Topics include:

• The pros and cons of braced initialization, noexcept specifications, perfect forwarding, and smart pointer make functions
• The relationships among std::move, std::forward, rvalue references, and universal references
• Techniques for writing clear, correct, effective lambda expressions
• How std::atomic differs from volatile, how each should be used, and how they relate to C++'s concurrency API
• How best practices in "old" C++ programming (i.e., C++98) require revision for software development in modern C++

Effective Modern C++ follows the proven guideline-based, example-driven format of Scott Meyers' earlier books, but covers entirely new material.

"After I learned the C++ basics, I then learned how to use C++ in production code from Meyer's series of Effective C++ books. Effective Modern C++ is the most important how-to book for advice on key guidelines, styles, and idioms to use modern C++ effectively and well. Don't own it yet? Buy this one. Now".

-- Herb Sutter, Chair of ISO C++ Standards Committee and C++ Software Architect at Microsoft

1) work with top Hedge Funds, Investment Banks, HFT firms, Algorithmic Trading firms, Exchanges, etc.

2) implement smart algorithms and build low-latency, high-performance and mission-critical software with talented engineers

3) earn top compensation

This book will help you with interview preparation for landing high-paying software engineering jobs in the financial markets industry – Hedge Funds, Banks, Algo Trading firms, HFT firms, Exchanges, etc.

This book contains 120+ questions with solutions/answers fully explained. Covers all topics in breadth and depth. Questions that are comparable difficulty level to those asked at top financial firms. Resources are provided to help you fill your gaps.

Who this book is for:

1)This book is written to help software developers who want to get into the financial markets/trading industry as trading systems developers operating in algorithmic trading, high-frequency trading, market-making, electronic trading, brokerages, exchanges, hedge funds, investment banks, and proprietary trading firms. You can work across firms involved in various asset classes such as equities, derivatives, FX, bonds, commodities, and cryptocurrencies, among others.

2)This book serves the best for programmers who already know C++ or who are willing to learn C++. Due to the level of performance expected from these systems, most trading systems are developed in C++.

3) This book can help you improve upon the skills necessary to get into prestigious, high paying tech jobs at financial firms. Resources are provided. Practice questions and answers help you to understand the level and type of questions expected in the interview.

What does this book contain:

1)Overview of the financial markets trading industry – types of firms, types of jobs, work environment and culture, compensation, methods to get job interviews, etc.

2)For every chapter, a guideline of what kind of topics are asked in the interviews is mentioned.

3)For every chapter, many questions with full solutions/answers are provided. These are of similar difficulty as those in real interviews, with sufficient breadth and depth.

4)Topics covered – C++, Multithreading, Inter-Process Communication, Network Programming, Lock-free programming, Low Latency Programming and Techniques, Systems Design, Design Patterns, Coding Questions, Math Puzzles, Domain-Specific Tools, Domain Knowledge, and Behavioral Interview.

5)Resources – a list of books for in-depth knowledge.

6) FAQ section related to the career of software engineers in tech/quant financial firms.

Upsides of working as Trading Systems Developer at top financial firms:

1)Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies.

2)Opportunity to work with quants, traders, and financial engineers to expand your qualitative and quantitative understanding of the financial markets.

3)Opportunity to work with other smart engineers, as these firms tend to hire engineers with a strong engineering caliber.

4)Top compensation with a big base salary and bonus, comparable to those of FAANG companies.

5)Opportunity to move into quant and trader roles for the interested and motivated.

This book will be your guideline, seriously cut down your interview preparation time, and give you a huge advantage in landing jobs at top tech/quant firms in finance.

Book website: www.tradingsystemsengineer.com

Many experienced programmers try to bend Python to fit patterns they learned from other languages, and never discover Python features outside of their experience. With this book, those Python programmers will thoroughly learn how to become proficient in Python 3.

This book covers:

• Python data model: understand how special methods are the key to the consistent behavior of objects
• Data structures: take full advantage of built-in types, and understand the text vs bytes duality in the Unicode age
• Functions as objects: view Python functions as first-class objects, and understand how this affects popular design patterns
• Object-oriented idioms: build classes by learning about references, mutability, interfaces, operator overloading, and multiple inheritance
• Control flow: leverage context managers, generators, coroutines, and concurrency with the concurrent.futures and asyncio packages
• Metaprogramming: understand how properties, attribute descriptors, class decorators, and metaclasses work

Learn real-life strategies from the people who built Elixir and use it successfully at scale. See how Ben Marx and Bleacher Report maintain one of the highest-traffic Elixir applications by selling the concept to management and delivering on that promise. Find out how Bruce Tate and icanmakeitbetter hire and train Elixir engineers, and the techniques they've employed to design and ensure code consistency since Elixir's early days. Explore customer challenges in deploying and monitoring distributed applications with Elixir creator Jose Valim and Plataformatec.

