Ivo Balbaert

Simon St. Laurent

Programming Crystal: Create High-Performance, Safe, Concurrent Apps

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the new open source programming language Go (in its first stable and maintained release Go 1) from Google. The language is devised with Java / C#-like syntax so as to feel familiar to the bulk of programmers today, but Go code is much cleaner and simpler to read, thus increasing the productivity of developers. You will see how Go: simplifies programming with slices, maps, structs and interfaces incorporates functional programming makes error-handling easy and secure simplifies concurrent and parallel programming with goroutines and channels And you will learn how to: make use of Go's excellent standard library program Go the idiomatic way using patterns and best practices in over 225 working examples and 135 exercises This book focuses on the aspects that the reader needs to take part in the coming software revolution using Go.

A Thorough Introduction to the Go Programming Language

The Way to Go

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the new open source programming language Go (in its first stable and maintained release Go 1) from Google. The language is devised with Java / C#-like syntax so as to feel familiar to the bulk of programmers today, but Go code is much cleaner and simpler to read, thus increasing the productivity of developers. You will see how Go: simplifies programming with slices, maps, structs and interfaces incorporates functional programming makes error-handling easy and secure simplifies concurrent and parallel programming with goroutines and channels And you will learn how to: make use of Go’s excellent standard library program Go the idiomatic way using patterns and best practices in over 225 working examples and 135 exercises This book focuses on the aspects that the reader needs to take part in the coming software revolution using Go.

Discover how to use the next-generation language Red for full-stack development, from systems coding over user-interfaces to blockchain programming Key Features Explore the latest features of Red to build scalable, fast, and secure applications Learn graphical programming and build highly sophisticated reactive applications Get familiar with the specific concepts and techniques of Red development, like working with series, viewing code as data, and using dialects. Book Description A key problem of software development today is software bloat, where huge toolchains and development environments are needed in software coding and deployment. Red significantly reduces this bloat by offering a minimalist but complete toolchain. This is the first introductory book about it, and it will get you up and running with Red as quickly as possible. This book shows you how to write effective functions, reduce code redundancies, and improve code reuse. It will be helpful for new programmers who are starting out with Red to explore its wide and ever-growing package ecosystem and also for experienced developers who want to add Red to their skill set. The book presents the fundamentals of programming in Red and in-depth informative examples using a step-by-step approach. You will be taken through concepts and examples such as doing simple metaprogramming, functions, collections, GUI applications, and more. By the end of the book, you will be fully equipped to start your own projects in Red. What you will learn Set up your Red environment to achieve the highest productivity Get grounded in Red, gaining experience and insight through many examples and exercises Build simple, compact, and portable applications Analyze streams of data through Parse Compose GUI applications with View and Draw Get prepared for smart contract blockchain programming in Red Who this book is for This book is for software developers and architects who want to learn Red because of its conciseness, flexibility, and expressiveness, and more specifically for its possibilities in GUI apps and blockchain / smart contracts programming. Some knowledge of the basic concepts and experience of any programming language is assumed.

Get up and running with the Red language for full-stack development

Learn Red – Fundamentals of Red

Adrian Salceanu

Logan Kilpatrick

Get a practical overview of web development in Julia and learn how to build MVC applications with a REST API, and an interactive data dashboard using the Genie web framework Key Features A tutorial on web development from Julia expert, Ivo Balbaert and the creator of the Genie framework, Adrian Salceanu A step-by-step approach to building a complete web app with the Genie framework Develop secure and fast web apps using server-side development on Julia Book Description Julia's high-performance and scalability characteristics and its extensive number of packages for visualizing data make it an excellent fit for developing web apps, web services, and web dashboards. The two parts of this book provide complete coverage to build your skills in web development. First, you'll refresh your knowledge of the main concepts in Julia that will further be used in web development. Then, you'll use Julia's standard web packages and examine how the building blocks of the web such as TCP-IP, web sockets, HTTP protocol, and so on are implemented in Julia's standard library. Each topic is discussed and developed into code that you can apply in new projects, from static websites to dashboards. You'll also understand how to choose the right Julia framework for a project. The second part of the book talks about the Genie framework. You'll learn how to build a traditional to do app following the MVC design pattern. Next, you'll add a REST API to this project, including testing and documentation. Later, you'll explore the various ways of deploying an app in production, including authentication functionality. Finally, you'll work on an interactive data dashboard, making various chart types and filters. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build interactive web solutions on a large scale with a Julia-based web framework. What you will learn Understand how to make a web server with HTTP.jl and work with JSON data over the web Discover how to build a static website with the Franklin framework Explore Julia web development frameworks and work with them Uncover the Julia infrastructure for development, testing, package management, and deployment Develop an MVC web app with the Genie framework Understand how to add a REST API to a web app Create an interactive data dashboard with charts and filters Test, document, and deploy maintainable web applications using Julia Who this book is for This book is for beginner to intermediate-level Julia programmers who want to enhance their skills in designing and developing large-scale web applications. The book helps you adopt Genie without any prior experience with the framework. Julia programming experience and a beginner-level understanding of web development concepts are required.

A hands-on guide to high-performance server-side web development with the Julia programming language

Web Development with Julia and Genie

Leverage the functional programming and concurrency features of Rust and speed up your application developmentAbout This Book* Get started with Rust to build scalable and high performance applications* Enhance your application development skills using the power of Rust* Discover the power of Rust when developing concurrent applications for large and scalable softwareWho This Book Is ForThe book is for developers looking for a quick entry into using Rust and understanding the core features of the language. Basic programming knowledge is assumed.What You Will Learn* Set up your Rust environment to achieve the highest productivity* Bridge the performance gap between safe and unsafe languages* Use pattern matching to create flexible code* Apply generics and traits to develop widely applicable code* Organize your code in modules and crates* Build macros to extend Rust's capabilities and reach* Apply tasks to tackle problems concurrently in a distributed environmentIn DetailRust is the new, open source, fast, and safe systems programming language for the 21st century, developed at Mozilla Research, and with a steadily growing community. It was created to solve the dilemma between high-level, slow code with minimal control over the system, and low-level, fast code with maximum system control. It is no longer necessary to learn C/C++ to develop resource intensive and low-level systems applications. This book will give you a head start to solve systems programming and application tasks with Rust.We start off with an argumentation of Rust's unique place in today's landscape of programming languages. You'll install Rust and learn how to work with its package manager Cargo. The various concepts are introduced step by step: variables, types, functions, and control structures to lay the groundwork. Then we explore more structured data such as strings, arrays, and enums, and you'll see how pattern matching works.Throughout all this, we stress the unique ways of reasoning that the Rust compiler uses to produce safe code. Next we look at Rust's specific way of error handling, and the overall importance of traits in Rust code. The pillar of memory safety is treated in depth as we explore the various pointer kinds. Next, you'll see how macros can simplify code generation, and how to compose bigger projects with modules and crates. Finally, you'll discover how we can write safe concurrent code in Rust and interface with C programs, get a view of the Rust ecosystem, and explore the use of the standard library.Style and approachThe book takes a pragmatic approach, showing various methods to solve systems programming tasks with Rust and develop resource intensive and low-level systems applications.

Rust Essentials - Second Edition

Dzenan Ridjanovic

Learn to develop high performance applications with Dart 1.10About This Book• Develop apps for the modern web using Dart and HTML5• Clarify and shorten your Dart code using enums• Build a complex UI for business applications with Dart's Polymer framework, based on web componentsWho This Book Is ForIf you want to become a developer for the modern web, or wish to add Dart to your tool belt, then this book is for you. The book assumes you have basic HTML experience and know how web applications work. Some previous programming experience, preferably in a modern language like C#, Java, Python, Ruby or JavaScript, will give you a head start. You can work with Dart on your preferred platform, be it Linux, Mac OS X or Windows.What You Will Learn• Structure your code using functions, classes, generics, packages and libraries• Use the power of modern browsers to process and store data• Make games by drawing, and using audio and video in the browser• Develop an application with a model-driven and spiral-paced approach• Discover the Observatory tools for profiling memory and CPU usage of Dart programs• Store your app's data in MySQL and MongoDB through Dart• Build powerful HTML5 forms, validate and store data in local storage, and use web components to build your own user interface• Run your Dart server on an App Engine Managed VMIn DetailDart is an open source programming language for the web, developed at Google, with a steadily growing community. It is a single language for both client and server, appropriate for the full range of devices on the web – including phones, tablets, laptops, and servers. It encompasses the lessons of the last two decades of web programming.This book will give you a thorough overview of Dart, taking you through its ecosystem, syntax, and development principles.With this book, you will build web games using HTML5, audio, and video, and also dive into processing and displaying data in HTML5 forms with Dart. You will also learn how web components fit together with HTML5, and how to apply them in business web applications of the future. You will discover how to store data on the client, communicate data between client and server with JSON, and store JSON data with MongoDB and MySQL.Stop solving new challenges with the same old tools – let Dart show you a whole new way.Style and approachThis book provides you a project-based approach, with everything you need to start or enhance your career in the future of web development with Dart. It follows the spiral approach: each project builds up in successive spirals, adding new features in each step.

