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...

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...

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line.

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.

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...

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...

Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a...

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....

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

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...

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts—difficult problems or issues with no best practices—that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed...

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....

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....

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...

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...

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.

An understanding of psychology - specifically the psychology behind how users behave and interact with digital interfaces - is perhaps the single most valuable nondesign skill a designer can have. The most elegant design can fail if it forces users to conform to the design rather than working...

The Software Engineering industry often evaluates engineers based on how many lines of code they write, how many years of experience they have, or how many features they ship. But I think a more powerful metric is the number of bugs they encountered, reproduced, traced to their root cause and fixed.

Python is one of the easiest coding languages to master because it bases itself on the English language.

The greatest professional disruption since the internet is happening right now—and most leaders are responding with the one strategy guaranteed to fail: random experimentation.

Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do well. In many cases, how you communicate with stakeholders, clients, and other non-designers may be more important than the designs themselves. Because if you can't get their support, your work will...

Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new edition now adds more value for...

Doom Guy: Life in First Person is the long-awaited autobiography of gaming’s original rock star and the cocreator of DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein—some of the most recognizable and important titles in video game history....

The Software Engineering industry often evaluates engineers based on how many lines of code they write, how many years of experience they have, or how many features they ship. But I think a more powerful metric is the number of bugs they encountered, reproduced, traced to their root cause and fixed. Those experiences shape an engineer far more than raw output or time served in my opinion, let me elaborate. Bugs hinder the stability of software, which affects the user experience.

This book is a study of the psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of creativity, originality, and inspiration viewed from the lens of a seasoned game developer. It introduces the concept of creative sobriety—a practice that advocates better understanding our own sources of inspiration so...

The foundational philosophy of "Edge Computing With Agentic AI" is rooted in pragmatic engineering and actionable intelligence. The technology sector is currently saturated with high-level discourse about what AI "might" do in the future. However, industry engineers are tasked with what AI "must" do today. This book operates on the philosophy that true mastery of a technology is achieved only through building it. Therefore, I prioritized practical application over abstract academic theory. Key Features 1. Industry-Relevant Curriculum: Every chapter is aligned with current market trends and ...

Game development isn't just about ideas and creativity. It's about survival. It's about turning your vision into a product that retains, monetizes, and scales—without burning out your team or going broke. The Game Product Management Handbook gives you the real-world systems, mental models, and growth frameworks used inside studios that ship and scale. No fluff. No theory. Just tactics forged through 16 years of painful pivots, missed payrolls, and unexpected wins.

The central philosophy of "Intelligent Threat Detection using AI" is rooted in pragmatic execution: theory without application is a vulnerability. In the realm of cybersecurity, knowing how an algorithm functions mathematically is vastly different from knowing how to deploy it as a robust, scalable service that intercepts live malicious traffic. Therefore, the philosophy of this book dictates that every concept introduced must immediately be tied to a practical application. I view AI not as an abstract academic discipline, but as a functional tool—a core component of a larger engineering ...

What if your greatest technical bottleneck wasn’t learning how to code, but trusting the code you never read? Welcome to 2026. The syntax barrier is dead. Anyone can describe a software app in plain English and watch an AI agent build it in seconds. We call it Vibe Coding—and it’s the greatest democratization of leverage in human history. But beneath the surface of thousands of high-speed AI startups lies an invisible emergency: When anyone can build an app without understanding how it works, what happens when it breaks? In "The Vibe Coder’s Dilemma," creative entrepreneur and tech ...

Are you ready to turn plain web pages into stunning, responsive websites? CSS Mastery for Beginners is your practical, step-by-step guide to learning the essential styling skills every web developer needs. Whether you're completely new to coding or looking to strengthen your front-end development foundation, this book will help you master CSS with clear explanations, hands-on examples, and real-world projects. Inside, you'll learn how to: Style text, colors, backgrounds, and layouts with confidence Build modern designs using Flexbox and CSS Grid Create responsive websites that work on all ...

