C# Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design requires no previous introduction
to programming and only a mathematical background of high school algebra.The book
uses C# as the programming language for software development; however, the basic programming
concepts presented can be applied to a number of other languages. Instead...
PowerShell is becoming the de facto administration tool for Microsoft
Server products. The ability to script out reusable steps and code makes life
easier for administrators, developers, and managers alike. With the latest
release of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, PowerShell is the recommended
administration...
Communities have built collections of information in a collaborative manner for
centuries. Around 250 years ago, more than 140 people wrote l’Encyclopedie in 28
volumes with 70,000 articles. More recently, Wikipedia has demonstrated how
collaborative efforts can be a powerful method of building a massive data storage. It
is...
Parallel programming truly redefines the programming model for multicore architecture,
which has become commonplace. For this reason, parallel programming has been elevated to
a core technology in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. In this version of the .NET Framework,
the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and the System.Threading.Tasks...
Welcome to Java Foundations. This book is designed to serve as the primary
resource for a two- or three-term introductory course sequence, ranging from the
most basic programming concepts to the design and implementation of complex
data structures. This unified approach makes the important introductory
sequence more cohesive and...
Distributed with every copy of Python, the standard library contains hundreds of modules that provide tools for interacting with the operating system, interpreter, and Internet. All of them are tested and ready to be used to jump start the development of your applications. This book presents selected examples demonstrating how to use the most...
The number of research topics covered in recent approaches to Information Extraction
(IE) is continually growing as new facts are being considered. In fact,
while the user’s interest in extracting information from texts deals mainly with
the success of the entire process of locating, in document collections, facts of
interest,...
PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) is Oracle Corporation's procedural extension
language for SQL and the Oracle relational database. Server-side PL/SQL is stored and compiled in the Oracle Database and runs within the Oracle executable. With this guide Oracle developers can work towards...
The authors survey a recent technique in computer vision called Interactive Co-segmentation, which is the task of simultaneously extracting common foreground objects from multiple related images. They survey several of the algorithms, present underlying common ideas, and give an overview of applications of object co-segmentation.
Technology is at its best when it enables you to focus more on what you are doing rather than how you are doing it. iPhoto is definitely technology at its best. It does so many things that it takes a whole book to describe them to you — this book, in fact. iPhoto ’11 Portable Genius is your companion: It helps you get going with...
This book's primary objective is to help you prepare for and pass Sun Microsystem's SCJP certification for Java 6 or Java 5. The Java 6 and Java 5 exams are almost identical in scope, and they are both much broader than their predecessor, the Java 1.4 exam. For the remainder of this book we'll typically reference the Java 6 exam,...
I still remember sitting down with my brand new copy of Writing Secure Code by Michael
Howard and David LeBlanc. Having moved beyond writing relatively simple intranet web
reports, (before the term "Bl" came to embody what at the time we thought was an incredibly
innovative way to display call center metrics for managing...
