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  • The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Fourth Edition

    Get the eBook free when you register your print book at Manning.By putting the core principles of the language on full display rather than treating it as a collection of syntax rules, The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Fourth Edition will help you, as it did several earlier generations, become a better Ruby programmer. In this masterful tutorial, authors David A Black and Joseph Leo III tell a clear ... Read more

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    Despite using them every day, most software engineers know little about how programming languages are designed and implemented. For many, their only experience with that corner of computer science was a terrifying "compilers" class that they suffered through in undergrad and tried to blot from their memory as soon as they had scribbled their last NFA to DFA conversion on the final exam.That ... Read more

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  • The Ruby Programming Language

    Everything You Need to Know

    The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team:David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository.Yukihiro "Matz" ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python

    Best Practices for Writing Clean Code

    by Al Sweigart ...
    BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN NOVICE AND PROFESSIONALYou've completed a basic Python programming tutorial or finished Al Sweigart's bestseller, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. What's the next step toward becoming a capable, confident software developer?Welcome to Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python. More than a mere collection of advanced syntax and masterful tips for writing clean code, you'll ... Read more

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  • Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!

    A Beginner's Guide

    It's all in the name: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! is a hilarious, illustrated guide to this complex functional language. Packed with the author's original artwork, pop culture references, and most importantly, useful example code, this book teaches functional fundamentals in a way you never thought possible.You'll start with the kid stuff: basic syntax, recursion, types and type classes. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Programming TypeScript

    Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale

    by Boris Cherny ...
    Any programmer working with a dynamically typed language will tell you how hard it is to scale to more lines of code and more engineers. That’s why Facebook, Google, and Microsoft invented gradual static type layers for their dynamically typed JavaScript and Python code. This practical book shows you how one such type layer, TypeScript, is unique among them: it makes programming fun with its ... Read more

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  • Domain-Specific Languages

    by Martin Fowler ...
    Series series Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)
    When carefully selected and used, Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) may simplify complex code, promote effective communication with customers, improve productivity, and unclog development bottlenecks. In Domain-Specific Languages, noted software development expert Martin Fowler first provides the information software professionals need to decide if and when to utilize DSLs. Then, where DSLs prove ... Read more

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  • RESTful Web APIs

    Services for a Changing World

    The popularity of REST in recent years has led to tremendous growth in almost-RESTful APIs that don’t include many of the architecture’s benefits. With this practical guide, you’ll learn what it takes to design usable REST APIs that evolve over time. By focusing on solutions that cross a variety of domains, this book shows you how to create powerful and secure applications, using the tools ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Eloquent Ruby

    by Russ Olsen ...
    Series series Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series
    It’s easy to write correct Ruby code, but to gain the fluency needed to write great Ruby code, you must go beyond syntax and absorb the “Ruby way” of thinking and problem solving. In Eloquent Ruby, Russ Olsen helps you write Ruby like true Rubyists do–so you can leverage its immense, surprising power.Olsen draws on years of experience internalizing the Ruby culture and teaching Ruby to other ... Read more

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  • Real World Haskell

    Code You Can Believe In

    This easy-to-use, fast-moving tutorial introduces you to functional programming with Haskell. You'll learn how to use Haskell in a variety of practical ways, from short scripts to large and demanding applications. Real World Haskell takes you through the basics of functional programming at a brisk pace, and then helps you increase your understanding of Haskell in real-world issues like I/O, ... Read more

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  • Effective TypeScript

    83 Specific Ways to Improve Your TypeScript

    by Dan Vanderkam ...
    TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript with the potential to solve many of the headaches for which JavaScript is famous. But TypeScript has a learning curve of its own, and understanding how to use it effectively takes time and practice. Using the format popularized by Effective C++ and Effective Java (both Addison-Wesley), this practical book features 83 items that give specific advice on ... Read more

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  • Programming Perl

    Unmatched power for text processing and scripting

    Adopted as the undisputed Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991, Programming Perl is still the go-to guide for this highly practical language. Perl began life as a super-fueled text processing utility, but quickly evolved into a general purpose programming language that’s helped hundreds of thousands of programmers, system administrators, and enthusiasts, like you, get your job ... Read more

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