More than 27,000 IT professionals take the Certified Information Systems Auditor exam each year. SC Magazine lists the CISA as the top certification for security professionals. Compliances, regulations, and best practices for IS auditing are updated...

Office 2011 has some dazzling new features. This book explains everything in...

In this textbook, I take an unconventional approach to data analysis. Its contents are heavily influenced by the idea that data analysis should help in enhancing and augmenting knowledge of the domain as represented by the concepts and statements of relation between them. According to this view, two main pathways for data analysis are...

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There are many students and professionals in science and engineering, other than those specifically interested in fields such as computer science or computer engineering, who need to know how to solve computational problems on computers. There are basically two approaches to meeting the needs of such people. One is to rely on software...

Welcome to Android Application Development For Dummies, the first For Dummies book that covers Android application development. When I was contacted to write this book, I was ecstatic about the opportunity to spread the wealth of knowledge that I’d picked up over the past year and a half of Android development. I hope you enjoy...

Doing business online is no longer an oddity, but the norm, and companies desiring to remain competitive have to maintain some form of online presence. Doing business online means a company has to be able to efficiently, reliably, and securely take payments from consumers and other merchants. This book is written to provide the...

w3schools (www.w3schools.com) is one of the top Web destinations to learn HMTL and many other key Web languages. w3schools’ tutorials are...

But the task of documenting and teaching a technology such as AppleScript is daunting (especially while you’re employed at a busy company like Apple), and it could not have been accomplished without the...

This book is intended to survey the most important computer algorithms in use today, and to teach fundamental techniques to the growing number of people in need of knowing them. It is intended for use as a textbook for a second course in computer science, after students have acquired basic programming skills and familiarity with computer...

When carefully selected and used, Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) may simplify complex code, promote effective communication with customers, improve productivity, and unclog development bottlenecks. In Domain-Specific Languages, noted software development expert Martin Fowler first provides the information software...

Change: It’s what we expect from technology, from the PC to the web, through to HD TV. But nothing has been as disruptive as the change the iPhone and Android phones have brought. For the first time the power of a computer will fit in your hand, you are always connected to the Internet, and these devices are loaded with...