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Sierra On-Line was one of the very first computer game companies and at one time dominated the industry. The author, Ken Williams, founded Sierra On-Line with his wife Roberta who went on to create many of the company's best-selling games. Sierra grew from just Ken and Roberta to over 1,000 employees and a fan base that still exists today, despite the fact that the company was torn apart by criminal activities, scandal, and corruption that resulted in jail sentences and the collapse of Sierra.

To score a job in data science, machine learning, computer graphics, and cryptography, you need to bring strong math skills to the party. Math for Programmers teaches the math you need for these hot careers, concentrating on what you need to know as a developer. Filled with lots of helpful graphics and more than 200 exercises and mini-projects, this book unlocks the door to interesting - and lucrative! - careers in some of today’s hottest programming fields about the technology.

I want to thank you for checking out the audiobook Domain Driven Design: How to Easily Implement Domain Driven Design - A Quick & Simple Guide. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how you can implement the domain-driven design approach in your projects to bring out better results. Through the domain-driven design approach, you and your project team will better understand the domain that you aim to serve and communicate in a common language that can ensure harmony and team work with your group.

Is your team agile and self-organizing? What is your role as a leader? Team leadership is the missing link that connects all the buzzwords you hear these days to the real world where actual people have to learn, implement, and mainly, believe and push for this stuff to happen. This audiobook is meant for software team leaders, architects, and anyone with a leadership role in the software business. Hear advice from real team leaders, consultants, and everyday gurus of management.

Dive into the essence of Agile methodologies with "Agile Manifesto: Unpacking the Agile Manifesto for Modern Development." This comprehensive guide explores each of the core values and principles declared in the Agile Manifesto, providing a deep and actionable understanding tailored for today's dynamic development environments.

Deep Learning with Python (Second Edition) introduces the field of deep learning using Python and the powerful Keras library. In this revised and expanded new edition, Keras creator François Chollet offers insights for both novice and experienced machine learning practitioners. As you move through this book, you’ll build your understanding through intuitive explanations and clear examples. You’ll quickly pick up the skills you need to start developing deep learning applications.

After using most of the top content management systems, and having built many custom CMS systems myself, I can say that, from my experience, Wordpress is the most effective tool available to build your company's website and bring in leads and sales for your business. However, if used incorrectly, it can actually hurt your company. I've seen it happen and the effects can be devastating. The good news is that there's a better way.

This book is designed to reveal secret techniques and equip you with real-world, immediate applications for various coding and development challenges. Each scenario unveils a unique situation, offers a specific prompt, and explores the robust and insightful response from ChatGPT. But the book hides more—it delves deep into instructive commentary, unveiling hidden insights on each scenario, providing a deeper understanding and larger context.

This book explores the principles, practices, and tools of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) to help organizations build a seamless software delivery pipeline. It covers everything from the fundamental concepts and benefits of CI/CD to the practical implementation and best practices. The book starts by introducing CI/CD and its importance in modern software development. It explains how CI/CD addresses challenges such as manual processes, deployment delays, and quality issues.

These programming languages help in making programs which increase the overall productivity, communication, and efficiency of the work. Out of so many programming languages to choose from, python is one of the most loved programming languages among computer geeks. This is because python is one of those rare languages that is both simple and powerful. Python has everything that you may require to make a new program. If you will see someone writing a program in python, you will be really surprised to see how easy it is in python to find the solution for a problem.

Are you impressed by your apps’ ability to display and work equally well on your desktop, smartphone, laptop, and tablet? As a result, you may have made up your mind to learn how you, too, can create such impressive sites for the web. There’s no question that you - or anybody - can attain such ability given the right training. All you need is a patient and knowledgeable instructor to impart to you these technical skills. But, you don’t have to go through expensive courses and tedious lectures for that.

Learn how SRE works, what the required skill sets are, how a software engineer can transit to a SRE role, how LinkedIn uses SRE to facilitate the deployment process, and much more.

Microservices Security in Action is filled with solutions, teaching best practices for throttling and monitoring, access control, and microservice-to-microservice communications. Along the way, authors and software security experts Prabath Siriwardena and Nuwan Dias shine a light on important concepts like throttling, analytics gathering, access control at the API gateway, and microservice-to-microservice communication.

An inside look at modern open-source software developers - and their influence on our online social world. Open-source software in which developers publish code that anyone can use has long served as a bellwether for other online behavior. In the late 1990s, it provided an optimistic model for public collaboration, but in the last 20 years it shifted to solo operators who write and publish code that's consumed by millions.

"You look like a thing and I love you" is one of the best pickup lines ever...according to an artificial intelligence trained by scientist Janelle Shane, creator of the popular blog AI Weirdness. She creates silly AIs that learn how to name paint colors, create the best recipes, and even flirt (badly) with humans — all to understand the technology that governs so much of our daily lives.

Tetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, most popular video game ever made. But the fascinating story of its origins is lesser known. How did an obscure Soviet programmer working on frail, antiquated computers create a product that has earned nearly $1 billion in sales? How did an inspired makeshift game turn into a worldwide sensation that has been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, inspired a Hollywood movie, and been played in outer space?

The key to success in business is staying lean. Our specific, practical approach to starting (and maintaining) a web design business is founded on unbreakable rules you'll need to follow to avoid running your business into the ground! According to Clutch research firm, 46 percent of US small businesses still don't have a website for their company. With several amazing tools at your fingertips, starting a website business has never been easier.

Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions shows how to implement DevOps techniques in the kind of imperfect environments most developers work in. Part technology tutorial, part reference manual, and part psychology handbook, this practical guide shows you realistic ways to bring DevOps to your team when you don't have the flexibility to make sweeping changes in organizational structure.

Untangle the mesh of complex data with this user-friendly manual to SQL. Imagine a world overflowing with data – numbers, stats, facts, all buzzing around, waiting to tell a story. There's one common element that can help you navigate this vast sea of data – Structured Query Language (SQL).

Learning Agile is a comprehensive guide to the most popular agile methods, written in a light and engaging style that makes it easy for you to learn. Agile has revolutionized the way teams approach software development, but with dozens of agile methodologies to choose from, the decision to "go agile" can be tricky. This practical book helps you sort it out, first by grounding you in agile's underlying principles, then by describing four specific - and well-used - agile methods: Scrum, extreme programming (XP), Lean, and Kanban.