This book grew out of my experience teaching MATLAB® and other computing languages to freshmen engineering students at Salt Lake Community College. I was frustrated by the lack of a text that “started at the beginning.” Although there were many comprehensive reference books, they assumed a level of both mathematical and...

This book uses MATLAB as a computing tool to explore traditional DSP topics and solve problems. This greatly expands the range and complexity of problems that students can effectively study in signal processing courses. A large number of worked examples, computer simulations and applications are provided, along with theoretical aspects that...

Algorithms for Interviews (AFI) aims to help engineers interviewing for software development positions. The primary focus of AFI is algorithm design. The entire book is presented through problems interspersed with discussions. The problems cover key concepts and are well-motivated, challenging, and fun to solve.

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• A hands-on guide to web scraping with real-life problems and solutions
• Techniques to download and extract data from complex websites
• Create a number of different web scrapers to extract...

A major challenge in constraint programming is to develop efficient generic approaches to solve instances of the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). With this aim in mind, this book provides an accessible synthesis of the author's research and work in this area, divided into four main topics: representation, inference, search, and...

Doing Math with Python shows you how to use Python to delve into high school–level math topics like statistics, geometry, probability, and calculus. You’ll start with simple projects, like a factoring program and a quadratic-equation solver, and then create more complex projects once you’ve gotten the hang of...

• Learn how to make Apache Solr search faster, more complete, and...

• Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
• Modify HTML on the fly.
• Profile and Debug JavaScript.
• Change the look and...

• Learn the fundamentals of working with the headless PhantomJS browser
• Create unit and functional test suites backed by PhantomJS
• Integrate PhantomJS...

• Integrate Storm with other Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HBase, and Apache Kafka
• Explore log processing and machine learning using Storm
• Step-by-step and easy-to-understand guide to...

• Gain a thorough understanding of some of the key features of MongoDB
• Learn the techniques necessary to solve frequent MongoDB problems
• Packed full of step-by-step recipes to help you with...