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  1. Retrocomputing with Clash
    Retrocomputing with Clash
    Haskell for FPGA Hardware Design
    Gergő Érdi

    Haskell for FPGA Hardware Design: Use abstractions like monads and lenses to implement 1970's retro-computing devices like arcade machines and home computers.

  2. Developing a Computer Operating System from Scratch
    Developing a Computer Operating System from Scratch
    An Attempt to Introduce OS Development at Beginner Level
    TINU TOM

    The first-ever book aimed at introducing operating system development to absolute beginners. The topics begin with programming in C and programming in assembly, and progress toward practical OS development.The book uses only simple methods, so it covers only a few essential topics in C and assembly programming, making it suitable for beginners.

  3. Visual Guide to Secure Boot

    Secure boot is what separates a trusted device from a compromised one — but the chain of trust from hardware fuses to a verified OS is rarely explained clearly. This illustrated guide walks you through every layer: root of trust, key provisioning, bootloader handoffs, certificate chains, and real-world attack vectors. 8 chapters, all visual, zero fluff.

  4. THE CODE REVOLUTION
    THE CODE REVOLUTION
    From Binary to Brains: The Evolution of Computer Science, Information & AI
    Mohammad Kamrul Hassan

    What connects a mechanical calculator, a modern smartphone, the Internet, and artificial intelligence?Everything.The technologies that define today's digital world did not emerge independently. They are chapters in a much larger story—a story that begins with binary numbers and mechanical calculation and leads to machines capable of learning, generating content, understanding language, and taking action.The Code Revolution follows this extraordinary journey from early computation to intelligent machines.Discover how code became software, software became infrastructure, information became data, data became intelligence, and intelligence is now becoming increasingly autonomous.From Binary to Brains, this is the story of how computing changed the world—and where it may go next.

  5. Sustainability for Java Developers
    Sustainability for Java Developers
    Towards an Understanding of Sustainable Java Software Development
    Geertjan Wielenga, Frank Delporte, Simon Martinelli, Markus Westergren, Jan Ouwens, Jan-Hendrik Kuperus, jlengrand, A N M Bazlur Rahman, Vasco Correia Veloso, Ko Turk, Hanno Embregts, and Maarten Mulders

    Discover how Java developers can contribute to a sustainable future. Written by Java Champions and community experts, this collaborative guide explores practical approaches to sustainable software engineering, from resource-efficient design to mindful architecture, empowering you to reduce your environmental impact while building better systems.

  6. Inside the Machine
    Inside the Machine
    How Computers Really Work—from Bits and Logic to CPUs, Memory & Operating Systems
    Mohammad Kamrul Hassan

    What really happens inside your computer?A click seems simple.A program opens.A file loads.A webpage appears.But underneath that simple experience, billions of electronic components and thousands of layers of software are working together.Inside the Machine takes you beneath the interface—from bits and logic gates to CPUs, memory, storage, operating systems, and applications.Discover how information becomes computation, how processors execute instructions, how memory and caches keep data moving, how operating systems manage the machine, and how a computer goes from power-on to a running application.Stop seeing the computer as a black box. Start seeing the machine.

  7. Raspberry Pi Tips and Tricks
    Raspberry Pi Tips and Tricks
    Valuable collection of Raspberry Pi Tips and Tricks
    Ashwin Pajankar

    Learn tips and tricks for day-to-day use of Raspberry Pi. This book is meant for novice and intermediate level readers. If you are a regular user of Raspberry Pi, then reading this book will make your life easier.

  8. Code Like It's 198x
    Code Like It's 198x
    How computers really work, told through the simple explanations that stop being true
    Steve Hill

    How computers really work, told on one small machine from 1982, the ZX Spectrum, through the simple explanations every learner is given, and the moments each one stops being true.

