Books

Discover what makes Racket more than just another programming language. Mastering Racket takes you from the fundamentals to macros, concurrency, web development and custom language design through practical, runnable examples. Learn to think in Racket and unlock the ideas that make it such a powerful tool for building software.

SIMD can make software dramatically faster, but getting it right takes more than knowing a few intrinsics. This book shows you how vectorization really works, how to avoid costly mistakes and how to turn ordinary code into fast, production-ready software with techniques you can use again and again.

Legacy modernization is an evidence problem before it is a code-generation problem. Use Claude Code to recover hidden behavior, build a verification harness, and move critical systems in controlled, reversible slices without handing production decisions to AI. Includes 26 practical chapters, 86 diagrams, and a runnable companion lab.

Use LoRA because it forgets less. Keep the learning rate low. Mix in some general data. Stopearly. Four pieces of advice everyone repeats and almost nobody quantifies. This book measures each one — and two turn out to be doing something other than what they arecredited with. LoRA's retention is governed by a scaling constant, not by its parameterefficiency. Early stopping bounds the damage without separating it from the gain. Everyexperiment reports two numbers: the new task, and the capability you were not trying tochange.

Start with your first line of code and grow into a confident VB.NET developer. Through clear explanations, practical examples and real-world projects, you’ll master modern .NET, object-oriented design, LINQ, async programming, databases, Windows apps, web APIs, testing and deployment, with a focus on writing software built for the real world.

Bring real Python to the browser. This practical guide takes you from Pyodide fundamentals to production-ready applications, with hands-on examples, proven patterns and clear-eyed trade-offs. Learn how Python and WebAssembly fit together, what works in the real world and how to build confidently for the web.

Ein Playbook gegen die agentische Drift — 29 Leitplanken, um KI-generierten Code prüfbar, ehrlich und auditierbar zu halten, destilliert aus über 27 Jahren Projekt- und Programmleitung in regulierten Branchen.

Build fast, secure and portable applications with WASI. Start with the fundamentals, then move into components, WIT, Wasmtime and real production patterns using Rust, C, Go and JavaScript. From sandboxed plugins to serverless and edge workloads, this practical guide gives you the skills to take WebAssembly from your first experiment to production.

Master modern Delphi from the ground up and build software that’s ready for the real world. From Object Pascal and VCL to FireMonkey, FireDAC, REST, concurrency and testing, this hands-on guide shows you how to write clean, maintainable applications with RAD Studio 13 Florence, backed by practical examples and proven techniques.

Most asyncio tutorials introduce async and await on page one and ask you to take the runtime on faith. This book does it the other way around. You build a working event loop inthirty lines of plain Python — no asyncio import — and meet the keywords as labels for parts of a runtime you have already watched run. By the end, async Python stops beingintimidating and starts being readable.

Big O is not about seconds. It is about what happens to your work when your input gets ten times bigger, and that is the question interviewers are really asking. This book builds the notation from a list of names you can watch being searched, then hands you twenty everyday jobs in ten pairs and asks you to name the shape of each one.

Vector databases give you a similarity metric, an index with four tuning parameters, acompression option and a way to filter — and almost no guidance on what any of it costs. This book builds each one from scratch and measures it. The proximity graph, the invertedfile, the product quantiser: implemented in NumPy, included with the text, and checkedagainst exhaustive search — so every recall figure here is exact rather than estimated.

Both parts of the Transition Playbook in one 139-page volume: the mental models, the orchestration patterns, and two 30-day plans for moving from writing code to directing agents.

Supabase wired into Claude and Cursor over MCP, with RLS designed for agent access, service_role blast radius contained, and ten failure modes diagnosed.

Measure where LLM context costs accumulate, then cut them with deduplication, summarization, truncation and cache exploitation, with a cost model that shows the ROI of each.