Mick Abrahams first rose to fame as a guitarist during the 1960s and was a founder member of Jethro Tull, although his time with the band was to prove short lived owing to the vividly contrasting musical styles of himself and Ian Anderson. In his autobiography What is a Wommett Mick finally puts the record straight about this parting of the ways and the events that have shaped the man and his music since that time up to the present day. Perhaps best known for his time with Blodwyn Pig, the band he formed after leaving Tull, Abrahams has continued to delight fans with his own brand of blues, jazz and rock on highly acclaimed albums spanning several decades. With a fitting foreword by radio presenter and champion of great music, Bob Harris, this autobiography provides a fascinating insight into the character of an upbeat man who hasn't allowed anything to keep him down for long. Packed with anecdotes and stories about Mick's life in and out of the spotlight, this book is a must have for his fans and anyone who remembers the excitement of the emerging new musical talent of the sixties.

Optical illusions are the stuff of magic - harmless entertainment conjured up to both enthral and amaze, aren't they? Well, maybe not, as it's not quite so amusing if the 'stunt' takes the form of an episode of the BBC's 'groundbreaking' documentary series MacIntyre Undercover on organised football hooliganism, the wizardry is conducted by unscrupulous investigative journalists posing as big-time drug dealers, and as a result the unwitting participant in the trick, avid Chelsea supporter Jason Marriner, is charged with conspiracy to commit violent disorder and affray, together with his friend Andy Frain, and Jason ends up with a six-year jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit. This is Jason's chance to put the record straight, present the facts from his own perspective and challenge the reader, who may well have been one of the 7.4 million documentary viewers, to decide whether the programme actually revealed the 'ugly face of football violence', or indeed showed him plotting or committing any violence whatsoever, or whether the original 344 hours' worth of footage, secretly filmed over a period of 18 months, were distorted beyond recognition by cutting, editing and stitching together clips from the original sequences to achieve the programme's aim at any cost. Jason would be the first to admit that in the past he had been a 'nuisance' on the terraces, but this was the late 1990s and, with a wife, children and his own business, he had done a lot of growing up and moving on. Fortunately, he had also developed the strength of character needed to survive in prison with humour, dignity and determination, and he shares his insights of life behind bars as he tried to work with the system, despite the knock-backs, in order to make it work for him in return. 'Good will always follow bad' is Jason's admirable philosophy about his experiences, but this shocking real-life story serves as a warning to all: this could so easily happen to you.

Ronnie Biggs: The Inside Story, written by two of Ronnie Biggs's closest friends and most ardent supporters, delivers exactly what it says on the label, giving a very personal, unique and yet disturbing insight into the mind and subsequent treatment by the judicial and penal systems of the man that became a legendary household name for his role in one of Britain's most notorious crimes, the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and his subsequent life on the run upon his escape from prison in 1965. Raising pointed questions and dispelling many myths, the story makes one wonder who is the greater criminal: the carpenter that played a bit part in an unarmed robbery 45 years ago, who has remained incarcerated since his return to the UK in 2001 despite the fact that he is now a frail, wheelchair-bound 79-year-old grandfather who is no threat to society, is fed via a tube to his stomach and can only communicate by pointing to letters on a laminated sheet; or the justice and prison systems that have allowed him to rot in jail for so long. One thing's for sure, although Ronnie Biggs's body is letting him down after a series of strokes and other illnesses, his legal team, campaign supporters, underworld friends and devoted family certainly aren't, and neither is his own fighting spirit or his humanity in the face of inhumanity. All he wants now is to be able to die a free man rather than suffer "e;a slow crucifixion on the Home Office cross"e;, and once all the facts have been digested one can only be moved to ask: "e;How could anyone deny him that?"e;

They reckon you have to be a famous celebrity, climbed Mount Everest or lived through a war to write an autobiography. Well I haven't done any of those but I have written a musical, and had it performed on stage, appeared on TV and in national newspapers for various little escapades, and tried to live life to the full. People who know me call me eccentric or a touch bizarre and I have been described as "e;off the wall"e; (not sure of the origin of that or even if it fits). I have been called worse behind my back no doubt, but for better or worse the contents of this book are a bit of a record of what I've been getting up to in the past sixty odd years or so. You've picked this book off the shelf and read this bit so do give the inside a try. It's good for a laugh if nothing else. Although do remember. PLEASE DON'T TRY MOST OF THIS AT HOME

Draw Across the Curriculum is a collection of 50 photocopiable art worksheets, designed to provide a handy cross-curricular drawing resource for the busy primary classroom teacher. Perfect for getting pupils to put pencil to paper, this collection of artsheets is brimming with humorous designs to copy and patterns to make.

