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Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode 9 IDE, Cocoa Touch, and the latest version of Apple's acclaimed programming language, Swift 4. With this thoroughly updated guide, you'll learn the Swift language, understand Apple's Xcode development tools, and discover the Cocoa framework.

With color illustrations, easy-to-follow explanations, and step-by-step instructions, the book takes the beginner from building simple circuits on a breadboard to setting up the Arduino IDE and downloading and writing sketches to run on the Arduino.

Augmented Reality (AR) blurs the boundary between the physical and digital worlds. In ARs current exploration phase, innovators are beginning to create compelling and contextually rich applications that enhance a users everyday experiences. In this book, Dr. Helen Papagiannisa world-leading expert in the fieldintroduces you to AR: how its evolving, where the opportunities are, and where its headed.If youre a designer, developer, entrepreneur, student, educator, business leader, artist, or simply curious about ARs possibilities, this insightful guide explains how you can become involved with an exciting, fast-moving technology.Youll explore how:Computer vision, machine learning, cameras, sensors, and wearables change the way you see the worldHaptic technology syncs what you see with how something feelsAugmented sound and hearables alter the way you listen to your environmentDigital smell and taste augment the way you share and receive informationNew approaches to storytelling immerse and engage users more deeplyUsers can augment their bodies with electronic textiles, embedded technology, and brain-controlled interfacesHuman avatars can learn our behaviors and act on our behalf

Thinking of migrating to PostgreSQL? This clear, fast-paced introduction helps you understand and use this open source database system. Not only will you learn about the enterprise class features in versions 9.5 to 10, you'll also discover that PostgeSQL is more than a database system-it's an impressive application platform as well.

Sound can profoundly impact how people interact with your product. Well-designed sounds can be exceptionally effective in conveying subtle distinctions, emotion, urgency, and information without adding visual clutter. In this practical guide, Amber Case and Aaron Day explain why sound design is critical to the success of products, environments, and experiences.Just as visual designers have a set of benchmarks and a design language to guide their work, this book provides a toolkit for the auditory experience, improving collaboration for a wide variety of stakeholders, from product developers to composers, user experience designers to architects. Youll learn a complete process for designing, prototyping, and testing sound.In two parts, this guide includes:Past, present, and upcoming advances in sound designPrinciples for designing quieter productsGuidelines for intelligently adding and removing sound in interactionsWhen to use voice interfaces, how to consider personalities, and how to build a knowledge map of queriesWorking with brands to create unique and effective audio logos that will speak to your customersAdding information using sonification and generative audio

If you're a developer or data scientist new to NLP and deep learning, this practical guide shows you how to apply these methods using PyTorch, a Python-based deep learning library.

User experience doesn't happen on a screen; it happens in the mind, and the experience is multidimensional and multisensory. This practical book will help you uncover critical insights about how your customers think so you can create products or services with an exceptional experience.

Much of the data available today is unstructured and text-heavy, making it challenging for analysts to apply their usual data wrangling and visualization tools. With this practical book, youll explore text-mining techniques with tidytext, a package that authors Julia Silge and David Robinson developed using the tidy principles behind R packages like ggraph and dplyr. Youll learn how tidytext and other tidy tools in R can make text analysis easier and more effective.The authors demonstrate how treating text as data frames enables you to manipulate, summarize, and visualize characteristics of text. Youll also learn how to integrate natural language processing (NLP) into effective workflows. Practical code examples and data explorations will help you generate real insights from literature, news, and social media.Learn how to apply the tidy text format to NLPUse sentiment analysis to mine the emotional content of textIdentify a documents most important terms with frequency measurementsExplore relationships and connections between words with the ggraph and widyr packagesConvert back and forth between Rs tidy and non-tidy text formatsUse topic modeling to classify document collections into natural groupsExamine case studies that compare Twitter archives, dig into NASA metadata, and analyze thousands of Usenet messages

With Sierra, Apple brings never-before-seen features to macOS-like Siri voice control, file sharing across all your iOS devices, picture-in-picture mode for iTunes and Safari, and AI photo search. Once again, David Pogue brings his humor and expertise to the #1 bestselling Mac book.

