You’ve bested creepers, traveled deep into caves, and maybe even gone to The End and back—but have you ever transformed a sword into a magic wand? Built a palace in the blink of an eye? Designed your own color-changing disco dance floor?

In Learn to Program with Minecraft®, you’ll do all this and...

The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 set offers so many new and exciting features that it can be hard to know where to begin. Without the help of an expert, it could take months of experimentation to learn how to use the advanced mechanisms and numerous programming features.

In The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Laboratory, author...

• Learn to use Apache Storm and the Python Petrel library to build distributed applications that process large streams of data
• Explore sample applications in real-time and analyze...

• Learn how to construct your own solutions using the most exciting Geographic Information System (GIS) tool on the market, PostGIS
• Use this book to develop a complete GIS application...

• Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
• Focuses on making new users feel comfortable switching to Ubuntu
• Discover the top applications and features
• ...

• Take your ExtGWT web development skills to the next level
• Create stunning UIs with several layouts and templates in a fast and simple manner
• Enriched with code and screenshots for easy and quick grasp
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Develop cross-platform mobile games with Corona using the Lua programming language! Corona is experiencing explosive growth among mobile game developers, and this book gets you up to speed on how to use this versatile platform. You'll use the Corona SDK to simplify game programming and take a...

• Centralize user accounts in openLDAP and understand how Directory can be at the back-end of many services
• Learning Puppet to centralize server configuration will...

This book is where your adventures with Bluetooth LE begin. You'll start your journey by getting familiar with your hardware options: Arduino, BLE modules, computers (including Raspberry Pi!), and mobile phones. From there, you'll write code and wire circuits to connect off-the-shelf sensors, and even go all the way to writing your...

Get a head start evaluating Windows Server 2012 R2 - with technical insights from a Microsoft MVP and members of the Windows Server product team. Based on final Windows Server 2012 R2...