Greg Wilson

Andy Oram

A group of computer programmers provide insights into software design and engineering.

Leading Programmers Explain How They Think

Beautiful Code

Amy Brown

Beschrijving van vijfentwintig open source applicaties.

Elegance, Evolution, and a Few Fearless Hacks

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Volume II

How to design and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them.

Teaching Tech Together

How to Teach Programming (and Other Things)

Jeremy Pierre

A Guide for Responding Wisely to Domestic Abuse in Your Church

When Home Hurts

A remote Scottish island plays host to a deadly reunion... It should be a lot of fun, meeting up for a long weekend in a rented lighthouse on a chunk of rock miles from anywhere. There will be drinks and games and all sorts of other amusements. It is ten years since the last get-together and twenty years since Nadia and her friends graduated from university. But not everything goes according to plan. One of the group has a more sinister agenda and, as events begin to spiral out of control, it becomes clear that not everyone will get off the island alive...

Murder at Flaxton Isle

Murder At Flaxton Isle

Many claims are made about how certain tools, technologies, and practices improve software development. But which claims are verifiable, and which are merely wishful thinking? In this book, leading thinkers such as Steve McConnell, Barry Boehm, and Barbara Kitchenham offer essays that uncover the truth and unmask myths commonly held among the software development community. Their insights may surprise you. Are some programmers really ten times more productive than others? Does writing tests first help you develop better code faster? Can code metrics predict the number of bugs in a piece of software? Do design patterns actually make better software? What effect does personality have on pair programming? What matters more: how far apart people are geographically, or how far apart they are in the org chart? Contributors include: Jorge Aranda Tom Ball Victor R. Basili Andrew Begel Christian Bird Barry Boehm Marcelo Cataldo Steven Clarke Jason Cohen Robert DeLine Madeline Diep Hakan Erdogmus Michael Godfrey Mark Guzdial Jo E. Hannay Ahmed E. Hassan Israel Herraiz Kim Sebastian Herzig Cory Kapser Barbara Kitchenham Andrew Ko Lucas Layman Steve McConnell Tim Menzies Gail Murphy Nachi Nagappan Thomas J. Ostrand Dewayne Perry Marian Petre Lutz Prechelt Rahul Premraj Forrest Shull Beth Simon Diomidis Spinellis Neil Thomas Walter Tichy Burak Turhan Elaine J. Weyuker Michele A. Whitecraft Laurie Williams Wendy M. Williams Andreas Zeller Thomas Zimmermann

What Really Works, and Why We Believe It

Making Software

Maya Gans

Toby Hodges

JavaScript is the native language of the Internet. Originally created to make web pages more dynamic, it is now used for software projects of all kinds, including scientific visualization and data services. However, most data scientists have little or no experience with JavaScript, and most introductions to the language are written for people who want to build shopping carts rather than share maps of coral reefs. This book will introduce you to JavaScript's power and idiosyncrasies and guide you through the key features of the language and its tools and libraries. The book places equal focus on client- and server-side programming, and shows readers how to create interactive web content, build and test data services, and visualize data in the browser. Topics include: The core features of modern JavaScript Creating templated web pages Making those pages interactive using React Data visualization using Vega-Lite Using Data-Forge to wrangle tabular data Building a data service with Express Unit testing with Mocha All of the material is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International license (CC-BY-NC-4.0) and is included in the book's companion website at http://js4ds.org . Maya Gans is a freelance data scientist and front-end developer by way of quantitative biology. Toby Hodges is a bioinformatician turned community coordinator who works at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Greg Wilson co-founded Software Carpentry, and is now part of the education team at RStudio

