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Explore C# and the .NET Core framework to create applications and optimize them with ASP.NET Core 2 Key Features *Get to grips with multi-threaded, concurrent, and asynchronous programming in C# and .NET Core *Develop modern, cross-platform applications with .NET Core 2.0 and C# 7.0 *Create efficient web applications with ASP.NET Core 2. Book Description C# is a widely used programming language, thanks to its easy learning curve, versatility, and support for modern paradigms. The language is used to create desktop apps, background services, web apps, and mobile apps. .NET Core is open source and compatible with Mac OS and Linux. There is no limit to what you can achieve with C# and .NET Core. This Learning Path begins with the basics of C# and object-oriented programming (OOP) and explores features of C#, such as tuples, pattern matching, and out variables. You will understand.NET Standard 2.0 class libraries and ASP.NET Core 2.0, and create professional websites, services, and applications. You will become familiar with mobile app development using Xamarin.Forms and learn to develop high-performing applications by writing optimized code with various profiling techniques. By the end of C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications, you will have all the knowledge required to build modern, cross-platform apps using C# and .NET. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: *C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 - Modern Cross-Platform Development - Third Edition by Mark J. Price *C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance by Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan What you will learn *Explore ASP.NET Core to create professional web applications *Master OOP with C# to increase code reusability and efficiency *Protect your data using encryption and hashing *Measure application performance using BenchmarkDotNet *Use design techniques to increase your application’s performance *Learn memory management techniques in .NET Core *Understand tools and techniques to monitor application performance Who this book is for This Learning Path is designed for developers who want to gain a solid foundation in C# and .NET Core, and want to build cross-platform applications. To gain maximum benefit from this Learning Path, you must have basic knowledge of C#.

A practical guide to building high performance systems for object detection, segmentation, video processing, smartphone applications, and more. This book is based on the alpha version of TensorFlow 2. Key Features * Discover how to build, train, and serve your own deep neural networks with TensorFlow 2 and Keras * Apply modern solutions to a wide range of applications such as object detection and video analysis * Learn how to run your models on mobile devices and webpages and improve their performance Book Description Computer vision solutions are becoming increasingly common, making their way in fields such as health, automobile, social media, and robotics. This book will help you explore TensorFlow 2, the brand new version of Google's open source framework for machine learning. You will understand how to benefit from using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for visual tasks. Hands-On Computer Vision with TensorFlow 2 starts with the fundamentals of computer vision and deep learning, teaching you how to build a neural network from scratch. You will discover the features that have made TensorFlow the most widely used AI library, along with its intuitive Keras interface, and move on to building, training, and deploying CNNs efficiently. Complete with concrete code examples, the book demonstrates how to classify images with modern solutions, such as Inception and ResNet, and extract specific content using You Only Look Once (YOLO), Mask R-CNN, and U-Net. You will also build Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) to create and edit images, and LSTMs to analyze videos. In the process, you will acquire advanced insights into transfer learning, data augmentation, domain adaptation, and mobile and web deployment, among other key concepts. By the end of the book, you will have both the theoretical understanding and practical skills to solve advanced computer vision problems with TensorFlow 2.0. What you will learn * Create your own neural networks from scratch * Classify images with modern architectures including Inception and ResNet * Detect and segment objects in images with YOLO, Mask R-CNN, and U-Net * Tackle problems in developing self-driving cars and facial emotion recognition systems * Boost your application’s performance with transfer learning, GANs, and domain adaptation * Use recurrent neural networks for video analysis * Optimize and deploy your networks on mobile devices and in the browser Who this book is for If you’re new to deep learning and have some background in Python programming and image processing, like reading/writing image files and editing pixels, this book is for you. Even if you’re an expert curious about the new TensorFlow 2 features, you’ll find this book useful. While some theoretical explanations require knowledge in algebra and calculus, the book covers concrete examples for learners focused on practical applications such as visual recognition for self-driving cars and smartphone apps.

A comprehensive guide to Android forensics, from setting up the workstation to analyzing key artifacts Key Features *Get up and running with modern mobile forensic strategies and techniques *Analyze the most popular Android applications using free and open source forensic tools *Learn malware detection and analysis techniques to investigate mobile cybersecurity incidents Book Description Many forensic examiners rely on commercial, push-button tools to retrieve and analyze data, even though there is no tool that does either of these jobs perfectly. Learning Android Forensics will introduce you to the most up-to-date Android platform and its architecture, and provide a high-level overview of what Android forensics entails. You will understand how data is stored on Android devices and how to set up a digital forensic examination environment. As you make your way through the chapters, you will work through various physical and logical techniques to extract data from devices in order to obtain forensic evidence. You will also learn how to recover deleted data and forensically analyze application data with the help of various open source and commercial tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore malware analysis so that you’ll be able to investigate cybersecurity incidents involving Android malware. By the end of this book, you will have a complete understanding of the Android forensic process, you will have explored open source and commercial forensic tools, and will have basic skills of Android malware identification and analysis. What you will learn *Understand Android OS and architecture *Set up a forensics environment for Android analysis *Perform logical and physical data extractions *Learn to recover deleted data *Explore how to analyze application data *Identify malware on Android devices *Analyze Android malware Who this book is for If you are a forensic analyst or an information security professional wanting to develop your knowledge of Android forensics, then this is the book for you. Some basic knowledge of the Android mobile platform is expected.

