Get more done faster with jQuery and JavaScript! Brad Dayley’s jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook brings together 100+ instantly useful code snippets and idioms for performing a wide spectrum of common web application tasks. This hands-on guide gets straight to the essence of what’s new and important in...

This is a book about programming cross-platform mobile applications using Apache Cordova 3 (with  some coverage of PhoneGap 3 as well). In Apache Cordova 3, the Cordova development team made  some dramatic changes in the framework, and this book is what you need to understand what Cordova 3  is all about. The book can be...

Apple has lavished iOS with a rich and evolving library of 2D drawing utilities. These APIs include powerful features like transparency, path-based drawing, antialiasing, and more. They offer low-level, lightweight, easy-to-integrate drawing routines that you can harness to build images, to display views, and to print.

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Zed Shaw has perfected the world's best system for learning Python. Follow it and you will succeed-just like the hundreds of thousands of beginners Zed has taught to date! You bring the discipline,...

Using WebGL®, you can create sophisticated interactive 3D graphics inside web browsers, without plug-ins. WebGL makes it possible to build a new generation of 3D web games, user interfaces, and information visualization solutions that will run on any standard web browser, and on PCs, smartphones, tablets, game...

The C++11 standard allows programmers to express ideas more clearly, simply, and directly, and to write faster, more efficient code. Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer and original implementer of C++, thoroughly covers the details of this language and its use in his definitive reference, The C++ Programming Language,...

Get Started Fast with iOS 7 Core Data App Development
Covers iOS 7 and Xcode 5

This is the first Core Data book to fully reflect Apple’s latest platform innovations, including its dramatic  recent improvements to iCloud support. Hands-on from start to finish, it teaches you step-by-step as you create...

Covers iOS 7 and Xcode 5

Learning iOS Developmentis the perfect first book for every new iOS 7 developer. It delivers  a complete foundation for iOS development, including an introduction to the Objective-C language, Xcode development tools, best-practice user interface development, and best practices for...

Large-scale data analysis is now vitally important to virtually every business. Mobile and social technologies are generating massive datasets;...

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This book tells a story. The story concerns the concepts, ideas, methods and results fundamental to computer science. It is not specifically about computer technology, nor is it about computer...

A completely revised edition of this accessible guide to LATEX document preparation, bringing it up to date with the latest releases and Web ad PC based developments. A Guide to LATEX covers the basics as well as advanced LATEX topics and contains numerous practical examples and handy tips for avoiding problems. It covers the latest LATEX...