Program a graphical adventure game in this hands-on, beginner-friendly introduction to coding in the Python language. Launch into coding with Mission Python, a space-themed guide to building a complete computer game in Python. You'll learn programming fundamentals like loops, strings, and lists as you build Escape!, an exciting game with a map to explore, items to collect, and tricky logic puzzles to solve. As you work through the book, you'll build exercises and mini-projects, like making a spacewalk simulator and creating an astronaut's safety checklist that will put your new Python skills to the test.

Рассмотрены все основные аспекты создания приложений для платформы Android: установка необходимого программного обеспечения (JDK, Eclipse и Android SDK), использование эмулятора Android, создание интерфейса пользователя, работа с графикой, воспроизведение звука и видео, методы хранения данных (в том числе СУБД SQLite), взаимодействие с аппаратными средствами смартфона, платформа Titanium Mobile, отладка приложений и их публикация в онлайн-магазине Android Market.

Knowing your way around Microsoft Office requires you to be part mathematician, part storyteller, and part graphic designer—with some scheduling wizard and database architect sprinkled in. So what do you do if these talents don't come naturally to you? Fear not! Office 2019 All-in-One For Dummies fills in the gaps and helps you create easy-to-read Word documents, smash numbers in Excel, tell your tale with PowerPoint, and keep it all organized with Outlook. With additional books covering Access, OneNote, and common Office tasks, this is the only Office book you need on your shelf.

Андрей Валентинович Жвалевский  — белорусский писатель, сценарист. Родился в г. Гродно.В 1991 г. с отличием окончил физический факультет БГУ. Занимался фундаментальной наукой, дизайном ценных и защищенных бумаг, работал в издательстве.

Напишите более эффективные и масштабируемые приложения для Android с помощью Kotlin. Язык Kotlin предлагает современные технологии программирования и конструкции для Android-разработки. Книга "Kotlin для разработки приложений под Android" поможет вам быстро понять принципы и методы Kotlin, применить Kotlin в разработке производственных приложений, интегрировать Kotlin с существующим Java-кодом и планировать переход на Kotlin, если вы его выберете.

"Book of Making" том 1 из серии журналов "HackSpace" в нём собраны лучшие проекты за прошедшие годы издания. Это 180 страниц практических руководств, советов, трюков и вдохновения. Хакер - это вовсе не компьютерный взломщик, как рассказывают нам в кино и теленовостях. Хакер - это опытный программист, который нестандартно смотрит на привычные вещи: видит их недостатки и возможности улучшения.

Ransomware has turned out to be the most aggressive malware and has affected numerous organizations in the recent past. The current need is to have a solid defensive mechanism in place for workstations and servers in an organization. Preventing Ransomware starts by explaining the basics of malware, specifically ransomware. The book provides some quick tips on malware analysis and how you can identify different kinds of malware. We will also take a look at different types of ransomware, and how it reaches your system, spreads in your organization, and hijacks your computer. Then, we move on to how the ransom is paid and the negative effects of doing so.

Microsoft SQL Server 2017 is the next big step in the data platform history of Microsoft as it brings in the power of R and Python for machine learning and containerization-based deployment on Windows and Linux. Compared to its predecessor, SQL Server 2017 has evolved into Machine Learning with R services for statistical analysis and Python packages for analytical processing. This book prepares you for more advanced topics by starting with a quick introduction to SQL Server 2017's new features and a recapitulation of the possibilities you may have already explored with previous versions of SQL Server.

Blynk, known as the most user-friendly IoT platform, provides a way to build mobile applications in minutes. With the Blynk drag-n-drop mobile app builder, anyone can build amazing IoT applications with minimal resources and effort, on hardware ranging from prototyping platforms such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi 3 to industrial-grade ESP8266, Intel, Sierra Wireless, Particle, Texas Instruments, and a few others. This book uses Raspberry Pi as the main hardware platform and C/C++ to write sketches to build projects. The first part of this book shows how to set up a development environment with various hardware combinations and required software.

Cognitive services are the new way of adding intelligence to applications and services. Now we can use Artificial Intelligence as a service that can be consumed by any application or other service, to add smartness and make the end result more practical and useful.Google Cloud AI enables you to consume Artificial Intelligence within your applications, from a REST API. Text, video and speech analysis are among the powerful machine learning features that can be used. This book is the easiest way to get started with the Google Cloud AI services suite and open up the world of smarter applications.