Technology Development

Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World guides parents in teaching their children how to reap the benefits of living in a digital world while also preventing its negative effects. Dr. Mike Brooks and Dr. Jon Lasser, psychologists with extensive experience working with kids, parents, and teachers, combine cutting-edge research and expertise to create an engaging and helpful guide that emphasizes the importance of the parent-child relationship.

Unlock the power of creativity and innovation with Arduino Programming for Beginners: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Coding and Circuitry by Rama Nolan—a book that will take you from zero to hero in the world of electronics! Whether you're dreaming of building your own robot, automating your home, or creating interactive gadgets that respond to your every command, this book is your all-in-one guide to making it happen.

With this beginner’s handbook, you’ll learn how to use ChatGPT efficiently and create maximized results. Create natural, human-like conversations, being aware of its limitations and biases, and prepare for the artificial intelligence future.

AWS Lambda in Action is an example-driven tutorial that teaches you how to build applications that use an event-driven approach on the back end. Starting with an overview of AWS Lambda, the audiobook moves on to show you common examples and patterns you can use to call Lambda functions from a web page or a mobile app. The second part of the audiobook puts these smaller examples together to build larger applications. By the end, you'll be ready to create applications that take advantage of the high availability, security, performance, and scalability of AWS.

Do you constantly find yourself battling to stop your kids from spending hours in front of a screen? Whether it's a TV, an iPad, a PC or a PlayStation, children are spending more and more time absorbed in the digital world, and for most parents it's a cause for concern. The most frequent question parenting expert Noel Janis-Norton is asked by desperate parents is how to limit and manage screen time.

The ultimate guide to top state-of-the-art AI tools, with expert time-saving recommendations. Learn the full range of the AI industry in one compact, easy-to-understand book.

Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of us must work our way through the empty page, the blank screen, writer's block, confusion, chaos, and doubt.

Python is one of the easiest coding languages to master because it bases itself on the English language. Intuitive and simple, anyone can get started with programming in Python, almost overnight! It can even jumpstart your hobby or career in tech, taking you places you never thought you could go. And this is where this book comes into play… it’s your launchpad into the phenomenal world of Python programming.

Every new version of Java is important, but Java 8 was a game changer. Java 8 in Action is a clearly written guide to the new features of Java 8. It begins with a practical introduction to lambdas, using real-world Java code. Next, it covers the new Streams API and shows how you can use it to make collection-based code radically easier to understand and maintain.

How to keep your intuition and human instinct intact in our current technological era. Businesses are constantly moving into uncharted territory as they determine how to navigate an increasingly digital future effectively. But the startling and often overlooked truth is that the promise of...

For a beginner, programming can seem like something scary or hard to do. With all the technical terms and concepts out there, as well as the numerous programming languages available at your disposal, it is so important - now more than ever before - to build a strong foundation. When you understand the fundamentals of programming, learning any programming language is a piece of cake. In addition, programming is not just all about coding; it is also about knowing how to plan your work, how to set deadlines, how to communicate with team members, how to use existing components, etc.

Today's tech unicorns develop software differently. They've developed a way of working that lets them scale like an enterprise while working like a startup. These techniques can be learned. This book takes you behind the scenes and shows you how companies like Google, Facebook, and Spotify do it. Leverage their insights, so your teams can work better together, ship higher-quality product faster, innovate more quickly, and compete with the unicorns.

This book is for engineering leaders and experienced developers who want to build serious software with AI—and actually unlock the leverage it offers. It introduces a clear, step-by-step workflow that makes this approach reliable, repeatable, and scalable. You’ll learn a practical, disciplined approach to building applications—not with AI as a co-pilot, but as the primary developer.

In The Boy Who Played with Fusion, science journalist Tom Clynes narrates Taylor Wilson's extraordinary journey - from his Arkansas home, where his parents fully supported his intellectual passions; to a unique Reno, Nevada, public high school just for academic superstars; to the present, when now 19-year-old Wilson is winning international science competitions with devices designed to prevent terrorists from shipping radioactive material into the country.

Quick Start Kubernetes, brought to you by best-selling author Nigel Poulton, assumes zero prior experience and gets you to the point you can hold your own in a conversation with an expert, and deploy simple applications.

A guide to navigating the messiness of software development process change, dealing with all the legacy organizational elements, and focusing on increasing business agility.

We all love monsters. We love them because they exist outside of our world and yet feel real to us. We love how strange they can be. We love the sense of danger that arises when we talk about them. We love how they live in our imaginations. And when monsters come to life in our imaginations, we love to face and defeat them. We battle dragons and demons and undead—and conquer them in tales we’ll remember our whole lives. Within the Forge of Foes, we’ll build these monsters. Here in the forge, we’ll modify creatures, giving them new attacks and strange new abilities.

Letting go of negative thoughts is one of the most important steps to living a successful, fulfilling life, but also often the most difficult. In this practical, research-based guide, best-selling authors Brian Tracy and psychotherapist Christina Stein present their "Psychology of Achievement" program to help you identify and overcome detrimental patterns and ideas preventing you from achieving your goals or feeling happy and satisfied in your life.

Real-World Machine Learning will teach you the concepts and techniques you need to be a successful machine learning practitioner without overdosing you on abstract theory and complex mathematics. By working through immediately relevant examples in Python, you'll build skills in data acquisition and modeling, classification, and regression. You'll also explore the most important tasks like model validation, optimization, scalability, and real-time streaming. When you're done, you'll be ready to successfully build, deploy, and maintain your own powerful ML systems.

Functional Programming in JavaScript teaches JavaScript developers functional techniques that will improve extensibility, modularity, reusability, testability, and performance. Through concrete examples and jargon-free explanations, this book teaches you how to apply functional programming to real-life development tasks.