In that first edition, Ryan and I tried to cover every corner of...

What you are holding in your hands is the first Revit book in a new series. When we authors first sat down to learn Revit (eons ago), each of us was put into a room with a trainer, and over the course of four days, we clicked...

With all the fantastic Cisco documentation available online, why does the world of UCCE need this book? UCCE is such a big topic that it would be easy to think that it is possible to try and cover absolutely everything. Unfortunately, this would turn this book into nothing more than a product reference manual that could potentially be...

Welcome to JavaScript! Using this easyto- learn programming language, you’ll be able to add pizzazz to your Web pages and make them more useful for you and for your site’s visitors. We’ve written this book as a painless introduction to JavaScript, so you don’t have to be a geek or a nerd to write a...

Welcome to the world of Microsoft Word 2010. This new Picture Yourself book from Cengage Learning will help you use the many and varied features of one of Microsoft’s most popular products—Microsoft Word, part of the Microsoft Office Suite. Microsoft Word 2010 is a powerful word processing program that will take your...

Why should a Java developer learn about functional programming (FP)? After all, hasn’t functional programming been safely hidden in academia for decades? Isn’t objectoriented programming (OOP) all we really need? This book explains why functional programming has become an important tool for the challenges of our time and how...

The sophisticated methods used in recent high-profile cyber incidents have driven many to need to understand how such security issues work. Demystifying the complexity often associated with information assurance, Cyber Security Essentials provides a clear understanding of the concepts behind prevalent threats, tactics, and...

Native applications get almost all of the press these days, especially given the financial success of the iTunes App Store...

When I first discovered DMVs, I was enthralled because they made many difficult things so easy. It was simple to identify, typically within seconds, the core performance problems that affect SQL Server databases. For example, I could quickly discover which queries were taking the longest time to run, which indexes were missing, and...

It doesn't matter how much time you invest in Android design, or even how careful you are when programming, mistakes are inevitable and bugs will appear. This book will help you minimize the impact of these errors in your Android project and increase your development productivity. It will show you the problems that are easily...

More than fifteen years ago, I was faced with the following problem in an assignment for a class in computer science. A brewery had to deliver beer to five stores, and the task was to write a computer program for determining the shortest route for the truck driver to visit all stores and return to the brewery. All my attemps to find a...