A new revolutionary phonic reading scheme. Learn To Read With Phonics teaches reading rapidly, in as little as six months PROVEN! Children love reading about the humorous adventures of Sam and his friends. They hardly realise that within each fun story are disguised phonic sounds. Learning to read with Guinea Pig has never been so easy or so much fun. This exciting scheme has been written by a Surrey teacher and tutor catering for the needs of the children she teaches. The scheme works well with young children starting out on reading. At the same time, it is ideal for older children who have failed to reach targets in literacy, for those who have experienced particular learning difficulties or where English is a second language. This scheme helps the student catch up fast. Beginner Reader Books 1-6 are a structured course that systematically introduces new sounds, each one building on the ones that went before. Book 1 teaches blends like frog and milk and 'ck' syllable words. The child is encouraged to read each sound chapter several times and to learn the words using the matching activities with the help of an adult. When he or she is familiar with the material they can move on.

A new revolutionary phonic reading scheme. Learn To Read With Phonics teaches reading rapidly, in as little as six months PROVEN! Children love reading about the humorous adventures of Sam and his friends. They hardly realise that within each fun story are disguised phonic sounds. Learning to read with Guinea Pig has never been so easy or so much fun. This exciting scheme has been written by a Surrey teacher and tutor catering for the needs of the children she teaches. The scheme works well with young children starting out on reading. At the same time, it is ideal for older children who have failed to reach targets in literacy, for those who have experienced particular learning difficulties or where English is a second language. This scheme helps the student catch up fast. Beginner Reader Books 1-6 are a structured course that systematically introduces new sounds, each one building on the ones that went before.

The 'Creative Writing Tutor' scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child's imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide 'a tutor' for the child, fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style.Written by an experienced teacher, they are recommended for use at school or at home by children aged 9-13 years, of all abilities. They are excellent for stretching fast workers and able writers or preparing for writing tasks in 11+ examinations. In this book, learn to write about cakes (including how to write a good recipe) and take some great ideas for writing fiction.

Make your WebAssembly journey fun while making a game with it Key Features * Create a WebAssembly game that implements sprites, animations, physics, particle systems, and other game development fundamentals * Get to grips with advanced game mechanics in WebAssembly * Learn to use WebAssembly and WebGL to render to the HTML5 canvas element Book Description Within the next few years, WebAssembly will change the web as we know it. It promises a world where you can write an application for the web in any language, and compile it for native platforms as well as the web. This book is designed to introduce web developers and game developers to the world of WebAssembly by walking through the development of a retro arcade game. You will learn how to build a WebAssembly application using C++, Emscripten, JavaScript, WebGL, SDL, and HTML5. This book covers a lot of ground in both game development and web application development. When creating a game or application that targets WebAssembly, developers need to learn a plethora of skills and tools. This book is a sample platter of those tools and skills. It covers topics including Emscripten, C/C++, WebGL, OpenGL, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS. The reader will also learn basic techniques for game development, including 2D sprite animation, particle systems, 2D camera design, sound effects, 2D game physics, user interface design, shaders, debugging, and optimization. By the end of the book, you will be able to create simple web games and web applications targeting WebAssembly. What you will learn * Build web applications with near-native performance using WebAssembly * Become familiar with how web applications can be used to create games using HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, and SDL * Become well versed with game development concepts such as sprites, animation, particle systems, AI, physics, camera design, sound effects, and shaders * Deploy C/C++ applications to the browser using WebAssembly and Emscripten * Understand how Emscripten HTML shell templates, JavaScript glue code, and a WebAssembly module interact * Debug and performance tune your WebAssembly application Who this book is for Web developers and game developers interested in creating applications for the web using WebAssembly. Game developers interested in deploying their games to the web Web developers interested in creating applications that are potentially orders of magnitude faster than their existing JavaScript web apps C/C++ developers interested in using their existing skills to deploy applications to the web