  9. Local AI on RTX Spark Laptops
    Local AI on RTX Spark Laptops
    A Hands-On WSL2 Laboratory for Inference, Training, and Deployment, CUDA Programming, GPU Diagnostics, Observability, and Debugging with Complete Exercise Transcripts
    Dmitry Vostokov

    A local model returns the expected answer. How do we know which layers ran on the GPU? In Local AI on RTX Spark Laptops, we investigate questions like this through 251 hands-on WSL2 exercises, following the evidence from model-loader logs down to individual CUDA kernels.

  10. Reverse Engineering Hardware with Software and AI
    Reverse Engineering Hardware with Software and AI
    Principles, Strategies, Tools and Practical Methodologies
    Steve Publications

    What can you learn from hardware that comes with no documentation, missing schematics or a protocol nobody has explained? This book explores practical methods for uncovering how electronic systems work, combining hands-on investigation, software analysis and AI to turn unknown hardware into something you can understand, analyze and rebuild.

  11. Laptop No Display Repair Guide
    Laptop No Display Repair Guide
    A Practical Troubleshooting Handbook for Black Screen, Backlight, RAM, BIOS, Display Cable, GPU, and Motherboard Faults
    Shafeek Ahmad

    Laptop powers on, but the screen stays black? Learn how to troubleshoot no-display problems step by step. Discover practical methods for checking RAM, BIOS, LCD panels, backlights, display cables, GPU, and motherboard faults. A hands-on repair guide for beginners, hardware students, and technicians.

  12. Laptop Motherboard Repair Guide
    Laptop Motherboard Repair Guide
    Component Identification, Power Section Diagnosis, Fault Tracing, Soldering, Microsoldering, and Board-Level Troubleshooting
    Shafeek Ahmad

    Stop Guessing. Start Diagnosing Laptop Motherboards Like a Technician.Discover how laptop motherboard circuits work, identify SMD components, trace power failures, and troubleshoot common no-power, no-display, and charging problems using a systematic approach. This illustrated 115-page repair guide features 33 chapters, practical diagnostic methods, 12 repair case studies, and an eight-week learning plan to help beginners and technicians develop stronger board-level troubleshooting skills.

  13. Kapıdan Silikona
    Kapıdan Silikona
    Mantıksal devre tasarımından çip üretimine, beş derslik bir yol
    Ahmet Kandemir Pehlivanlı

    Mantık kapısından silikona: Mehmet Burak Aykenar'ın beş ders serisi, 132 video, konuya göre yeniden düzenlenmiş tek bir Türkçe başvuru kitabında. Kodlar mümkün olan her yerde çalıştırılarak doğrulandı; rastlanan tutarsızlıklar gizlenmeden kayda geçirildi. Ücretsizdir.

  14. CPU Performance Engineering
    CPU Performance Engineering
    From Architecture to Optimization - A Practical Guide to Making Software Faster
    Steve Publications

    What really makes software fast? This book takes you inside the modern CPU to show what happens to your code at the hardware level. Learn how to measure performance, find bottlenecks and turn slow code into faster code using practical techniques, real tools and real hardware.

  15. Coding CERN: A Technical Developer's Guide

    Explore the Software, Computing Architectures, Data Pipelines, and High-Performance Systems Behind Modern High-Energy PhysicsCERN is more than a particle physics laboratory. It operates one of the world's most demanding scientific computing environments, bringing together extreme data rates, heterogeneous hardware, distributed storage, high-performance networking, real-time processing, large-scale simulation, machine learning, and advanced software engineering.Coding CERN: A Technical Developer's Guide explores the computing architecture behind experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), connecting detector electronics and real-time trigger systems with modern C++, ROOT, distributed computing, GPU acceleration, machine learning, high-performance computing, and global scientific infrastructure.The book takes a developer-oriented approach to the complete scientific computing pipeline, examining how physical events become digital signals, how those signals are filtered and reconstructed, and how the resulting data is stored, distributed, simulated, and analyzed across geographically dispersed computing facilities.