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Learning iOS
iOS is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple. It is an unofficial and free iOS book created for educational purposes. All the content is extracted from Stack Overflow Documentation, which is written by many hardworking individuals at Stack Overflow....
Learning HTML5 Canvas
The Canvas element is part of HTML5 and allows for dynamic, scriptable rendering of 2D shapes and bitmap images. Through WebGL it allows 3D shapes and images to be displayed. HTML5 Canvas also helps in making 2D games. It is an unofficial and free HTML5 Canvas book created for educational purposes. All the content is extracted from Stack Overflo...
Paths
This open access book explores the amazing similarity between paths taken by people and many other things in life, and its impact on the way we live, teach and learn. Offering insights into the new scientific field of paths as part of the science of networks, it entertainingly describes the universal nature of paths in large networked structures. ...
Chemical Youth
This open book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables across diverse socio-cultural settings, illustrating how young people seek ...
Understanding Acoustics
This open book, like Rayleigh's classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on approximation techniques rather than mathematical rigor. The second edition has benefited from comments and corrections provided by many acousticians, in particular those who have used the first edition in undergraduate and graduate courses. For example, pha...
An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Volume 2
This open book contains the oral histories that were inspired by the work of the Special Olympics in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of its founding. The foreword and prefatory materials provide an overview of the Special Olympics and its growth in the People’s Republic of China. The sections that follow record interview transcripts of ind...
The HTML Handbook
HTML, a shorthand for Hyper Text Markup Language, is one of the most fundamental building blocks of the Web. This handbook is aimed at a vast audience. - First, the beginner. I explain HTML from zero in a succinct but comprehensive way, so you can use this book to learn HTML from the basics. - Then, the professional. HTML is often considered l...
External Collaboration with Azure AD B2B Succinctly
Secure collaboration in your organization's applications and services with outside groups can be tricky, but Azure Active Directory boasts features that make it simple. In External Collaboration with Azure AD B2B Succinctly, author Sjoukje Zaal takes readers step-by-step through creating guest accounts, managing security groups, and adding use...
Azure Tips and Tricks
When I reflect back on Azure Tips and Tricks a year ago, I was only thinking that I'd write a couple of posts and move on. Fast-forward to today, the collection has grown to over 150+ tips, as well as videos, conference talks, and now an eBook spanning the entire universe of the Azure platform. What you are currently reading is a special colle...
How to Code in HTML5 and CSS3
"How to Code in HTML5 and CSS3" is a free e-book about making websites in HTML5 and CSS for absolute beginners. It doesn't require any experience in IT to start. The aim of this book is to show the art of making websites using a plain language which is full of practical analogies. After reading over 100 pages you will get to know bas...
Inventory Analytics
Inventory Analytics provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the theory and practice of inventory control - a significant research area central to supply chain planning. The book outlines the foundations of inventory systems and surveys prescriptive analytics models for deterministic inventory control. It further discusses predictive...
Building Modern Web Applications With Spring Boot and Vaadin
This guide is a practical introduction to web application development with Spring Boot and Vaadin. It covers the entire development process, from setup to deployment, following a step-by-step approach. You can replicate each section at your own pace as you follow along. The content is suitable for anyone familiar with Java who wants to build ...
100 Laravel Quick Tips
Laravel is full of hidden gems, undocumented or less-known features, functions parameters and "hacks". While finding them in work of my team, I decided to compile them into an ebook....
Blazor, A Beginners Guide
Blazor, A Beginners Guide is intended for developers with some .NET experience. If you're coming from a non-.NET development background, you may learn some .NET basics along the way, but supplemental material around C# and .NET would be of great help to you. The book begins with the author's own perspective on WebAssembly, why it'...
Java 3D Programming
Java 3D Programming steps programmers through the important design and implementation phases of developing a successful Java 3D application. The book provides invaluable guidance on whether to use Java 3D, user interface design, geometry creation, scene manipulation and final optimizations. The book does not attempt to exhaustively cover the API or...
Circulation and Control
The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions of paintings to daguerreotypes, stereoscopic views, and mass-produced sculptures, works of visual art became available in a wider range of media than ever before. But the circulation and reproduction of a...
Plan S for Shock
In a world where information has never been so accessible, and answers are available at the touch of a fingertip, we are hungrier for the facts than ever before - something the Covid-19 crisis has brought to light. And yet, paywalls put in place by multi-billion dollar publishing houses are still preventing millions from accessing quality, scientif...
Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy
Digital accessibility skills are in high demand, as the world becomes more aware of barriers in digital content that prevent some people from participating in a digital society. These are essential skills for web developers, and essential knowledge for organizations that want to ensure their web content is reaching the broadest audience possible. ...
Writing Guide with Handbook
Writing Guide with Handbook aligns to the goals, topics, and objectives of many first-year writing and composition courses. It is organized according to relevant genres, and focuses on the writing process, effective writing practices or strategies - including graphic organizers, writing frames, and word banks to support visual learning - and conven...
Shaping the Digital Dissertation
Digital dissertations have been a part of academic research for years now, yet there are still many questions surrounding their processes. Are interactive dissertations significantly different from their paper-based counterparts? What are the effects of digital projects on doctoral education? How does one choose and defend a digital dissertation? T...
Becoming a Scholar
Becoming a Scholar provides a window into the lives of nine non-traditional doctoral students. As mature, part-time, international students enrolled in a professional doctorate programme, they reflect on the transformation process of becoming scholars, and their narratives provide breadth and depth to themes that represent a diverse cross-section o...
Nuxt.js Succinctly
Nuxt.js is an open-source JavaScript library based on Vue.js. Think of it as a framework for a framework - adding two significant features to Vue.js: server-side rendering; and easy Vue.js application configuration and routing through folders and files. In Nuxt.js Succinctly, long-time Succinctly author Ed Freitas will show readers how Nuxt.js simp...
An Outline of Romanticism in the West
Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey. Showcasing a breadth of theoretical and contextual approaches to the study of Romanticism, John Isbell provides an insightful contemporary overview of the field, paired with...
Project Management
The world has become more complicated with the introduction and development of new technologies and methods, and novel risks such as Covid-19 pandemic. Competition has been tougher than it used to be. Organizations strive to keep up with the changes in the internal and external environment. In the light of unprecedented changes, project managers mu...
Greening Europe
The third installment of the 'European Public Investment Outlook' series is an important and timely publication that draws together recent analyses to recommend significant increases in public investment in green ventures. Compelling data from key economists affiliated with international organizations like the International Monetary Fund,...
Learn Ruby on Rails: Book Two
In this book, you'll build a working web application so you'll gain hands-on experience. Along the way, you'll practice techniques used by professional Rails developers. And I'll help you understand why Rails is a popular choice for web development. Read Book One to get the big picture that's missing from other tutorials...
Clojure In Small Pieces
Rich Hickey invented Clojure. This is a fork of the project to experiment with literate programming as a development and documentation technology. Clojure is a break with the past traditions of Lisp. This literate fork is a break with the past traditions of code development. As such it is intended as an experiment, not a replacement or competiti...
Azure Maps Using Blazor Succinctly
Microsoft Azure Maps is part of Microsoft Azure Cloud Services and provides a wide range of powerful geospatial capabilities and a rich set of REST APIs. It has SDKs for both web and mobile applications. In Azure Maps Using Blazor Succinctly, learn how you can create sophisticated applications with Azure Maps and Syncfusion controls in Blazor. Mich...
A Practical Guide to Cloud Migration
Why do enterprises feel daunted when undertaking a large-scale cloud transformation? A move to the cloud usually offers substantial rewards. Once companies make this transition, they unlock new business opportunities that fundamentally change the way they work. With this report, members of the Google team will show you how to navigate the cultural ...
Svelte Succinctly
Svelte departs from the virtual DOM approach by compiling the code you write into native-browser JavaScript when you build your application. The result is minimal and highly optimized pure JavaScript that the browser executes with no heavy runtime. In Svelte Succinctly, Ed Freitas will show readers how to install Svelte and give them a condensed ov...

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