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Introduction to Android Application Development: Android Essentials, Fourth Edition

Introduction to Android Application Development: Android Essentials, Fourth Edition

By: Joseph Annuzzi Jr.; Lauren Darcey; Shane Conder

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 03-JAN-2014

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Learn the foundations of Android application development from the experts. Introduction to Android Application Development, Fourth Edition, covers the fundamentals of Android development in a format that is suitable for both professional and classroom use. This is your start-to-finish guide to the essentials for Android development, updated for the latest Android SDK. Many chapters contain one or more sample apps demonstrating various features of the Android API, so that readers can build their skills step by step and gradually...

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Learn Android App Development

Learn Android App Development

By: Wallace Jackson

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 06-MAY-2013

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Learn Android App Development is a hands-on tutorial and useful reference. You'll quickly get up to speed and master the Android SDK and the Java that you need for your Android Apps. You will fid that Learn Android App Development is an all-in-one getting started guide to building your first Android smartphone or tablet apps! The Android SDK offers powerful features, and this book is the fastest path to mastering them—and the rest of the Andorid SDK —for programmers with some experience who are new to Android smartphone and tablet apps development. Many books introduce the Android SDK,...

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Object Oriented Programming with C++, Second Edition

Object Oriented Programming with C++, Second Edition

By: Mahesh Bhave; Sunil Patekar

Publisher: Pearson Education India

Publication Date: 15-MAY-2012

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This fully revised and indispensable edition of Object-Oriented Programming with C++ provides a sound appreciation of the fundamentals and syntax of the language, as well as of various concepts and their applicability in real-life problems. Emphasis has been laid on the reusability of code in object-oriented programming and how the concepts of class, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, friend functions, and operator overloading are all geared to make the development and maintenance of applications easy, convenient and economical. ...

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iOS App Development Portable Genius

iOS App Development Portable Genius

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 07-AUG-2012

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The essential skills and technologies needed for iOS development in one handy guide! The unprecedented popularity of iOS devices, such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, has led to a development boom. If you're eager to become part of the action, then this is the book for you! Packed with must-have information on iOS development, this handy guide covers Objective-C, Xcode, Frameworks, and sound design principles and explains how to upload an app to the app store and integrate apps with the latest advances that Apple offers developers. The featured tips and tricks will get you up and...

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CCENT Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician Study Guide: (ICND1 Exam 640-822), 2nd Edition

CCENT Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician Study Guide: (ICND1 Exam 640-822), 2nd Edition

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Publisher: Sybex

Publication Date: 04-JAN-2013

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Todd Lammle prepares you for Cisco's entry-level networking certification exam, CCENT If you're preparing for your Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) certification, CCENT: Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician Study Guide, Second Edition is the book you need. Cisco working authority Todd Lammle covers all the objectives for exam ICND1 the required exam for all CCENT candidates. It also includes useful hands-on labs and practice test questions. Prepares CCENT candidates for exam 640-822: Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 (ICND1) Expert...

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Computer Security and Cryptography

Computer Security and Cryptography

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Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Publication Date: 29-JAN-2007

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Gain the skills and knowledge needed to create effective data security systems This book updates readers with all the tools, techniques, and concepts needed to understand and implement data security systems. It presents a wide range of topics for a thorough understanding of the factors that affect the efficiency of secrecy, authentication, and digital signature schema. Most importantly, readers gain hands-on experience in cryptanalysis and learn how to create effective cryptographic systems. The author contributed to the design and analysis of the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a...

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Mobile Intelligence

Mobile Intelligence

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 08-FEB-2010

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Focuses on learning patterns and knowledge from data generated by mobile users and mobile technology. Covers research and application issues in applying computational intelligence applications to mobile computing Delivers benefits to a wide range of applications Introduces the state of the art of computational intelligence to the mobile paradigm ...

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MIMO Radar Signal Processing

MIMO Radar Signal Processing

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Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press

Publication Date: 20-OCT-2008

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The first book to present a systematic and coherent picture of MIMO radars Due to its potential to improve target detection and discrimination capability, Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar has generated significant attention and widespread interest in academia, industry, government labs, and funding agencies. This important new work fills the need for a comprehensive treatment of this emerging field. Edited and authored by leading researchers in the field of MIMO radar research, this book introduces recent developments in the area of MIMO radar to stimulate new concepts,...

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Intelligent Technologies and Techniques for Pervasive Computing

Intelligent Technologies and Techniques for Pervasive Computing

By: Kostas Kolomvatsos; Christos Anagnostopoulos; Stathes Hadjiefthymiades

Publisher: IGI Global

Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013

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Pervasive computing enables users to interact with information resources in their everyday lives. The development of computational technologies that can exist in ever smaller devices while simultaneously increasing processing power allows such devices to blend seamlessly into tangible environments. Intelligent Technologies and Techniques for Pervasive Computing provides an extensive discussion of such technologies, theories and practices in an attempt to shed light on current trends and issues in the adaption of pervasive systems. Within its pages, students and practitioners of computer...

