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  1. Learn to build synthesizers, drum machines, audio effects and other weird instruments with the Axoloti platform.

  2. Windows 10 Field Guide
    Includes Reference, Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro 4, and Surface Studio posters
    Paul Thurrott, Rafael Rivera, and Martin McClean

    Windows 10 Field Guide is a full-length e-book about the latest version of Microsoft Windows, aimed at those users who will upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, or acquire Windows 10 with a new PC.

  3. Learn how to create a complete HTML5 game based on brick-breaker mechanics using Phaser. It is the result of teaching game development at a local institute that focuses on learning by doing. The book is bundled with all the necessary assets and well-commented source code so you can get it right away.

  4. Hello Web App
    Learn how to build a web app using Django and Python! Updated for Django 3.2.
    Tracy Osborn

    Learn to code your own web app! Go from idea generation to launching your web app to potential customers in this short and friendly book. Updated for Django 2.0 and Python 3.

  5. Learn how to prototype IoT projects with JavaScript and the Node-RED IoT workflow editor using hardware like the Espruino and the WiFi Tessel board

  6. Ich will den OpenWrt-Paketfilter verstehen, mit allem was dazu gehört. Das heißt, ich will die Grundlagen kennen und die Bestandteile des Paketfilters. Ich will wissen, wie ich das konfigurieren und dann die Konfiguration überprüfen kann. Nicht zuletzt möchte ich fundiert entscheiden können, wann ich den Paketfilter wie einsetze.

  7. Mon Odyssée Lean Startup
    Qui n'a jamais rêvé de lancer sa petite entreprise sans risques ? Voici mon expérience grâce au Lean Startup.
    Nicolas Deverge

    Voici l'histoire de Keysmag.net, mon produit bootstrappé depuis mon canapé. Dans la première partie du livre, vous saurez tout sur l'histoire de ce « side project » en mode Lean Startup, depuis l'identification d'un problème, jusqu'aux premiers euros gagnés. Dans la seconde partie, des explications sont données pour vous aider à mieux comprendre la philosophie Lean Startup et aussi ses techniques et outils (Lean Canvas, MVP, Customer Development etc...).

  8. The Ultimate AndroiDAQ Guide
    The Ultimate AndroiDAQ Guide goes beyond any user’s manual with its in depth plethora of examples for data acquisition circuitry and software code for Android, LabVIEW, and more.
    Rick Fluck

    Imagine not having to think about interrupts when programming for your next project. Imagine processing in a parallel, not linear. Imagine not being limited by counter/timer availability.

  9. Snake Game for the Web
    Journey into Nodejs, HTML5, CSS3, MySQL & Docker
    Jaakko Vanhala and Anssi Gröhn

    This book is a practical approach to web game development using JavaScript and HTML5. You'll join a journey of writing a multiplayer online game from scratch by building a solid Node.js server solution and bringing outstanding game experience to every part of user interface. The game utilises Docker containers for easy deployments!

  10. Nerd Life Balance
    The Art of Open Sourcing Your Life
    Nick Floyd

    Getting things done is hard. Getting things done without completely destroying our work-life balance is really hard. The idea has traditionally been that if we focus on the tasks and work we will inevitably achieve our goals and everyone will be happy. Most of us can remember working some really long weeks and hitting the “goal” but not feeling very happy. Note: This book's source is available and open for contributions!  Please consider contributing and getting your amazing ideas out into the wild!

  11. What is the new social communication? What does it mean that it is a flow of multiple voices, of new modes, forms and contents? The End of Journalism and Other Good News, the third book from lavaca, is a hypothesis. The hypothesis says that media capitalism is in crisis, while technological, social, and political transformations are generating global and networked spheres of work that are capable of giving meaning back to the idea of communication.

  12. Treading on Python: Volume 2 Intermediate Python
    Functional Python, Decorators, Generators, and more
    Matt Harrison

    Do you want to take your Python to the next level? Python is easy to learn. You can learn the basics in a day and be productive with it. But there are more advanced constructs that you will eventually run across if you spend enough time with it. Don't be confused by these. Learn them, embrace them, and improve your code and others.

  13. The Guide to Busking
    a how-to guide for street performance. (cover illustration: Amy Kuttab)
    Tom Senkus

    Ever wanted to know what it takes to be a street musician? This book will show you the hows, the whys, and the why not's of being a professional street musician. Littered throughout the wonderful how-to are amusing anecdotes of failure and triumph that--even if you don't want to do-it-yourself--you can still laugh at our folly.

  14. So You Want to Be a Writer!
    Insights and Practical Tips from a 60-Book Author
    Dan Shafer

    Dan Shafer has published 60 books on topics ranging from computer programming to spirituality to "how-to" software guides. In this witty little volume, he offers some insights and suggestions for how to handle writer's block, the best way to get a handle on your audience, and the value and techniques of outlining.

  15. #tagcoding in the US
    Structured hashtags for local and country-wide inclusive public discourse
    Jan Goossenaerts

    Using the defined hashtags will become an atomic habit for the digital age, a game changer when sharing, quoting, replying to and retrieving content on any social platform.