Arista Networks has become a key player when it comes to software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center storage and computing environments. In this updated edition of Arista Warrior, renowned consultant and technical author Gary Donahue Network Arista Networks has become a key player when it comes to software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center, storage, and computing environments, and with their continued expansion and growth since the first edition was released, this book is a welcome update. In this updated edition of Arista Warrior, renowned trainer, consultant, and technical author Gary A. Donahue (Network Warrior) provides an in-depth, objective guide to Aristas products explains why its network switches, software products, and Extensible Operating System (EOS) are so effective.Anyone with a CCNA or equivalent knowledge will benefit from this book, especially entrenched administrators, engineers, or architects tasked with building an Arista network. Is Arista right for your network? Pick up this in-depth guide and find out.In addition to the topics covered in the first edition, this book also includes:Configuration Management: Config sessions, config replace, etc.CloudVision: Aristas management, workload orchestration, workflow automation, configuration, and telemetry toolVXLAN: Layer-2 overlay networkingFlexRoute: Two million routes in hardwareTap Aggregation: Make your switch or blade into a Tap Aggregation deviceAdvanced Mirroring: Mirror to a port-channel or even the CPUNetwork Design: A quick overview of the Arista recommended network designsvEOS: Aristas Extensible Operating System in a VM with step-by-step instructionscEOS: Aristas EOS in a container with exampleseAPI: Aristas fabulous extended Application Programmable Interface

Any time you need quick answers for developing or debugging Java programs, this pocket guide is the ideal reference to standard features of the Java programming language and its platform.

Make: Drones will help the widest possible audience understand how drones work by providing several DIY drone projects based on the world's most popular robot controller--the Arduino.

With the wide variety of devices, touch points, and channels in use, your ability to control how people navigate your well-crafted experiences is fading. Yet its still important to understand where people are in their journey if youre to deliver the right content and interactions atthe right time and on the right device.This practical guide shows you how storytelling can make a powerful difference in product design. Author Anna Dahlstrm details the many ways you can use storytelling in your projects and throughout your organization. By applying tried-and-tested principles from film and fiction to the context of design and business, youll learn to create great product experiences.Learn how the anatomy of a great story can make a difference in product designExplore how traditional storytelling principles, tools, and methods relate to key product design aspectsUnderstand how purposeful storytelling helps tell the right story and move people into actionUse storytelling principles to tell, sell, and present your work

Perfect for beginners familiar with programming basics, this hands-on guide provides an easy introduction to Go, the general-purpose programming language from Google. Author Caleb Doxsey covers the languages core features with step-by-step instructions and exercises in each chapter to help you practice what you learn.Go is a general-purpose programming language with a clean syntax and advanced features, including concurrency. This book provides the one-on-one support you need to get started with the language, with short, easily digestible chapters that build on one another. By the time you finish this book, not only will you be able to write real Go programs, you'll be ready to tackle advanced techniques.Jump into Go basics, including data types, variables, and control structuresLearn complex types, such as slices, functions, structs, and interfacesExplore Gos core library and learn how to create your own packageWrite tests for your code by using the languages go test programLearn how to run programs concurrently with goroutines and channelsGet suggestions to help you master the craft of programming

One of the most useful features of todays modern browsers is the ability to store data right on the users computer or mobile device. Even as more people move toward the cloud, client-side storage can still save web developers a lot of time and money, if you do it right. This hands-on guide demonstrates several storage APIs in action. Youll learn how and when to use them, their plusses and minuses, and steps for implementing one or more of them in your application.Ideal for experienced web developers familiar with JavaScript, this book also introduces several open source libraries that make storage APIs easier to work with.Learn how different browsers support each client-side storage APIWork with web (aka local) storage for simple things like lists or preferencesUse IndexedDB to store nearly anything you want on the users browserLearn how support web apps that still use the discontinued Web SQL Database APIExplore Lockr, Dexie, and localForage, three libraries that simplify the use of storage APIsBuild a simple working application that makes use of several storage techniques

Learn how to safely build projects that burn, poof, "boosh," and flare! This complete reference and hands-on guide to working with propane explains how to create a variety of flame effects projects that can be built with common tools and materials.

