Books

This tutorial has a funny name, and friendly face, but it's serious about making learning Haskell fun. Volume 1 is a most enjoyable way for programming beginners to start with Haskell. It will take your reading from zero to halfway thru beginner-level, and your writing to the tiniest pre-beginner (basic) programs. Uses gradual, staged, small whole programs and fun examples with useful illustrations. The main site is at www.happylearnhaskelltutorial.com. Twitter @happylearntutes and YouTube Channel.

Project Myopia: belief that the project model is the only way of managing business change and development; not seeing digital development as a continuous commitment to growing the business; believing it will end and working for the end. #NoProjects Project Myopia is now on Amazon

Greenhouse gas emissions have caused considerable changes in climate, including increased surface air temperatures and rising sea levels. This e-textbook presents a series of laboratory exercises in R that teach the Earth science and statistical concepts needed for assessing climate-related risks. These exercises are intended for upper-level undergraduates, beginning graduate students, and professionals in other areas who wish to gain insight into academic climate risk analysis.

This book is about exploratory testing as an approach to thinking and learning while testing. Some might call this skilled testing. Some might say just testing (of good quality). It's about the special thing professional testers do to when they provide great results, so that you can learn to do it better too.

Strong-style pair programming is about handing the keyboard to your pair when you have the idea. As a style of pairing, it is particularly well suited for engaging uneven pairs and people new to pairing. Learn to play with the style of pair programming and add strong-style pair programming to your options.

The official companion of Finding Hidden Messages in DNA, the popular first course in Coursera's Bioinformatics sequence. Learn how biologists have begun to decipher the strange and wonderful language of DNA without needing to put on a lab coat. This book contains the first two chapters from Volume 1 of Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach.

This book introduces the topic of Developing Data Products in R. A data product is the ideal output of a Data Science experiment. This book is based on the Coursera Class "Developing Data Products" as part of the Data Science Specialization. Particular emphasis is paid to developing Shiny apps and interactive graphics.

This volume contains the proceedings of a symposium that took place during the 2011 annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) in Chicago, Illinois. The purpose of the symposium was to present the Sustainable Use Model for Language Development (SUM) and, in particular, to demonstrate the application of the Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS) as a means of describing language ecologies in different parts of the world. Case studies on Bangladesh, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Malaysia are included.

This is the user manual of Markua on Leanpub. This is the version of Markua which launched on Leanpub in 2014 and has evolved since then. It is stable and solid.

The objective of the book is to introduce its  reader to the world of design patterns by working through some important ones. It is not an exaustive reference text on design patterns, rather a friendly tutorial type text. The reader is expected to be familiar with programming in an object oriented language like Java or Python. 

Trailblazer introduces several new abstraction layers into Rails. It gives developers structure and architectural guidance and finally answers the question of "Where do I put this kind of code?" in Rails. This book walks you through a realistic development of a Rails application with Trailblazer and discusses every bloody aspect of it.

¿A que dedica el tiempo el programador? Parece una pregunta para el capitán obvio. El programador dedicará la mayor parte de su tiempo a programar, ¿no? En cierta medida esa afirmación es cierta. De hecho, si no dedicara tiempo a programar no sería un programador. Sería otra cosa. Pero ...

Production Go is the book about creating and maintaining modern production applications written in Go. It assumes prior programming knowledge, and is recommended for professional programmers.