Books

Whether you've never coded a game before or have years of experience under your belt, you'll learn the fundamentals of how to make games for Playdate using the Lua programming language. Make Games for Playdate with Lua covers how to program with Lua and the essential Playdate APIs. You'll make a handful of games to get you kickstarted on making your dream game for Playdate.

Developer platforms promise to rewrite the laws of IT physics: they boost innovation through standards; they speed up development while assuring compliance; and they reduce cognitive load without restricting choice. Building such an in-house platform, or even deploying one, is far from easy, though. This book condenses a decade of building and rolling out platforms into practical advice for platform teams and users.5300+ happy readers! Also as Paperback edition

The latest version of Rust (1.85) has some great new features, like async closures, more stable associated function return types, and const generics that are now mature enough to underpin serious numerical libraries. The linfa and smartcore ecosystems have developed into decent classical machine learning stacks. The Burn training framework feels native to Rust, not like it's been ported from it. The Candle makes it so that loading pre-trained transformer models is more of an engineering task than a research exercise. The crates that used to need all sorts of workarounds now just work.

This 2026 edition of the best-selling Kubernetes book is fully updated for the latest versions of Kubernetes and the latest industry trends. You won't find a better and more up-to-date book on Kubernetes. Hand-crafted over the past 8 years by best-selling author Nigel Poulton. This book is a masterpiece.

This book takes you straight into the Compose compiler, runtime, and UI layer, all about Compose performance tuning, reading the source line by line and explaining the why behind every design decision, then connecting each internal mechanism back to the code you write every day. The Course: Jetpack Compose Mechanisms | Hardcover | ISBN-13: 9798185354780

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

The Rails™ 8 Way is the comprehensive, authoritative reference guide for professionals delivering production-quality code using modern Ruby on Rails. It illuminates the entire Rails 8 API, its most powerful idioms, design approaches, and libraries. Building on the previous editions, this edition has been heavily refactored and updated.

You don’t need massive compute or big-tech resources to build real AI. This hands-on guide shows you how to build and fine-tune your own small language model—from scratch—using accessible tools like Google Colab. Learn transformers step-by-step, train and align models on your own data, and deploy practical AI systems that run on consumer GPUs. If you’ve ever wondered “Can I build my own model?”—this book proves the answer is yes.

IT Freelancing 2.0 zeigt dir, wie du dich als IT-Freelancer vom austauschbaren Projektarbeiter zum gefragten Experten entwickelst. Statt ständig um den nächsten Vertrag zu kämpfen, lernst du, dich klar zu positionieren, ergebnisorientierte Angebote zu gestalten und dir ein Geschäft mit echtem Zukunftswert aufzubauen.

In a galaxy not so far, far away… You have just received a set of requirements—or desires disguised as requirements—wild needs or want statements vaguely describing some notion of what the system should do. Now what? Where do you start with the specifications? Rule One: Don’t Panic, and reach for Engineering on Purpose!

Kotlin coroutines have revolutionized JVM development, especially on Android and the backend, as they let us easily implement efficient and reliable multithreading. Their cutting-edge design and features are ideally suited to modern use cases. In this book, we will explore how Kotlin coroutines work and how we can use them to improve our code.

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.

You tried Emacs. You quit. You're back. This time, you'll finish — with a keyboard-driven setup you built yourself, understand completely, and will use for life.

Jetpack Compose is the future of Android UI. Master how it works internally and become a more efficient developer with it. You'll also find it valuable if you are not an Android dev. This book provides all the details to understand how the Compose compiler & runtime work, and how to create a client library using them. You could also be interested on the Jetpack Compose Internals course by Jorge Castillo. Find it in composeinternals.com

Introduction to Statistics for the Life and Biomedical Sciences is the 4th official OpenIntro book and has been written to be used in conjunction with a set of self-paced learning labs. These labs guide students through learning how to apply statistical ideas and concepts discussed in the text with the R computing language.