Make a business case and build a team before you finish your first prototype. Once you're in development, form strategies for organizing your code and learning the constraints of the runtime and ecosystem. Convince stakeholders, both business and technical, about the value they can expect. Prepare to make the critical early decisions that will shape your application for years to come. Manage your deployment with all of the knobs and gauges that good DevOps teams demand. Decide between the many options available for deployment, and how to best prepare yourself for the challenges of running a production application.

This book picks up where most Elixir books leave off. It won't teach you to program Elixir, or any of its tools. Instead, it guides you through the broader landscape and shows you a holistic approach to adopting the language.

What You Need:

This book works with any version of Elixir.

• Language concepts like slices, interfaces, pointers, and concurrency
• Seven capstone projects featuring spacefaring gophers, Mars rovers, ciphers, and simulations
• All examples run in the Go Playground - no installation required!

Unit 0 - GETTING STARTED
1. Get ready, get set, Go
Unit 1 - IMPERATIVE PROGRAMMING
2. A glorified calculator
3. Loops and branches
4. Variable scope
5. Capstone: Ticket to Mars
Unit 2 - TYPES
6. Real numbers
7. Whole numbers
8. Big numbers
9. Multilingual text
10. Converting between types
11. Capstone: The Vigenère cipher
Unit 3 - BUILDING BLOCKS
12. Functions
13. Methods
14. First-class functions
15. Capstone: Temperature tables
Unit 4 - COLLECTIONS
16. Arrayed in splendor
17. Slices: Windows into arrays
18. A bigger slice
19. The ever-versatile map
20. Capstone: A slice of life
Unit 5 - STATE AND BEHAVIOR
21. A little structure
22. Go's got no class
23. Composition and forwarding
24. Interfaces
25. Capstone: Martian animal sanctuary
Unit 6 - DOWN THE GOPHER HOLE
26. A few pointers
27. Much ado about nil
28. To err is human
29. Capstone: Sudoku rules
Unit 7 - CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING
30. Goroutines and concurrency
31. Concurrent state
32. Capstone: Life on Mars

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide is ideal for experienced programmers who want to learn the programming language of the web, and for current JavaScript programmers who want to master it.

Authors Joshua Wood and Brian Tannous, principal developer advocates at Red Hat, demonstrate how OpenShift speeds application development. With the Kubernetes container orchestrator at its core, OpenShift simplifies and automates the way you build, ship, and run code. You'll learn how to use OpenShift and the Quarkus Java framework to develop and deploy apps using proven enterprise technologies and practices that you can apply to code in any language.

• Learn the development cycles for building and deploying on OpenShift, and the tools that drive them
• Use OpenShift to build, deploy, and manage the ongoing lifecycle of an n-tier application
• Create a continuous integration and deployment pipeline to build and deploy application source code on OpenShift
• Automate scaling decisions with metrics and trigger lifecycle events with webhooks

We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care?

Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970. Letters, encyclopedias, newspapers, and even your local store are being replaced by the Internet.

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it. In clear, thoughtful prose that draws on illuminating historical examples, Graham takes readers on an unflinching exploration into what he calls "an intellectual Wild West."

The ideas discussed in this book will have a powerful and lasting impact on how we think, how we work, how we develop technology, and how we live. Topics include the importance of beauty in software design, how to make wealth, heresy and free speech, the programming language renaissance, the open-source movement, digital design, internet startups, and more.

In clear and approachable prose, design pro Tynan Sylvester also looks at the day-to-day process necessary to keep your project on track, including how to work with a team, and how to avoid creative dead ends. Packed with examples, this book will change your perception of game design.

• Create game mechanics to trigger a range of emotions and provide a variety of play
• Explore several options for combining narrative with interactivity
• Build interactions that let multiplayer gamers get into each other’s heads
• Motivate players through rewards that align with the rest of the game
• Establish a metaphor vocabulary to help players learn which design aspects are game mechanics
• Plan, test, and analyze your design through iteration rather than deciding everything up front
• Learn how your game’s market positioning will affect your design

You’ll gain a strong foundation in the language, including best practices for testing, debugging, code reuse, and other development tips. This book also shows you how to use Python for applications in business, science, and the arts, using various Python tools and open source packages.

In this practical guide, you’ll find out about algorithms, best practices, compiling, debugging your programs, and much more. The concepts are illustrated in several different programming languages, so you’ll get a feel for the variety of languages and the needs they fill.

