Discover everything you need to know about C++ in a logical progression of small lessons that you can work through as quickly or as slowly as you need. This book divides C++ up into bite-sized chunks that will help you learn the language one step at a time. Fully updated to include C++20, it assumes no familiarity with C++ or any other C-based language. "Exploring C++20" acknowledges that C++ can be a complicated language, so rather than baffle you...

Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels....

Provides tutorials and examples on using ADO.NET 4 to create datacentric applications for Windows and the Web.

Leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drive the growth and success of your organization. This book thoroughly explores the reasons why it is so hard to implement AI, and highlights the need to reconcile the motivations and goals of two very different groups of people, business-minded and technical-minded. Divided into five main parts (First Principles, The Why, The What, The How, The Future), you'll review case studies and examples...

Provides advice on purchasing and installing major home appliances; discusses safety concerns, tools and equipment, electricity, and parts; and describes the principles of operation, symptom diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of dishwashers, garbage disposals, water heaters, washing machines and dryers, ranges, ovens, microwaves, refrigerators and freezers, automatic ice makers, and room air conditioners.

"A practical guide to profiting from institutional trading trends. The key to being a successful trader is finding a system that works and sticking with it. Author Al Brooks has done just that. By simplifying his trading system and trading only 5-minute price charts he's found a way to capture profits regardless of market direction or economic climate. His first book, Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar, offered an informative examination of his system,...

Being a successful editor is about more than just knowing how to operate a certain piece of software, or when to make a certain transition. On the contrary, there are many unwritten laws and a sense of propriety that are never discussed or taught in film schools or in other books. Based on their own experiences, first as upcoming assistant editors, then as successful Hollywood editors, the authors guide you through the ins and outs of establishing...

Navigate the world of data analysis, visualization, and machine learning with over 100 hands-on Scala recipes About This Book Implement Scala in your data analysis using features from Spark, Breeze, and Zeppelin Scale up your data anlytics infrastructure with practical recipes for Scala machine learning Recipes for every stage of the data analysis process, from reading and collecting data to distributed analytics Who This Book Is For This book shows...

"This book emphasizes the collaborative analysis of data that is used to collect increments of time or space. Written at a readily accessible level, but with the necessary theory in mind, the author uses frequency- and time-domain and trigonometric regression as themes throughout the book. The content includes modern topics such as wavelets, Fourier series, and Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC), which is not typical of current-day "classics." Applications...

"This book explains how to manage and work with people more effectively. Focused on interpersonal management skills, it is organized into three categories: Personal Effectiveness, Leadership, and Communication. Each chapter has been written to stand on its own and can easily be read in short time periods. Each article concludes with a list of bullet points for taking action. This book is ideal for frontline managers, new managers, and experienced...