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Modern C focuses on the new and unique features of modern C programming. The book is based on the latest C standards and offers an up-to-date perspective on this tried-and-true language.

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About the Technology

C is extraordinarily modern for a 50-year-old programming language. Whether you're writing embedded code, low-level system routines, or high-performance applications, C is up to the challenge. This unique book, based on the latest C standards, exposes a modern perspective of this tried-and-true language.

About the Book

Modern C introduces you to modern day C programming, emphasizing the unique and new features of this powerful language. For new C coders, it starts with fundamentals like structure, grammar, compilation, and execution. From there, you'll advance to control structures, data types, operators, and functions, as you gain a deeper understanding of what's happening under the hood. In the final chapters, you'll explore performance considerations, reentrancy, atomicity, threads, and type-generic programming. You'll code as you go with concept-reinforcing exercises and skill-honing challenges along the way.

What's inside

• Operators and functions
• Pointers, threading, and atomicity
• C's memory model
• Hands-on exercises

About the Reader

For programmers comfortable writing simple programs in a language like Java, Python, Ruby, C#, C++, or C.

About the Author

Jens Gustedt is a senior scientist at the French National Institute for Computer Science and Control (INRIA) and co-editor of the ISO C standard.

Table of Contents

LEVEL 0 - Encounter
1. Getting started
2. The principal structure of a program
LEVEL 1 - Acquaintance
3. Everything is about control
4. Expressing computations
5. Basic values and data
6. Derived data types
7. Functions
8. C library functions
LEVEL 2 - Cognition
9. Style
10. Organization and documentation
11. Pointers
12. The C memory model
13. Storage
14. More involved processing and IO
LEVEL 3 - Experience
15. Performance
16. Function-like macros
17. Variations in control flow
18. Threads 325
19. Atomic access and memory consistency

Functional Programming in C++ teaches developers the practical side of functional programming and the tools that C++ provides to develop software in the functional style. This in-depth guide is full of useful diagrams that help you understand FP concepts and begin to think functionally.

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About the Technology

Well-written code is easier to test and reuse, simpler to parallelize, and less error prone. Mastering the functional style of programming can help you tackle the demands of modern apps and will lead to simpler expression of complex program logic, graceful error handling, and elegant concurrency. C++ supports FP with templates, lambdas, and other core language features, along with many parts of the STL.

About the Book

Functional Programming in C++ helps you unleash the functional side of your brain, as you gain a powerful new perspective on C++ coding. You'll discover dozens of examples, diagrams, and illustrations that break down the functional concepts you can apply in C++, including lazy evaluation, function objects and invokables, algebraic data types, and more. As you read, you'll match FP techniques with practical scenarios where they offer the most benefit.

What's inside

• Writing safer code with no performance penalties
• Explicitly handling errors through the type system
• Extending C++ with new control structures
• Composing tasks with DSLs

About the Reader

Written for developers with two or more years of experience coding in C++.

About the Author

Ivan Čukic is a core developer at KDE and has been coding in C++ since 1998. He teaches modern C++ and functional programming at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Belgrade.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to functional programming
2. Getting started with functional programming
3. Function objects
4. Creating new functions from the old ones
5. Purity: Avoiding mutable state
6. Lazy evaluation
7. Ranges
8. Functional data structures
9. Algebraic data types and pattern matching
10. Monads
11. Template metaprogramming
12. Functional design for concurrent systems
13. Testing and debugging

Grokking Algorithms is a fully illustrated, friendly guide that teaches you how to apply common algorithms to the practical problems you face every day as a programmer. You'll start with sorting and searching and, as you build up your skills in thinking algorithmically, you'll tackle more complex concerns such as data compression and artificial intelligence. Each carefully presented example includes helpful diagrams and fully annotated code samples in Python.

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About the Technology

An algorithm is nothing more than a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem. The algorithms you'll use most often as a programmer have already been discovered, tested, and proven. If you want to understand them but refuse to slog through dense multipage proofs, this is the book for you. This fully illustrated and engaging guide makes it easy to learn how to use the most important algorithms effectively in your own programs.

About the Book

Grokking Algorithms is a friendly take on this core computer science topic. In it, you'll learn how to apply common algorithms to the practical programming problems you face every day. You'll start with tasks like sorting and searching. As you build up your skills, you'll tackle more complex problems like data compression and artificial intelligence. Each carefully presented example includes helpful diagrams and fully annotated code samples in Python. By the end of this book, you will have mastered widely applicable algorithms as well as how and when to use them.

What's Inside

• Covers search, sort, and graph algorithms
• Over 400 pictures with detailed walkthroughs
• Performance trade-offs between algorithms
• Python-based code samples

About the Reader

This easy-to-read, picture-heavy introduction is suitable for self-taught programmers, engineers, or anyone who wants to brush up on algorithms.

About the Author

Aditya Bhargava is a Software Engineer with a dual background in Computer Science and Fine Arts. He blogs on programming at adit.io.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to algorithms
2. Selection sort
3. Recursion
4. Quicksort
5. Hash tables
6. Breadth-first search
7. Dijkstra's algorithm
8. Greedy algorithms
9. Dynamic programming
10. K-nearest neighbors

The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition is a beautifully written tutorial that begins with your first Ruby program and takes you all the way to sophisticated topics like reflection, threading, and recursion. Ruby masters David A. Black and Joe Leo distill their years of knowledge for you, concentrating on the language and its uses so you can use Ruby in any way you choose. Updated for Ruby 2.5.

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About the Technology

Designed for developer productivity, Ruby is an easy-to-learn dynamic language perfect for creating virtually any kind of software. Its famously friendly development community, countless libraries, and amazing tools, like the Rails framework, have established it as the language of choice for high-profile companies, including GitHub, SlideShare, and Shopify. The future is bright for the well-grounded Rubyist

About the Book

In The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition, expert authors David A. Black and Joseph Leo deliver Ruby mastery in an easy-to-read, casual style. You'll lock in core principles as you write your first Ruby programs. Then, you'll progressively build up to topics like reflection, threading, and recursion, cementing your knowledge with high-value exercises to practice your skills along the way.

What's Inside

• Basic Ruby syntax
• Running Ruby extensions
• FP concepts like currying, side-effect-free code, and recursion
• Ruby 2.5 updates

About the Reader

For readers with beginner-level programming skills.

About the Authors

David A. Black is an internationally known Ruby developer and author, and a cofounder of Ruby Central. Ruby teacher and advocate Joseph Leo III is the founder of Def Method and lead organizer of the Gotham Ruby Conference.

Table of Contents

PART 1 RUBY FOUNDATIONS
1. Bootstrapping your Ruby literacy
2. Objects, methods, and local variables
3. Organizing objects with classes
4. Modules and program organization
5. The default object (self), scope, and visibility
6. Control-flow techniques


PART 2 BUILT-IN CLASSES AND MODULES
7. Built-in essentials
8. Strings, symbols, and other scalar objects
9. Collection and container objects
10. Collections central: Enumerable and Enumerator
11. Regular expressions and regexp-based string operations
12. File and I/O operations


PART 3 RUBY DYNAMICS
13. Object individuation
14. Callable and runnable objects
15. Callbacks, hooks, and runtime introspection
16. Ruby and functional programming