The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines

The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines
Yoshihito Isogawa (Author)
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Digital Design with RTL Design, VHDL, and Verilog

Digital Design with RTL Design, VHDL, and Verilog
Frank Vahid (Author)
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Digital Design and Computer Architecture, Second Edition

Digital Design and Computer Architecture, Second Edition
David Harris (Author), Sarah Harris (Author)
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Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel (The Pragmatic Programmers)

Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel (The Pragmatic Programmers)
Paul Butcher (Author)
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)
Alfred V. Aho (Author), Monica S. Lam (Author), Ravi Sethi (Author), Jeffrey D. Ullman (Author)
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, known to professors, students, and developers worldwide as the "Dragon Book," is available in a new edition.  Every chapter has been completely revised to reflect developments in software engineering, programming languages, and computer architecture that have occurred since 1986, when the last edition published.  The authors, recognizing that few readers will ever go on to construct a compiler, retain their focus on the broader set of problems faced in software design and software development.

• Rank: #176677 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.60" h x 6.70" w x 9.30" l, .66 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1000 pages

Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel

Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel
Paul Butcher (Author)

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Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys, and Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world. See how emerging technologies such as actors and functional programming address issues with traditional threads and locks development. Learn how to exploit the parallelism in your computer's GPU and leverage clusters of machines with MapReduce and Stream Processing. And do it all with the confidence that comes from using tools that help you write crystal clear, high-quality code.

This book will show you how to exploit different parallel architectures to improve your code's performance, scalability, and resilience.

Learn about the perils of traditional threads and locks programming and how to overcome them through careful design and by working with the standard library. See how actors enable software running on geographically distributed computers to collaborate, handle failure, and create systems that stay up 24/7/365. Understand why shared mutable state is the enemy of robust concurrent code, and see how functional programming together with technologies such as Software Transactional Memory (STM) and automatic parallelism help you tame it.

You'll learn about the untapped potential within every GPU and how GPGPU software can unleash it. You'll see how to use MapReduce to harness massive clusters to solve previously intractible problems, and how, in concert with Stream Processing, big data can be tamed.

With an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each of the different models and hardware architectures, you'll be empowered to tackle any problem with confidence.

What You Need:

The example code can be compiled and executed on *nix, OS X, or Windows. Instructions on how to download the supporting build systems are given in each chapter.

• Rank: #34033 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 7.52" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power Of Java 8 Lambda Expressions

Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power Of Java 8 Lambda Expressions
Venkat Subramaniam (Author)

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Get ready to program in a whole new way. Functional Programming in Java will help you quickly get on top of the new, essential Java 8 language features and the functional style that will change and improve your code. This short, targeted book will help you make the paradigm shift from the old imperative way to a less error-prone, more elegant, and concise coding style that's also a breeze to parallelize. You'll explore the syntax and semantics of lambda expressions, method and constructor references, and functional interfaces. You'll design and write applications better using the new standards in Java 8 and the JDK.

Print books will be available after the final version of Java 8 is released.

Lambda expressions are lightweight, highly concise anonymous methods backed by functional interfaces in Java 8. You can use them to leap forward into a whole new world of programming in Java. With functional programming capabilities, which have been around for decades in other languages, you can now write elegant, concise, less error-prone code using standard Java. This book will guide you though the paradigm change, offer the essential details about the new features, and show you how to transition from your old way of coding to an improved style.

In this book you'll see popular design patterns, such as decorator, builder, and strategy, come to life to solve common design problems, but with little ceremony and effort. With these new capabilities in hand, Functional Programming in Java will help you pick up techniques to implement designs that were beyond easy reach in earlier versions of Java. You'll see how you can reap the benefits of tail call optimization, memoization, and effortless parallelization techniques.

Java 8 will change the way you write applications. If you're eager to take advantage of the new features in the language, this is the book for you.

What you need:

Java 8 with support for lambda expressions and the JDK is required to make use of the concepts and the examples in this book.

• Rank: #40513 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .42" h x 7.50" w x 9.25" l, .76 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don't teach you in design school, but should

Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don't teach you in design school, but should
Michael Janda (Author)
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It takes more than just a design school education and a killer portfolio to succeed in a creative career. Burn Your Portfolio teaches the real-world practices, professional do's and don'ts, and unwritten rules of business that most designers, photographers, web designers, copy writers, programmers, and architects only learn after putting in years of experience on the job.

Michael Janda, owner of the Utah-based design firm Riser, uses humor to dispense nugget after nugget of hard-won advice collected over the last decade from the personal successes and failures he has faced running his own agency. In this surprisingly funny, but incredibly practical advice guide, Janda's advice on teamwork and collaboration, relationship building, managing clients, bidding work, production processes, and more will resonate with creative professionals of all stripes.

• Rank: #19178 in Books
• Published on: 2013-06-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 5.98" w x .91" l, 1.62 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Microinteractions: Designing with Details

Microinteractions: Designing with Details
Dan Saffer (Author)
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It’s the little things that turn a good digital product into a great one. With this practical book, you’ll learn how to design effective microinteractions: the small details that exist inside and around features. How can users change a setting? How do they turn on mute, or know they have a new email message?

Through vivid, real-world examples from today’s devices and applications, author Dan Saffer walks you through a microinteraction’s essential parts, then shows you how to use them in a mobile app, a web widget, and an appliance. You’ll quickly discover how microinteractions can change a product from one that’s tolerated into one that’s treasured.

• Explore a microinteraction’s structure: triggers, rules, feedback, modes, and loops
• Learn the types of triggers that initiate a microinteraction
• Create simple rules that define how your microinteraction can be used
• Help users understand the rules with feedback, using graphics, sounds, and vibrations
• Use modes to let users set preferences or modify a microinteraction
• Extend a microinteraction’s life with loops, such as “Get data every 30 seconds”

• Rank: #32182 in Books
• Published on: 2013-05-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .63 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 170 pages

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
Noam Nisan (Author), Shimon Schocken (Author)
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In the early days of computer science, the interactions of hardware, software, compilers, and operating system were simple enough to allow students to see an overall picture of how computers worked. With the increasing complexity of computer technology and the resulting specialization of knowledge, such clarity is often lost. Unlike other texts that cover only one aspect of the field, The Elements of Computing Systems gives students an integrated and rigorous picture of applied computer science, as its comes to play in the construction of a simple yet powerful computer system.Indeed, the best way to understand how computers work is to build one from scratch, and this textbook leads students through twelve chapters and projects that gradually build a basic hardware platform and a modern software hierarchy from the ground up. In the process, the students gain hands-on knowledge of hardware architecture, operating systems, programming languages, compilers, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering. Using this constructive approach, the book exposes a significant body of computer science knowledge and demonstrates how theoretical and applied techniques taught in other courses fit into the overall picture.Designed to support one- or two-semester courses, the book is based on an abstraction-implementation paradigm; each chapter presents a key hardware or software abstraction, a proposed implementation that makes it concrete, and an actual project. The emerging computer system can be built by following the chapters, although this is only one option, since the projects are self-contained and can be done or skipped in any order. All the computer science knowledge necessary for completing the projects is embedded in the book, the only pre-requisite being a programming experience.The book's web site provides all tools and materials necessary to build all the hardware and software systems described in the text, including two hundred test programs for the twelve projects. The projects and systems can be modified to meet various teaching needs, and all the supplied software is open-source.

• Rank: #22188 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .67" w x 7.99" l, 1.50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 344 pages