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Build Chatbot Interactions
The next step in the evolution of user interfaces is here. Chatbots let your users interact with your service in their own natural language. Use free and open source tools along with Ruby to build creative, useful, and unexpected interactions for users. Take advantage of the Lita framework’s step-by-step implementation strategy to simplify bot development and testing. From novices to experts, chatbots are an area in which everyone can participate. Exercise your creativity by creating chatbot skills for communicating, information, and fun.
Daniel Pritchett
(206 pages) ISBN: 9781680506327 $35.95
3D Game Programming for Kids, Second Edition
You know what’s even better than playing games? Programming your own! Make your own online games, even if you’re an absolute beginner. Let your imagination come to 3D life as you learn real-world programming skills with the JavaScript programming language—the language used everywhere on the web. This new edition is completely revised and takes advantage of new programming features to make game programming even easier to learn. Plus, new effects make your games even cooler. When you’re done, you’re going to be amazed at what you can create.
Chris Strom
(372 pages) ISBN: 9781680502701 $47.95
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, Second Edition
If you thought that data structures and algorithms were all just theory, you’re missing out on what they can do for your code. Learn to use Big O notation to make your code run faster by orders of magnitude. Choose from data structures such as hash tables, trees, and graphs to increase your code’s efficiency exponentially. With simple language and clear diagrams, this book makes this complex topic accessible, no matter your background. This new edition features practice exercises in every chapter, and new chapters on topics such as dynamic programming and heaps and tries. Get the hands-on info you need to master data structures and algorithms for your day-to-day work.
Jay Wengrow
(506 pages) ISBN: 9781680507225 $45.95
Practical Microservices
MVC and CRUD make software easier to write, but harder to change. Microservice-based architectures can help even the smallest of projects remain agile in the long term, but most tutorials meander in theory or completely miss the point of what it means to be microservice based. Roll up your sleeves with real projects and learn the most important concepts of evented architectures. You’ll have your own deployable, testable project and a direction for where to go next.
Ethan Garofolo
(290 pages) ISBN: 9781680506457 $45.95
Mazes for Programmers
A book on mazes? Seriously? Yes! Not because you spend your day creating mazes, or because you particularly like solving mazes. But because it’s fun. Remember when programming used to be fun? This book takes you back to those days when you were starting to program, and you wanted to make your code do things, draw things, and solve puzzles. It’s fun because it lets you explore and grow your code, and reminds you how it feels to just think. Sometimes it feels like you live your life in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. Now you can code your way out.
Jamis Buck
(286 pages) ISBN: 9781680500554 $38
Your Code as a Crime Scene
Jack the Ripper and legacy codebases have more in common than you’d think. Inspired by forensic psychology methods, this book teaches you strategies to predict the future of your codebase, assess refactoring direction, and understand how your team influences the design. With its unique blend of forensic psychology and code analysis, this book arms you with the strategies you need, no matter what programming language you use.
Adam Tornhill
(218 pages) ISBN: 9781680500387 $36
The Ray Tracer Challenge
Brace yourself for a fun challenge: build a photorealistic 3D renderer from scratch! It’s easier than you think. In just a couple of weeks, build a ray tracer that renders beautiful scenes with shadows, reflections, brilliant refraction effects, and subjects composed of various graphics primitives: spheres, cubes, cylinders, triangles, and more. With each chapter, implement another piece of the puzzle and move the renderer that much further forward. Do all of this in whichever language and environment you prefer, and do it entirely test-first, so you know it’s correct. Recharge yourself with this project’s immense potential for personal exploration, experimentation, and discovery.
Jamis Buck
(290 pages) ISBN: 9781680502718 $45.95
Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
Great programmers aren’t born—they’re made. The industry is moving from object-oriented languages to functional languages, and you need to commit to radical improvement. New programming languages arm you with the tools and idioms you need to refine your craft. While other language primers take you through basic installation and “Hello, World,” we aim higher. Each language in Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks will take you on a step-by-step journey through the most important paradigms of our time. You’ll learn seven exciting languages: Lua, Factor, Elixir, Elm, Julia, MiniKanren, and Idris.
Bruce Tate, Fred Daoud, Jack Moffitt, Ian Dees
(318 pages) ISBN: 9781941222157 $38