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For beginners eager to dive into the world of coding, “Code with Confidence—Beginners” is the perfect primer. This book demystifies programming jargon, breaking down concepts into digestible pieces, making it an ideal listen for anyone. Start your journey with a guide that makes learning both engaging and manageable. Don’t just code—develop a coder’s mindset.

This manual will give you the incognito tools that'll make you a master of anonymity! Other books tell you to install Tor and then encrypt your hard drive...and leave it at that. I go much deeper, delving into the very engine of ultimate network security, taking it to an art form where you'll grow a new darknet persona - how to be anonymous online without looking like you're trying to be anonymous online.

Welcome to the exciting world of artificial intelligence! In this chapter, we will delve into the basics of artificial intelligence and explore how this revolutionary technology is transforming industries and shaping our future. Whether you are a business leader looking to harness the power of AI in your organization or a curious individual eager to learn more about this cutting-edge field, this chapter is the perfect starting point for your journey into the world of artificial intelligence.

Know what's causing application development waste so you can turn the tide. This is the audiobook your systems integrator and your application software vendor don't want you to hear. Enterprise IT (information technology) is a $3.8 trillion-per-year industry worldwide. Most of it is waste. However, the waste is hard to see, after being so marbled through all the products, processes, and guiding principles. That is what this audiobook is about. We must see, understand, and agree about the problem before we can take coordinated action to address it.

Yes, you can succeed in an AI-driven world by unleashing your potential in machine learning! A working knowledge of AI and ML is no longer a “nice-to-have” but an “essential” in today's job market. But what if you feel lost amid the tech jargon? What if terms like “algorithms”, “neural networks”, or “data preprocessing” sound like a foreign language to you?

Are you thinking of transitioning into a career as a software developer? Have you always been interested in programming languages and tinkering with technology? Do you wish there was a straightforward way to gain all the skills and knowledge you need to write your own programs? Discover how to become a six-figure developer without going back to school.

Dive into a future of work where technology empowers everyone to be a creator and builder with All Hands on Tech. This pivotal book offers a comprehensive look into the role of citizen developers—business domain experts who are driving IT-enabled innovation using technology previously reserved for professional technologists. Through case studies of citizens and citizen-enabled enterprises, the authors demonstrate how emerging technology bestows unprecedented power on these individuals and unprecedented value on the organizations that channel their efforts.

If you're a student or mid-career pro looking for advice to launch and manage an entertainment career, this book is designed for you. The 37 people who tell their stories created successful careers. You can, too.

You'd like to estimate your project's cost or schedule accurately. So far, none of your approaches have worked. It's time to consider how you can create an accurate estimate. You might not be able to develop an estimate at the beginning of a project that is good until the end. Few project teams can. Instead, learn a number of ways to see your project and how to address your uncertainties in ways your managers will accept.

In Agile Leadership Toolkit, longtime agile leader Peter Koning provides a practical and invaluable steering wheel for agile leaders and their teams. Drawing on his extensive experience helping leaders drive more value from agile, Koning offers a comprehensive toolkit for continuously improving your environment.

Learn Python fundamentals that can be used in any programming setting—use the guidance in this book to program your own game in a unique and practical Python learning experience. In Python QuickStart Guide, senior developer and programmer Robert Oliver lays out the quickest and most accessible path yet to the mastery of Python fundamentals.

Python: Comprehensive Python Programming from the Ground Up is designed to make Python programming accessible to the novice user. This audiobook will break up the material into bite-sized chunks and take listeners from uninitiated programmer to expert coder, with layman explanations and code examples.

SQL is used extensively since its relatively easy to learn and it can help you get information from a database that may not be available to people who do not know SQL. It is a considered a very flexible language and can be used in a whole variety of ways, because of this flexibility a lot of software products today use SQL to interact and communicate with databases. By learning this language, you will have an essential skill which you can use on one of the many products which are based on SQL.

Radical connectivity - our ability to connect instantly, constantly, and globally - is altering the exercise of power with dramatic speed and reshaping our biggest institutions. Governments, corporations, centers of knowledge, and expertise are eroding before the power of the individual. In some cases this is a positive development, but as Mele reveals, the promise of the Internet comes with a troubling downside. He asks: How do we trust information when journalists are replaced by bloggers, phone videos, and tweets?

Do you want to learn how to earn an extra $5k a month? Do you want to be financially free? Do you want to know the advanced strategies to making six figures a year from a computer? When you listen to Affiliate Marketing, your marketing skills will vastly improve each day! You will discover everything you need to know about affiliate marketing!

What if you could easily get 80% of the benefits of agile without changing how you build software? This is a business parable about agile project management that never mentions the word "agile". Bob Billington has a problem: he's about to lose his job because the economy has taken a sudden nosedive, taking the big project he is working on with it. Bob, a natural-born problem solver, starts asking questions, the first being, "What does it take for a project to be commercially viable in a recession?"

Spring Microservices in Action: Second Edition teaches you to build microservice-based applications using Java and Spring. By dividing large applications into separate self-contained units, microservices are a great step toward reducing complexity and increasing flexibility. This second edition is fully updated for the latest version of Spring, with expanded coverage of API routing with Spring Cloud Gateway, logging with the ELK stack, metrics with Prometheus and Grafana, security with the Hashicorp Vault, and modern deployment practices with Kubernetes and Istio.

Technology continues to improve at a breakneck pace, so even grown-ups have trouble keeping track of all those lines of code. But fear not! This Coding for Kids audiobook provides lessons, upon lessons, to help your child improve, and learn the ropes. Inside, you’ll learn valuable skills such as basic terminologies and definitions, Javascript and Python, and even how to code games, such as Pong and Tetris, on HTML, and CSS! Whether you’re a kid, or have kids of your own, it’s never too late to learn the basics of computer programming. Learn today, code tomorrow.

This audiobook will introduce beginners to Adobe Photoshop 2021 by providing a fundamental overview of the software, an understanding of the interface, and a list of important tools to know as you get started. This step-by-step guide will show you how to use the basic tools in Photoshop in the simplest way possible, including shortcuts, as we walk through making clean edits of your image with each tool, as well as understanding what each tool does well.

GANs in Action teaches you how to build and train your own Generative Adversarial Networks, one of the most important innovations in deep learning. In this book, you'll learn how to start building your own simple adversarial system as you explore the foundation of GAN architecture: the generator and discriminator networks.