Best Computer Hardware Design
Common failures in enterprise applications often occur because their developers do not understand the architectural lessons that experienced object developers have learned. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is written in direct response to the stiff challenges that face enterprise application developers. The first section is a short tutorial on developing enterprise applications, which you can read from start to finish to understand the scope of the book's lessons. Armed with this book, you will have the knowledge necessary to make important architectural decisions about building an enterprise application and the proven patterns for use when building them. With the help of an expert group of contributors, Martin distills over forty recurring solutions into patterns. The first section is a short tutorial on developing enterprise applications, which you can read from start to finish to understand the scope of the book's lessons. Dividing an enterprise application into layers The major approaches to organizing business logic An in-depth treatment of mapping between objects and relational databases Using Model-View-Controller to organize a Web presentation Handling concurrency for data that spans multiple transactions Designing distributed object interfaces 0321127420B10152002.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Awesome book to read to understand the underpinning patterns of frameworks- that definitely improves ones understanding of why and how to use pattern."
"I found this book really complete about the issues an enterprise application may encounter."
"The benefit of reading this book is understanding what the problem is, why it's a problem and how to solve the problem."
"A great book of well written information."
"Classic Book."
"This should clearly be a book that sits along with the Gang of Four book on your shelf (Design Patterns) for the Enterprise developer or someone interested in enterprise development."
"Microsoft has moved away from datasets (Thankfully) so some of what it's talking about doesn't make sense anymore."
It takes more than just a design school education and a killer portfolio to succeed in a creative career. The drama-free work approach and leadership style outlined in Burn Your Portfolio is what makes working with him and all the folks at his company, Riser, FUN and worthy of the cupcakes we send to celebrate each of our successes together.”. After that, I’d tell them to read it cover to cover, because Michael Janda will show them how to stop making the business mistakes nearly everyone in design is making.”. Michael Janda clearly outlines practical, actionable advice that will make your design business better, your clients happier, and your teams more productive. “I’ve worked with Michael and Riser for many years, and the thing that differentiates Michael and his team from other agencies is their ability to speak my language versus design speak! They are good at not only listening to a client who is not a designer and is trying to convey the details of a project, but also on working with the client to get the job done well, on time, and also on budget. I can’t think of a better person to give advice to designers who need to work with clients in the real world.”.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The book has useful information for every stage of a designers career from fresh out of school to first job to freelance to starting your own business."
"A very good business book for anyone working in graphic design."
"Plenty of fun illustrations and pages highlighting important statements."
"An absolute MUST read for every creative professional!"
"I haven't read it all t he way yet but I hope it will help with me getting a job in graphic design since I am going to school for it."
"Bit of an impulse buy, but it's easy to relate to as a designer and it's ebtertaining!"
"Great book very informative !"
"Great Book for any Designer."
Offers a fresh, up-to-date approach to digital design, whereas most literature available is sorely outdated Progresses though low levels of design, making a clear distinction between design and gate-level minimization Addresses the various uses of digital design today Enables you to gain a clearer understanding of applying digital design to your life.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"great book for beginners like me."
"Although my professor hardly used the book during lectures, came in handy when teaching myself beginning VHDL coding."
"If you're taking EECS31(intro to digital systems) at a U.C."
"This book as great examples and is very readable."
"It was the correct book for my class."
"Super speedy shipping."
"It is an excellent textbook, colorful description, examples well explained."
Best Compiler Design
Every chapter has been completely revised to reflect developments in software engineering, programming languages, and computer architecture that have occurred since 1986, when the last edition published. Monica S. Lam is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, was the Chief Scientist at Tensilica and the founding CEO of moka5. Previously, he was a senior vice president at Bell Labs in Murray Hill and chief technical officer for communications software at Lucent Technologies.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The previous 1986 edition with the quaint illustration of the red dragon was the bench-mark gold standard for compiler texts, and I was worried that the new edition (with it's digitally animated cover, which loses much of the charm of the original) would be marred by loses and compromises. Anyway, on balance this is an excellent book and one that is well worth buying if you're interested in compilers, interpreters, VMs or other infrastructure components like that."
