Learn to code musical masterpieces with the creator of Sonic Pi in the 4th MagPi Essentials book. Sam Aaron, the creator of Sonic Pi, has written this book to complement the software’s built-in tutorial and to help you jump-start your live-coding career.
Nowadays, society loves to capture their lives in colorful shots and movies they can place on YouTube, Facebook, or their own websites.
The way we think about building web applications is changing fast to meet the increased demands of user traffic, data load, and development cycle time. New approaches, many influenced by functional and reactive programming models, along with the languages and frameworks that support them, are becoming mainstream. In this exploratory book, you’ll tour emerging frameworks and languages, gaining ideas that will show up in next-generation programming.
Design for the Mind: Seven Psychological Principles of Persuasive Design teaches web designers and developers how to create sites and applications that appeal to our innate natural responses as humans. Author Victor Yocco, a researcher on psychology and communication, introduces the most immediately relevant and applicable psychological concepts, breaks down each theory into easily-digested principles, then shows how they can be used to inform better design.
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Introducing Data Science teaches you how to accomplish the fundamental tasks that occupy data scientists. Using the Python language and common Python libraries, you’ll experience firsthand the challenges of dealing with data at scale and gain a solid foundation in data science.
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A hands-on guide that will teach how to design and implement scalable, flexible, and open IoT solutions using web technologies. This book focuses on providing the right balance of theory, code samples, and practical examples to enable you to successfully connect all sorts of devices to the web and to expose their services and data over REST APIs.
The future is now with the newly revised edition of the How It Works Book of Amazing Technology. Discover the gadgets that will transform your daily life, learn more about the technology behind our most popular lifestyle products, find out about the incredible engineering behind our structures and machinery, and dissect the biotech that keeps us alive and enhances our own biological functions.
The 3rd book in The MagPi Essentials range, Experiment with the Sense HAT, introduces you to one of the most powerful add-on boards ever made for the Raspberry Pi.