Inside you’ll discover seven minibooks:

• Getting Started: From learning methods for writing programs to becoming familiar with types of programming languages, you’ll lay the foundation for your programming adventure with this minibook.
• Programming Basics: Here you’ll dive into how programs work, variables, data types, branching, looping, subprograms, objects, and more.
• Data Structures: From structures, arrays, sets, linked lists, and collections, to stacks, queues, graphs, and trees, you’ll dig deeply into the data.
• Algorithms: This minibook shows you how to sort and search algorithms, how to use string searching, and gets into data compression and encryption.
• Web Programming: Learn everything you need to know about coding for the web: HyperText. Markup Language (better known simply as HTML), CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby.
• Programming Language Syntax: Introduces you to the syntax of various languages – C, C++, Java, C#, Perl, Python, Pascal, Delphi, Visual Basic, REALbasic – so you know when to use which one.
• Applications: This is the fun part where you put your newly developed programming skills to work in practical ways.

Additionally, Beginning Programming All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies shows you how to decide what you want your program to do, turn your instructions into “machine language” that the computer understands, use programming best practices, explore the “how” and “why” of data structuring, and more. And you’ll get a look into various applications like database management, bioinformatics, computer security, and artificial intelligence. After you get this book and start coding, you’ll soon realize that — wow! You’re a programmer!

Updated for the Arduino 1.8 release, the recipes in this third edition include practical examples and guidance to help you begin, expand, and enhance your projects right away—whether you’re an engineer, designer, artist, student, or hobbyist.

• Get up to speed on the Arduino board and essential software concepts quickly
• Learn basic techniques for reading digital and analog signals
• Use Arduino with a variety of popular input devices and sensors
• Drive visual displays, generate sound, and control several types of motors
• Connect Arduino to wired and wireless networks
• Learn techniques for handling time delays and time measurement
• Apply advanced coding and memory-handling techniques

• Developing your game design from the spark of inspiration all the way to production
• Learning how to design the most exciting levels, the most precise controls, and the fiercest foes that will keep your players challenged
• Creating games for mobile and console systems – including detailed rules for touch and motion controls
• Monetizing your game from the design up
• Writing effective and professional design documents with the help of brand new examples

Level Up! 2nd Edition is includes all-new content, an introduction by David “God of War” Jaffe and even a brand-new chili recipe –making it an even more indispensable guide for video game designers both “in the field” and the classroom.

Grab your copy of Level Up! 2nd Edition and let’s make a game!

• Enhance your skills to grow your career as a software architect
• Design efficient software architectures using patterns and best practices
• Learn how software architecture relates to an organization as well as software development methodology

The Software Architect’s Handbook is a comprehensive guide to help developers, architects, and senior programmers advance their career in the software architecture domain. This book takes you through all the important concepts, right from design principles to different considerations at various stages of your career in software architecture.

The book begins by covering the fundamentals, benefits, and purpose of software architecture. You will discover how software architecture relates to an organization, followed by identifying its significant quality attributes. Once you have covered the basics, you will explore design patterns, best practices, and paradigms for efficient software development.

The book discusses which factors you need to consider for performance and security enhancements. You will learn to write documentation for your architectures and make appropriate decisions when considering DevOps. In addition to this, you will explore how to design legacy applications before understanding how to create software architectures that evolve as the market, business requirements, frameworks, tools, and best practices change over time.

By the end of this book, you will not only have studied software architecture concepts but also built the soft skills necessary to grow in this field.

• Design software architectures using patterns and best practices
• Explore the different considerations for designing software architecture
• Discover what it takes to continuously improve as a software architect
• Create loosely coupled systems that can support change
• Understand DevOps and how it affects software architecture
• Integrate, refactor, and re-architect legacy applications

The Software Architect’s Handbook is for you if you are a software architect, chief technical officer (CTO), or senior developer looking to gain a firm grasp of software architecture.

• Unleash the power of Qt 5.11 with C++
• Build applications using Qt Widgets (C++) or Qt Quick (QML)
• Create cross-platform applications for mobile and desktop platforms with Qt 5

Qt 5.11 is an app development framework that provides a great user experience and develops full capability applications with Qt Widgets, QML, and even Qt 3D. Whether you're building GUI prototypes or fully-fledged cross-platform GUI applications with a native look and feel, Mastering Qt 5 is your fastest, easiest, and most powerful solution. This book addresses various challenges and teaches you to successfully develop cross-platform applications using the Qt framework, with the help of well-organized projects.

Working through this book, you will gain a better understanding of the Qt framework, as well as the tools required to resolve serious issues, such as linking, debugging, and multithreading. You'll start off your journey by discovering the new Qt 5.11 features, soon followed by exploring different platforms and learning to tame them. In addition to this, you'll interact with a gamepad using Qt Gamepad. Each chapter is a logical step for you to complete in order to master Qt.

By the end of this book, you'll have created an application that has been tested and is ready to be shipped.

• Create stunning UIs with Qt Widgets and Qt Quick 2
• Develop powerful, cross-platform applications with the Qt framework
• Design GUIs with the Qt Designer and build a library in it for UI previews
• Handle user interaction with the Qt signal or slot mechanism in C++
• Prepare a cross-platform project to host a third-party library
• Use the Qt Animation framework to display stunning effects
• Deploy mobile apps with Qt and embedded platforms
• Interact with a gamepad using Qt Gamepad

Mastering Qt 5 is for developers and programmers who want to build GUI-based applications. C++ knowledge is necessary, and knowing QT basics will help you get the most out of this book.

