Hi! I'm a few years into my Computer Science Education, and I had to transfer to a new school in the between years. The problem I'm having is that the "intro" classes at my first school focused first on Mostly professional programming skills, like problem design, and put the mathematics concepts in later courses, and when I transferred, ...
Hi, Are there any books in the market that you are aware which is written by a financier -or anyone from an industry which is not IT- to a programmer in terms of letting him briefly understand the market's business logic. Actually I am looking it for banking field to get familiar with the basic principles that I may need to know as a d...
I realize this type of question may have been asked before but I feel mine is more specific. Can you make some suggestions on user experience books that focus on web development and less so (if at all) on design? Edit: The only book I have so far is Steve Krug's "Don't make me think" ...
I know some university students studying JAVA as OOP according to the syllabus. Previously they learned C and C++ as well. I want to show them the path of C# as it is not in their syllabus. But if I suggest a 500-paged book, very few are going to read it. And if I go with some JAVA-C# comparison, may be they will not get many of the poin...
I am new to Flex programming. I am an experienced J2EE developer and have done a fair bit of RIA programming using non-Adobe technologies.. Can you please suggest one or two good books which cover Flex 4 and AS3 programming in depth. PS: I am not looking for beginner level books, I need an intermediate to advanced Flex programming bibl...
Hi All, I am new to wpf and Linq. I want to learn data binding in wpf using linq. Which book i can prefer to learn Linq. Geetha. ...
This is going to be rather long, so I apologize preemptively. Near the end of Item 47 in Scott Meyers's "Effective C++" (Third Edition) he shows the following code: template<typename IterT, typename DistT> void advance(IterT& iter, DistT d) { doAdvance( iter, d, typename std::iterator_traits<IterT>::...
I've been working as .NET developer for a few years now and have no other windows development experience worth noting. Now I'm in a position where I have to use and maintain .NET code that uses older VB6 code. Other people are maintaining and replacing this code but for the next couple years I'll have to live with it. As far as I can t...
Are there any python books that are suited to someone who doesn't know programming already ? I am looking for something which doesn't have any perquisites (except maybe basic maths :). I have looked at dive into python, and it looks like a very good book, but much of it seems to assume you already know programming concepts (functions, et...
Hi, I've learned some python, but I'll admit this is my first programming language. I like programming, and everything underlying being a programmer, but every time I attempted a programming language (C++, Java, BASIC) I failed miserably without getting so far as to get past 'Hello world!'. But with Python, I've found a new love of prog...
A lot of books out there teach you about "best practices" for managing software projects. Granted, sometimes even with best effort and planning, things sometimes still can go awry. Sometimes you just don't get lucky, and get to work on a project that just sucks. Just to name a few of these situations: Unable to implement all the requir...
I know Kernighan & Ritchie were the inventors of C and so I bought their book, I know Don Box was "the man" behind COM and so I bought his book "Essential COM". Now I want to learn WPF, who are the architects/designers of WPF? Charles Petzold? Chris Anderson? ...
The full text of "Practical Common Lisp" used to be easily available from APress in PDF format, but not anymore. Does anyone know where I can (legally) find it? ...
Is there a book that explains the algorithm used by the regular expression functions, and optionally shows an implementation in some high level language? ...
I searched for a while but I couldn't find a question that exactly covered this topic. I'm looking for a web design book that covers both the design part and the front-end development part. What I mean by that is a book that teaches me about UI, color theory, typography, use of illustrations, etc (the design part) and also how best to wo...
Ho there, I will be facing a new and exciting issue in the near future. I have to study a complex Domain Model for an application that will control the Production Cycle of a very big manufactoring Industry. I am a Developer with good experience mainly in the UI and the in the logic layer. I have not created a Domain Model in the past. ...
Many a times companies prefers candidates who has prior experiences in a particular domain. e.g. Banking, Telecommunication etc. And it is not possible for a person in the middle of his career to gain knowledge of each and every domain even though he has the required technical skills to do the job. What in your opinion should be done i...
Hello, I am currently interested in learning more about developing android applications. I've made hello world for android but that is pretty much it. Has anyone read 'Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours'? If so would you recommend it? If not, could you point me towards some other resources? Thanks a lot!...
Possible Duplicate: What is the best book for learning about Algorithms? Can you suggest me a book which include all of algorithms (about computer science). I want to buy or download algorithm book for studying. ...
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