Computer & Internet

With Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly by Marc Clifton, you will learn many of the basic concepts involved with functional programming, such as currying, partial application, function pipelines, recursion, and continuations. By book’s end, you will learn how to combine functional and imperative programming to get the most out of your solutions.

Free eBook TypeScript Succinctly: The .NET approach to JavaScript, by Steve Fenton, is available in PDF and Kindle formats.

With Assembly Language Succinctly, you will learn how to write x64 assembly for modern CPUs, first by writing inline assembly for 32-bit applications, and then writing native assembly for C++ projects. You will learn the basics of memory spaces, data segments, CISC instructions, SIMD instructions, and much more.

Learn to manipulate massive amounts of data using an often overlooked feature of Microsoft Excel. Author James Beresford will demonstrate how to take control of data sets by using a tool that most readers likely already have access to. With PowerPivot Succinctly, you can take the first step toward mastering your data needs.

HTTP is the foundational protocol for exchanging information across the World Wide Web. With HTTP Succinctly, you’ll learn all about something you use on a daily basis, perhaps without realizing what goes on behind the scenes.

“Git Succinctly” by Ryan Hodson is available in pdf and kindle formats. Git is an open-source version control system known for its speed, stability, and distributed collaboration model. Originally created in 2006 to manage the entire Linux kernel, Git now boasts a comprehensive feature set, an active development team, and several free hosting communities.

What you need to know about Python: The absolute essentials you need to get Python up and running is designed to act as a brief, practical introduction to Python. It is full of practical examples which will get you up and running quickly with the core tasks of Python. It assumes that you know a bit about what Python is, what it does, and why you want to use it.

Learn to write applications that support different languages and cultures, with an emphasis on .NET development. With the help of author Jonas Gauffin, Localization for .NET Succinctly will help you become an effective developer in the global community.

Direct2D Succinctly, by Chris Rose, is a straightforward, step-by-step guide to rendering graphics with Direct2D.

Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Technical Overview is intended to provide you with an overview of the new features and enhancements introduced in Windows Server 2012 R2. The intended audience for this book is IT pros who deploy, manage, and maintain Windows Server workloads in data center, private cloud, and hosting provider environments.

In this free ebook from Syncfusion, author Peter Shaw guides you from installing Postgres, to creating your first database, to using Postgres in a .NET application with ADO .NET and Entity Framework.

This book is freely available in multiple formats as part of O’Reilly’s Open Book Project. This is the first book that applies the REST design philosophy to real web services.

Information Systems for Business and Beyond, written by David T. Bourgeois, introduces the concept of information systems, their use in business, and the larger impact they are having on our world. It is written as an introductory text, meant for those with little or no experience with computers or information systems.

In Regular Expressions Succinctly, author Joe Booth teaches Visual Studio developers how regular expressions can help solve basic programming problems. By introducing patterns and rules to your C# strings, you can eliminate the need to write your own complex code for text manipulation.

Master the higher-level languages and other features necessary to process data with HDInsight. Learn how to set up and manage HDInsight clusters on Azure, how to use Azure Blob Storage to store input and output data, connect with Microsoft BI, and much more.

This book is about writing Windows Store apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The primary focus will be on applying these web technologies within the Windows platform, where there are unique considerations, and not on exploring the details of those web technologies themselves.

This brief book identifies some key usage and deployment scenarios for cloud computing to provide some deep technical background on the Microsoft SDN solution, enabling IT professionals to quickly learn the internals of HNV, how it works from end to end, and where and how it should be used.

LigthSwitch Mobile Business Apps Succinctly by Jan Van der Haegen follows the introduction to LightSwitch, provided in his earlier book LightSwitch Succinctly. Expanding upon the fundamentals of Visual Studio LightSwitch, Haegen’s latest release addresses database projects, visual customization, programming techniques, and cloud deployment.

Learn the fundamentals of using Node.js to speed up your JavaScript-based applications. This informative e-book will take you from Hello World to “if…then” decisions, all the way to real-time data monitoring. You’ll learn how to use Node.js to build modules, declare JSON data objects, and create entire web-based applications. The basics of socket and database programming with Node.js are also covered.

In Machine Learning Using C# Succinctly, you’ll learn several different approaches to applying machine learning to data analysis and prediction problems.