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JavaScript in 20 Minutes: (Coffee Break Series)
JavaScript in 20 Minutes (Coffee Break Series) provides a fresh and engaging entry point into one of the most dynamic areas of modern tech.
Master practical coding skills.
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Game Development
Quickstart Guide to Game Design
A practical beginner’s guide to game design, focusing on small projects and core principles.
Understand the core principles of game design.
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Foundations of Graphics & Compute: Volume 3: Computing
Foundations of Graphics & Compute - Volume 3: Computing (Hardback) provides a fresh and engaging entry point into one of the most dynamic areas…
Master practical coding skills.
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Learn Neural Networks & Deep Learning WebGPU API & Compute Shaders
Learn Neural Networks and Deep Learning with WebGPU and Compute Shaders provides a fresh and engaging entry point into one of the most dynamic a…
Master practical coding skills.
Game Development
12 Games of Christmas
Learn to code by creating 12 fun Christmas-themed games, perfect for beginners and festive learning.
Gain hands-on coding experience through themed projects.
Higher Education
KPIs Across the Academic Ecosystem
Don't buy this book if you love pointless committee meetings and fuzzy mission statements. Buy it if you're tired of being evaluated by people w…
Stop wasting time on KPIs that don't matter for promotion or funding.
ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
Readers, in their own words
Reader review
Finally, an explanation that clicks
Better than I expected. Rare to find a technical book this well judged.
I read this over a couple of weekends alongside a small side project, which turned out to be the ideal way to approach it. The author is unusually honest about where the simplifications break down, which I appreciated. Some terminology is introduced without much ceremony; I had to look a few things up along the way. An easy five stars from me. I look forward to whatever the author writes next.
Harry CookComputer science student · Barcelona, ES
Reader review
An enjoyable and informative read
Recommended, with the caveat that it is not a gentle introduction.
I had been on the fence about this one for a while, and I should have bought it sooner. There is a section near the end that ties several earlier ideas together in a way I had not seen before. The chapters on databases & big data are the strongest — the examples are stripped down but complete, and I could follow along without constant guessing. Recommended, with the caveat that it is not a gentle introduction.
Wei LopezDevOps engineer · Manchester, UK
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Feminism for a World on Fire by Natasha Walter audiobook review – an urgent call for collective action
The writer and activist finds galvanising energy in grassroots initiatives in the face of inequality and the climate crisis‘Throughout the world confidence in progress has shattered,” notes Natasha Walter. “The certainty – even t…
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About 250 unknown developers break through every year, same as in 2016. Five times as many try now. In 2015 a game that players liked had a 1 in 3 chance to reach 1,000 reviews. Now it is 1 in 10.
Chart: https://steammaho.com/static/charts/the-flood-2026-11.png?v=4 Everyone feels the flood. I wanted to know what it does to a new developer with no name and no publisher, so I took every game released on Steam since 2015 and…
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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
Read at www.themarginalian.orgOne good book leads to another.
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