"I added this to my library because its one of *the* reference books for a computer science major. Shame on Pearson for, pardon the pun, draconian restrictions."
"Worse, the font choice used to typeset algorithms doesn't easily distinguish many greek lowercase letters from their modern English equivalents, the result being that it is fiendishly difficult to understand some algorithms (the book uses greek letters to indicate a 'sentential form', so they appear a *lot* and tend to be right next to their modern equivalents.)."
"This is an extremely useful book if you’re interested in writing compilers, but the Kindle version is worthless due to the extremely low limit on the number of devices on which you can read it. You need a device to read it just like you need light to read a normal book."
"Note the little red triangle banner in the Northwest corner of the book. states "Circulation of this edition outside of the Indian subcontinent is UNAUTHORIZED"."
Best Microprocessor & System Design
The added chapters contain (1) a crisp condensation of all the propositions asserted in the original book, including Brooks' central argument in The Mythical Man-Month: that large programming projects suffer management problems different from small ones due to the division of labor; that the conceptual integrity of the product is therefore critical; and that it is difficult but possible to achieve this unity; (2) Brooks' view of these propositions a generation later; (3) a reprint of his classic 1986 paper "No Silver Bullet"; and (4) today's thoughts on the 1986 assertion, "There will be no silver bullet within ten years." My co-authors of that study, and our executive secretary, Robert L. Patrick, were invaluable in bringing me back into touch with real-world large software projects. In preparing my retrospective and update of The Mythical Man-Month, I was struck by how few of the propositions asserted in it have been critiqued, proven, or disproven by ongoing software engineering research and experience. In hopes that these bald statements will invite arguments and facts to prove, disprove, update, or refine those propositions, I have included this outline as Chapter 18. For a wonderful willingness to share views, to comment thoughtfully on drafts, and to re-educate me, I am indebted to Barry Boehm, Ken Brooks, Dick Case, James Coggins, Tom DeMarco, Jim McCarthy, David Parnas, Earl Wheeler, and Edward Yourdon. I thank Gordon Bell, Bruce Buchanan, Rick Hayes-Roth, my colleagues on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Military Software, and, most especially, David Parnas for their insights and stimulating ideas for, and Rebekah Bierly for technical production of, the paper printed here as Chapter 16. Analyzing the software problem into the categories of essence and accident was inspired by Nancy Greenwood Brooks, who used such analysis in a paper on Suzuki violin pedagogy. Two persons' contributions should be especially cited: Norman Stanton, then Executive Editor, and Herbert Boes, then Art Director.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Fred Brooks was a software engineer at IBM for some decades and later chair of the UNC CS department."
"Classic book which is proven by time."
"It contains four additional chapters: No Silver Bullet, yet another influential essay by Brooks that was not in the original edition; an overview of all his points (the entire book) in an easy-to-digest format; his thoughts 20 years on from writing the original, and how the industry has changed in that time; and finally, his responses to various criticism he has received over the years specifically in response to the "No Silver Bullet" essay."
"Other topics include the distinction between the "essential" and "accidental" elements of software design; the distinction between building a computer program vs. designing a "programming a systems product" (and the ninefold difference in complexity and time between the two); the quest for software engineering's elusive "silver bullet"; the importance of documentation; the surprisingly small percentage of time that actual writing of code occupies on the timeline of a typical software-development project (as contrasted with time needed for testing and debugging); large teams vs. small "surgical teams" (and why the latter isn't always the answer for all projects); the "buy versus build" dilemma; and many others."