Learning Dart - Second Edition

If you are a Dart developer looking to sharpen your skills, and get insight and tips on how to put that knowledge into practice, then this book is for you. You should also have a basic knowledge of HTML, and how web applications with browser clients and servers work, in order to build dynamic Dart applications.

Dart Cookbook

Learn to develop high performance applications with Dart 1.10 About This Book Develop apps for the modern web using Dart and HTML5 Clarify and shorten your Dart code using enums Build a complex UI for business applications with Dart's Polymer framework, based on web components Who This Book Is For If you want to become a developer for the modern web, or wish to add Dart to your tool belt, then this book is for you. The book assumes you have basic HTML experience and know how web applications work. Some previous programming experience, preferably in a modern language like C#, Java, Python, Ruby or JavaScript, will give you a head start. You can work with Dart on your preferred platform, be it Linux, Mac OS X or Windows. What You Will Learn Structure your code using functions, classes, generics, packages and libraries Use the power of modern browsers to process and store data Make games by drawing, and using audio and video in the browser Develop an application with a model-driven and spiral-paced approach Discover the Observatory tools for profiling memory and CPU usage of Dart programs Store your app's data in MySQL and MongoDB through Dart Build powerful HTML5 forms, validate and store data in local storage, and use web components to build your own user interface Run your Dart server on an App Engine Managed VM In Detail Dart is an open source programming language for the web, developed at Google, with a steadily growing community. It is a single language for both client and server, appropriate for the full range of devices on the web – including phones, tablets, laptops, and servers. It encompasses the lessons of the last two decades of web programming. This book will give you a thorough overview of Dart, taking you through its ecosystem, syntax, and development principles. With this book, you will build web games using HTML5, audio, and video, and also dive into processing and displaying data in HTML5 forms with Dart. You will also learn how web components fit together with HTML5, and how to apply them in business web applications of the future. You will discover how to store data on the client, communicate data between client and server with JSON, and store JSON data with MongoDB and MySQL. Stop solving new challenges with the same old tools – let Dart show you a whole new way. Style and approach This book provides you a project-based approach, with everything you need to start or enhance your career in the future of web development with Dart. It follows the spiral approach: each project builds up in successive spirals, adding new features in each step.

Learning Dart

Sergey Akopkokhyants

Davy Mitchell

Master the art of designing web client and server with Google's bold and productive language – Dart About This Book Create robust applications with unit tests, documentation, and diagnostic logging Master the core Dart language, type system, and key development tools Connect to existing web services, process JSON, and create your own framework for the data display Use mixins, reflections, annotations, and other metadata programming techniques to create powerful app Who This Book Is For If you are familiar with web development and are looking to learn, or even just evaluate, Dart as a multipurpose language, this learning path is for you. No familiarity with the Dart language is assumed. For beginners, it will serve as a guide to rapidly accelerate from a novice level to the master level; for intermediate to advanced developers it will quickly fill in the gaps on Dart and can explore a range of application types and powerful packages that are demonstrated in a practical manner. What You Will Learn Handle form data and encryption Set up your Dart environment to achieve the highest productivity Run and debug the Dart server and web applications and compile them in JavaScript Work with PostgreSQL—an industry standard relational database system Create robust applications with unit tests, documentation, and diagnostic logging Develop command-line applications, and explore the key data structures and libraries Detect and use HTML5 features that will help you deliver rich, cross-platform content Demonstrate the power of Polymer web components for binding data and structuring your web pages In Detail Designed to create next generation apps, Google's Dart offers a much more robust framework and also supersedes JavaScript in several aspects. Familiar yet innovative, compact yet scalable, it blows away the accumulated JavaScript legacy limitations. Dart was designed for great tool-ability and developer productivity, allowing you to create better application faster than before. Google chose it for their billion dollar advertising business and you have its power for your projects too. The first module will introduce you the Dart language starting from its conception to its current form, and where it headed is through engaging substantial practical projects. You will be taken through building typical applications and exploring the exciting new technologies of HTML5. The second module will show you how to add internalization support to your web applications and how i18n and i10n access can be embedded into your code to design applications that can be localized easily. You will be shown how to organize client-to-server communication and how different HTML5 features can be used in Dart. Finally, this module will show you how you can store data locally, break the storage limit, and prevent security issues in your web application. The third module is a pragmatic guide that will increase your expertise in writing all kinds of applications, including web apps, scripts, and server-side apps. It provides rich insights on how to extend your Dart programming skills. Altogether, this course provides you the power to create powerful applications with Dart, without worrying about your knowledge leading to you having to make compromises to the end product! This Learning Path has been curated from three Packt products: Dart By Example By Davy Mitchell Mastering Dart By Sergey Akopkokhyants Dart Cookbook By Ivo Balbaert Style and approach This is an enticing learning path that starts from the very basics to gradually pick up pace as the story unfolds. Each topic is explained with the help of recipes that solves a real-world problem involving hands-on work thus giving you a deep insight into the world of DART.

