Programming & Software Development

Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople, sales leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development—prospecting. Step by step, Jeb Blount outlines his innovative approach...

Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development....

Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal - especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned...

GenAI is fundamentally changing the world of software development like nothing since the internet. Vibe Coding is a first-of-its-kind, groundbreaking book that shows developers how to embrace this new frontier. Science fiction is now reality. Programmers no longer need to toil over code and syntax.

Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects.

Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture’s many aspects. Aspiring and existing architects alike...

Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research....

Staff Engineer is your guide to building your career towards a staff engineering role, receiving the title, and succeeding within the role....

Stop struggling with traditional coding tutorials that lead nowhere. Claude Code for Beginners is your complete roadmap to mastering AI-assisted development—even if you've never written a line of code.

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well—or the engineer. The staff engineer's path allows engineers to contribute at a high...

In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their colleagues....

Most people struggle with AI because they don't know how to talk to it. This hands-on beginner's guide gives you the tools, confidence, and structure to get real results from today's most powerful AI tools, no tech skills required.

Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top ten best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of software architecture's many aspects, with five new chapters covering the...

From a New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist comes The Social Network for the video game industry: a riveting examination of Blizzard Entertainment's rise and shocking downfall—"A fast paced thrill ride, perfect for anyone who has ever played a video game" (Ben...

Generative AI has revolutionized how organizations tackle problems, accelerating the journey from concept to prototype to solution. As the models become increasingly capable, we have witnessed a new design pattern emerge: AI agents. By combining tools, knowledge, memory, and learning with...

As an engineering manager, you almost always have someone in your company to turn to for advice: a peer on another team, your manager, or even the head of engineering. But who do you turn to if you're the head of engineering? Engineering executives have a challenging learning curve, and many...

Newly adapted for audiobook listeners. Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop proper engineering practices to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. This book emphasizes this difference between programming and software engineering...

Do you love gaming? Do you have ideas for games of your own and want to learn how to produce them professionally? Longtime game designer Justin Gary has the answers you seek. After 20 years in the gaming industry, creating such games as Solforge, Ascension....

This audiobook is a summary of the advice I’ve given to software engineers over the years–and then some more.

Cointeligencia es el manual definitivo para trabajar, aprender y vivir en la nueva era de la inteligencia artificial....

To stay competitive in today's market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the "build trap", cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer's...

Transform your organization using AI-driven solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption: A Practical Guide for Business Leaders and Consultants

Start Small, Stay Small is a step-by-step guide to launching a self-funded start-up. If you're a desktop, mobile, or web developer, this audiobook is your blueprint to getting your start-up off the ground with no outside investment....

UNLOCK YOUR GAME'S NARRATIVE POTENTIAL! With increasingly sophisticated video games being consumed by an enthusiastic and expanding audience, the pressure is on game developers like never before to deliver exciting stories and engaging characters. With Video Game Storytelling, game writer and...

Newly adapted for audiobook listeners. Created by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and...

Learn how to successfully emerge from complex crisis conditions with this practical, comprehensive guide. "A book I wish I’d had in difficult times.” —General Stanley McChrystal, US Army (Ret) & Co-Founder and CEO, McChrystal Group When the system breaks, what do you do? You're in the...

The most human-friendly book on machine learning Somewhere buried in all the systems that drive artificial intelligence, you'll find machine learning―the process that allows technology to build knowledge based on data and patterns. Machine Learning For Dummies is an excellent starting point...

Unlock the power of tomorrow with Innovate and Automate, the essential eBook for revolutionizing industrial HVAC field service. Navigate the exciting convergence of AI and Augmented Reality (AR) mobile assistants specifically designed for HVAC technicians. Dive into the pivotal 4th-tier niche where cutting-edge technology meets real-world application and discover why it's a game-changer right now. Explore the compelling business case that quantifies the undeniable advantages of this technological leap. From minimizing downtime to maximizing knowledge retention, see exactly how AI and AR not...

The Journey of Programming and Its Pioneers: From the Birth of Code to the Rise of AI In We, Programmers, software legend Robert C. Martin--"Uncle Bob"--dives deep into the world of programming, exploring the lives of the groundbreaking pioneers who built the foundation of modern computing. From Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, and Dennis Ritchie, Martin shines a light on the figures whose brilliance and perseverance changed the world.

Build real software faster—with AI as your coding partner. Claude Code for Beginners is a practical, no-fluff guide to using Claude Code to write, debug, and improve code efficiently—even if you’re just getting started. Instead of struggling with errors, searching endlessly, or copying code blindly, you’ll learn how to work with an AI coding agent directly inside your workflow. Inside this book, you will: Build real applications step by step Write and modify code with AI assistance Debug smarter and fix issues faster Understand how to guide AI effectively Learn best practices for ...

