Books

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Hello friend. Do you feel like you need to know git, but you don't? Well now you can! Painless Git is all about learning and having a good time doing it.

Queer Privacy is a collection of essays about community, family, coming out, dating, domestic violence, activism, sex work and suicide. We will talk about problems, we won't always have solutions, and not all the stories have happy endings. After all, this is real life and we are building it together - one step at a time.

Roger Peng and Hilary Parker started the Not So Standard Deviations podcast in 2015, a podcast dedicated to discussing the backstory and day to day life of data scientists in academia and industry. This book collects many of their conversations about data science and how it works (and sometimes doesn't work) in the real world.

This book tries to put words to what most experienced programmers already know. It provides a framework for making better design choices, and a vocabulary for teams to discuss the software they collaborate on.

The software landscape is more crowed than ever! New frameworks seem to arrive weekly.  There are tons of books out there about mastering specific frameworks, but here is one to help you master the one constant factor, no matter where you are:  constructing the source code. Build great things in any programming notation; the rules are inside...

Learn about working efficiently with memory in .NET.

A book about how to be a scientist the modern, open-source way.

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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.

Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory is a powerful framework for ecotoxicology and stress ecology. This book provides a gentle introduction into the concepts behind DEB theory, and how to apply them in practice to understand stressor effects. The book is completely "math free".

Just Enough Linux aims at getting you comfortable with some of the commands used in Linux and to hopefully help you 'get' Linux.

Modern AI applications are not built from scratch but, instead, by integrating off-the-shelf components: libraries, frameworks, and services. "Applied Artificial Intelligence - An Engingeering Approach" focuses on engineering user friendly, high-performance, and maintainable AI applications.

This book provides a reader with a holistic and in-depth knowledge of the Python language. It explains how methods and functions are related, how sequences can be created elegantly, the tools for functional programming, how user defined objects can be no different from Python objects and how one can control almost everything from import statements to class creation using meta-classes and decorators etc.