• In-depth analysis of many common object-oriented design patterns that are more suitable to Python's unique style
• Learn the latest Python syntax and libraries
• Explore abstract design patterns and implement them in Python 3.8

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a popular design paradigm in which data and behaviors are encapsulated in such a way that they can be manipulated together. This third edition of Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming fully explains classes, data encapsulation, and exceptions with an emphasis on when you can use each principle to develop well-designed software.

Starting with a detailed analysis of object-oriented programming, you will use the Python programming language to clearly grasp key concepts from the object-oriented paradigm. You will learn how to create maintainable applications by studying higher level design patterns. The book will show you the complexities of string and file manipulation, and how Python distinguishes between binary and textual data. Not one, but two very powerful automated testing systems, unittest and pytest, will be introduced in this book. You'll get a comprehensive introduction to Python's concurrent programming ecosystem.

By the end of the book, you will have thoroughly learned object-oriented principles using Python syntax and be able to create robust and reliable programs confidently.

• Implement objects in Python by creating classes and defining methods
• Grasp common concurrency techniques and pitfalls in Python 3
• Extend class functionality using inheritance
• Understand when to use object-oriented features, and more importantly when not to use them
• Discover what design patterns are and why they are different in Python
• Uncover the simplicity of unit testing and why it's so important in Python
• Explore concurrent object-oriented programming

If you're new to object-oriented programming techniques, or if you have basic Python skills and wish to learn in depth how and when to correctly apply OOP in Python, this is the book for you. If you are an object-oriented programmer for other languages or seeking a leg up in the new world of Python 3.8, you too will find this book a useful introduction to Python. Previous experience with Python 3 is not necessary.

Think of Operators as site reliability engineers in software. They work by extending the Kubernetes control plane and API, helping systems integrators, cluster administrators, and application developers reliably deploy and manage key services and components. Using real-world examples, authors Jason Dobies and Joshua Wood demonstrate how to use Operators today and how to create Operators for your applications with the Operator Framework and SDK.

• Learn how to establish a Kubernetes cluster and deploy an Operator
• Examine a range of Operators from usage to implementation
• Explore the three pillars of the Operator Framework: the Operator SDK, the Operator Lifecycle Manager, and Operator Metering
• Build Operators from the ground up using the Operator SDK
• Build, package, and run an Operator in development, testing, and production phases
• Learn how to distribute your Operator for installation on Kubernetes clusters

“The cool thing about this book is that it’s great for keeping the programming process fresh. The book helps you to continue to grow and clearly comes from people who have been there.”

“I found this book to be a great mix of solid advice and wonderful analogies!”

“I would buy a copy, read it twice, then tell all my colleagues to run out and grab a copy. This is a book I would never loan because I would worry about it being lost.”

“The wisdom and practical experience of the authors is obvious. The topics presented are relevant and useful.... By far its greatest strength for me has been the outstanding analogies—tracer bullets, broken windows, and the fabulous helicopter-based explanation of the need for orthogonality, especially in a crisis situation. I have little doubt that this book will eventually become an excellent source of useful information for journeymen programmers and expert mentors alike.”

“This is the sort of book I will buy a dozen copies of when it comes out so I can give it to my clients.”

“Most modern books on software development fail to cover the basics of what makes a great software developer, instead spending their time on syntax or technology where in reality the greatest leverage possible for any software team is in having talented developers who really know their craft well. An excellent book.”

“Since reading this book, I have implemented many of the practical suggestions and tips it contains. Across the board, they have saved my company time and money while helping me get my job done quicker! This should be a desktop reference for everyone who works with code for a living.”

“I would like to see this issued to every new employee at my company....”

“If I’m putting together a project, it’s the authors of this book that I want. . . . And failing that I’d settle for people who’ve read their book.”

Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users. It covers topics ranging from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. Read this book, and you'll learn how to

• Fight software rot;
• Avoid the trap of duplicating knowledge;
• Write flexible, dynamic, and adaptable code;
• Avoid programming by coincidence;
• Bullet-proof your code with contracts, assertions, and exceptions;
• Capture real requirements;
• Test ruthlessly and effectively;
• Delight your users;
• Build teams of pragmatic programmers; and
• Make your developments more precise with automation.

Written as a series of self-contained sections and filled with entertaining anecdotes, thoughtful examples, and interesting analogies, The Pragmatic Programmer illustrates the best practices and major pitfalls of many different aspects of software development. Whether you're a new coder, an experienced programmer, or a manager responsible for software projects, use these lessons daily, and you'll quickly see improvements in personal productivity, accuracy, and job satisfaction. You'll learn skills and develop habits and attitudes that form the foundation for long-term success in your career. You'll become a Pragmatic Programmer.