Pixels use electricity, and a lot of it. If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest in terms of electricity use. Thats because todays average web page has surpassed two megabytes in size, leading to slow load times, frustrated users, and a lot of wasted energy. With this practical guide, your web design team will learn how to apply sustainability principles for creating speedy, user-friendly, and energy-efficient digital products and services.Author Tim Frick introduces a web design framework that focuses on four key areas where these principles can make a difference: content strategy, performance optimization, design and user experience, and green hosting. Youll discover how to provide users with a streamlined experience, while reducing the environmental impact of your products and services.Learn why 90% of the data that ever existed was created in the last yearUse sustainability principles to innovate, reduce waste, and function more efficientlyExplore green hosting, sustainable business practices, and lean/agile workflowsPut the right things in front of users at precisely the moment they need themand nothing moreIncrease site search engine visibility, streamline user experience, and make streaming video more efficientUse Action Items to explore concepts outlined in each chapter

This guide, collaboratively written by over a hundred members of the Python community, describes best practices currently used by package and application developers. Unlike other books for this audience, The Hitchhiker's Guide is light on reusable code and heavier on design philosophy, directing the reader to excellent sources that already exist.

Imagine what a large-scale web project would look like if frontend development were not treated as an add-on, but as an equal partner with backend development and content strategy. This practical book takes experienced web developers through the new discipline of frontend architecture, including the latest tools, standards, and best practices that have elevated frontend web development to an entirely new level.Using real-world examples, case studies, and practical tips and tricks throughout, author Micah Godbolt introduces you to the four pillars of frontend architecture. He also provides compelling arguments for developers who want to embrace the mantle of frontend architect and fight to make it a first-class citizen in their next project.The four pillars include:Code: how to approach the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript of a design systemProcess: tools and processes for creating an efficient and error-proof workflowTesting: creating a stable foundation on which to build your siteDocumentation: tools for writing documentation while the work is in progress

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This cookbook is perfect for anyone who wants to experiment with the popular Arduino microcontroller and programming environment. Updated for Arduino 1.8, the third edition includes more than 200 tips and techniques for building a variety of objects and prototypes

In this practical guide, you'll learn how to use Cython to improve Python's performance - up to 3000x - and to wrap C and C++ libraries in Python with ease. Author Kurt Smith takes you through Cython's capabilities, with sample code and in-depth practice exercises.

Learn the data skills necessary for turning large sequencing datasets into reproducible and robust biological findings. With this practical guide, youll learn how to use freely available open source tools to extract meaning from large complex biological data sets.At no other point in human history has our ability to understand lifes complexities been so dependent on our skills to work with and analyze data. This intermediate-level book teaches the general computational and data skills you need to analyze biological data. If you have experience with a scripting language like Python, youre ready to get started.Go from handling small problems with messy scripts to tackling large problems with clever methods and toolsProcess bioinformatics data with powerful Unix pipelines and data toolsLearn how to use exploratory data analysis techniques in the R languageUse efficient methods to work with genomic range data and range operationsWork with common genomics data file formats like FASTA, FASTQ, SAM, and BAMManage your bioinformatics project with the Git version control systemTackle tedious data processing tasks with with Bash scripts and Makefiles

If you finished the projects in Make: Electronics, or if you're already familiar with the material in that book, you're ready for Make: More Electronics. Right away, you'll start working on real projects, and you'll explore all the key components and essential principles through the book's collection of experiments.

Microservices can have a positive impact on your enterprisejust ask Amazon and Netflixbut you can fall into many traps if you dont approach them in the right way. This practical guide covers the entire microservices landscape, including the principles, technologies, and methodologies of this unique, modular style of system building. Youll learn about the experiences of organizations around the globe that have successfully adopted microservices.In three parts, this book explains how these services work and what it means to build an application the Microservices Way. Youll explore a design-based approach to microservice architecture with guidance for implementing various elements. And youll get a set of recipes and practices for meeting practical, organizational, and cultural challenges to microservice adoption.Learn how microservices can help you drive business objectivesExamine the principles, practices, and culture that define microservice architecturesExplore a model for creating complex systems and a design process for building a microservice architectureLearn the fundamental design concepts for individual microservicesDelve into the operational elements of a microservices architecture, including containers and service discoveryDiscover how to handle the challenges of introducing microservice architecture in your organization

This revised and expanded edition shows you step-by-step how to implement high-density, high-speed Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet services, using advanced firewall filters, redundant inline services, powerful CoS tool sets, and many other Juniper MX features.

Thanks to the decreasing cost of prototyping, it's more feasible for professional makers and first-time entrepreneurs to launch a hardware startup. But exactly how do you go about it? This book provides the roadmap and best practices you need for turning a product idea into a full-fledged business.

Gives developers an understanding of what constitutes intellectual property, complete with advice and a set of principles they can use to pursue open source projects without getting into legal trouble. It aims to place the computer field on a basis for understanding, applying, and debating key concepts in copyrights, trade secrets, and patents.