Learn the basics of modern robotics while building your own intelligent robot from scratch! You'll use inexpensive household materials to make the base for your robot, then add motors, power, wheels, and electronics.
But wait, it gets better: your creation is actually five robots in one! -- build...
The creation of polymorphic algorithms is a necessary skill for programmers who intend to write reusable code. This book stands out for teaching programming based on polymorphism. Abundant examples in Java code and illustrative graphics of the main ideas related to the topic: Polymorphism in Java. The book "Polymorphism in Java" aims...
Ever wonder how easy it is to hack into someone’s bank account info while surfing the net at your local Starbucks? Learning how to hack is one of the best preventative measures you can take when protecting yourself from other hackers. Hacking is often misunderstood and that is for good reason. Many people use hacking as...
Improve your coding skills and learn how to write readable code. Rather than teach basic programming, this book presumes that readers understand the fundamentals, and offers time-honed best practices for style, design, documenting, testing, refactoring, and more.
Feature engineering is a crucial step in the machine-learning pipeline, yet this topic is rarely examined on its own. With this practical book, you’ll learn techniques for extracting and transforming features—the numeric representations of raw data—into formats for machine-learning models. Each chapter guides you...
The Raspberry Pi Zero is a powerful, low-cost, credit-card sized computer, which lends
itself perfectly to begin the controller of sophisticated home automation devices. Using the
available on-board interfaces, the Raspberry Pi Zero can be expanded to allow the
connection of a virtually infinite number of security sensors and...
Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. The book focuses on using SQL to find the story your data tells, with the popular open-source database PostgreSQL and the pgAdmin interface as...
Put into motion practical examples to master Test-Driven Development (TDD) and acceptance testing in Swift.
This book uses a pragmatic approach to writing well-tested code and provides techniques that can be used to retrofit tests to legacy code bases. You'll be introduced to basic principles of TDD, such as...
Many corporations are finding that the size of their data sets are outgrowing the capability of their systems to store and process them. The data is becoming too big to manage and use with traditional tools. The solution: implementing a big data system.