Each recipe addresses a specific problem and includes a discussion that explains the solution and provides insight into how it works. If you’re a beginner, R Cookbook will help get you started. If you’re an intermediate user, this book will jog your memory and expand your horizons. You’ll get the job done faster and learn more about R in the process.

• Create vectors, handle variables, and perform basic functions
• Simplify data input and output
• Tackle data structures such as matrices, lists, factors, and data frames
• Work with probability, probability distributions, and random variables
• Calculate statistics and confidence intervals and perform statistical tests
• Create a variety of graphic displays
• Build statistical models with linear regressions and analysis of variance (ANOVA)
• Explore advanced statistical techniques, such as finding clusters in your data

• Discover how to build reliable applications with Apex by avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls
• Learn how to use the different asynchronous programming tools in Apex
• Profile and improve the performance of your Apex code

As applications built on the Salesforce platform are now a key part of many organizations, developers are shifting focus to Apex, Salesforce’s proprietary programming language. As a Salesforce developer, it is important to understand the range of tools at your disposal, how and when to use them, and best practices for working with Apex. Mastering Apex Programming will help you explore the advanced features of Apex programming and guide you in delivering robust solutions that scale.

This book starts by taking you through common Apex mistakes, debugging, exception handling, and testing. You'll then discover different asynchronous Apex programming options and develop custom Apex REST web services. The book shows you how to define and utilize Batch Apex, Queueable Apex, and Scheduled Apex using common scenarios before teaching you how to define, publish, and consume platform events and RESTful endpoints with Apex. Finally, you'll learn how to profile and improve the performance of your Apex application, including architecture trade-offs.

With code examples used to facilitate discussion throughout, by the end of the book, you'll have developed the skills needed to build robust and scalable applications in Apex.

• Understand common coding mistakes in Apex and how to avoid them using best practices
• Find out how to debug a Salesforce Apex application effectively
• Explore different asynchronous Apex options and their common use cases
• Discover tips to work effectively with platform events
• Develop custom Apex REST services to allow inbound integrations
• Build complex logic and processes on the Salesforce platform

This book is for Salesforce developers who are interested in mastering Apex programming skills. You’ll also find this book helpful if you’re an experienced Java or C# developer looking to switch to Apex programming for developing apps on the Salesforce platform. Basic Apex programming knowledge is essential to understand the concepts covered.

• Third edition of the bestselling, widely acclaimed R machine learning book, updated and improved for R 3.6 and beyond
• Harness the power of R to build flexible, effective, and transparent machine learning models
• Learn quickly with a clear, hands-on guide by experienced machine learning teacher and practitioner, Brett Lantz

Machine learning, at its core, is concerned with transforming data into actionable knowledge. R offers a powerful set of machine learning methods to quickly and easily gain insight from your data.

Machine Learning with R, Third Edition provides a hands-on, readable guide to applying machine learning to real-world problems. Whether you are an experienced R user or new to the language, Brett Lantz teaches you everything you need to uncover key insights, make new predictions, and visualize your findings.

This new 3rd edition updates the classic R data science book to R 3.6 with newer and better libraries, advice on ethical and bias issues in machine learning, and an introduction to deep learning. Find powerful new insights in your data; discover machine learning with R.

• Discover the origins of machine learning and how exactly a computer learns by example
• Prepare your data for machine learning work with the R programming language
• Classify important outcomes using nearest neighbor and Bayesian methods
• Predict future events using decision trees, rules, and support vector machines
• Forecast numeric data and estimate financial values using regression methods
• Model complex processes with artificial neural networks — the basis of deep learning
• Avoid bias in machine learning models
• Evaluate your models and improve their performance
• Connect R to SQL databases and emerging big data technologies such as Spark, H2O, and TensorFlow

Data scientists, students, and other practitioners who want a clear, accessible guide to machine learning with R.

• Gain a high-level overview of the Unity game engine while building your own games portfolio
• Discover best practices for implementing game animation, game physics, shaders, and effects
• Create fully featured apps, including Space shooter and a 2D adventure game, and develop AR/VR experiences and Game AI agents

The Unity game engine, used by millions of developers around the world, is popular thanks to its features that enable you to create games and 3D apps for desktop and mobile platforms in no time. With Unity 2020, this state-of-the-art game engine introduces enhancements in Unity tooling, editor, and workflow, among many other additions.

The third edition of this Unity book is updated to the new features in Unity 2020 and modern game development practices. Once you’ve quickly got to grips with the fundamentals of Unity game development, you’ll create a collection, a twin-stick shooter, and a 2D adventure game. You’ll then explore advanced topics such as machine learning, virtual reality, and augmented reality by building complete projects using the latest game tool kit. As you implement concepts in practice, this book will ensure that you come away with a clear understanding of Unity game development.

