Optimizing and Assessing Information Technology is designed to be both easy-to-use and immediately useful. Engaging and accessible, this book has been created to help you focus on improving business project execution through effective IT optimization and...

Grails is a full-stack web development framework that enables you to build complete web applications in a fraction of the time and with less code than other frameworks. Grails uses the principle of convention over configuration and the dynamic Groovy programming language.

This revised and updated new edition shows you how to...

• Explore changes brought in by the Java EE 7 platform
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Introduction to Computational Models with Python explains how to implement computational models using the flexible and easy-to-use Python programming language. The book uses the Python programming language interpreter and several packages from the huge Python Library that improve the performance of numerical computing, such...

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This Fourth Edition offers more than 600 patterns and structural designs—more than any other book—all drawn to...

• Focuses on the techniques, tools, diagnostic testing, and security
• Addresses the practical methods to manage a TCP/IP network
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Used by everyone from engineers and architects to interiordesigners and draftspeople, AutoCAD 2013 is the world’sleading 2D and 3D technical drawing program. But, with so manyoptions and features available, finding your way around AutoCAD canbe...

As an unstoppably platform-independent, object-oriented programming language, Java is used for developing web and mobile applications. In this up-to-date bestselling book, veteran author Barry Burd shows you how to create basic Java objects and clearly explains when...

This book has been written for students on electrical engineering courses who don’t necessarily possess prior knowledge of electrical circuits.  Based on the author’s own teaching experience, it...

If you love playing Minecraft and want to learn how to code and create your own mods, this book was designed just for you. Working within the game itself, you'll learn to set up and run your own local Minecraft server, interact with the game...