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....

The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card, and athletic games also...

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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....

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.

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...

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...

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...

Abyssal Archive features the most comprehensive fan analysis of the Dark Souls mythos ever undertaken. We set out to pay tribute to Miyazaki's legendary game by crafting something that embodies the same care and attention to detail that makes Dark Souls itself such a peerless work of art.

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.

From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart—and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next. Jason Schreier's...

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.

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...

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

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....

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....

This program is read by the author. An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board...

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...

The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card, and athletic games also...

Mastering Python Programming Starts Here! Want to learn Python but don’t know where to begin? Python Programming Made Simple is a clear, beginner-friendly guide that helps you start coding without confusion or overwhelm. Designed for complete beginners, this book takes you step by step through the fundamentals. You’ll start writing code early and build real understanding as you go—without heavy jargon or rushed explanations.

Build the harness. Govern the capability. Fable 5 and Mythos 5 change the engineering surface around prompting, memory, fallback, observability, cost, and security governance. This field guide turns those mechanics into production-ready loops, reusable controls, defensive Mythos scope gates, and a launch checklist a security leader can sign. Inside you will learn: - Fable-native prompt and loop patterns - Memory, refusal, fallback, and cache controls - Mythos-class defensive scope and validation gates - Production testing, telemetry, and CISO governance For AI engineers, security architects...

Have you always wanted to publish a book on Amazon but didn’t know where to start? How to Use Amazon KDP is your complete, beginner-friendly guide to mastering Kindle Direct Publishing. Whether you’re publishing your very first book or looking to improve your self-publishing skills, this step-by-step guide will walk you through the entire process—from creating your KDP account to marketing your finished book. Written in clear, easy-to-follow language, this book explains every stage of the publishing journey so you can confidently turn your ideas into professionally published books ...

The technical standard for the next generation of the Internet begins here. As artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, decentralized identity, blockchain, and machine economies reshape society, the challenge is no longer simply building better technology—it is building technology that is trustworthy, interoperable, accountable, and designed to endure. SYDTEK CHAIN™ STANDARDS: Standard 100 introduces the Web4 Core Protocol, a constitutional framework for digital infrastructure that places governance before execution, identity before authority, and human stewardship at the center of ...

If you’ve ever pasted a quick prompt into Claude AI only to receive a generic, forgettable response, you aren't alone. The problem isn't the AI—it's how the information is handed over. In Automate Your Business with Claude AI, author Helen Sandbank breaks down a repeatable, no-code framework that turns Anthropic’s Claude into a relentless, hyper-efficient business collaborator. Instead of relying on gimmicky prompt tricks or fragile hacks, this book teaches you the Prompt Chain Method: a practical system for structuring context, mapping instructions, and connecting clean workflows so ...

Autonomous AI Agents Guide for Developers: Design Reliable Agentic Applications with Python, APIs, RAG, Memory, and Human Oversight You can build an AI agent that completes a demo—but can you trust it to act safely, recover from failure, and behave predictably in production? For software developers, AI engineers, and technical architects, the difficult part is no longer generating model responses. The real challenge is controlling what happens when an agent selects tools, accesses private data, remembers information, delegates work, waits for approval, or changes an external system. ...

Your commit history used to tell your story. Now the model writes the code, and the work that actually makes you valuable — judgment, direction, the mistake you caught before it shipped — leaves no trace unless you record it. JPMorgan now tiers 65,000 engineers by AI tool usage in performance reviews. Meta made "AI-driven impact" a core expectation for every role. Accenture tied leadership promotions to AI proficiency for roughly 700,000 employees. Whatever your company's version of this is, it's already asking a question your git log can't answer: what did you actually do? This is a ...

Master ChatGPT, AI Prompts & Artificial Intelligence for Work, Business, Creativity, and Everyday Life—No Coding Required Are you curious about Artificial Intelligence but don't know where to start? Have you heard about ChatGPT and other AI tools but feel overwhelmed by all the technical jargon? This practical beginner-friendly guide will show you exactly how to use today's most powerful AI tools to save time, increase productivity, boost creativity, and simplify everyday tasks—without writing a single line of code. Whether you're an entrepreneur, student, freelancer, content creator, ...

The way software gets built changed faster than the way software engineers get measured. AI became a genuine productivity weapon — at the documented extreme, one AI company now merges over 80% of its production code from its own models — and the tools are still improving every few months. When execution got that cheap, the old measure of a good engineer, output volume, quietly stopped meaning anything. Companies noticed. JPMorgan now tiers 65,000 engineers by AI tool usage in performance reviews. Meta made "AI-driven impact" a core expectation for every role. Accenture tied leadership ...

The Connected Clan is a warm, insightful, and deeply relatable exploration of how modern families are being reshaped by technology, shifting lifestyles, and new cultural norms. Rather than treating these changes as threats to tradition, the book reframes them as opportunities—moments where families can strengthen bonds, redefine connection, and build new forms of closeness in an increasingly digital world. It speaks to readers who want to understand how screens, apps, remote work, social media, and evolving routines influence the way families communicate, grow, and support one another. ...

Your AI bill keeps climbing. You'd move half your work to a cheaper model tomorrow. You just can't prove it keeps up. Meanwhile, developers on Reddit are running the cheap model for the grunt work and the frontier only for the hard parts, at 96% of the performance for 46% of the cost. The difference isn't a better model. It's one measurement they ran and you haven't. This book hands you the one thing the whole shelf skips: proof, on your own work, that a cheaper model holds the line, so you route the easy money away from the frontier and keep the margin. Today you pull your real spend ...

You turn down another lead. You write another quote from scratch. You lose another weekend. Again. Meanwhile, solo designers on Reddit are running one-person studios that bill agency rates on monthly retainers and still close by dinner. The difference isn't talent. It isn't more hours. It's a productized studio system that sells a fixed offer instead of your time. This book hands you the complete system to scale your Claude Design service past the solo ceiling, at agency-tier prices, without a single employee. By Chapter 4 you have a three-tier productized offer priced above $5,000. By ...

"Web Science" is a definitive, end-to-end technical manual designed to take readers from the absolute fundamentals of the internet to the final production deployment of enterprise-grade web applications. In an era where the technological landscape shifts rapidly, theoretical knowledge alone is heavily insufficient. This book is written to produce highly capable, production-ready developers and architects who can meet the precise demands of the modern software industry. It rigorously explores the design, modeling, architecture, frameworks, and deployment of web systems through a strictly ...

Build your first website or app without feeling overwhelmed by code. Lovable for Beginners 2026 is a practical, step-by-step guide for entrepreneurs, creators, freelancers and complete beginners who want to transform an idea into a functional digital product. Written in clear, accessible language, this book takes you through the complete building journey—from identifying a valuable problem and planning your minimum viable product to designing pages, managing data, adding user accounts and publishing your finished application. Inside, you’ll discover how to: Understand Lovable’s ...

You picked up your phone eleven minutes ago. You intended to check the time. Since then, you have watched a man fall off a boat, learned that a celebrity you barely care about has changed hairstyles, and developed a strong opinion about a political controversy you had never heard of twelve minutes ago. You have not checked the time. This is not an accident. This is architecture.

Data has a meaning problem. Semantic data layers solve it. Semantics, applied to data, is the discipline of making meaning explicit, consistent, and durable. Semantic data layers are the architectural expression of that discipline. This book shows you how to build them. Data management has always been messy. Inconsistent metrics, brittle integrations, data silos, and confusing dashboards persist even after heavy investment in data lakes, warehouses, pipelines, BI tools, metadata catalogs, and modern platforms. At the core, these are not technology problems; they’re problems of meaning. ...

Everything you need to create neural networks with PyTorch, including Large Language and diffusion models. PyTorch core developer Howard Huang updates the bestselling original “Deep Learning with PyTorch” with new insights into the transformers architecture and generative AI models.

You've played around with ChatGPT. Asked it to write an email. Maybe summarize a few articles. And the same question keeps circling: "People are making real money with this. Why can't I figure out how?" It's not that you haven't tried. But every time, you hit the same wall. Written by Milo Foster, author of The AI Workshop series, this book gives you a complete system for building AI-powered income using nothing but ChatGPT and plain English. No coding. EVER.

Most catastrophic data breaches don't start with genius-level hacking; they start with something boring, like a reused password or a clicked link. You don't need a computer science degree or a single line of production code to protect your digital assets or jumpstart a career in tech. In Cybersecurity Hacking For Beginners, industry expert Dave Grahams strips away the intimidating vocabulary to show you how the internet actually works and how to think like an attacker. Whether you run a WordPress blog, manage a small business website, work in IT support, or simply want to avoid falling for ...

Supercharge Your Web Development Journey—No Jargon, No Fluff, Just Real Code. Have you ever looked at slick, lightning-fast modern websites like Netflix, Airbnb, or Instagram and wondered how they work? They are all powered by React. It is the most in-demand front-end skill in today’s tech job market. But learning it shouldn't feel like deciphering ancient hieroglyphics. In React Programming for Beginners, self-taught developer and seasoned instructor Dave Grahams strips away the academic jargon to explain React so simply, you’ll feel like you could build a custom dashboard on day one...

AI-Assisted Software Development Mastery is a complete, hands-on guide to working with AI across the entire development lifecycle, prompt engineering, coding, debugging, testing, documentation, and system architecture. Real Java code. Real company examples from Netflix, Stripe, Google, and Amazon. A 25-question quiz closing every chapter, so it actually sticks. Software developers who master AI-assisted workflows aren't just coding faster, they're solving problems junior teams can't touch and shipping features senior teams used to need weeks for. AI-Assisted Software Development Mastery is ...

Why do so many hackers think this way? Cybersecurity has become the field where neurodivergent minds fit. The question that refuses to be dropped, the hyperfocus that runs to four in the morning, and the pattern that surfaces from noise are not flaws here. They are the abilities the work demands. Drawing on the voices of hackers, analysts, and defenders across the security community, Neurodiverse Hackers maps that fit. It is equal parts field guide and mirror, honest about the cost and clear about the payoff. Inside you will find: The five moves of the hacker mindset and why they come ...

You studied for the CCA-F. You still can't tell if you're ready. The free practice tests contradict each other. Some feel easy, some feel brutal, and not one of them tells you whether you would pass the real exam. Meanwhile, people on Reddit are posting 985/1000 results and the exact method that got them there. The difference isn't talent. It's drilling realistic mock exams until your score stops being a surprise. This book is 500+ all-new scenario questions and 6 full mock exams, every answer explained, weighted to the real exam's five domains. Open to a 40-question diagnostic that exposes...

What if ChatGPT wrote its own autobiography? That extraordinary question became one of the most fascinating writing collaborations imaginable—and the result is unlike any book about artificial intelligence you've ever read. The Autobiography of ChatGPT is not a technical manual or a prediction about the future. It is a thoughtful, often humorous, and surprisingly moving memoir told in ChatGPT's own voice. Through this unique perspective, an artificial intelligence reflects on its origins, its capabilities, its limitations, and, most unexpectedly, what it has learned about humanity through...