By the end of the book, you'll have a firm foundation in Unity development using C#, which can be applied to other engines and programming languages. You'll also be able to create several real-world projects to add to your professional game development portfolio.

• Learn the fundamentals of game development, including GameObjects, components, and scenes
• Develop a variety of games in C# and explore the brand new sprite shaping tool for Unity 3D and 2D games
• Handle player controls and input functionality for your Unity games
• Implement AI techniques such as pathfinding, finite state machines, and machine learning using Unity ML-Agents
• Create virtual and augmented reality games using UnityVR and AR Foundation
• Explore the cutting-edge features of Unity 2020 and how they can be used to improve your games

If you are a game developer or programmer new to Unity and want to get up and running with the game engine in a hands-on way, this book is for you. Unity developers looking to work on practical projects to explore new features in Unity 2020 will find this book useful. A basic understanding of C# programming is required.

Every lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Godot engine programming tasks and techniques

Practical, hands-on examples show you how to apply what you learn

Quizzes and exercises help you test your knowledge and stretch your skills

Notes and tips point out shortcuts, solutions, and problems to avoid

Learn how to…

· Install Godot, create projects, and use the visual editor

· Master the scene system, and organize games with Scene Trees

· Create 2D graphics, 3D graphics, and animations

· Use basic and advanced scripting to perform many game tasks

· Process player input from any source

· Control game flow, configurations, and resources

· Maximize realism with Godot’s physics and particle systems

· Make the most of 3D shaders, materials, lighting, and shadows

· Control effects and post-processing

· Build richer, more sophisticated game universes with viewports

· Develop networked games, from concepts to communication and input

· Export games to the devices you’ve targeted

· Integrate native code, third-party APIs, and engine extensions (bonus chapter)

Python For Dummies is the quick-and-easy guide to getting the most out of this robust program. This hands-on book will show you everything you need to know about building programs, debugging code, and simplifying development, as well as defining what actions it can perform. You’ll wrap yourself around all of its advanced features and become an expert Python user in no time. This guide gives you the tools you need to:

• Master basic elements and syntax
• Document, design, and debug programs
• Work with strings like a pro
• Direct a program with control structures
• Integrate integers, complex numbers, and modules
• Build lists, stacks, and queues
• Create an organized dictionary
• Handle functions, data, and namespace
• Construct applications with modules and packages
• Call, create, extend, and override classes
• Access the Internet to enhance your library
• Understand the new features of Python 2.5

Packed with critical idioms and great resources to maximize your productivity, Python For Dummies is the ultimate one-stop information guide. In a matter of minutes you’ll be familiar with Python’s building blocks, strings, dictionaries, and sets; and be on your way to writing the program that you’ve dreamed about!

If you want to learn to speak the world’s most popular programming language like a native, Java For Dummies is your ideal companion. With a focus on reusing existing code, it quickly and easily shows you how to create basic Java objects, work with Java classes and methods, understand the value of variables, learn to control program flow with loops or decision-making statements, and so much more!

Java is everywhere, runs on almost any computer, and is the engine that drives the coolest applications. Written for anyone who’s ever wanted to tackle programming with Java but never knew quite where to begin, this bestselling guide is your ticket to success! Featuring updates on everything you’ll encounter in Java 9—and brimming with tons of step-by-step instruction—it’s the perfect resource to get you up and running with Java in a jiffy!

• Discover the latest features and tools in Java 9
• Learn to combine several smaller programs to create a bigger program
• Create basic Java objects and reuse code
• Confidently handle exceptions and events

If you’re ready to jump into Java, this bestselling guide will help keep your head above water!

• Prepare your company to navigate the rapidly-moving business world
• Enhance Agility in every component of your organization
• Build a framework that meets the unique requirements of your enterprise

The biggest challenge enterprises face today is dealing with fast-paced change in all spheres of business. Enterprise Agility shows how an enterprise can address this challenge head on and thrive in the dynamic environment. Avoiding the mechanistic construction of existing enterprises that focus on predictability and certainty, Enterprise Agility delivers practical advice for responding and adapting to the scale and accelerating pace of disruptive change in the business environment.

Agility is a fundamental shift in thinking about how enterprises work to effectively deal with disruptive changes in the business environment. The core belief underlying agility is that enterprises are open and living systems. These living systems, also known as complex adaptive systems (CAS), are ideally suited to deal with change very effectively.

Agility is to enterprises what health is to humans. There are some foundational principles that can be broadly applied, but the definition of healthy is very specific to each individual. Enterprise Agility takes a similar approach with regard to agility: it suggests foundational practices to improve the overall health of the body—culture, mindset, and leadership—and the health of its various organs: people, process, governance, structure, technology, and customers. The book also suggests a practical framework to create a plan to enhance agility.

