Computer Programming
Programming Amazon Web Services, 1st Edition
By James Murty
With this book, you'll learn how companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to rent computing power, data storage and bandwidth on Amazon's vast network infrastructure. Programming Amazon Web Services gives developers the background an...
[Publish Date: March 2008]
Head First Programming, 1st Edition
By David Griffiths, Paul Barry
If you have little or no programming experience, this book will get you started with the core concepts of writing computer programs -- variables, decisions, loops, functions, and objects -- which apply regardless of the programming language. Learn th...
[Publish Date: November 2009]
Practical Programming--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf: An Introduction to ...
Raleigh, NC—In Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python (Pragmatic Bookshelf, $32.95 USD), the team of Jennifer Campbell, Paul Gries, Jason Montojo, and Greg Wilson present a new approach to basic computer science...
[Publish Date: June 09, 2009]
Practical Programming, 1st Edition
By Jennifer Campbell, Paul Gries, Jason Montojo, Greg Wilson
Welcome to computer science in the 21st century. Did you ever wonder how computers represent DNA? How they can download a web page containing population data and analyze it to spot trends? Or how they can change the colors in a color photograph? If...
[Publish Date: May 2009]
Masterminds of Programming--New from O'Reilly: Conversations with Creators ...
Sebastopol, CA—What does it take to create a programming language? Sir Tony Hoare, winner of an ACM Turing Award and a Kyoto Award, and a leader in research into computing algorithms and programming languages for 50 years, wrote in his foreword...
[Publish Date: April 01, 2009]
Language Implementation Patterns, 1st Edition
By Terence Parr
Learn to build configuration file readers, data readers, model-driven code generators, source-to-source translators, source analyzers, and interpreters. You don't need a background in computer science--ANTLR creator Terence Parr demystifies language...
[Publish Date: November 2009]
Programming the iPhone User Experience--New from O'Reilly Media: Developing ...
Sebastopol, CA—Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch not only feature the world's most powerful mobile operating system, they also usher in a new standard of human-computer interaction through gestural interfaces and multi-touch navigation. This ...
[Publish Date: August 12, 2009]
State of the Computer Book Market 2008, part 4 -- The Languages - O'Reilly
By Mike Hendrickson
In this fourth post on the State of the Computer Book Market, we will look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area. Overall the market for programming languages was down 5.9% in 2008 when compared with 2007. There were 1,849,974 units sold in 2007 versus 1,740,808 units sold in 2008, which is a decrease of 109,166 units. So the unhealthy 8% loss in the Overall Computer Book Market was not completely fueled by programming-oriented books.
[Publish Date: February 25, 2009]
Hackers & Painters, 1st Edition
By Paul Graham
Written in clear, narrative style, Hackers & Painters examines issues such as the rightness of web-based applications, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, the Open Source Movement, internet startups and more. In each essay, Graham...
[Publish Date: May 2004]
Cloud Computing with Windows Azure Using Your Preferred Technology: Web 2.0 ...
By Sumit Chawla, Tim Wise
Rather than being forced to use some language or framework you don’t need otherwise, why not just keep using the ones you are familiar with now ? In this session, we will step thru a series of demonstrations where non-Microsoft open source programming technologies (like Php or Java) and tools are used natively to create cloud computing solutions with the Azure Services platform.
[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]
Forking Encouraged: Folk Programming, Open Source, and Social Software ...
By Kirrily Robert, Yoz Grahame, Jason Douglas
The term "Folk Computing" was coined 20+ years ago to describe how people learn to program by copying and experimentation. Learn how open source licenses, hosted development environments, and other folk programming concepts lower barriers to entry and help people get up to speed as coders. We'll also be showing off some modern folk programming platforms, from Yahoo Pipes to the OLPC and beyond.
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
Eucalyptus: an Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: OSCON 2009 - ...
By Rich Wolski
We will present Eucalyptus -- Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems -- an open source software infrastructure that implements IaaS-style cloud computing. The goal of Eucalyptus is to allow sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to host an elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with Amazon's AWS.
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