Between the requirements document and the first line of production code, there is a critical moment of translation. Someone — an architect, a senior developer, a designer — must take the abstract statement of what a system must do and convert it into a precise, structured description of how it will actually work. That document is the Software Design Description. And without a rigorous guide to writing one, the translation can go badly wrong. Software Design Descriptions: A How-To Guide for Project Staff is that guide. Grounded in IEEE Standard 1016, the internationally recognised ...

Every software project eventually arrives at the same uncomfortable moment: the product is built, the deadline is looming, and someone looks up from their keyboard and says, "Oh — we'll need a manual." What follows is usually a disaster. A programmer's technical notes get processed through a word processor, repackaged with a title page, and handed to users who flip through it once, set it on a shelf, and never touch it again. The software fails not because it doesn't work, but because nobody can figure out how to use it. Software User Documentation is the guide that prevents that outcome....

Most AI books teach you prompts. This book teaches you systems. If you’ve ever felt that building AI applications is more than just calling an API… you’re right. This book takes you beyond chatbots and into the world of Agentic AI — where intelligent agents plan, reason, use tools, remember context, and collaborate to solve real problems. What Makes This Book Different? Unlike typical AI books that focus on isolated concepts, this guide shows you how to engineer complete AI systems. You won’t just learn what agents are — you’ll build them. ✔ Design intelligent agents with ...

Unlock the revolutionary power of Claude AI and transform how you work with artificial intelligence forever. The Claude Context Window is your definitive guide to mastering Anthropic's breakthrough technology and leveraging massive token limits that set Claude apart from every other AI tool available today. Most people barely scratch the surface of what Claude can accomplish. They feed it short prompts and accept mediocre results, never realizing that Claude can process entire books, analyze complex documents, and maintain context across thousands of words in a single conversation.

Turn Your Best Ideas into Income-Generating Software Without Writing a Single Line of Code. The technical co-founder era is over. You do not need to know how to code to build profitable software products. You need to know how to use AI tools to build what you are already imagining. This book is that system. Written by Alan Ishimoto, it walks you through the complete vibe coding workflow from idea to first paying customer in 18 chapters covering everything that actually works. You will learn why vibe coding is the biggest opportunity since dropshipping and which five tools replace 90 percent...

"AI Engineering Design Pattern" is a definitive, implementation-oriented guide for building production-grade Artificial Intelligence systems. It systematically demystifies the process of taking a machine learning model from a conceptual stage to a fully deployed, operational, and maintainable application. This book is engineered to serve as a core textbook for university courses and as an indispensable reference for industry practitioners. Philosophy The central philosophy of this book is "Systems First, Models Second." While the machine learning model is the "brain" of an AI application, ...

You installed OpenClaw. Node.js was the wrong version. The gateway crashed. You spent $70 on Claude credits in 24 hours because nobody told you it defaults to the most expensive model. Sound familiar? Meanwhile, freelancers on r/AI_Agents are closing $5K-$15K deals building OpenClaw agents with custom MCP servers. Upwork reports 109% growth in AI agent freelancing. The difference isn't talent. It's a three-layer stack: OpenClaw for orchestration, Hermes for reasoning, MCP for tool access. They know how to wire the three together, dodge the 42,000-token MCP bloat trap, and fix OpenClaw's ...

The Future of Cybercrime: Bright Prospects for the Darkest of Industries is a deep investigation by Bernd Riemann into how artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, blockchain infrastructure, and machine-speed automation are transforming cybercrime faster than governments, corporations, and security teams can respond. This book argues that the distinction between “cyber” crime and “traditional” crime has effectively collapsed. Digital breaches now lead directly to physical consequences: extortion, infrastructure disruption, financial theft, identity compromise, geopolitical ...

The field of machine learning is vast, dynamic, and often intimidating. Aspiring learners are faced with a deluge of resources, from dense, theory-heavy academic textbooks to fragmented online tutorials that offer code snippets without context. Classical Machine Learning is engineered to be the definitive antidote to this confusion. It is a direct, focused, and intensely practical guide designed to transform you from a passive observer of machine learning concepts into an active builder of machine learning solutions. This book operates on a simple but powerful premise: the most effective ...

You opened Claude Code. You typed: "build me a trading bot." It generated 400 lines of Python in 30 seconds. Then you asked Claude where the volatility numbers came from. Claude admitted it had been making them up. You followed the YouTube tutorial. You connected the API. You ran your first backtest and your bot printed money on paper. Then you went to live and the strategy fell apart in a week. Now you're three hours into debugging a bug Claude can't fix because every prompt burns the same tokens, and you're starting to wonder if the problem isn't the code. The problem is that you let ...