JavaScript for Data Science

Meeting anyone is hard, but by using the Internet, that process is made a lot easier. Gregory proves that you don't have to be an intellectual or have extreme computer knowledge to learn how to meet people on the Internet. You do have to take the first step and get a computer. If you already have a computer, then this book will help you to tap into the power of the Internet. The Internet is such an amazing place to meet people. A lot of people don't even realize that you can do practically everything from your computer by surfing the Internet. I've been working on the computer since I was in High School. Since I've been cruising the Internet for a while, people always ask me how I could pick up a lot of people. Most guys that I talk to seem to have bad luck at meeting people on the Internet. Problems with how to get started, where to go, and countless other issues lead quickly to frustration. I've solved these problems and made it easy for anyone to understand. When I decided to write my book to help a lot of my friends, I wanted to write the book so that anyone could use the power of the Internet. I've achieved this goal by documenting many of the features of the Internet that anyone can use to their own advantage. I've made some really good friends by using the Internet that I would never even have met under other circumstances. So why not let everyone enjoy the power of cruising the Internet? That's where my book comes into play. Instead of answering countless questions about computers and the Internet, I can tell my friends about my comprehensive book that explains the culture of the Internet. By learning from my years of experience on the computer, people will be able to read my book and learn how to cruise the Internet. There are many techniques for cruising the Internet that most people don't even know about. Working in the computer industry keeps me up to date on the latest technology. As I was writing the book, a lot of considerations came into my mind. The right computer, Internet access, and countless other issues to work out. I've outlined some really inexpensive ways to get access to the Internet. Not only will you be able to get free Internet access, but you can also learn how to talk on the Internet and save yourself a huge long distance phone bill. All of the knowledge I have gotten about the Internet has been from gathering information from years of experience. All of that knowledge will be shared with you in my book. The Art Of Internet Cruising talks about meeting people by using a computer. Its hard to meet partners in the real world. By looking at my experiences, you can see later how much the Internet has helped me develop a style of cruising that I like to refer to as "Cyber Cruising". I've shared so much knowledge with friends and people from work that I feel that everyone should know what the Internet can do for them. Image having the power to go to 10 bars all at once. You're chances for meeting a someone would be greatly improved. Well, in the real world, we can't be at more than one place at a time. But on the Internet, you can visit any number of chats at the same time. So you'll get the feel of really using your computer power. Speaking of computer power, the book will also lead you through the process of deciding what type of computer to buy. When you buy a computer, you will need to determine the amount of memory, hard drive space, hardware, software, modem, and a lot of other things to go along with the computer. We'll take a look at all of the requirements that you're personal computer should have for getting the most out of your Internet experience. Once you have a computer, the next step is to get an Internet Service Provider. Internet Service Providers

A Guide for Cruising the Internet from an Adult Perspective

The Art of Internet Cruising

A remote island in the south pacific plays host to a dozen strangers. One of them is a murderer. An advertisement in a newspaper brings a disparate group of people to a tropical paradise. They will live together for a year, work and build a community, and film everything that happens for a documentary that will only see the light of day at the end of the trip. Almost at once, things begin to go wrong. They are meant to be strangers, but some of them have met before. They are meant to receive regular visits by the company funding the documentary, but nobody ever comes. And their only link with the outside world - a small portable radio transmitter - is incapable of transmitting anything...

Murder in Paradise

Damien Irving

Kate Hertweck

Luke Johnston

Joel Ostblom

Charlotte Wickham

Writing and running software is now as much a part of science as telescopes and test tubes, but most researchers are never taught how to do either well. As a result, it takes them longer to accomplish simple tasks than it should, and it is harder for them to share their work with others than it needs to be. This book introduces the concepts, tools, and skills that researchers need to get more done in less time and with less pain. Based on the practical experiences of its authors, who collectively have spent several decades teaching software skills to scientists, it covers everything graduate-level researchers need to automate their workflows, collaborate with colleagues, ensure that their results are trustworthy, and publish what they have built so that others can build on it. The book assumes only a basic knowledge of Python as a starting point, and shows readers how it, the Unix shell, Git, Make, and related tools can give them more time to focus on the research they actually want to do. Research Software Engineering with Python can be used as the main text in a one-semester course or for self-guided study. A running example shows how to organize a small research project step by step; over a hundred exercises give readers a chance to practice these skills themselves, while a glossary defining over two hundred terms will help readers find their way through the terminology. All of the material can be re-used under a Creative Commons license, and all royalties from sales of the book will be donated to The Carpentries, an organization that teaches foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide.

Building software that makes research possible

Research Software Engineering with Python

How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual, carefully designed solutions to high-profile projects. You will be able to look over the shoulder of major coding and design experts to see problems through their eyes. This is not simply another design patterns book, or another software engineering treatise on the right and wrong way to do things. The authors think aloud as they work through their project's architecture, the tradeoffs made in its construction, and when it was important to break rules. This book contains 33 chapters contributed by Brian Kernighan, KarlFogel, Jon Bentley, Tim Bray, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Michael Feathers,Alberto Savoia, Charles Petzold, Douglas Crockford, Henry S. Warren,Jr., Ashish Gulhati, Lincoln Stein, Jim Kent, Jack Dongarra and PiotrLuszczek, Adam Kolawa, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Diomidis Spinellis, AndrewKuchling, Travis E. Oliphant, Ronald Mak, Rogerio Atem de Carvalho andRafael Monnerat, Bryan Cantrill, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, SimonPeyton Jones, Kent Dybvig, William Otte and Douglas C. Schmidt, AndrewPatzer, Andreas Zeller, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Arun Mehta, TV Raman,Laura Wingerd and Christopher Seiwald, and Brian Hayes. Beautiful Code is an opportunity for master coders to tell their story. All author royalties will be donated to Amnesty International.

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