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You'd like to estimate your project's cost or schedule accurately. So far, none of your approaches have worked. It's time to consider how you can create an accurate estimate. You might not be able to develop an estimate at the beginning of a project that is good until the end. Few project teams can. Instead, learn a number of ways to see your project and how to address your uncertainties in ways your managers will accept.

If you want to learn how to program in Python, but don't know where to start read on. Knowing where to start when learning a new skill can be a challenge, especially when the topic seems so vast. There can be so much information available that you can't even decide where to start. Or worse, you start down the path of learning and quickly discover too many concepts, commands, and nuances that aren't explained.

In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government. But this is the first book about how the internet is transforming the nature of our collective intelligence.

Master the most popular programming language in the world. Learn how to bring websites to life with the power of JavaScript, add dynamic interactivity and rich animations to otherwise dull webpages, all with the versatile programming language that builds apps, websites, and more!

How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations? In this eye-opening book, Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman provide a unique overview of this topic—discussing everything from the likely evolution of national grids to the effect those changes will have on the day-to-day lives of developers.

Dive into a future of work where technology empowers everyone to be a creator and builder with All Hands on Tech. This pivotal book offers a comprehensive look into the role of citizen developers—business domain experts who are driving IT-enabled innovation using technology previously reserved for professional technologists. Through case studies of citizens and citizen-enabled enterprises, the authors demonstrate how emerging technology bestows unprecedented power on these individuals and unprecedented value on the organizations that channel their efforts.

The intersection of the customer, user, and technology is at the heart of this concise guidebook for developing easy-to-use software. In Easy to Use 2.0, Sean Van Tyne expands on his previous edition, taking the complex topic of agile development for enterprise software and making it easy to understand and easy to implement. Easy to Use 2.0 is an easy-to-use guide to creating simple yet effective enterprise applications.

Updated for the most recent Google algorithm changes, SEO Made Simple is today's top-selling SEO guide. The fifth edition is not just last year's guide with a new cover, but completely revamped to address the strategies needed for top rankings - a tell-all search engine optimization guide for anyone trying to reach the highly coveted number-one ranking on Google for their website, blog, or video (5th edition).

You can't afford to make every mistake yourself! Software Development Pearls helps you improve faster and bypass much of the pain by learning from others who have already climbed the learning curve. Drawing on 25-plus years of helping software teams succeed, Karl Wiegers has crystallized 60 concise, practical lessons for all your projects, regardless of your role, industry, technology, or methodology.

Agile Project Management For Dummies introduces you to the planning and execution approaches that can help you complete projects more quickly, with higher quality and using fewer resources. For companies in any industry―not just software development―agile project management reduces waste and increases transparency, while addressing customers' ever-changing requirements. You'll learn all the important terms, tools, and concepts, so you can infuse agility into your projects right away.

Are you fascinated by artificial intelligence but overwhelmed by complex jargon or unsure where to start? You're not alone—and this guide is here to help. Whether you're exploring AI to boost your career, optimize your business, or simply stay ahead of the curve, Launch into AI Mastery offers a beginner-friendly roadmap designed for adults with busy schedules and no technical background.

This comprehensive guide walks listeners through the entire process of getting and keeping a writing job in the games industry. It outlines exactly what a beginner needs to know about education requirements, finding opportunities, applying for roles, and acing studio interviews. Professional writers will learn how to navigate studio hierarchies, transfer roles and companies, work overseas, and keep developing their careers. This book will be of great interest to all beginner and aspiring games writers and narrative designers, as well as more experienced writers looking to hone their skills.

Are your product, marketing, and sales teams struggling to sing the same tune? The Product Momentum Gap is the handbook for leaders who aspire to create a symphony of success. In its audio, you’ll uncover the transformative power of the Product VCP (Value Creation Plan), a comprehensive blueprint for aligning your teams in creating genuine value for the customer.

Today's tech unicorns develop software differently. They've developed a way of working that lets them scale like an enterprise while working like a startup. These techniques can be learned. This book takes you behind the scenes and shows you how companies like Google, Facebook, and Spotify do it. Leverage their insights, so your teams can work better together, ship higher-quality product faster, innovate more quickly, and compete with the unicorns.

You can learn the most popular frameworks, use the best programming languages, and work at the biggest tech companies, but if you cultivate bad habits, it will be hard for you to become a top developer. This book doesn't offer a straight path or pre-defined formula of success. This book is a result of a quest. A quest to uncover what habits can be cultivated to become a better software engineer.

It is November 1983 and young Billy Twist and his friends are about to discover the exciting new world of microcomputers. Billy and his friends start on their journey but run into some obstacles as they try to setup a computer gaming club. Take a trip into the 80s world of micros, 80s pop culture, and classic video games in a story for 8-bit micro fans and geeks. Billy is a typical kid growing up in the 80s - the age of the microcomputer. An age of wonder for teens and adults alike. A nostalgic story of ZX Spectrums, Commodore 64, Amstrad and Ataris.

What can this book do for you? Android: Programming Guide: Android App Development - Learn in a Day teaches you everything you need to become an Android App Developer from scratch. It explains how you can get started by installing Android Studio and learning to use the Android SDK Manager. Can you really create an app in just a day? Yes, you can!

Robotics at its best! Discover a book that tells you what you should do and how! Instead of jumping right into the instructions, this book will provide you first with all the necessary concepts that you need in order to make the learning process a whole lot easier. This way, you're sure not to get lost in confusion once you get to the more complex lessons provided in the latter chapters. Examples are provided for a more knowledgeable approach to your learning.

Instead of jumping right into the instructions, this book will provide you first with all the necessary concepts that you need to learn in order to make the learning process a whole lot easier. This way you're sure not to get lost in confusion once you get to the more complex lessons provided in the latter chapters. You will learn the designs and forms of ASP.NET, and what's more convenient than getting to know both sides?

Packed with tactical insight into the app creation process as well as strategic tips for entrepreneurs, How I Turned $430 into More Than $300,000 is more than an inspiring self-help guide. It's a blueprint for creating and sustaining a profitable, successful business.