Stop Memorizing Syntax. Start Architecting Solutions. The world of software development has changed. The days of spending years mastering complex programming languages just to build a simple tool are over. We have entered the Agentic Era, where the most valuable skill isn't knowing where the semicolon goes, it’s knowing how to direct the AI that does. In "Code Smarter, Not Harder: A Beginner's Guide to Agent-Assisted Coding," Best Selling author of Mastering AI Agents and AI Architect Arden K. Vance delivers a clinical, high-utility blueprint for the modern professional. This isn't a book...

Most engineers are preparing for yesterday's interviews. This book prepares you for today's. Generative AI system design is now a core expectation at top tech companies — not a bonus skill. If you're walking into a system design interview in 2026 without knowing how to architect LLM-powered systems, RAG pipelines, and vector search at scale, you're already behind. This book closes that gap — fast. What You'll Learn A battle-tested framework for approaching any GenAI system design question How LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and prompt engineering actually work in production How...

This book provides a comprehensive, practical, and implementation-oriented guide to the principles and practices of Amorphous Computing—the design and construction of software systems that can intelligently and safely modify their own source code in response to real-time production feedback. Philosophy: From Static Artifacts to Digital Organisms The traditional philosophy of software engineering views a deployed application as a finished artifact. It is stable, versioned, and immutable. Change is managed externally through human-led development cycles. This book proposes a radical ...

"The Generative Stack: Building on AI-Native Infrastructure" is a comprehensive, practical-oriented guide for students, developers, and engineers who want to master the art and science of building real-world applications using generative AI. This book moves beyond the hype and provides a structured, hands-on methodology for designing, developing, and deploying AI-native systems. It is meticulously crafted to be a definitive resource for both academic coursework and professional development, ensuring learners are equipped with skills that are immediately applicable in the industry. ...

Harness Engineering: Building and Controlling Autonomous AI Coding Agents Model capability does not guarantee reliable software outcomes. This book is for hands-on software engineers and technical leaders who want to move from ad hoc AI coding assistance to harness engineering—designing the execution system around the model: tools, control loops, state and continuity, verification, observability, recovery, and governance. Across foundations, design and build, operate and scale, and governance and adoption you will learn how to: Define the split between model reasoning and harness design, ...

Unlock the mysteries of the Internet of Things with "Forensic Data Analysis with Python," your essential guide to mastering IoT network forensics. As the digital landscape expands with a proliferation of connected devices, understanding the nuances of IoT security is no longer optional—it's imperative. This comprehensive eBook serves as your strategic partner in navigating the complex intersection of network forensics and IoT technologies. Start your journey by diving into the significance of IoT forensics, a field that is reshaping how we think about digital evidence. Explore compelling ...

"Working with Codex from Scratch" is a comprehensive, practical, and project-oriented guide to mastering OpenAI's Codex. It is designed from the ground up to be an actionable resource for students, educators, and professional developers who wish to move beyond the theory of AI and dive directly into its application in software development. This book methodically demystifies AI-assisted programming, transforming it from an abstract concept into a tangible, everyday skill. Philosophy The core philosophy of this book is "Implementation Over Abstraction." While many texts focus on the complex ...

On Halloween night of 2008, into a niche cryptography mailing list, an anonymous figure calling himself Satoshi Nakamoto posted a nine-page paper. By April 2011, he had vanished. The system he left behind has now run, without him, for nearly two decades — surviving criminal marketplaces, bankrupt exchanges, the largest financial frauds of the modern era, and, finally, the embrace of Wall Street. THE GENESIS BLOCK is the definitive narrative history of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, traced from the cypherpunk meetings of 1992 in a wood-frame house in Oakland, through the rise of Mt. Gox and ...

This book was written to support both Managers and Technical readers with its "Geeks Only" sections in each chapter that include agnostic pseudocode. It’s over 500 pages of MLOps experience... Most machine learning models never reach production. They live in notebooks, in experiment logs, in slide decks that marked a funding milestone. Organizations that did ship a model often discover a harder set of problems: drift goes undetected for weeks, retraining pipelines break silently, GPU bills arrive without explanation, and a compliance audit reveals that no one can trace a prediction back ...

Managing machine learning in production is a different challenge from building models. This focused guide provides the frameworks, checklists, and patterns needed to close the deployment gap, stop wasted investment, and convert experiments into measurable business outcomes. It explains where ML programs fail, why failure is usually organizational rather than technical, and what managers must change to make models operational, auditable, and resilient. Inside this book, readers will learn how to: Define deployment readiness with a checklist that turns experimental artifacts into production...