A beginner's guide to storing, managing, and analyzing data with the updated features of Elastic 7.0 Key Features * Gain access to new features and updates introduced in Elastic Stack 7.0 * Grasp the fundamentals of Elastic Stack including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana * Explore useful tips for using Elastic Cloud and deploying Elastic Stack in production environments Book Description The Elastic Stack is a powerful combination of tools for techniques such as distributed search, analytics, logging, and visualization of data. Elastic Stack 7.0 encompasses new features and capabilities that will enable you to find unique insights into analytics using these techniques. This book will give you a fundamental understanding of what the stack is all about, and help you use it efficiently to build powerful real-time data processing applications. The first few sections of the book will help you understand how to set up the stack by installing tools, and exploring their basic configurations. You’ll then get up to speed with using Elasticsearch for distributed searching and analytics, Logstash for logging, and Kibana for data visualization. As you work through the book, you will discover the technique of creating custom plugins using Kibana and Beats. This is followed by coverage of the Elastic X-Pack, a useful extension for effective security and monitoring. You’ll also find helpful tips on how to use Elastic Cloud and deploy Elastic Stack in production environments. By the end of this book, you’ll be well versed with the fundamental Elastic Stack functionalities and the role of each component in the stack to solve different data processing problems. What you will learn * Install and configure an Elasticsearch architecture * Solve the full-text search problem with Elasticsearch * Discover powerful analytics capabilities through aggregations using Elasticsearch * Build a data pipeline to transfer data from a variety of sources into Elasticsearch for analysis * Create interactive dashboards for effective storytelling with your data using Kibana * Learn how to secure, monitor and use Elastic Stack’s alerting and reporting capabilities * Take applications to an on-premise or cloud-based production environment with Elastic Stack Who this book is for This book is for entry-level data professionals, software engineers, e-commerce developers, and full-stack developers who want to learn about Elastic Stack and how the real-time processing and search engine works for business analytics and enterprise search applications. Previous experience with Elastic Stack is not required, however knowledge of data warehousing and database concepts will be helpful.

Discover the power of location data to build effective, intelligent data models with Geospatial ecosystems Key Features * Manipulate location-based data and create intelligent geospatial data models * Build effective location recommendation systems used by popular companies such as Uber * A hands-on guide to help you consume spatial data and parallelize GIS operations effectively Book Description Data scientists, who have access to vast data streams, are a bit myopic when it comes to intrinsic and extrinsic location-based data and are missing out on the intelligence it can provide to their models. This book demonstrates effective techniques for using the power of data science and geospatial intelligence to build effective, intelligent data models that make use of location-based data to give useful predictions and analyses. This book begins with a quick overview of the fundamentals of location-based data and how techniques such as Exploratory Data Analysis can be applied to it. We then delve into spatial operations such as computing distances, areas, extents, centroids, buffer polygons, intersecting geometries, geocoding, and more, which adds additional context to location data. Moving ahead, you will learn how to quickly build and deploy a geo-fencing system using Python. Lastly, you will learn how to leverage geospatial analysis techniques in popular recommendation systems such as collaborative filtering and location-based recommendations, and more. By the end of the book, you will be a rockstar when it comes to performing geospatial analysis with ease. What you will learn * Learn how companies now use location data * Set up your Python environment and install Python geospatial packages * Visualize spatial data as graphs * Extract geometry from spatial data * Perform spatial regression from scratch * Build web applications which dynamically references geospatial data Who this book is for Data Scientists who would like to leverage location-based data and want to use location-based intelligence in their data models will find this book useful. This book is also for GIS developers who wish to incorporate data analysis in their projects. Knowledge of Python programming and some basic understanding of data analysis are all you need to get the most out of this book.

Write efficient, reusable scripts to build custom characters, game environments, and control enemy AI Key Features * Build captivating multiplayer games using Unreal Engine and C++ * Incorporate existing C++ libraries into your game to add extra functionality such as hardware integration * Practical solutions for memory management, error handling, inputs, and collision for your game codebase Book Description Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is a popular and award-winning game engine that powers some of the most popular games. A truly powerful tool for game development, there has never been a better time to use it for both commercial and independent projects. With more than 100 recipes, this book shows how to unleash the power of C++ while developing games with Unreal Engine. This book takes you on a journey to jumpstart your C++ and UE4 development skills. You will start off by setting up UE4 for C++ development and learn how to work with Visual Studio, a popular code editor. You will learn how to create C++ classes and structs the Unreal way. This will be followed by exploring memory management, smart pointers, and debugging your code. You will then learn how to make your own Actors and Components through code and how to handle input and collision events. You will also get exposure to many elements of game development including creating user interfaces, artificial intelligence, and writing code with networked play in mind. You will also learn how to add on to the Unreal Editor itself. With a range of task-oriented recipes, this book provides actionable information about writing code for games with UE4 using C++. By the end of the book, you will be empowered to become a top-notch developer with UE4 using C++ as your scripting language! What you will learn * Create C++ classes and structs that integrate well with UE4 and the Blueprints editor * Discover how to work with various APIs that Unreal Engine already contains * Utilize advanced concepts such as events, delegates, and interfaces in your UE4 projects * Build user interfaces using Canvas and UMG through C++ * Extend the Unreal Editor by creating custom windows and editors * Implement AI tasks and services using C++, Blackboard, and Behavior Trees * Write C++ code with networking in mind and replicate properties and functions Who this book is for If you are really passionate game developer looking for solutions to common scripting problems, then this is the book for you. Understanding of the fundamentals of game design and C++ is expected to get the most from this book.

A practical guide to getting the most out of Excel, using it for data preparation, applying machine learning models (including cloud services) and understanding the outcome of the data analysis. Key Features * Use Microsoft's product Excel to build advanced forecasting models using varied examples * Cover range of machine learning tasks such as data mining, data analytics, smart visualization, and more * Derive data-driven techniques using Excel plugins and APIs without much code required Book Description We have made huge progress in teaching computers to perform difficult tasks, especially those that are repetitive and time-consuming for humans. Excel users, of all levels, can feel left behind by this innovation wave. The truth is that a large amount of the work needed to develop and use a machine learning model can be done in Excel. The book starts by giving a general introduction to machine learning, making every concept clear and understandable. Then, it shows every step of a machine learning project, from data collection, reading from different data sources, developing models, and visualizing the results using Excel features and offerings. In every chapter, there are several examples and hands-on exercises that will show the reader how to combine Excel functions, add-ins, and connections to databases and to cloud services to reach the desired goal: building a full data analysis flow. Different machine learning models are shown, tailored to the type of data to be analyzed. At the end of the book, the reader is presented with some advanced use cases using Automated Machine Learning, and artificial neural network, which simplifies the analysis task and represents the future of machine learning. What you will learn * Use Excel to preview and cleanse datasets * Understand correlations between variables and optimize the input to machine learning models * Use and evaluate different machine learning models from Excel * Understand the use of different visualizations * Learn the basic concepts and calculations to understand how artificial neural networks work * Learn how to connect Excel to the Microsoft Azure cloud * Get beyond proof of concepts and build fully functional data analysis flows Who this book is for This book is for data analysis, machine learning enthusiasts, project managers, and someone who doesn't want to code much for performing core tasks of machine learning. Each example will help you perform end-to-end smart analytics. Working knowledge of Excel is required.

Use Ansible to configure your systems, deploy software, and orchestrate advanced IT tasks Key Features * Get familiar with the fundamentals of Ansible 2.7 * Understand how to use Ansible Tower to scale your IT automation * Gain insights into how to develop and test Ansible playbooks Book Description Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With the release of Ansible 2.7, even complex tasks can be handled much more easily than before. Learning Ansible 2.7 will help you take your first steps toward understanding the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible by introducing you to topics such as playbooks, modules, and the installation of Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), and Windows support. In addition to this, you will focus on various testing strategies, deployment, and orchestration to build on your knowledge. The book will then help you get accustomed to features including cleaner architecture, task blocks, and playbook parsing, which can help you to streamline automation processes. Next, you will learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) before gaining insights into the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy. This will help you to use Ansible to interact with different operating systems and improve your working efficiency. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the Ansible skills you need to automate complex tasks for your organization. What you will learn * Create a web server using Ansible * Write a custom module and test it * Deploy playbooks in the production environment * Troubleshoot networks using Ansible * Use Ansible Galaxy and Ansible Tower during deployment * Deploy an application with Ansible on AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean Who this book is for This beginner-level book is for system administrators who want to automate their organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7. No prior knowledge of Ansible is required

Understand, design, and create cognitive applications using Watson’s suite of APIs. Key Features * Develop your skills and work with IBM Watson APIs to build efficient and powerful cognitive apps * Learn how to build smart apps to carry out different sets of activities using real-world use cases * Get well versed with the best practices of IBM Watson and implement them in your daily work Book Description Cognitive computing is rapidly infusing every aspect of our lives riding on three important fields: data science, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI). It allows computing systems to learn and keep on improving as the amount of data in the system grows. This book introduces readers to a whole new paradigm of computing – a paradigm that is totally different from the conventional computing of the Information Age. You will learn the concepts of ML, deep learning (DL), neural networks, and AI through the set of APIs provided by IBM Watson. This book will help you build your own applications to understand, plan, and solve problems, and analyze them as per your needs. You will learn about various domains of cognitive computing, such as NLP, voice processing, computer vision, emotion analytics, and conversational systems, using different IBM Watson APIs. From this, the reader will learn what ML is, and what goes on in the background to make computers "do their magic," as well as where these concepts have been applied. Having achieved this, the readers will then be able to embark on their journey of learning, researching, and applying the concept in their respective fields. What you will learn * Get well versed with the APIs provided by IBM Watson on IBM Cloud * Learn ML, AI, cognitive computing, and neural network principles * Implement smart applications in fields such as healthcare, entertainment, security, and more * Understand unstructured content using cognitive metadata with the help of Natural Language Understanding * Use Watson’s APIs to create real-life applications to realize their capabilities * Delve into various domains of cognitive computing, such as media analytics, embedded deep learning, computer vision, and more Who this book is for This book is for beginners and novices; having some knowledge about artificial intelligence and deep learning is an advantage, but not a prerequisite to benefit from this book. We explain the concept of deep learning and artificial intelligence through the set of tools IBM Watson provides.

Leverage Docker to unlock efficient and rapid container deployments to improve your development workflow Key Features * Reconfigure Docker hosts to create a logging system with the ElasticSearch-Logstash-Kibana (ELK) stack * Tackle the challenges of large-scale container deployment with this fast-paced guide * Benchmark the performance of your Docker containers using Apache JMeter Book Description Docker is an enterprise-grade container platform that allows you to build and deploy your apps. Its portable format lets you run your code right from your desktop workstations to popular cloud computing providers. This comprehensive guide will improve your Docker work?ows and ensure your application's production environment runs smoothly. This book starts with a refresher on setting up and running Docker and details the basic setup for creating a Docker Swarm cluster. You will then learn how to automate this cluster by using Chef Server and Cookbook. After that, you will run the Docker monitoring system with Prometheus and Grafana, and deploy the ELK stack. You will also learn some tips for optimizing Docker images. After deploying containers with the help of Jenkins, you will then move on to a tutorial on using Apache JMeter to analyze your application's performance. You will learn how to use Docker Swarm and NGINX to load-balance your application and how common debugging tools in Linux can be used to troubleshoot Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will be able to integrate all the optimizations that you have learned and put everything into practice in your applications. What you will learn * Automate provisioning and setting up nodes in a Docker Swarm cluster * Configure a monitoring system with Prometheus and Grafana * Use Apache JMeter to create workloads for benchmarking the performance of Docker containers * Understand how to load-balance an application with Docker Swarm and Nginx * Deploy strace, tcdump, blktrace, and other Linux debugging tools to troubleshoot containers * Integrate Docker optimizations for DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, CI, and CD Who this book is for If you are a software developer with a good understanding of managing Docker services and the Linux file system and are looking for ways to optimize working with Docker containers, then this is the book for you. Developers fascinated with containers and workflow automation with benefit from this book.

