    A Field Guide for the Working Developer

    by Jacob Orshalick, Jerry M. Reghunadh, Danny Thompson ...
    Build intelligent applications—no data science degree required.Your boss is pitching new AI features. Your team is buzzing about MCP servers. Job postings are asking for AI experience with RAG, vector databases, fine-tuning, and agents. You can feel the excitement. You see the potential. You may be wondering how to get started in AI without a data science degree. You’re in the right place.The ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Pragmatic Programmer, The

    Your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition

    by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt ...
    “One of the most significant books in my life.” –Obie Fernandez, Author, The Rails Way“Twenty years ago, the first edition of The Pragmatic Programmer completely changed the trajectory of my career. This new edition could do the same for yours.” –Mike Cohn, Author of Succeeding with Agile , Agile Estimating and Planning , and User Stories Applied“. . . filled with practical advice, both technical ... Read more

    $43.19 USD