Open Source Books
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Building the Perfect PC, Second Edition
Published 14 years ago
by Robert Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson, O'Reilly Media
This popular Build-It-Yourself (BIY) PC book covers everything you want to know about building your own system: Planning and picking out the right components, step-by-step instructions for assembling your perfect PC, and an insightful discussion of why you'd want to do it in the first place. Most big brand computers from HP, Dell and others use lower-quality components so they can meet their aggressive pricing targets.
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Dive Into Python 3
Published 11 years ago
by Mark Pilgrim, CreateSpace
Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Python 3 is a hands-on guide to Python 3 (the latest version of the Python language) and its differences from Python 2. As in the original book, Dive Into Python, each chapter starts with a real, complete code sample, proceeds to pick it apart and explain the pieces, and then puts it all back together in a summary at the end. Dive Into Python 3 is a Python book for experienced programmers.
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Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB
Published 12 years ago
by James Murty, O'Reilly Media
Product Description Building on the success of its storefront and fulfillment services, Amazon now allows businesses to "rent" computing power, data storage and bandwidth on its vast network platform. This book demonstrates how developers working with small- to mid-sized companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as the Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Flexible Payments Service (FPS), and SimpleDB to build web-scale bus
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Mastering Blender
Published 11 years ago
by Tony Mullen, Sybex
Blender, the free alternative for professional-quality 3D animation is a complex program to learn, but once users become familiar with its power, they begin to seek more from it. This book is the first of its kind to explore the more advanced features of Blender so that you can get the most out of the software.
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Python Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))
Published 16 years ago
by Mark Lutz, O'Reilly Media
Python is optimized for quality, productivity, portability, and integration. Hundreds of thousands of Python developers around the world rely on Python for general-purpose tasks, Internet scripting, systems programming, user interfaces, and product customization. Available on all major computing platforms, including commercial versions of Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, Python is portable, powerful and remarkable easy to use.
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Python Programming in Context
Published 12 years ago
by Bradley Miller, PhD, David Ranum, Jones & Bartlett Publishers
With NEW Python 3.0! A user-friendly, object-oriented language, Python is quickly becoming the favorite introductory programming language among students and instructors. Many find Python to be a more lucid language than Java but with much of the functionality and therefore the ideal first language for those entering the world of Computer Science.
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Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS
Published 14 years ago
by Ian Lloyd, SitePoint
Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS teaches web development from scratch, without assuming any previous knowledge of HTML, CSS or web development techniques. This book introduces you to HTML and CSS as you follow along with the author, step-by-step, to build a fully functional web site from the ground up.
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Twisted Network Programming Essentials
Published 15 years ago
by Abe Fettig, O'Reilly Media
"Twisted Network Programming Essentials" from O'Reilly is a task-oriented look at this new open source, Python-based technology. The book begins with recommendations for various plug-ins and add-ons to enhance the basic package as installed. It then details Twisted's collection simple network protocols, and helper utilities. The book also includes projects that let you try out the Twisted framework for yourself.
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Advanced Rails Recipes
Published 12 years ago
by Mike Clark, Pragmatic Bookshelf
Ruby on Rails continues to build up a tremendous head of steam. Fueled by significant benefits and an impressive portfolio of real-world applications already in production, Rails is destined to continue making significant inroads in coming years. Each new Rails application showing up on the web adds yet more to the collective wisdom of the Rails development community.
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C++: The Complete Reference, 4th Edition
Published 18 years ago
by Herbert Schildt, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Best-selling genius Herb Schildt covers everything from keywords, syntax, and libraries, to advanced features such as overloading, inheritance, virtual functions, namespaces, templates, and RTTI--plus, a complete description of the Standard Template Library (STL).