Best Software Programming Compilers
Every chapter has been completely revised to reflect developments in software engineering, programming languages, and computer architecture that have occurred since 1986, when the last edition published. Monica S. Lam is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, was the Chief Scientist at Tensilica and the founding CEO of moka5. Previously, he was a senior vice president at Bell Labs in Murray Hill and chief technical officer for communications software at Lucent Technologies.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The previous 1986 edition with the quaint illustration of the red dragon was the bench-mark gold standard for compiler texts, and I was worried that the new edition (with it's digitally animated cover, which loses much of the charm of the original) would be marred by loses and compromises. Anyway, on balance this is an excellent book and one that is well worth buying if you're interested in compilers, interpreters, VMs or other infrastructure components like that."
"I added this to my library because its one of *the* reference books for a computer science major. Shame on Pearson for, pardon the pun, draconian restrictions."
"Worse, the font choice used to typeset algorithms doesn't easily distinguish many greek lowercase letters from their modern English equivalents, the result being that it is fiendishly difficult to understand some algorithms (the book uses greek letters to indicate a 'sentential form', so they appear a *lot* and tend to be right next to their modern equivalents.)."
"This is an extremely useful book if you’re interested in writing compilers, but the Kindle version is worthless due to the extremely low limit on the number of devices on which you can read it. You need a device to read it just like you need light to read a normal book."
"Note the little red triangle banner in the Northwest corner of the book. states "Circulation of this edition outside of the Indian subcontinent is UNAUTHORIZED"."
Best Computer Hardware DSPs
This book presents the fundamentals of discrete-time signals, systems, and modern digital processing and applications for students in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science.The book is suitable for either a one-semester or a two-semester undergraduate level course in discrete systems and digital signal processing.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The reason for only 4/5 stars is mostly due to the poor coverage of terms in the index, which makes it hard to find where a particular concept is first introduced and defined."
"While very easy to read and understand, the material covered is presented with sufficient depth."
"The book demonstrates great details of Fourier Transform by constructing from mathematic components to a whole picture of Fourier Transform. I guess this textbook also much better than most textbooks, since most textbooks don't even bother to cover the real fundamental concepts."
"Great for beginning Engineering students."
"I applied the MathCAD 14.0 to solve the problem assignments and found a couple of typing errors in the solution guide. The solution manual is a great helper on assisting me to work on more problem assignments with confidence--It's the reason why I decided to purchase this textbook rather than other advance DSP books."
"Although the content is same as I expected the book is thicker and has different paper type which makes the book not easy to use and strong enough.This was acceptable because of low price."
"Poor book assembly."
"it is a clone of the book, it isnt the original book."
Best Computer Hardware Control Systems
INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATED SYSTEMS: INSTRUMENTATION AND MOTION CONTROL, is the ideal book to provide readers with state-of-the art coverage of the full spectrum of industrial maintenance and control, from servomechanisms to instrumentation. Terry Bartelt is currently an Electromechanical Instructor at Fox Valley Technical College, with more than twenty five years teaching experience in the field.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"2011C edition, Terry Bartelt, Industrial Automated Systems: Instrumentation and Motion Control. So far I recommend it, I'm an electrical design engineer on the accelerated learning path and find it useful."
"its quite a good book for beginners."
"I'm a Control Systems Engineer and have found this book useful."
"My son is using this book for his class."
"This book is very thorough and detailed."
"Pretty much as described."
"A required textbook for one of my classes."
Best Computer Hardware Embedded Systems
Exploring Raspberry Pi.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'm an EE with programming experience in Windows and I found the Linux section easy to understand, but very slow going, due to the vastness of Linux."
"Very comprehensive book on how to program the Rpi for physical computing."
"I've been playing with the Raspberry Pi for a few years now as a basic Linux computer, but I always felt that interfacing it to other devices would make this a much more powerful little platform. I'm fortunate to have enough background in these areas to weave through this, but those with less of a computer or electronics background might want to have a local geek or two handy to call in for help when needed. I'm an Electrical / Computer Engineer by trade, and I've had an interest in introducing hobby electronics to my kids."
"I can sum it up in one word."
"Really a very good book!!"
"This book is fantastic."
