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eBook Details: Paperback: 810 pages Publisher: Pogue Press (November 4, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1449341756 ISBN-13: 978-1449341756 eBook Description: QuickBooks 2014: The Missing Manual Get started. Quickly set up your accounts, customers, jobs, and invoice items. Learn new features. Get up to speed on the Bank Feed Center, Income Tracker, and other improvements. Follow the money. Track everything from billable time and expenses to income and profit. Spend less time on bookkeeping. Use QuickBooks to create and reuse bills, invoices, sales receipts, and timesheets. Keep your company financially fit. Examine budgets and actual spending, income, inventory, assets, and liabilities. Find key info fast. Rely on QuickBooks’ Search and Find features, as...

eBook Details: Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: WOW! eBook (November 6, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1593275331 ISBN-13: 978-1593275334 eBook Description: The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Laboratory ROV3R, a vehicle you can modify to do things like follow a line, avoid obstacles, and even clean a room WATCHGOOZ3, a bipedal robot that can be programmed to patrol a room using only the Brick Program App (no computer required!) SUP3R CAR, a rear-wheel-drive armored car with an ergonomic two-lever remote control SENTIN3L, a walking tripod that can record and execute color-coded sequences of commands T-R3X, a fearsome bipedal robot that will find and chase down prey The LEGO MINDSTORMS...

eBook Details: Paperback: 210 pages Publisher: WOW! eBook (October 1, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1449370780 ISBN-13: 978-1449370787 eBook Description: Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics in Python Use your existing programming skills to learn and understand Bayesian statistics Work with problems involving estimation, prediction, decision analysis, evidence, and hypothesis testing Get started with simple examples, using coins, M&Ms, Dungeons & Dragons dice, paintball, and hockey Learn computational methods for solving real-world problems, such as interpreting SAT scores, simulating kidney tumors, and modeling the human microbiome. Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics in Python If you know how to program with Python and also know a little about probability, you’re...

eBook Details: Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: WOW! eBook (October 31, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1449361692 ISBN-13: 978-1449361693 eBook Description: Feedback Control for Computer Systems Learn feedback concepts and controller design Get practical techniques for implementing and tuning controllers Use feedback “design patterns” for common control scenarios Maintain a cache’s “hit rate” by automatically adjusting its size Respond to web traffic by scaling server instances automatically Explore ways to use feedback principles with queueing systems Learn how to control memory consumption in a game engine Take a deep dive into feedback control theory Feedback Control for Computer Systems: Introducing Control Theory to Enterprise Programmers How can...

eBook Details: Paperback: 334 pages Publisher: WOW! eBook (September 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1449363504 ISBN-13: 978-1449363505 eBook Description: Building iPhone and iPad Electronic Projects Build a metal detector with the iOS magnetometer Use the HiJack hardware platform to create a plant moisture sensor Put your iPhone on a small rocket to collect acceleration and rotation data Hack a radio control truck with Arduino and Bluetooth LE Create an arcade game with an iPad controller and two iPhone paddles Control a candy machine with an iOS device, a micro servo, and a WiFi connection Building iPhone and iPad Electronic Projects: Real-World Arduino, Sensor, and Bluetooth Low...