Books published by Packt Publishing Limited

This Learning Path makes you an expert developer of AR and VR applications by teaching you everything - from the basic principles of AR application development to developing immersive and fun VR applications using Unity 3D and Unity 2018.

Starting with the basics, this book teaches you how to choose from the various text pre-processing techniques and select the best model from the several neural network architectures for NLP issues.

Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Rust will help you in upgrading your earlier knowledge of Rust so that you shift to a confident developer by implementing the algorithms in a practical environment. This would be an essential reference guide for end-user/reader to understand the fundamental techniques of Rust. This guide will cover ...

pfSense is a FreeBSD-based firewall that provides a platform for flexible and powerful routing and firewalling. This book focuses on configuring essential and other commonly used pfSense services; such as traffic shaping, redundancy, high availability, static and dynamic routing, backup and restoration of pfSense, and diagnostic tools.

Principles of Strategic Data Science describes a framework that creates value from data to help organizations meet their objectives. With this book, you'll bridge the gap between mathematics and computer science and also gain insight into the workings of the entire data science pipeline.

The IT industry is obsessed with new technologies. Courses, books, and magazines mostly focus on what is new. Starting with what a legacy system looks like to applying various techniques for maintaining and securing these systems, this book gives you all the knowledge you need to maintain a legacy system.

Applied Supervised Learning with R will make you a pro at identifying your business problem, selecting the best supervised machine learning algorithm to solve it, and fine-tuning your model to exactly deliver your needs without overfitting itself.

This practical certification guide covers the most important exam objectives in exam 70-741. Additionally, this certification guide will come in handy when preparing to take exam 70-743.

This book will get you up to speed with the specifics of making games look and feel great, by using modern animation and rendering techniques with the integration of great physics libraries for an improved and realistic user experience.

This book will present a variety of CV algorithms using the standard library. It will implement any shortfall that might come in CV by practicing the recipes that implement various tasks such as image processing and object recognition among others. It will help you in implementing CV algorithms to meet the technical requirement of your projects.

This book is comprehensive walk through of Test-Driven Development (TDD) for React. It takes a first-principles approach to teach the TDD process using vanilla Jest. Readers build their own test library as they refactor out repeated code in tandem with building a real-world application. It also covers acceptance testing using Cucumber and ...

Delphi is a cross-platform programming language that supports rapid application development for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Android, and iOS. With 7 practical projects, this book will guide you through best practices, design patterns, RTL resources, and more. Learn the principles of clean code and master in Delphi.

Learn Blockchain Programming with JavaScript begins by giving you a clear understanding of what a blockchain is. You'll then set up an environment to build your very own blockchain and you'll add various functionalities to it. By adding functionalities to your blockchain such as the ability to mine new blocks, create transactions, and secure ...

Apache Ignite is a distributed in-memory platform designed to scale and process large volume of data. It can be integrated with microservices as well as monolithic systems, and can be used as a scalable, highly available and performant deployment platform for microservices. This book will teach you to use Apache Ignite for building a high ...

OpenCV is mainly used in Computer Vision and image processing and is considered to be one of the best open source libraries that helps developers focus on constructing complete projects on image processing, motion detection, and image segmentation. This book will be your guide to understanding the basic OpenCV concepts and algorithms.

This book is about building professional web applications and web services using Swift and leveraging two popular Swift web frameworks: Vapor 3.0 and Kitura 2.5. By the end of the book, you would be able to successfully create your own web application by leveraging the powerful ecosystem of Swift.

CompTIA Network+ Certification Guide makes the most complex Network+ concepts easy to understand despite having no prior knowledge. It offers exam tips in every chapter along with access to practical exercises and exam checklist that map to the exam objectives and it is the perfect study guide to help you pass CompTIA Network+ exam.

Hands-On Data Science with R explore various popular R packages to perform various data science tasks, including core statistical concepts and a wide array of use cases. This practical book covers the entire data science ecosystem for aspiring data scientists, including machine learning, NLP, and neural networks

Kotlin came from the industry, not academia, with the aim to solve programmers' difficulties and operational challenges. This book is all about making Kotlin and Java EE work in unison to build enterprise-grade application. With Java EE API, Kotlin can be used to create services that are scalable, maintainable with just a few lines of logical code.

Go is a highly preferred language for machine learning. The code is close to how it's actually executed in the machine. Over the course of this book, you will learn how to express complex ideas found in machine learning literature and implement them. You will also learn how to structure problems to solve them using machine learning with Go.

Building software requires careful planning and architectural considerations; Golang was developed with a fresh perspective on building next-generation applications on the cloud with distributed and concurrent computing concerns. This book is your guide to software architecture with Golang.

Big data modeling is very challenging to handle using traditional database modeling and management systems. This book will teach you how to model big data using the latest and more efficient tools such as ERWIN, ANACONDA (Python), and WEKA to model data.

This book covers all the relevant concepts and phases of the blockchain development cycle. It will walk you through a step-by-step process to build three blockchain projects with differing complexity levels and hurdles. By the end of this book, you will be ready to tackle common issues in the blockchain ecosystem.

Learn Programming in Python with Cody Jackson will take you through the basics of programming (and how Python implements those concepts) to write a complete, production-ready application. Each topic builds on the previous ones, so you'll learn how a complete application is built from the ground up, rather than just learning separate aspects of ...

Splunk is a leading platform and solution for collecting, searching, and extracting value from ever increasing amounts of big data - and big data is eating the world! This book covers all the crucial Splunk topics and gives you the information and examples to get the immediate job done. You will find enough insights to support further ...

Docker is an open source software platform that helps you with creating, deploying, and running your applications using containers. This book is your ideal introduction to Docker and containerization.

Python is one of the most popular programming languages, with numerous libraries and frameworks that facilitate high-performance computing. Concurrency and parallelism in Python are essential when it comes to multiprocessing and multithreading; they behave differently, but their common aim is to reduce the execution time. This book serves as a ...

PostgreSQL is a rock-solid, scalable, and safe, enterprise-level relational database. With a broad range of features and stability it is ever increasing in popularity. The book shows you how to take advantages of PostgreSQL 11 features for Server-Side-Programming. Server-Side-Programming enables strong data encapsulation and coherence.

Learn Robotics Programming covers the basics of building a robot from scratch and implementing AI in the robots. You will be able to implement different sensors and control the robot based on those sensorsaEURO (TM) output. This book will help you in constructing a robot with the combination of Python, Raspberry Pi and sensors such as distance ...

Developers struggle to find an easy to follow learning resource for implementing Recurrent Neural Network(RNN) models. RNNs are the state-of-the-art model in deep learning for dealing with sequential data. From language translation to generating captions for an image, RNNs are used to continuously improve the results. This book will teach you ...