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The Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design
Norman Matloff
R is the world's most popular language for developing statistical software: Archaeologists use it to track the spread of ancient civilizations, drug companies use it to discover which medications are safe and effective, and actuaries use it to asses...
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold
What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this in...
Deep Learning for Coders With Fastai and PyTorch
Jeremy Howard and Sylvain Gugger
Deep learning is often viewed as the exclusive domain of math PhDs and big tech companies. But as this hands-on guide demonstrates, programmers comfortable with Python can achieve impressive results in deep learning with little math background, smal...
Effective Java
Joshua Bloch
The Definitive Guide to Java Platform Best Practices–Updated for Java 7, 8, and 9 Java has changed dramatically since the previous edition of Effective Java was published shortly after the release of Java 6. This Jolt award-winning classic has now b...
Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide
Clinton Gormley and Zachary Tong
Whether you need full-text search or real-time analytics of structured data—or both—the Elasticsearch distributed search engine is an ideal way to put your data to work. This practical guide not only shows you how to search, analyze, and explore dat...
Go in Action
Brian Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin and William Kennedy
Summary Go in Action introduces the Go language, guiding you from inquisitive developer to Go guru. The book begins by introducing the unique features and concepts of Go. Then, you'll get hands-on experience writing real-world applications includin...
Head First Kotlin: A Brain-Friendly Guide
Dawn Griffiths and David Griffiths
What will you learn from this book? Head First Kotlin is a complete introduction to coding in Kotlin. This hands-on book helps you learn the Kotlin language with a unique method that goes beyond syntax and how-to manuals and teaches you how to think...
High Performance Spark: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark
Holden Karau and Rachel Warren
Apache Spark is amazing when everything clicks. But if you haven’t seen the performance improvements you expected, or still don’t feel confident enough to use Spark in production, this practical book is for you. Authors Holden Karau and Rachel Warre...
Impractical Python Projects: Playful Programming Activities to Make You Smarter
Lee Vaughan
Impractical Python Projects is a collection of fun and educational projects designed to entertain programmers while enhancing their Python skills. It picks up where the complete beginner books leave off, expanding on existing concepts and introducin...
Kotlin in Action
Dmitry Jemerov and Svetlana Isakova
Summary Kotlin in Action guides experienced Java developers from the language basics of Kotlin all the way through building applications to run on the JVM and Android devices. Foreword by Andrey Breslav, Lead Designer of Kotlin. Purchase of the pr...
The Little Typer
Daniel P. Friedman , David Thrane Christiansen
An introduction to dependent types, demonstrating the most beautiful aspects, one step at a time. A program's type describes its behavior. Dependent types are a first-class part of a language, and are much more powerful than other kinds of types; us...
Practical Common Lisp
Peter Seibel
...it has a fresh view on the language and the examples in the later chapters are usable in your day-to-day work as a programmer. — Frank Buss, Lisp Programmer and Slashdot Contributor If you're interested in Lisp as it relates to Python or Perl, a...
Python for Finance: Analyze Big Financial Data
Yves Hilpisch
The financial industry has adopted Python at a tremendous rate recently, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. This hands-on guide helps both developers and quantitative...
Redis in Action
Josiah L. Carlson
SummaryRedis in Action introduces Redis and walks you through examples that demonstrate how to use it effectively. You'll begin by getting Redis set up properly and then exploring the key-value model. Then, you'll dive into real use cases including ...
Scala Cookbook: Recipes for Object-Oriented and Functional Programming
Alvin Alexander
Save time and trouble when using Scala to build object-oriented, functional, and concurrent applications. With more than 250 ready-to-use recipes and 700 code examples, this comprehensive cookbook covers the most common problems you’ll encounter whe...
Spark: The Definitive Guide: Big Data Processing Made Simple
Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia
Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the creators of the open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Mate...
Tika in Action
Chris Mattmann and Jukka Zitting
SummaryTika in Action is a hands-on guide to content mining with Apache Tika. The book's many examples and case studies offer real-world experience from domains ranging from search engines to digital asset management and scientific data processing.A...
Types and Programming Languages
Benjamin C. Pierce and Benjamin C. (professor Pierce, University Of Pennsylvania)
A comprehensive introduction to type systems and programming languages. A type system is a syntactic method for automatically checking the absence of certain erroneous behaviors by classifying program phrases according to the kinds of values they co...