Jump into the app development world with confidence!
iOS Swift 24-Hour Trainer combines book and video lessons in Apple's Swift programming language to prepare you to build iPhone and iPad apps—and distribute them through the Appstore. First, this approachable text covers the fundamentals of Swift by...
Your fun and accessible user's guide to the Samsung Galaxy S 7
Technology alone can be intimidating, and the printed documentation and online support that come with a new smartphone can be just as baffling. Thankfully, Samsung Galaxy S 7 For Dummies is here to give you easy-to-follow guidance on all the features...
Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours, Second Edition is a tutorial aimed at making the Linux beginner more effective and productive users of the fastest-growing operating system today - Linux. This book gives the reader step-by-step instructions on how to: install the operating system, configure their hardware, and effectively use the tools that...
One-stop reference helps you get the most out of AppleScript and Automator
One of the handiest ways to streamline your workload is to automate some of your most routine computer tasks. Mac users are lucky in that they have AppleScript and Automator automation tools built right in. This comprehensive guide shows you how to...
In his foreword to John Nunn’s book Applied Respiratory Physiology, John
Severinghaus, an anesthesiologist and also my postdoctoral mentor as a
Fellow at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California,
San Francisco, wrote the following under the title “A Flame for Hypnos.”
By the author of The Design of Everyday Things, the first book to make the connection between our emotions and how we relate to ordinary objects-from juicers to Jaguars. Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses? Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colorful iMac? New research on emotion and...
From systems designers to top management, everyone loves a good story
Once upon a time, it was well understood that stories teach better than plain facts. Why then are most software requirements documents a baffling hodge-podge of diagrams, data dictionaries, and bullet points, held together by little more than a name and a staple?...
Learning iOS Developmentis the perfect first book for every new iOS 7 developer. It delivers a complete foundation for iOS development, including an introduction to the Objective-C language, Xcode development tools, best-practice user interface development, and best practices for...
Wi-Fi networking is supposed to be simple. So why do so many people tear their hair out when trying to configure their wireless networks?It's all about the details. In this book, Wi-Fi experts Glenn Fleishman and Adam Engst put AirPort through its paces, teaching you in step-by-step, illustrated examples about how to remove the frustration in your...
Objective-C is a wonderful language that has received far less attention than it deserves. It has suddenly become (more) popular with the success of Apple’s Mac OS X and iPhone, where it is the supreme development language. If you’re going to learn a language to write applications for Mac OS X or the iPhone, Objective-C is the language...
In less than half a decade, the iOS platform has changed the way that we, the public, think about our mobile computing devices. Only a few years ago, we were thrilled by phones with postage-stamp-sized screens, tinny audio, built-in tip calculators, and text-based web browsing. Times have indeed...
The manufacturers of computer software are facing difficult challenges caused by quite trivial reasons. A typical application is produced by a team of developers working on hundreds, if not thousands, of files on a short schedule.
Each file needs to be available for modification by all of the developers at any...