"I agree the the traditional paper book deserves the 5 star rating. The Kindle edition only has a 2 level outline, no sub topics, making it extremely cumbersome, if not useless, as a navigation tool. So minimal table of contents and no index makes the Kindle edition pretty useless as a convenient reference."
Best Microprocessor Design
The added chapters contain (1) a crisp condensation of all the propositions asserted in the original book, including Brooks' central argument in The Mythical Man-Month: that large programming projects suffer management problems different from small ones due to the division of labor; that the conceptual integrity of the product is therefore critical; and that it is difficult but possible to achieve this unity; (2) Brooks' view of these propositions a generation later; (3) a reprint of his classic 1986 paper "No Silver Bullet"; and (4) today's thoughts on the 1986 assertion, "There will be no silver bullet within ten years." My co-authors of that study, and our executive secretary, Robert L. Patrick, were invaluable in bringing me back into touch with real-world large software projects. In preparing my retrospective and update of The Mythical Man-Month, I was struck by how few of the propositions asserted in it have been critiqued, proven, or disproven by ongoing software engineering research and experience. In hopes that these bald statements will invite arguments and facts to prove, disprove, update, or refine those propositions, I have included this outline as Chapter 18. For a wonderful willingness to share views, to comment thoughtfully on drafts, and to re-educate me, I am indebted to Barry Boehm, Ken Brooks, Dick Case, James Coggins, Tom DeMarco, Jim McCarthy, David Parnas, Earl Wheeler, and Edward Yourdon. I thank Gordon Bell, Bruce Buchanan, Rick Hayes-Roth, my colleagues on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Military Software, and, most especially, David Parnas for their insights and stimulating ideas for, and Rebekah Bierly for technical production of, the paper printed here as Chapter 16. Analyzing the software problem into the categories of essence and accident was inspired by Nancy Greenwood Brooks, who used such analysis in a paper on Suzuki violin pedagogy. Two persons' contributions should be especially cited: Norman Stanton, then Executive Editor, and Herbert Boes, then Art Director.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Fred Brooks was a software engineer at IBM for some decades and later chair of the UNC CS department."
"Classic book which is proven by time."
"It contains four additional chapters: No Silver Bullet, yet another influential essay by Brooks that was not in the original edition; an overview of all his points (the entire book) in an easy-to-digest format; his thoughts 20 years on from writing the original, and how the industry has changed in that time; and finally, his responses to various criticism he has received over the years specifically in response to the "No Silver Bullet" essay."
"Other topics include the distinction between the "essential" and "accidental" elements of software design; the distinction between building a computer program vs. designing a "programming a systems product" (and the ninefold difference in complexity and time between the two); the quest for software engineering's elusive "silver bullet"; the importance of documentation; the surprisingly small percentage of time that actual writing of code occupies on the timeline of a typical software-development project (as contrasted with time needed for testing and debugging); large teams vs. small "surgical teams" (and why the latter isn't always the answer for all projects); the "buy versus build" dilemma; and many others."
Best PIC Microcontrollers
This book takes the novice from introduction of embedded systems through to advanced development techniques for utilizing and optimizing the PIC family of microcontrollers in your device. *Covers both assembly and C programming languages, essential for optimizing the PIC. *Amazing breadth of coverage moving from introductory to advanced topics covering more and more complex microcontroller families. *Details MPLAB and other Microchip design tools. Tim Wilmshurst is the author of Designing Embedded Systems with PIC Microcontrollers.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"From comparison to many other books I have read, I would consider this book to be excellent for beginners as well as nothing is bypassed even though the book is economically written."
"This book is a thorough guide on starting to use assembler and then C to design embedded systems on PIC uCs."
"Even with numerous PIC C tutorials on the web, the completeness and depth of this book make it a welcome addition on my journey into embedded programming."
"Very readable book."
"very nice book and nice layout."
"Has many examples and good explanations."
"Covers both assembly language and C. Detailed and deeply discussed."
"Very well written - Good core learning book for PIC MicroControllers."