Push the limits of what C - and you - can do, with this high-intensity guide to the most advanced capabilities of C Key Features * Make the most of C’s low-level control, flexibility, and high performance * A comprehensive guide to C’s most powerful and challenging features * A thought-provoking guide packed with hands-on exercises and examples Book Description There’s a lot more to C than knowing the language syntax. The industry looks for developers with a rigorous, scientific understanding of the principles and practices. Extreme C will teach you to use C’s advanced low-level power to write effective, efficient systems. This intensive, practical guide will help you become an expert C programmer. Building on your existing C knowledge, you will master preprocessor directives, macros, conditional compilation, pointers, and much more. You will gain new insight into algorithm design, functions, and structures. You will discover how C helps you squeeze maximum performance out of critical, resource-constrained applications. C still plays a critical role in 21st-century programming, remaining the core language for precision engineering, aviations, space research, and more. This book shows how C works with Unix, how to implement OO principles in C, and fully covers multi-processing. In Extreme C, Amini encourages you to think, question, apply, and experiment for yourself. The book is essential for anybody who wants to take their C to the next level. What you will learn * Build advanced C knowledge on strong foundations, rooted in first principles * Understand memory structures and compilation pipeline and how they work, and how to make most out of them * Apply object-oriented design principles to your procedural C code * Write low-level code that’s close to the hardware and squeezes maximum performance out of a computer system * Master concurrency, multithreading, multi-processing, and integration with other languages * Unit Testing and debugging, build systems, and inter-process communication for C programming Who this book is for Extreme C is for C programmers who want to dig deep into the language and its capabilities. It will help you make the most of the low-level control C gives you.

Implement reinforcement learning techniques and algorithms with the help of real-world examples and recipes Key Features * Use PyTorch 1.x to design and build self-learning artificial intelligence (AI) models * Implement RL algorithms to solve control and optimization challenges faced by data scientists today * Apply modern RL libraries to simulate a controlled environment for your projects Book Description Reinforcement learning (RL) is a branch of machine learning that has gained popularity in recent times. It allows you to train AI models that learn from their own actions and optimize their behavior. PyTorch has also emerged as the preferred tool for training RL models because of its efficiency and ease of use. With this book, you'll explore the important RL concepts and the implementation of algorithms in PyTorch 1.x. The recipes in the book, along with real-world examples, will help you master various RL techniques, such as dynamic programming, Monte Carlo simulations, temporal difference, and Q-learning. You'll also gain insights into industry-specific applications of these techniques. Later chapters will guide you through solving problems such as the multi-armed bandit problem and the cartpole problem using the multi-armed bandit algorithm and function approximation. You'll also learn how to use Deep Q-Networks to complete Atari games, along with how to effectively implement policy gradients. Finally, you'll discover how RL techniques are applied to Blackjack, Gridworld environments, internet advertising, and the Flappy Bird game. By the end of this book, you'll have developed the skills you need to implement popular RL algorithms and use RL techniques to solve real-world problems. What you will learn * Use Q-learning and the state–action–reward–state–action (SARSA) algorithm to solve various Gridworld problems * Develop a multi-armed bandit algorithm to optimize display advertising * Scale up learning and control processes using Deep Q-Networks * Simulate Markov Decision Processes, OpenAI Gym environments, and other common control problems * Select and build RL models, evaluate their performance, and optimize and deploy them * Use policy gradient methods to solve continuous RL problems Who this book is for Machine learning engineers, data scientists and AI researchers looking for quick solutions to different reinforcement learning problems will find this book useful. Although prior knowledge of machine learning concepts is required, experience with PyTorch will be useful but not necessary.

