Books published by Packt Publishing Limited

In recent years, the C# and .Net ecosystem has grown so explosively that it's nearly impossible to keep up. This collection of programming challenges helps you explore some of the less-traveled byways of programming concepts in general and C# in particular.

Vue.js is the latest trending frontend framework. Simplicity, reactivity, and flexibility are some of the key benefits that Vue offers to developers. This book will help you learn everything you need to know to build stunning reactive web apps with Vue.js 2 quickly and easily.

Reactive programming is central to many concurrent systems but it's famous for its steep learning curve that makes most developers feel like they're hitting a wall. With this book, you will get to grips with Reactive programming by steadily exploring various concepts.

Cloud offers new opportunities and more and more features every day. All services hosted in local Data Centers are now available in Azure. In this book, we'll show you how to work in Azure and how to use Azure resources to your advantage.

This second edition of Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing provides approaches and solutions to the issues of modern penetration testing for a Microsoft Windows environment. As a pen tester, you need to be able to understand and use the best available tools - this book addresses these needs with maximum in a cost and time efficient way.

This book covers the full set of technologies that you need to know to become a full-stack web developer with Spring and Vue.js. You will also learn about the key design patterns and best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.

Software Engineering includes "soft" skills. A developer requires awareness of how those skills, with their technical counterparts, mesh together through a project's life-cycle. This book walks you through that discovery, showing at each step of the way through a multi-tier system's development, how all those moving parts fit together.

Rust is an emerging programming language applicable to areas such as embedded programming, network programming, system programming, and web development. This book will take you from the basics of Rust to the point where your code compiles and does what you intend!

This new edition includes all the topics that made Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming an instant Packt classic. It's also packed with updated content to reflect recent changes in the core Python library and covers modern third-party packages that were not available on the Python 3 platform when the book was first published.

Scikit-learn is a robust machine learning library for the Python programming language. It provides a set of supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms. This book is the easiest way to learn how to deploy, optimize and evaluate all the important machine learning algorithms that scikit-learn provides.

WordPress is the most used CMS in the world and it is the ideal way to share your knowledge with a large community as well as build a profitable business. Getting started with WordPress development has often been a challenge for novice developers, and this book will help you find your way.

Drupal is a powerful content management platform flexible enough to accommodate almost any content requirements. This flexibility comes with a cost: complexity. Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide will clear your path from installation to a building usable site in minutes, and to a customized site in one sitting.

Suitable for all Oracle developers, and decisions makers involved in Oracle system and future development. This is an introduction to the Blockchain; how the Blockchain affects Oracle developers and customers; understanding the Blockchain flow - blocks, hashes, chains, and mining Blockchain assets, transactions, and consensus; and more.

This book presents highly practical, ready to implement recipes on using Python's Matplotlib package for effective data visualization. It contains quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems encountered while designing different types of visualizations, including histograms, bar plots, and other advanced charts.

This book explains the key feature to develop a complex and stable network that helps to gather the data to optimize the asset performance and maximize the production in the Industries leveraging on the cloud infrastructure and services. By the end, you can design the Industrial IoT network and the architecture for processing its data in the cloud.

Tokenomics is the economy of the new world of cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and ICOs. This book is a deep-dive into the economics and technology of tokens, and how this will lead to a new tokenized economy. This is a no-holds-barred, in-depth exploration of how it all works, and how you can participate in tokenizing the world.

Today, businesses need a new type of system that can remain responsive at all times. This result is achievable and is called reactive, which means it reacts to changes. The development of such systems is a complex task, requiring a deep understanding of the domain. The developers of the Spring Framework help with the reactive version

Blender is open source 3D Creation software. With a long history and enthusiastic community of users, it is the ideal choice for almost any kind of work with 3D modelling or animation. However, for new users, its power and flexibillity and can sometimes be daunting, and that's when you need this book!

In this book, you will find a range of methods to improve the performance of almost any predictive model, from ensemble methods to dimensionality reduction and cross-validation. You will learn the tools to produce advanced predictive models. In addition, you will dive into the exiting field of Deep Learning using TensorFlow.

Robotic process automation is a form of business process automation where user-configured robots can emulate the actions of users. Blue Prism is a pioneer of robotic process automation software, and this book gives you a solid foundation to programming robots with Blue Prism. If you've been tasked with automating work processes, but don't know ...

AWS provides a huge range of managed services. While each is well documented, figuring out how to use them together to build a business infrastructure is less clear. In this book, you'll see how the most successful tech start-ups launch and scale their services on AWS and how you can too.

AWS is one of the most popular public clouds available in the market today. Small to medium-sized businesses, as well as large business organizations, utilize AWS to set up highly scalable and agile infrastructure to meet faster time to market. This book provides hands-on details with respect to the fundamentals of designing an AWS environment ...

Java is one of the most commonly used software languages by programmers and developers. Are you from a non-technical background looking to master Java for your automation needs? Then Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners is for you.

React Router is the routing library for React, and it can be used in both React Web and React Native applications. This book is a simple way to get started with React Router and harness its full power for your applications.

Network Scanning Cookbook enables a reader to understand how to perform a Network Scan, which includes Discovery, Scanning, Enumeration, Vulnerability detection etc using scanning tools like Nessus and Nmap. If the reader is an auditor, they will be able to determine the security state of the client's network and recommend remediations accordingly.

This book covers how to use the image processing libraries in Python. It will enable you to write code snippets to implement complex image processing algorithms such as image enhancement, filtering, segmentation, object detection, and more. You will also be able to use machine learning and deep learning models and learn to implement them with ease.

IBM Watson Projects demonstrate projects focused on cognitive computing & analytical capabilities of IBM Watson. You will explore designing smart business solutions and understand the effectiveness of a supply chain using projects including healthcare dialog system, sentimental analysis on social media, personalized recommendation systems and more.

The age of AI brings the next transformation in modern UI, where human beings have credible and meaningful conversations with computers and modern appliances such as Alexa. Build cutting-edge AI voicebots and chatbots without needing deep technical knowledge, and learn key design aspects to make AI bots successful and convincing to humans. ...

Hands-On Reactive Programming with Reactor presents a variety of examples which show how to use the Reactor framework to handle asynchronous code. In reactive programming, Reactor is a foundation for all its asynchronous applications on the JVM.