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Learning jQuery: A Hands-on Guide to Building Rich Interactive Web Front Ends

Learning jQuery: A Hands-on Guide to Building Rich Interactive Web Front Ends

By: Ralph Steyer

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 08-MAY-2013

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Get started fast with jQuery web programming The jQuery JavaScript library greatly simplifies the creation of modern, rich web applications, while seamlessly integrating with virtually all leading web development platforms and frameworks. Learning jQuery will guide you through using jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile in your own projects. One step at a time, you’ll learn how to do everything from adding simple effects through building complete rich Internet applications. This code-rich tutorial is designed for every working web developer. After clearly explaining all the basics, Ralph...

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Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything

Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything

By: Jeffrey Needham

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 06-MAY-2013

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In Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything, Jeff enlightens Fortune 500 enterprises about the Big Data ecosystem as they begin to channel their data from stranded silos into an accessible reservoir of possibility and discovery. Jeff explains where commercial supercomputing came from, where it is and its impact on the future of computing....

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How To Keep Your Job

How To Keep Your Job

By: Richard Maun

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)

Publication Date: 01-JUL-2011

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If you have a job, would you like to keep it? In these difficult and unstable times, the answer is most likely to be a resounding "YES!". This book reveals the secrets of keeping your job. It cuts to the heart of modern working life and examines the big things that trip people up and what you need to know in order to survive.You might be great at the technical side of your job, but it's no longer enough to keep you employed these days. This book is based on first-hand experience of coaching people to keep their job. ...

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Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics

Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics, Second Edition

By: Gregory Dudek; Michael Jenkin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 30-JUL-2010

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This textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students emphasizes algorithms for a range of strategies for locomotion, sensing, and reasoning. It concentrates on wheeled and legged mobile robots but discusses a variety of other propulsion systems. The new edition includes advances in robotics and intelligent machines over the last ten years, including significant coverage of SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) and multi-robot systems. It includes additional mathematical background and an extensive list of sample problems. Various mathematical techniques that were...

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Data Structures and Algorithms Using C#

Data Structures and Algorithms Using C#

By: Michael McMillan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 26-MAR-2007

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C# programmers: no more translating data structures from C++ or Java to use in your programs! Mike McMillan provides a tutorial on how to use data structures and algorithms plus the first comprehensive reference for C# implementation of data structures and algorithms found in the .NET Framework library, as well as those developed by the programmer. The approach is very practical, using timing tests rather than Big O notation to analyze the efficiency of an approach. Coverage includes arrays and array lists, linked lists, hash tables, dictionaries, trees, graphs, and sorting and searching...

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The Text Mining Handbook

The Text Mining Handbook

By: Ronen Feldman; James Sanger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 11-DEC-2006

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Text mining is a new and exciting area of computer science research that tries to solve the crisis of information overload by combining techniques from data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Similarly, link detection - a rapidly evolving approach to the analysis of text that shares and builds upon many of the key elements of text mining - also provides new tools for people to better leverage their burgeoning textual data resources. The Text Mining Handbook presents a comprehensive discussion of the state-of-the-art in...

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Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing

Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing

By: William L. Oberkampf; Christopher J. Roy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 14-OCT-2010

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Advances in scientific computing have made modelling and simulation an important part of the decision-making process in engineering, science, and public policy. This book provides a comprehensive and systematic development of the basic concepts, principles, and procedures for verification and validation of models and simulations. The emphasis is placed on models that are described by partial differential and integral equations and the simulations that result from their numerical solution. The methods described can be applied to a wide range of technical fields, from the physical sciences,...

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Getting Started with the MSP430 Launchpad

Getting Started with the MSP430 Launchpad

By: Adrian Fernandez; Dung Dang

Publisher: Newnes

Publication Date: 19-APR-2013

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This book explores the world of microcontroller development through friendly lessons and progressively challenging projects, which will have you blink LEDs, make music with buzzers & interact with different sensors like accelerometers and temperature sensors. This book is focused on the MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad Evaluation Kit, which is a complete microcontroller development platform that includes everything you need to start creating microcontroller-based projects. Many of the 25+ projects will also leverage external components, such as the highly-integrated Educational BoosterPack, which...

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Windows Server 2012 Security from End to Edge and Beyond

Windows Server 2012 Security from End to Edge and Beyond

By: Thomas W Shinder; Yuri Diogenes; Debra Littlejohn Shinder

Publisher: Syngress

Publication Date: 18-APR-2013

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Windows 8 Security from End to Edge and Beyond shows you how to architect, design, plan and deploy Windows 8 and related Microsoft security technologies in the enterprise. The book covers security technologies that apply to both client and server and enables you to identify and deploy Windows 8 security features in your systems based on different business and deployment scenarios. The book provides a single source where you can learn how to secure Windows 8 in many systems, including core, endpoint and anywhere access. Tom Shinder and Yuri Diogenes are both Microsoft employees who...

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Richtig einsteigen: Access 2013 VBA-Programmierung

Richtig einsteigen: Access 2013 VBA-Programmierung

By: Lorenz Hölscher

Publisher: Microsoft Press Deutschland

Publication Date: 02-MAY-2013

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Eine Einführung in VBA und die Möglichkeiten, Access-Datenbanken mit dieser Technologie zu entwerfen....

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UX for Lean Startups

UX for Lean Startups

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 16-MAY-2013

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Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. UX expert Laura Klein shows you what it takes to gather valuable input from customers, build something they’ll truly love, and reduce the time it takes to get your product to market....