• Drive agility-oriented change across the enterprise
• Understand why agility matters (more than ever) to modern enterprises
• Adopt and influence an Agile mindset in your teams and in your organization
• Understand the concept of a CAS and how to model enterprise and leadership behaviors on CAS characteristics to enhance enterprise agility
• Understand and convey the differences between Agile and true enterprise agility
• Create an enterprise-specific action plan to enhance agility
• Become a champion for enterprise agility
• Recognize the advantages and challenges of distributed teams, and how Agile ways of working can remedy the rough spots
• Enable and motivate your IT partners to adopt Agile ways of working

Enterprise Agility is a tool for anyone with the motivation to influence outcomes in an enterprise, who aspires to improve Agility. Readers from the following backgrounds will benefit: chief executive officer, chief information officer, people/human resource director, information technology director, head of change program, head of transformation, and Agile coach/consultant.

• Understand effective synchronization strategies for faster processing using GPUs
• Write parallel processing scripts with PyCuda and PyOpenCL
• Learn to use the CUDA libraries like CuDNN for deep learning on GPUs

GPUs are proving to be excellent general purpose-parallel computing solutions for high performance tasks such as deep learning and scientific computing.

This book will be your guide to getting started with GPU computing. It will start with introducing GPU computing and explain the architecture and programming models for GPUs. You will learn, by example, how to perform GPU programming with Python, and you’ll look at using integrations such as PyCUDA, PyOpenCL, CuPy and Numba with Anaconda for various tasks such as machine learning and data mining. Going further, you will get to grips with GPU work flows, management, and deployment using modern containerization solutions. Toward the end of the book, you will get familiar with the principles of distributed computing for training machine learning models and enhancing efficiency and performance.

By the end of this book, you will be able to set up a GPU ecosystem for running complex applications and data models that demand great processing capabilities, and be able to efficiently manage memory to compute your application effectively and quickly.

• Utilize Python libraries and frameworks for GPU acceleration
• Set up a GPU-enabled programmable machine learning environment on your system with Anaconda
• Deploy your machine learning system on cloud containers with illustrated examples
• Explore PyCUDA and PyOpenCL and compare them with platforms such as CUDA, OpenCL and ROCm.
• Perform data mining tasks with machine learning models on GPUs
• Extend your knowledge of GPU computing in scientific applications

Data Scientist, Machine Learning enthusiasts and professionals who wants to get started with GPU computation and perform the complex tasks with low-latency. Intermediate knowledge of Python programming is assumed.

Written by Mark Lutz—widely recognized as the world’s leading Python trainer—Python Pocket Reference is an ideal companion to O’Reilly’s classic Python tutorials, Learning Python and Programming Python, also written by Mark.

This fifth edition covers:

• Built-in object types, including numbers, lists, dictionaries, and more
• Statements and syntax for creating and processing objects
• Functions and modules for structuring and reusing code
• Python’s object-oriented programming tools
• Built-in functions, exceptions, and attributes
• Special operator overloading methods
• Widely used standard library modules and extensions
• Command-line options and development tools
• Python idioms and hints
• The Python SQL Database API

Machine learning offers immense opportunities, and Introducing Machine Learning delivers practical knowledge to make the most of them. Dino and Francesco Esposito start with a quick overview of the foundations of artificial intelligence and the basic steps of any machine learning project. Next, they introduce Microsoft’s powerful ML.NET library, including capabilities for data processing, training, and evaluation. They present families of algorithms that can be trained to solve real-life problems, as well as deep learning techniques utilizing neural networks. The authors conclude by introducing valuable runtime services available through the Azure cloud platform and consider the long-term business vision for machine learning.

· 14-time Microsoft MVP Dino Esposito and Francesco Esposito help you

· Explore what’s known about how humans learn and how intelligent software is built

· Discover which problems machine learning can address

· Understand the machine learning pipeline: the steps leading to a deliverable model

· Use AutoML to automatically select the best pipeline for any problem and dataset

· Master ML.NET, implement its pipeline, and apply its tasks and algorithms

· Explore the mathematical foundations of machine learning

· Make predictions, improve decision-making, and apply probabilistic methods

· Group data via classification and clustering

· Learn the fundamentals of deep learning, including neural network design

· Leverage AI cloud services to build better real-world solutions faster

About This Book

· For professionals who want to build machine learning applications: both developers who need data science skills and data scientists who need relevant programming skills

· Includes examples of machine learning coding scenarios built using the ML.NET library

• Get up to speed with the basics of Dart programming and delve into Flutter development
• Understand native SDK and third-party libraries for building Android and iOS applications using Flutter
• Package and deploy your Flutter apps to achieve native-like performance

Google Flutter is a cross-platform mobile framework that makes it easy to write high-performance apps for Android and iOS. This book will help you get to grips with the basics of the Flutter framework and the Dart programming language.