Dart: Scalable Application Development

Crystal is for Ruby programmers who want more performance, or for developers who enjoy working in a high-level scripting environment. Crystal combines native execution speed and concurrency with Ruby-like syntax, so you will feel right at home. This book, the first available on Crystal, shows you how to write applications that have the beauty and elegance of a modern language, combined with the power of types and modern concurrency tooling. Now you can write beautiful code that runs faster, scales better, and is a breeze to deploy. Crystal is elegant to read and easy to program like Ruby, allowing full object-oriented development. Its compiler is powerful enough to nearly always infer the type of your variables. So you get the benefits of a statically typed language: more robust code, safety and execution speed, while still reaching high productivity in development. Null pointer exceptions as in JavaScript, Java or C#, are a thing of the past: Crystal annihilates them, just like Rust. Explore the building blocks and design of the language, and how you can use the Crystal tool-chain to build and manage powerful applications. Harness the power of the macro system, as well as how to work with fibers and channels, making concurrency as easy as possible. Learn how to use the Kemal web framework and access databases, and how to tap the potential of existing Crystal libraries. Find the spot that Crystal fills in today's software world with real-world examples. With Crystal, you can combine the best of both worlds: the high-level coding of dynamic languages, and the safety and blazing performance of a natively compiled language. What You Need: To develop in Crystal, you only need Crystal v 0.26 the latest version, a common text editor and a browser.

Create High-Performance, Safe, Concurrent Apps

Programming Crystal

Avik Sengupta

Malcolm Sherrington

Leverage the power of Julia to design and develop high performing programs About This Book Get to know the best techniques to create blazingly fast programs with Julia Stand out from the crowd by developing code that runs faster than your peers' code Complete an extensive data science project through the entire cycle from ETL to analytics and data visualization Who This Book Is For This learning path is for data scientists and for all those who work in technical and scientific computation projects. It will be great for Julia developers who are interested in high-performance technical computing. This learning path assumes that you already have some basic working knowledge of Julia's syntax and high-level dynamic languages such as MATLAB, R, Python, or Ruby. What You Will Learn Set up your Julia environment to achieve the highest productivity Solve your tasks in a high-level dynamic language and use types for your data only when needed Apply Julia to tackle problems concurrently and in a distributed environment Get a sense of the possibilities and limitations of Julia's performance Use Julia arrays to write high performance code Build a data science project through the entire cycle of ETL, analytics, and data visualization Display graphics and visualizations to carry out modeling and simulation in Julia Develop your own packages and contribute to the Julia Community In Detail In this learning path, you will learn to use an interesting and dynamic programming language—Julia! You will get a chance to tackle your numerical and data problems with Julia. You'll begin the journey by setting up a running Julia platform before exploring its various built-in types. We'll then move on to the various functions and constructs in Julia. We'll walk through the two important collection types—arrays and matrices in Julia. You will dive into how Julia uses type information to achieve its performance goals, and how to use multiple dispatch to help the compiler emit high performance machine code. You will see how Julia's design makes code fast, and you'll see its distributed computing capabilities. By the end of this learning path, you will see how data works using simple statistics and analytics, and you'll discover its high and dynamic performance—its real strength, which makes it particularly useful in highly intensive computing tasks. This learning path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: Getting Started with Julia by Ivo Balvaert Julia High Performance by Avik Sengupta Mastering Julia by Malcolm Sherrington Style and approach This hands-on manual will give you great explanations of the important concepts related to Julia programming.

