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A hands-on introduction to coding that teaches you how to program bots to do cool things in the game you love - Minecraft! This book takes the robotic "turtle" method, and extends it to the 3D, interactive world of Minecraft. You've mined for diamonds, crafted dozens of tools, and built all...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are state-of-the-art, trainable algorithms that emulate certain major aspects in the functioning of the human brain. This gives them a unique, self-training ability, the ability to formalize unclassified information and, most importantly, the ability to make...

This book teaches you how to write parallel programs for multicore machines, compute clusters, GPU accelerators, and big data map-reduce jobs, in the Java language, with the free, easy-to-use, object-oriented Parallel Java 2 Library. The book also covers how to measure the performance of...

This book introduces readers to various areas in data science and explains which methodologies work best for each, with practical examples in R, Python, and other languages. There's never been a better time to get into data science. But where do you start? Data Science is a broad field...

With nearly 400 pages of tutorials on hand this completely free eBook will give you the skills you need to learn the ins and outs of Java by developing your own Android games! From setting up your own developer environment to learning the ins and outs of the language you'll discover everything...

The number of Android devices running on Intel processors has increased since Intel and Google announced, in late 2011, that they would be working together to optimize future versions of Android for Intel Atom processors. Today, Intel processors can be found in Android smartphones and tablets...

This book is a one-stop reference guide to mindful programming and the unique challenges and opportunities that arise from x86 architectures. It compiles the best practices and procedures associated with application development for devices using Intel's popular line of microprocessors. This...

How do you make your enterprise applications or sites available on an assortment of mobile devices as well as the desktop? This hands-on guide shows you how to build HTML5 applications that will satisfy both requirements. You�ll start by learning how to use HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and related...

This unique book features advanced programming tips available nowhere else! Experienced programmers will appreciate the coding workarounds, patch fixes, and inside secrets from a variety of sources, all intended to increase C++ productivity. Each trick can save professional programmers hours of...

Remember when service-oriented architecture (SOA) was all the rage? Companies jumped in before fully understanding SOA's advantages and disadvantages, and struggled to make this complex architecture work. Today, we're poised to repeat this same experience with microservices - only this time...

Fully updated for Android 6, the goal of this book is to teach the skills necessary to develop Android based applications using the Android Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and the Android 6 Software Development Kit (SDK). Beginning with the basics, this book provides an outline...

RxJava is hot property among experienced Android developers these days, but this powerful library for handling asynchronous data in Android apps can be difficult to learn. In this O’Reilly report, mobile software engineer Matt Dupree introduces you to RxJava basics and then uses a real-world...

Machine learning techniques provide cost-effective alternatives to traditional methods for extracting underlying relationships between information and data and for predicting future events by processing existing information to train models. Efficient Learning Machines explores the major topics...

The fast-growing popularity of Android smartphones and tablets creates a huge opportunities for developers. If you're an experienced developer, you can start creating robust mobile Android apps right away with this professional guide. This book helps you learn to master the design, lifecycle...

With the increased possibilities in modern society for companies and institutions to gather data cheaply and efficiently, the subject of Data Mining has become of increasing importance. This interest has inspired a rapidly maturing research field with developments both on a theoretical, as well...

This book prepares you to take the exam for the Associate Android Developer Certification. You learn basic Android programming concepts and build a variety of apps, starting with Hello World and working your way up to apps that use content providers and loaders. You'll quickly and painlessly...

Android NDK is all about injecting high-performance and portable code into your mobile apps by exploiting the maximum speed of the device they run on. This book will show you how to create C/C++-enabled mobile applications and integrate them with Java. The books starts with teaching you how to...

This textbook examines languages and libraries for multithreaded programming. Readers learn how to create threads in Java and C++, and develop essential concurrent programming and problem-solving skills. Moreover, the textbook sets itself apart from other comparable works by helping readers to...

This book introduces the reader to the necessary programming skills necessary to develop 2D and 3D computer games. The book lists a number of common game mechanics, and illustrates through examples how these mechanics can be bound to each other to both give the required behavior and allow the...

This book teaches the basics of C++ programming in an easy-to-follow style, without assuming previous experience in any other language. A variety of examples such as game programming, club membership organization, grade tracking and grade point average calculation, make learning C++ both fun and...