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Discover essential computer books and computer science books at our online bookstore, with top titles for software developers. Find must-read and best-selling books to enhance your knowledge and skills in the field.
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Extreme Programming Pocket GuideExtreme Programming (XP) is a radical new approach to software development that has been accepted quickly because its core practices--the need for constant testing, programming in pairs, inviting customer input, and the communal ownership of code--resonate with developers everywhere. Although many developers feel that...
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The Design of Approximation AlgorithmsDiscrete optimization problems are everywhere, from traditional operations research planning problems, such as scheduling, facility location, and network design; to computer science problems in databases; to advertising issues in viral marketing. Yet most such problems are NP-hard. Thus unless P = NP, there are...
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Information TheoryDeveloped by Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener in the late 1940s, information theory, or statistical communication theory, deals with the theoretical underpinnings of a wide range of communication devices: radio, television, radar, computers, telegraphy, and more. This book is an excellent introduction to the...
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Learning Automata: An IntroductionThis self-contained introductory text on the behavior of learning automata focuses on how a sequential decision-maker with a finite number of choices responds in a random environment. Topics include fixed structure automata, variable structure stochastic automata, convergence, 0 and S models, nonstationary environments, interconnected...
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The Bit and the Pendulum: From Quantum Computing to M Theory--The New Physics of InformationFunny, clear, deep, and right on target. [Siegfried] lets us get a handle on ideas that are essential for understanding the evolving world.-K. C. Cole, author of The Universe and the Teacup""An eager, ambitious book. A stimulating, accessible introduction to scientific theory.""-Dallas Morning NewsAn...
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Risk Centric Threat ModelingThis book introduces the Process for Attack Simulation & Threat Analysis (PASTA) threat modeling methodology. It provides an introduction to various types of application threat modeling and introduces a risk-centric methodology aimed at applying security countermeasures that are commensurate to the possible impact that...
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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies"Hidalgo has made a bold attempt to synthesize a large body of cutting-edge work into a readable, slender volume. This is the future of growth theory." -- Financial TimesWhat is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous...
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How to Speak Machine: Computational Thinking for the Rest of UsVisionary designer and technologist John Maeda defines the fundamental laws of how computers think, and why you should care even if you aren't a programmer. Maeda is to design what Warren Buffett is to finance. --Wired John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent...
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Baby Code!It's never too early to get little ones interested in computer coding with this unique series of board books How do you explain coding to a baby? By showing how it's all around them, and how they can take part in it, of course...
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Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital FutureIn The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of digital technologies on our lives and businesses. Now they've written a guide to help readers make the most of our collective future. Machine Platform Crowd outlines the...
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Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital FutureWe live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than corporate research labs.MIT's Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson...
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Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline SelvesA New York Times Bestseller An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior--and a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don't need. In Dataclysm,...
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In the Beginning...Was the Command LineThis is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally...
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Microsoft Surface Tablet Go Pro 3, 4, & 5 Unofficial Guide: Getting Started, Setting Up, How to Use, Tips, Tricks, Accessories & More!Do you use your Microsoft Surface device on a regular basis? Would you like to learn how to use your Microsoft Surface device like a pro and save tons of time? Compatible with all versions Go and Pro 2, 3, & 4. If you...
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Shelly Cashman Series Microsoftoffice 365 & Office 2019 IntermediateIntroduce your students to the important new features that the latest version of Microsoft Office has to offer with the focused approach found in Cable/Freund/Monk/Sebok/Starks/Vermaat's MICROSOFT Office 365 & OFFICE 2019: INTERMEDIATE. Part of the acclaimed Shelly Cashman Series, this edition continues the series'...
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From Mathematics to Generic ProgrammingIn this substantive yet accessible book, pioneering software designer Alexander Stepanov and his colleague Daniel Rose illuminate the principles of generic programming and the mathematical concept of abstraction on which it is based, helping you write code that is both simpler and more powerful....
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Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise"We need better approaches to understanding and managing software requirements, and Dean provides them in this book. He draws ideas from three very useful intellectual pools: classical management practices, Agile methods, and lean product development. By combining the strengths of these three approaches, he...
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Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to CashLean manufacturing is a management philosophy focusing on reduction of the 7 wastes (Over-production, Waiting time, Transportation, Processing, Inventory, Motion and Scrap) in manufactured products. These principles have revolutionized manufacturing and have been adopted by the most innovative product companies including Toyota and 3M....
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The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages: An IntroductionThe Formal Semantics of Programming Languages provides the basic mathematical techniques necessary for those who are beginning a study of the semantics and logics of programming languages. These techniques will allow students to invent, formalize, and justify rules with which to reason about a...
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Fake PhotosA concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media.Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, and other dictators routinely doctored photographs so that the images aligned with their messages. They erased people who were there, added people who...
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