Create innovative informatics solutions with TIBCO Spotfire Key Features * Get to grips with a variety of TIBCO Spotfire features to create professional applications * Use different data and visualization techniques to build interactive analyses. * Simplify BI processes and understand data analysis and visualization Book Description The need for agile business intelligence (BI) is growing daily, and TIBCO Spotfire? combines self-service features with essential enterprise governance and scaling capabilities to provide best-practice analytics solutions. Spotfire is easy and intuitive to use and is a rewarding environment for all BI users and analytics developers. Starting with data and visualization concepts, this book takes you on a journey through increasingly advanced topics to help you work toward becoming a professional analytics solution provider. Examples of analyzing real-world data are used to illustrate how to work with Spotfire. Once you've covered the AI-driven recommendations engine, you'll move on to understanding Spotfire's rich suite of visualizations and when, why and how you should use each of them. In later chapters, you'll work with location analytics, advanced analytics using TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R?, how to decide whether to use in-database or in-memory analytics, and how to work with streaming (live) data in Spotfire. You'll also explore key product integrations that significantly enhance Spotfire's capabilities.This book will enable you to exploit the advantages of the Spotfire serve topology and learn how to make practical use of scheduling and routing rules. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build and use powerful analytics dashboards and applications, perform spatial analytics, and be able to administer your Spotfire environment efficiently What you will learn * Work with Spotfire on its web, Cloud, PC, Mac and mobile clients * Deploy Spotfire's suite of visualization types effectively and intelligently * Build user-friendly analytics frameworks and analytics applications * Explore Spotfire's predictive analytics capabilities * Use Spotfire's location analytics capabilities to create interactive spatial analyses * Write IronPython scripts with the Spotfire API * Learn the different ways Spotfire can be deployed and administered Who this book is for If you are a business intelligence or data professional, this book will give you a solid grounding in the use of TIBCO Spotfire. This book requires no prior knowledge of Spotfire or any basic data and visualization concepts.

Harness the power of the latest edition with this in-depth and comprehensive guide to the Swift language Key Features * Fifth edition of this bestselling book, improved and updated to cover the latest version of the Swift 5 programming language * Get to grips with popular and modern design techniques to write easy-to-manage Swift code * Learn how to use core Swift features such as concurrency, generics, and copy-on-write in your code Book Description Over the years, the Mastering Swift book has established itself amongst developers as a popular choice as an in-depth and practical guide to the Swift programming language. The latest edition is fully updated and revised to cover the new version: Swift 5. Inside this book, you'll find the key features of Swift 5 easily explained with complete sets of examples. From the basics of the language to popular features such as concurrency, generics, and memory management, this definitive guide will help you develop your expertise and mastery of the Swift language. Mastering Swift 5, Fifth Edition will give you an in-depth knowledge of some of the most sophisticated elements in Swift development, including protocol extensions, error handling, and closures. It will guide you on how to use and apply them in your own projects. Later, you'll see how to leverage the power of protocol-oriented programming to write flexible and easier-to-manage code. You will also see how to add the copy-on-write feature to your custom value types and how to avoid memory management issues caused by strong reference cycles. What you will learn * Understand core Swift components, including operators, collections, control flows, and functions * Learn how and when to use classes, structures, and enumerations * Understand how to use protocol-oriented design with extensions to write easier-to-manage code * Use design patterns with Swift, to solve commonly occurring design problems * Implement copy-on-write for you custom value types to improve performance * Add concurrency to your applications using Grand Central Dispatch and Operation Queues * Implement generics to write flexible and reusable code Who this book is for This book is for developers who want to delve into the newest version of Swift. If you are a developer and learn best by looking at and working with code, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of Apple's tools would be beneficial but not mandatory. All examples should work on the Linux platform as well.

