iOS 8 App Development Essentials is the latest edition of this popular book series and has now been fully updated for the Swift programming language, the iOS 8 SDK and Xcode 6. Beginning with the basics, this book provides an outline of the steps necessary to set up an iOS development environment. An introduction to the architecture of iOS 8...

We are all familiar with the time-honored idea of a Virtual Machine that is neutral with respect to computer architecture and can be used to execute a high-level language, after its translation to the VM byte-code. This approach can be found in several successful mono-language systems, that support popular languages such as Java or...

Thousands of robot hobbyists -- and robots -- grew up on the first two editions on this book. Now Gordon McComb has partnered with fellow robotics enthusiast Myke Predko -- and together they've...

This book is the definitive reference on PL/SQL, considered throughout the database community to be the best Oracle programming book available. Like its predecessors, this fifth edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming covers language fundamentals, advanced coding techniques, and best practices for using Oracle's powerful procedural...

Winning Design! LEGO Mindstorms NXT Design Patterns for Fun and Competition is about design that works. It’s about building with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT for fun, for education, but especially for competition. Author James Trobaugh is an experienced coach and leader in the FIRST LEGO League. In this book, he shares his hard-won...