Learn how to run new and old applications in Docker containers on Windows - modernizing the architecture, improving security and maximizing efficiency. Key Features * Run .NET Framework and .NET Core apps in Docker containers for efficiency, security and portability * Design distributed containerized apps, using enterprise-grade open source software from Docker Hub * Build a CI/CD pipeline with Docker, going from source to a production Docker Swarm in the cloud Book Description Docker on Windows, Second Edition teaches you all you need to know about Docker on Windows, from the 101 to running highly-available workloads in production. You’ll be guided through a Docker journey, starting with the key concepts and simple examples of .NET Framework and .NET Core apps in Docker containers on Windows. Then you’ll learn how to use Docker to modernize the architecture and development of traditional ASP.NET and SQL Server apps. The examples show you how to break up legacy monolithic applications into distributed apps and deploy them to a clustered environment in the cloud, using the exact same artifacts you use to run them locally. You’ll see how to build a CI/CD pipeline which uses Docker to compile, package, test and deploy your applications. To help you move confidently to production, you’ll learn about Docker security, and the management and support options. The book finishes with guidance on getting started with Docker in your own projects. You’ll walk through some real-world case studies for Docker implementations, from small-scale on-premises apps to very large-scale apps running on Azure. What you will learn * Understand key Docker concepts: images, containers, registries and swarms * Run Docker on Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, and in the cloud * Deploy and monitor distributed solutions across multiple Docker containers * Run containers with high availability and failover with Docker Swarm * Master security in-depth with the Docker platform, making your apps more secure * Build a Continuous Deployment pipeline, running Jenkins and Git in Docker * Debug applications running in Docker containers using Visual Studio * Plan the adoption of Docker in your organization Who this book is for If you want to modernize an old monolithic application without rewriting it, smooth the deployment to production, or move to DevOps or the cloud, then Docker is the enabler for you. This book gives you a solid grounding in Docker so you can confidently approach all of these scenarios.

Automate Windows server tasks with the powerful features of the PowerShell Language Key Features * Leverage PowerShell to automate complex Windows server tasks * Master new features such as DevOps, and containers, and speed up their performance using PowerShell * Improve PowerShell's usability, and control and manage Windows-based environments by working through exciting recipes Book Description Windows Server 2019 represents the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship server operating system. It also comes with PowerShell Version 5.1 and has a number of additional features that IT pros find useful. The book helps the reader learn how to use PowerShell and manage core roles, features, and services of Windows Server 2019. You will begin with creating a PowerShell Administrative Environment that has updated versions of PowerShell and the Windows Management Framework, updated versions of the .NET Framework, and third-party modules. Next, you will learn to use PowerShell to set up and configure Windows Server 2019 networking and also managing objects in the AD environment. You will also learn to set up a host to utilize containers and how to deploy containers. You will also be implementing different mechanisms for achieving desired state configuration along with getting well versed with Azure infrastructure and how to setup Virtual Machines, web sites, and shared files on Azure. Finally, you will be using some powerful tools you can use to diagnose and resolve issues with Windows Server 2019. By the end of the book, you will learn a lot of trips and tricks to automate your windows environment with PowerShell What you will learn * Perform key admin tasks on Windows Server 2019 * Employing best practices for writing PowerShell scripts and configuring Windows Server 2019 * Use the .NET Framework to achieve administrative scripting * Set up VMs, websites, and shared files on Azure * Report system performance using built-in cmdlets and WMI to obtain single measurements * Know the tools you can use to diagnose and resolve issues with Windows Server Who this book is for If you are a systems administrator, engineer, or an architect working with Windows Server 2016 interested in upgrading to Windows Server 2019 and automating tasks with PowerShell, then this book is for you. A basic knowledge of PowerShell is expected.

An easytouse guide, full of handson recipes for manipulating spatial data in a PostGIS database. Each topic is explained and placed in context, and for the more inquisitive, there are more details of the concepts used. If you are a web developer or a software architect, especially in locationbased companies, and want to expand the range of techniques you are using with PostGIS, then this book is for you. You should have some prior experience with PostgreSQL database and spatial concepts.

A practical, fastpaced guide that gives you all the information you need to successfully create networks and simulate them using Packet Tracer. Packet Tracer Network Simulator is aimed at students, instructors, and network administrators who wish to use this simulator to learn how to perform networking instead of investing in expensive, specialized hardware. This book assumes that you have a good amount of Cisco networking knowledge, and it will focus more on Packet Tracer rather than networking.

This book is an easytofollow tutorial with best practices and advanced references which will help you to take full advantage of Magento with SEO. This book is aimed at both Magento developers and SEO specialists who wish to optimize search and end user elements such as clickthrough rates to ensure the design of their online shop sites effectively maximize sales. Magento store owners may also find large sections of this book useful in order to understand the larger impact small tweaks and changes can have on SEO especially when editing products and categories. This book assumes that the reader will understand the basic concepts of keyword research and the external factors that are required in order to manage an ongoing SEO campaign.

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