Build smart looking Kotlin apps with UI and functionality for the Android platform Key Features * Start your Android programming career, or just have fun publishing apps on Google Play marketplace * The first-principle introduction to Kotlin through Android, to start building easy-to-use apps * Learn by example and build four real-world apps and dozens of mini-apps Book Description Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world and Kotlin has been declared by Google as a first-class programming language to build Android apps. With the imminent arrival of the most anticipated Android update, Android 10 (Q), this book gets you started building apps compatible with the latest version of Android. It adopts a project-style approach, where we focus on teaching the fundamentals of Android app development and the essentials of Kotlin by building three real-world apps and more than a dozen mini-apps. The book begins by giving you a strong grasp of how Kotlin and Android work together before gradually moving onto exploring the various Android APIs for building stunning apps for Android with ease. You will learn to make your apps more presentable using different layouts. You will dive deep into Kotlin programming concepts such as variables, functions, data structures, Object-Oriented code, and how to connect your Kotlin code to the UI. You will learn to add multilingual text so that your app is accessible to millions of more potential users. You will learn how animation, graphics, and sound effects work and are implemented in your Android app. By the end of the book, you will have sound knowledge about significant Kotlin programming concepts and start building your own fully featured Android apps. What you will learn * Learn how Kotlin and Android work together * Build a graphical drawing app using Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles * Build beautiful, practical layouts using ScrollView, RecyclerView, NavigationView, ViewPager and CardView * Write Kotlin code to manage an apps' data using different strategies including JSON and the built-in Android SQLite database * Add user interaction, data captures, sound, and animation to your apps * Implement dialog boxes to capture input from the user * Build a simple database app that sorts and stores the user's data Who this book is for This book is for people who are new to Kotlin, Android and want to develop Android apps.It also acts as a refresher for those who have some experience in programming with Android and Kotlin.

Refine your Python programming skills and build professional grade applications with this comprehensive guide Key Features * Create manageable code that can run in various environments with different sets of dependencies * Implement effective Python data structures and algorithms to write optimized code * Discover the exciting new features of Python 3.7 Book Description Python is a dynamic programming language that's used in a wide range of domains thanks to its simple yet powerful nature. Although writing Python code is easy, making it readable, reusable, and easy to maintain is challenging. Complete with best practices, useful tools, and standards implemented by professional Python developers, the third edition of Expert Python Programming will help you overcome this challenge. The book will start by taking you through the new features in Python 3.7. You'll then learn the advanced components of Python syntax, in addition to understanding how to apply concepts of various programming paradigms, including object-oriented programming, functional programming, and event-driven programming. This book will also guide you through learning the best naming practices, writing your own distributable Python packages, and getting up to speed with automated ways of deploying your software on remote servers. You’ll discover how to create useful Python extensions with C, C++, Cython, and CFFI. Furthermore, studying about code management tools, writing clear documentation, and exploring test-driven development will help you write clean code. By the end of the book, you will have become an expert in writing efficient and maintainable Python code. What you will learn * Explore modern ways of setting up repeatable and consistent development environments * Package Python code effectively for community and production use * Learn modern syntax elements of Python programming such as f-strings, enums, and lambda functions * Demystify metaprogramming in Python with metaclasses * Write concurrent code in Python * Extend Python with code written in different languages * Integrate Python with code written in different languages Who this book is for This book will appeal to you if you’re a programmer looking to take your Python knowledge to the next level by writing efficient code and learning the latest features of version 3.7 and above.

This CRM masterclass gives you a proven approach to modern customer relationship management Key Features * Proven techniques to architect CRM systems that perform well, that are built on time and on budget, and that deliver value for many years * Combines technical knowledge and business experience to provide a powerful guide to CRM implementation * Covers modern CRM opportunities and challenges including machine learning, cloud hosting, and GDPR compliance Book Description CRM systems have delivered huge value to organizations. This book shares proven and cutting-edge techniques to increase the power of CRM even further. In The Art of CRM, Max Fatouretchi shares his decades of experience building successful CRM systems that make a real difference to business performance. Through clear processes, actionable advice, and informative case studies, The Art of CRM teaches you to design successful CRM systems for your clients. Fatouretchi, founder of Academy4CRM institute, draws on his experience over 20 years and 200 CRM implementations worldwide. Bringing CRM bang up to date, The Art of CRM shows how to add AI and machine learning, ensure compliance with GDPR, and choose between on-premise, cloud, and hybrid hosting solutions. If you’re looking for an expert guide to real-world CRM implementations, this book is for you. What you will learn * Deliver CRM systems that are on time, on budget, and bring lasting value to organizations * Build CRM that excels at operations, analytics, and collaboration * Gather requirements effectively: identify key pain points, objectives, and functional requirements * Develop customer insight through 360-degree client view and client profiling * Turn customer requirements into a CRM design spec * Architect your CRM platform * Bring machine learning and artificial intelligence into your CRM system * Ensure compliance with GDPR and other critical regulations * Choose between on-premise, cloud, and hybrid hosting solutions Who this book is for CRM practitioners who want to update their work with new, proven techniques and approaches