Computer Science

Chris Barney’s Pattern Language for Game Design builds on the revolutionary work of architect Christopher Alexander to show students, teachers, and game development professionals how to derive best practices in all aspects of game design. Using a series...

A concise, accessible introduction to robots, what they can do, what they can't, and what their increasing encroachment into our lives might mean for us. Since the turn of the millennium a quiet revolution has been underway. Millions of autonomous...

This book is primarily a summary of research done over 10 years in multimedia and virtual reality, which fits within a wider interest of exploiting psychological theory to improve the process of designing interactive systems. The subject matter lies...

Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043410Author Xavier RivalFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788130915999Author Joel WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Viva BooksPublisher Viva BooksDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm

Learn the C++ programming language in a structured, straightforward, and friendly manner. This book teaches the basics of the modern C++ programming language, the C++ Standard Library, and modern C++ standards, including C++23. No previous programming...

A decision procedure is an algorithm that, given a decision problem, terminates with a correct yes/no answer. Here, the authors focus on theories that are expressive enough to model real problems, but are still decidable. Specifically, the book...

Gain a contemporary overview of today's computer science with the best-selling INVITATION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE, 8E. This flexible, non-language-specific book uses an algorithm-centered approach that's ideal for your first introduction to computer science...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359114894Author Jonathan GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 22Imprint Abbott PropertiesPublisher Abbott PropertiesWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 297mm *...

This monograph aims to promote original mathematical methods to determine the invariant measure of two-dimensional random walks in domains with boundaries. Such processes arise in numerous applications and are of interest in several areas of mathematical...

Chris Barney's Pattern Language for Game Design builds on the revolutionary work of architect Christopher Alexander to show students, teachers, and game development professionals how to derive best practices in all aspects of game design. Using a series...

A mathematical tour of some of the greatest unsolved ciphers of all timeIn 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelphia airport with a picture of a Nazi aircraft in his wallet and an enciphered message taped to his abdomen. In...

The latest edition of a classic text on concurrency and distributed programming - from a winner of the ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education.The latest edition of a classic text on concurrency and distributed...

This new edition of the hacker's own phenomenally successful lexicon includes more than 100 new entries and updates or revises 200 more. This new edition of the hacker's own phenomenally successful lexicon includes more than 100 new entries and updates...

Learn how to leverage feature stores to make the most of your machine learning modelsKey FeaturesUnderstand the significance of feature stores in the ML life cycleDiscover how features can be shared, discovered, and re-usedLearn to make features...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789334056259Author Sivakumar R DPage Count 98Imprint UnknownPublisher Unknown

Your domain is rich and interconnected, and your API should be too. Upgrade your web API to GraphQL, leveraging its flexible queries to empower your users, and its declarative structure to simplify your code. Absinthe is the GraphQL toolkit for Elixir, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262610742Author Gregor KiczalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 17mm

This accessible and entertaining book explores the fundamental connections between life and information and how they emerged inextricably linked, taking the reader on a journey through all the major evolutionary transitions. It records the entire path of...

Hundreds of grassroots groups have sprung up around the world to teach programming, web design, robotics, and other skills outside traditional classrooms. These groups exist so that people don't have to learn these things on their own, but ironically,...

Learn the essential skills for building an authentic federated learning system with Python and take your machine learning applications to the next levelKey FeaturesDesign distributed systems that can be applied to real-world federated learning...

Bring agility, cost savings, and a competitive edge to your business by migrating your IT infrastructure to AWS. With this practical book, executive and senior leadership and engineering and IT managers will examine the advantages, disadvantages, and...

Written by one of the foremost experts in high-performance computing and the inventor of Gustafson's law, Every Bit Counts: Posit Computing explains the foundations of a new way for computers to calculate that saves time, storage, energy, and power by...

A fresh, contemporary, active introduction to information systems Introduction to Information Systems provides invaluable help for learning the knowledge and skills related to information systems. In it, students see clearly what information systems are...

This textbook intends to be a comprehensive and substantially self-contained two-volume book covering performance, reliability, and availability evaluation subjects. The volumes focus on computing systems, although the methods may also be applied to...

How did we end up here, masters of scientific insight, purveyors of ever more powerful technologies, astride the burning planet that created us, and now responsible for cleaning up the mess and determining the future direction of all of life? And what do...

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents computer programming as a key method for solving mathematical problems. This second edition of the well-received book has been extensively revised: All code is now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871962437Author Mike JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint I/O PressPublisher I/O Press

Aimed at students learning how to program for the first time, this is a focused introduction which stands out as an accessible first encounter with Java. Students work their way through carefully chosen examples and exercises - paced and structured for...

This popular standard textbook has been comprehensively revised by experienced teacher and examiner Sylvia Langfield. She has bought the text up to date (espically the objectoriented programming and networking chapters, HTML and ASP, networking (TCP/IP...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534772Author Marvin MinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Web3 is the next evolution for the World Wide Web based on Blockchain technology. This book will equip entrepreneurs with the best preparation for the megatrend of Web3 by reviewing its core concepts such as DAOs, tokens, dApps, and Ethereum.With Web2,...

Slow systems are frustrating. They waste time and money. But making consistently great decisions about performance can be easy, if you understand what's going on. This book explains in a clear and thoughtful voice why systems perform the way they do...

Gain a deeper understanding of how distributed systems work, as well as which applications and systems are used for specific business domains or industries. This book provides a set of solution architecture patterns that were developed based on the...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the notion that nearly everything we use, from gym shorts to streetlights, will soon be connected to the Internet; the Internet of Everything (IoE) encompasses not just objects, but the social connections, data, and...

A central aim and ever-lasting dream of computer science is to put the development of hardware and software systems on a mathematical basis which is both firm and practical. Such a scientific foundation is needed especially for the construction of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848900103Author Harold "Bud" LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992753634Author Kevin BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 590Imprint Educational Computing Services LtdPublisher Educational Computing Services Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048064Author Emmanuelle BurtonFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd