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Have you ever wanted to create your own computer software, app, or website? In this day and age where technology is integrated into the foundation of our lives, have you ever thought to yourself, “How do I create the next WhatsApp?” or “How do I create the next Facebook?”

Natural Language Processing in Action is your guide to building machines that can read and interpret human language. In it, you'll use readily available Python packages to capture the meaning in text and react accordingly. The book expands traditional NLP approaches to include neural networks, modern deep learning algorithms, and generative techniques as you tackle real-world problems like extracting dates and names, composing text, and answering free-form questions.

Go in Action is for any intermediate-level developer who has experience with other programming languages and wants a jump-start in learning Go or a more thorough understanding of the language and its internals. This book provides an intensive, comprehensive, and idiomatic view of Go. It focuses on the specification and implementation of the language, including topics like language syntax, Go's type system, concurrency, channels, and testing.

Do you ever look at the clock and wonder where the day went? You spent all this time at work and didn't come close to getting everything done. Tomorrow try something new. Use the Pomodoro technique to work in focused sprints throughout the day. In Pomodoro Technique Illustrated, Staffan Noteberg shows you how to organize your work to accomplish more in less time. There's no need for expensive software or fancy planners. You can get started with nothing more than a piece of paper, a pencil, and a kitchen timer.

Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node teaches you how to develop web applications using the MEAN stack.

The Art of Unit Testing, Second Edition guides you step-by-step from writing your first simple tests to developing robust test sets that are maintainable, readable, and trustworthy. You'll master the foundational ideas and quickly move to high-value subjects like mocks, stubs, and isolation, including frameworks such as Moq, FakeItEasy, and Typemock Isolator.

When Derek Yu released Spelunky for free in 2008, his roguelike-inspired platformer took the indie game community by storm with its combination of classic platform mechanics, extreme difficulty, and random level generation. Four years later, Spelunky's HD remake went on to become PC Gamer's Game of the Year and earn perfect scores from Polygon and Eurogamer. But how is a "perfect" game made?

Is your team agile and self-organizing? What is your role as a leader? Team leadership is the missing link that connects all the buzzwords you hear these days to the real world where actual people have to learn, implement, and mainly, believe and push for this stuff to happen. This audiobook is meant for software team leaders, architects, and anyone with a leadership role in the software business. Hear advice from real team leaders, consultants, and everyday gurus of management.

Russell Scott provides a thorough how-to guide in "Digital Products Creation Formula: The Blueprint to Creating Digital Products", which will help you turn your successful digital product ideas into reality. This audiobook, which combines strategic insight with practical counsel in a step-by-step manner, demystifies the intricate process of digital product development, making it ideal for novices, seasoned producers, and entrepreneurs alike.

Focusing on the basics, this book will provide clear and beneficial information about Microsoft Excel, including time-saving tips such as how to enter data more efficiently, how to manipulate cells or worksheets, how to switch between absolute and relative cell references with just a few simple keystrokes, and more.

This book explores the principles, practices, and tools of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) to help organizations build a seamless software delivery pipeline. It covers everything from the fundamental concepts and benefits of CI/CD to the practical implementation and best practices. The book starts by introducing CI/CD and its importance in modern software development. It explains how CI/CD addresses challenges such as manual processes, deployment delays, and quality issues.

A guide to navigating the messiness of software development process change, dealing with all the legacy organizational elements, and focusing on increasing business agility.

The SEO industry and the rules for ranking on Google have completely changed in the past couple of years. It's changed due to a new set of rules that have emerged in the wake of Google's World Wide Web war that it waged in the silent digital abyss of cyberspace. This war that Google waged was against spammers and other websites that were bending and breaking the SEO rules to bully their ways to the top of search engine results pages (SERPs).

You're already a great coder, but awesome coding chops aren't always enough to get you through your toughest projects. You need these 50+ nuggets of wisdom. Veteran programmers: reinvigorate your passion for developing web applications. New programmers: here's the guidance you need to get started. With this book, you'll think about your job in new and enlightened ways.

C# in Depth, Third Edition updates the best-selling second edition to cover the features of C# 5, including the challenges of writing maintainable asynchronous code. It preserves the uniquely insightful look into the tricky areas and dusty corners of C# that only expert Jon Skeet can provide.

This audiobook is a highlight reel of content revolving around the software developer's life.

In the emerging age of human-machine collaboration, the skill of prompting is quickly becoming as fundamental as reading and writing. Yet for many, interacting with AI still feels confusing, hit-or-miss, or overwhelming. If you’ve ever typed into ChatGPT or another AI tool and felt like you weren’t getting the answers you hoped for, the missing ingredient isn’t better software—it’s better prompts.

In Equity by Design: Implementing Algorithmic Bias Audits in Public Services, author Sage Ellison addresses the critical issues surrounding algorithmic decision-making in public services that can reinforce inequality and discrimination. This guide is designed for those feeling disconnected from technology's impact on their communities and aims to empower listeners to confront bias in algorithms effectively.

In today’s fast-moving world, AI isn’t just for tech experts or data scientists—it’s for you. Whether you’re a solo entrepreneur, busy professional, creative thinker, or total beginner, this book will show you how to use ChatGPT and AI tools to save time, boost productivity, and get more done than ever before.

Velocity Money: Crypto, Karma, and the End of Traditional Economics explores how cryptocurrency enables a new economic paradigm built on speed, transparency, and purpose. Crypto is reframed as “velocity money”—value that moves instantly and intelligently, unlocking global participation and 24/7 productivity. But speed alone isn't enough. The book introduces karma economics, where value is based on contribution, not accumulation, and proposes replacing GDP with Gross Domestic Requirement (GDR)—a real-time measure of what people need to live well.