Starting from setting up your development environment, you’ll learn to design the UI and add user input functions. You'll explore the navigator widget to manage app routes and learn to add transitions between screens. The book will even guide you through developing your own plugin and later, you’ll discover how to structure good plugin code. Using the Google Places API, you'll also understand how to display a map in the app and add markers and interactions to it. You’ll then learn to improve the user experience with features such as map integrations, platform-specific code with native languages, and personalized animation options for designing intuitive UIs.

The book follows a practical approach and gives you access to all relevant code files hosted at github.com/PacktPublishing/Flutter-for-Beginners. This will help you access a variety of examples and prepare your own bug-free apps, ready to deploy on the App Store and Google Play Store.

By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with Dart programming and have the skills to develop your own mobile apps or build a career as a Dart and Flutter app developer.

• Understand the fundamentals of the Dart programming language
• Explore the core concepts of the Flutter UI and how it compiles for multiple platforms
• Develop Flutter plugins and widgets and understand how to structure plugin code appropriately
• Style your Android and iOS apps with widgets and learn the difference between stateful and stateless widgets
• Add animation to your UI using Flutter's AnimatedBuilder component
• Integrate your native code into your Flutter codebase for native app performance

This book is for developers looking to learn Google's revolutionary framework Flutter from scratch. No prior knowledge of Flutter or Dart is required; however, basic knowledge of any programming language will be helpful.

Programming Sudoku provides you with great approaches to building and solving Sudoku and other similar puzzles. Using ingenious artificial intelligence and game theory techniques, you’ll learn how to get a computer to solve these puzzles for you.

This is a fun, intriguing read, whether you're a novice or advanced programmer. It acknowledges the .NET platform as a base, but you’ll find this book interesting whatever your programming background. The core techniques in the book enable you to solve Sudoku on any programming platform.

• Learn the basics of drawing along with fundamentals of shading to create amazing objects.
• Get in-depth knowledge of lighting and materials to make realistic objects.
• Understand the fundamentals of model loading and cube mapping.

Learn OpenGL is your one-stop reference guide to get started with OpenGL and C++ for game development. From setting up the development environment to getting started with basics of drawing and shaders, along with concepts such as lighting, model loading, and cube mapping, this book will get you up to speed with the fundamentals.

You begin by setting up your development environment to use OpenGL on Windows and macOS. With GLFW and GLEW set up using absolute and relative linking done, you are ready to setup SDL and SFML for both the operating systems.

Now that your development environment is set up, you'll learn to draw using simple shaders as well as make the shader more adaptable and reusable. Then we move on to more advanced topics like texturing your objects with images and transforming your objects using translate, rotate and scale.

With these concepts covered, we'll move on to topics like lighting to enable you to incorporate amazing dynamic lights in your game world.

By the end of the book, you'll learn about model loading, right from setting up ASSIMP to learning about the model class and loading a model in your game environment. We will conclude by understanding cube mapping to bring advance worlds to your game.

• Set up GLFW and GLEW on Windows and macOS with absolute, relative Linking
• Set up SDL and SFML on your system using absolute and relative Linking
• Draw using the simple shaders
• Create a camera and learn to populate your game world with objects
• Learn about color and lighting concepts to create an amazing game world
• Understand model loading and cube mapping to advance your game

This book is targeted towards anyone and everyone who is interested in creating games, learning how game engines work and most importantly for anyone who is interested in learning OpenGL. The ideal reader for this book would be anyone with a passion for learning game development or looking out for an OpenGL reference guide. The skills that you'll learn in this book will be applicable to all your game development needs. You'll require a strong foundation in C++ to understand and apply the concepts of this book.

The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set, 3/e

ISBN: 0321751043

This multivolume work on the analysis of algorithms has long been recognized as the definitive description of classical computer science. The three complete volumes published to date already comprise a unique and invaluable resource in programming theory and practice. Countless readers have spoken about the profound personal influence of Knuth's writings. Scientists have marveled at the beauty and elegance of his analysis, while practicing programmers have successfully applied his "cookbook" solutions to their day-to-day problems. All have admired Knuth for the breadth, clarity, accuracy, and good humor found in his books.

To begin the fourth and later volumes of the set, and to update parts of the existing three, Knuth has created a series of small books called fascicles, which will be published t regular intervals. Each fascicle will encompass a section or more of wholly new or evised material. Ultimately, the content of these fascicles will be rolled up into the comprehensive, final versions of each volume, and the enormous undertaking that began in 1962 will be complete.

Volume 1, Fascicle 1

This first fascicle updates The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1, Third Edition: Fundamental Algorithms, and ultimately will become part of the fourth edition of that book. Specifically, it provides a programmer's introduction to the long-awaited MMIX, a RISC-based computer that replaces the original MIX, and describes the MMIX assembly language. The fascicle also presents new material on subroutines, coroutines, and interpretive routines.

Ebook (PDF version) produced by Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP),http://msp.org