Books like 'Head First Java'
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Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story—witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere... -
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![Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal]()
Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSince its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays... -
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alphabet by Inger Christensen
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAwarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet... -
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![Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy]()
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth... -
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Garbage by A.R. Ammons
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A. R. Ammons's poem with the unforgettable title is a defense of meaning—'this,' the poet says, 'are awash in ideality.' Garbage is an epic of ideas: all life—not that of human beings alone, but every species—is shown to be part of an ultimate reality. Eternity is here and now... -
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsData is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers... -
![The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers by Jennifer Serravallo]()
The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers by Jennifer Serravallo
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, "Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves?" Now there is. "Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible," Jen writes... -
![Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan, Steve Schoger]()
Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan, Steve Schoger
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMake your ideas look awesome, without relying on a designer. Learn how to design beautiful user interfaces by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer's point-of-view... -
![Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron]()
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA series of Deep Learning breakthroughs have boosted the whole field of machine learning over the last decade. Now that machine learning is thriving, even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. This practical book shows you how... -
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Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrom the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter... -
![C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie]()
C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsClassic, bestselling introduction that teaches the language and illustrates useful algorithms, data structures and programming techniques... -
![How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer by Adrian Newey]()
How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer by Adrian Newey
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratings'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.' Damon Hill The world’s foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain’s greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir... -
![Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby by Sandi Metz]()
Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby by Sandi Metz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRuby's widely admired simplicity has a downside: too many Ruby and Rails applications have been created without concern for their long-term maintenance or evolution. The Web is awash in Ruby code that is now virtually impossible to change or extend... -
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![180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by Kelly Gallagher, Penny Kittle]()
180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by Kelly Gallagher, Penny Kittle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Teaching is art-creation-and a curriculum map is only as good as the teacher who considers it, who questions it, and who revises it to meet the needs of each year's students." -Kelly Gallagher and Penny KittleTwo teachers. Two classrooms. One school year... -
![Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming by Luciano Ramalho]()
Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming by Luciano Ramalho
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPython's simplicity lets you become productive quickly, but this often means you aren't using everything it has to offer. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to write effective, idiomatic Python code by leveraging its best and possibly most neglected features... -
![Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman]()
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes throughout the text... -
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Hitchcock by François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAny book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's interlocutor is François Truffaut, the conversation is remarkable indeed. Here is a rare opportunity to eavesdrop on two cinematic masters from very different backgrounds as they cover each of Hitch's films in succession... -
![Dive Into Design Patterns by Alexander Shvets]()
Dive Into Design Patterns by Alexander Shvets
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingshttps://refactoring.guru/design-patte...Design patterns are typical solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. You can’t just find a pattern and copy it into your program, the way you can with off-the-shelf functions or libraries. The pattern is not a specific piece of code, but a general concept for solving a particular problem... -
![Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold]()
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhat do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries... -
![Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls]()
Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"I was fortunate indeed to have worked with a fantastic team on the design and implementation of the concurrency features added to the Java platform in Java 5.0 and Java 6. Now this same team provides the best explanation yet of these new features, and of concurrency in general. Concurrency is no longer a subject for advanced users only. Every Java developer should read this book... -
![R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data by Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund]()
R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data by Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLearn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible... -
![Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet]()
Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeep learning is applicable to a widening range of artificial intelligence problems, such as image classification, speech recognition, text classification, question answering, text-to-speech, and optical character recognition. It is the technology behind photo tagging systems at Facebook and Google, self-driving cars, speech recognition systems on your smartphone, and much more... -
![The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you by Rob Fitzpatrick]()
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you by Rob Fitzpatrick
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little... -
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![The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte]()
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink ratio... -
![Google必修的圖表簡報術 by 柯爾・諾瑟鮑姆・娜菲克]()
Google必修的圖表簡報術 by 柯爾・諾瑟鮑姆・娜菲克
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDon't simply show your data--tell a story with it! "Storytelling with Data" teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story... -
![A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher W. Alexander, Sara Ishikawa]()
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher W. Alexander, Sara Ishikawa
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAt the core of A Pattern Language is the philosophy that in designing their environments people always rely on certain ‘languages,’ which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a formal system which gives them coherence.This book provides a language of this kind... -
![Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin]()
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsEven bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way. Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship... -
![Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David J.C. MacKay]()
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David J.C. MacKay
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAddressing the sustainable energy crisis in an objective manner, this enlightening book analyzes the relevant numbers and organizes a plan for change on both a personal level and an international scale—for Europe, the United States, and the world...Categorized as:
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![The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani]()
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book describes the important ideas in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of colour graphics...
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