Julia: High Performance Programming

This book is for you if you are a data scientist or working on any technical or scientific computation projects. The book assumes you have a basic working knowledge of high-level dynamic languages such as MATLAB, R, Python, or Ruby.

Getting Started with Julia

Learn dynamic programming with Julia to build apps for data analysis, visualization, machine learning, and the web Key Features Leverage Julia's high speed and efficiency to build fast, efficient applications Perform supervised and unsupervised machine learning and time series analysis Tackle problems concurrently and in a distributed environment Book Description Julia offers the high productivity and ease of use of Python and R with the lightning-fast speed of C++. There’s never been a better time to learn this language, thanks to its large-scale adoption across a wide range of domains, including fintech, biotech and artificial intelligence (AI). You will begin by learning how to set up a running Julia platform, before exploring its various built-in types. This Learning Path walks you through two important collection types: arrays and matrices. You’ll be taken through how type conversions and promotions work, and in further chapters you'll study how Julia interacts with operating systems and other languages. You’ll also learn about the use of macros, what makes Julia suitable for numerical and scientific computing, and how to run external programs. Once you have grasped the basics, this Learning Path goes on to how to analyze the Iris dataset using DataFrames. While building a web scraper and a web app, you’ll explore the use of functions, methods, and multiple dispatches. In the final chapters, you'll delve into machine learning, where you'll build a book recommender system. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be well versed with Julia and have the skills you need to leverage its high speed and efficiency for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Julia 1.0 Programming - Second Edition by Ivo Balbaert Julia Programming Projects by Adrian Salceanu What you will learn Create your own types to extend the built-in type system Visualize your data in Julia with plotting packages Explore the use of built-in macros for testing and debugging Integrate Julia with other languages such as C, Python, and MATLAB Analyze and manipulate datasets using Julia and DataFrames Develop and run a web app using Julia and the HTTP package Build a recommendation system using supervised machine learning Who this book is for If you are a statistician or data scientist who wants a quick course in the Julia programming language while building big data applications, this Learning Path is for you. Basic knowledge of mathematics and programming is a must.

Discover Julia, a high-performance language for technical computing

Julia 1.0 Programming Complete Reference Guide

Leverage the functional programming and concurrency features of Rust and speed up your application development About This Book Get started with Rust to build scalable and high performance applications Enhance your application development skills using the power of Rust Discover the power of Rust when developing concurrent applications for large and scalable software Who This Book Is For The book is for developers looking for a quick entry into using Rust and understanding the core features of the language. Basic programming knowledge is assumed. What You Will Learn Set up your Rust environment to achieve the highest productivity Bridge the performance gap between safe and unsafe languages Use pattern matching to create flexible code Apply generics and traits to develop widely applicable code Organize your code in modules and crates Build macros to extend Rust's capabilities and reach Apply tasks to tackle problems concurrently in a distributed environment In Detail Rust is the new, open source, fast, and safe systems programming language for the 21st century, developed at Mozilla Research, and with a steadily growing community. It was created to solve the dilemma between high-level, slow code with minimal control over the system, and low-level, fast code with maximum system control. It is no longer necessary to learn C/C++ to develop resource intensive and low-level systems applications. This book will give you a head start to solve systems programming and application tasks with Rust. We start off with an argumentation of Rust's unique place in today's landscape of programming languages. You'll install Rust and learn how to work with its package manager Cargo. The various concepts are introduced step by step: variables, types, functions, and control structures to lay the groundwork. Then we explore more structured data such as strings, arrays, and enums, and you'll see how pattern matching works. Throughout all this, we stress the unique ways of reasoning that the Rust compiler uses to produce safe code. Next we look at Rust's specific way of error handling, and the overall importance of traits in Rust code. The pillar of memory safety is treated in depth as we explore the various pointer kinds. Next, you'll see how macros can simplify code generation, and how to compose bigger projects with modules and crates. Finally, you'll discover how we can write safe concurrent code in Rust and interface with C programs, get a view of the Rust ecosystem, and explore the use of the standard library. Style and approach The book takes a pragmatic approach, showing various methods to solve systems programming tasks with Rust and develop resource intensive and low-level systems applications.

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