Save 5 –10 Hours A Week At Work — Without Writing Code, Learning Jargon, OrWasting Another Afternoon Inside The Wrong AI Tool A Plain-English Guide To AI Agents, Generative AI & Prompt Engineering —For Working Professionals Who Want Real Hours Back, Not Another TheoryLecture The Complete Artific

Learn the programming language built for developer happiness — the one powering Shopify, GitHub, and Airbnb — and build AI-powered automation systems and intelligent backends with it, from scratch. Ruby Programming with AI takes you from your very first puts statement through object-oriented programming, blocks, mixins, gems, functional patterns, database integration, background jobs, and testing — and then into integrating OpenAI and LLM APIs to build AI-powered chat assistants, intelligent automation scripts, and data analysis tools. Written for Ruby 3.4 with modern idioms and 2026 ...

Learn the most loved programming language in the world — the one replacing C and C++ in operating systems, browsers, and high-performance backends — and build AI-powered systems and intelligent tools with it, from the ground up. Rust Programming with AI takes you from your very first Rust program through ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits, generics, async programming, REST APIs, unsafe code, and database integration — and then into integrating OpenAI and LLM APIs to build high-performance AI backends, intelligent command-line tools, and AI-driven data processing pipelines. ...

"Beyond Artificial Super Intelligence" is not a standard textbook; it is a comprehensive, hands-on engineering manual designed to transform theoretical concepts into fully functional, production-ready applications. The technology sector has reached a critical inflection point where understanding AI is no longer sufficient; professionals must know how to build, integrate, and deploy it at scale. This book addresses that exact need by providing a meticulous, step-by-step blueprint for developing advanced intelligent systems from scratch. Philosophy The core philosophy of this book is absolute...

You start the loop and go to bed. You wake up to a $200 bill and code you still can't trust. Meanwhile, builders on Reddit are running nine-hour loops overnight and waking up to clean, merged pull requests. The difference isn't a smarter model. It's a loop that knows when to stop, how to verify its own work, and when to quit before it empties your wallet. This book hands you the complete loop-engineering system: a bounded, self-correcting Claude Code loop you can trust to run unattended. You'll build your first self-correcting loop in Chapter 4, the one that fixes a failing test and stops ...

Before Netflix. Before Spotify. Before streaming changed everything — there was The Pirate Bay. In the early 2000s, a small group of Swedish hackers built a website that the most powerful entertainment industry in the world couldn't kill. Police raids. Criminal trials. International manhunts. Hollywood's best lawyers. None of it worked. Every time the system tried to shut them down, they came back stronger. The Pirate Who Tried to Make the Internet Free tells the full story — from the wild early days of Napster and burned CDs, to the rise of a file-sharing empire that redefined the ...

Data Engineering for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Modern Data Pipelines and Analytics Data is the foundation of modern business, analytics, and artificial intelligence—but how does data move from raw information to valuable insights? Data Engineering for Beginners provides a clear and practical introduction to the world of data engineering. Designed for students, professionals, and aspiring data engineers, this book explains essential concepts in simple language without assuming prior experience. Inside, you'll learn: • How databases store and organize data • SQL fundamentals for ...

"Green Cloud Systems Engineering" is an authoritative, highly practical text designed to solve one of the most pressing issues in modern computer science: the exponential energy consumption of cloud computing. This text moves past high-level sustainability concepts to deliver a rigorous, hard-engineering approach to designing, building, and deploying power-aware digital infrastructures. Philosophy The core philosophy of this text is that sustainability in computing is fundamentally a systems engineering and computer science problem, not merely an environmental policy issue. I rely upon the ...

Application security starts long before the firewall. It begins in architectural decisions, in the code that gets written, in the practices a team adopts, and in the culture that holds all of it together over time. This book presents, in a structured and well-grounded way, the concepts, vulnerabilities, practices, and tools that make up secure application development. From the first chapter to the conclusion, readers follow a path that runs from the foundations of information security through to the most advanced practices for integrating security into the development lifecycle — covering...

Learn the fastest database in existence — the one powering Twitter, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Pinterest, and Snapchat — and build AI-powered caching layers, real-time systems, and intelligent data pipelines on top of it, from scratch. Redis with AI takes you from your very first SET and GET command through data structures, persistence, pub/sub messaging, Redis Streams, replication, clustering, and cloud deployment — and then into integrating modern AI APIs to build intelligent recommendation engines, AI-powered session systems, and real-time data pipelines. Written for the 2026 ...

Master the world's most advanced open-source relational database — the one powering Apple, Instagram, Spotify, and Supabase — and build AI-powered data systems on top of it, from scratch. PostgreSQL with AI takes you from your very first SQL query through advanced query optimization, window functions, JSONB, full-text search, replication, cloud deployment, and pgvector — and then into integrating modern AI APIs to build semantic search engines, intelligent recommendation systems, and AI-driven data pipelines. Written for the 2026 ecosystem, every chapter is practical, current, and ...

You don't have to be "a math person." You just have to learn to think in steps. Most programming books hand you a language on page one and hope you keep up. Think First, Then Code does the opposite. It starts with the one skill every programmer needs and no language can teach you twice: breaking a problem into clear, ordered steps. You'll begin in pseudocode — plain, structured English — where you can learn to think without fighting punctuation or error messages. Then you'll watch that same thinking become real, running code in three very different languages: Python, JavaScript, and C. ...

Unlock the Power of the Most Effective Digital Creative Duo Available Today. Do you want to create stunning digital content, professional documents, and high-impact presentations but feel restricted by a lack of design experience or writing blocks? You do not need an art degree, and you do not need a background in software engineering. Everything you need to succeed starts completely from zero. In Claude AI and Canva for Beginners, retired educator and creative systems builder Joseph Wappel provides a definitive, practical roadmap to mastering two of the world’s most powerful free ...

"OpenClaw Architecture and Mechanics" is an exhaustive, practical, and highly detailed technical manual designed to take readers from absolute zero to the successful deployment of a fully functional, industry-grade automated mechanical system. This section breaks down the core elements that define this book's structure, purpose, and value. Philosophy The driving philosophy behind this book is "Implementation Over Abstraction." In the modern tech and manufacturing sectors, knowing about a technology is useless unless you know how to build and deploy it. The industry suffers from a surplus of...

Build modern, production-ready full-stack web applications with the framework powering the React ecosystem and make them intelligent with AI, from day one. Next.js with AI takes you from your very first React component through file-based routing, Server Components, API routes, authentication, database integration, real-time applications, and edge deployment and then into building AI-powered chat systems, recommendation engines, semantic search, and intelligent content platforms. Written for the 2026 ecosystem with the App Router, React Server Components, Vercel AI SDK, and Next.js 14+, ...

Learn the world's most widely used relational database — and build AI-powered, data-driven applications on top of it, from the very beginning. MySQL with AI takes you from your very first SQL query through joins, stored procedures, window functions, full-text search, replication, and cloud deployment — and then into integrating modern AI APIs to build intelligent analytics systems, recommendation engines, and automated data pipelines. Written for the 2026 ecosystem, every chapter is practical, current, and grounded in real-world application development. MySQL powers WordPress, YouTube, ...

Learn server-side JavaScript with the runtime powering Netflix, Uber, LinkedIn, and NASA and build AI-powered backends, real-time systems, and intelligent APIs from the ground up. Node.js with AI takes you from your first HTTP server through Express.js REST APIs, asynchronous programming, database integration, Redis caching, WebSockets, Docker, and cloud deployment — and then into integrating OpenAI and LLM APIs to build AI-powered chat systems, recommendation engines, and intelligent automation workflows. Written for the 2026 ecosystem, every chapter is practical, current, and ...

Your small business is wasting hours every week on work that AI could handle in minutes. Marcus Chen ran a landscaping company for a decade. He was good at his work, but his business was stuck — drowning in quote requests, appointment scheduling, and follow-up emails that kept him from actually growing. Then he started using AI. Within three months, he had automated his quote generation, his appointment booking, and his customer follow-ups. He reclaimed eight hours a week and landed two new commercial contracts he never would have had time to pursue. Marcus is not an anomaly. He is one of...