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Wow! eBook: Introduction to Android Application Development, 4th Edition - 4 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Introduction to Android Application Development, 4th Edition - 4 new eBooks

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Introduction to Android Application Development, 4th Edition

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 03:55 AM PST

Book Description

What Every Android™ App Developer Should Know Today: Android Tools, App/UI Design, Testing, Publishing, And More

Introduction to Android™ Application Development, Fourth Edition

This fully reworked edition of a proven title is the most useful real-world guide to building robust, commercial-grade Android™ apps. The content is revised and updated for the latest Android 4.3 SDK and the newest development best practices. Introduction to Android™ Application Development: Android Essentials covers all you need to quickly start developing professional apps for today's Android devices. Three expert developers guide you through setting up your development environment, designing user interfaces, developing for diverse devices, and optimizing your entire app-development process—from design through publication. Updated throughout, this title includes extensive coverage of the most useful new Android tools and utilities. It adds an all-new chapter on planning an amazing Android app user experience, plus extensive new coverage of unit testing, dialogs, preferences, and app publishing. Throughout, key concepts are taught through clear, up-to-date example code.

This edition offers:

  • Fully updated introductions to the latest Android 4.3 APIs, tools, utilities, and best practices
  • Up-to-date strategies for leveraging new Android capabilities while preserving compatibility
  • Navigation patterns and code samples for delivering more intuitive user experiences
  • Example-based explanations of ActionBars, DialogFragments, and other key concepts
  • Expert automated testing techniques to quickly improve code quality
  • New Google Play Developer Console app publishing techniques that also offer more control

For Android developers at all levels of experience, this reference is now more valuable than ever. Students, instructors, and self-learners will especially appreciate new chapter-ending questions and exercises, carefully designed to test knowledge and deepen mastery.

Note: This revamped, newly titled edition is a complete update of Android™ Wireless Application Development, Volume I: Android Essentials, Third Edition

Table of Contents
Part I: An Overview of the Android Platform
Chapter 1. Introducing Android
Chapter 2. Setting Up Your Android Development Environment
Chapter 3. Writing Your First Android Application

Part II: Android Application Basics
Chapter 4. Understanding the Anatomy of an Android Application
Chapter 5. Defining Your Application Using the Android Manifest File
Chapter 6. Managing Application Resources

Part III: Android User Interface Design Essentials
Chapter 7. Exploring User Interface Building Blocks
Chapter 8. Designing with Layouts
Chapter 9. Partitioning the User Interface with Fragments
Chapter 10. Displaying Dialogs

Part IV: Android Application Design Essentials
Chapter 11. Using Android Preferences
Chapter 12. Working with Files and Directories
Chapter 13. Leveraging Content Providers
Chapter 14. Designing Compatible Applications

Part V: Publishing and Distributing Android Applications
Chapter 15. Learning the Android Software Development Process
Chapter 16. Designing and Developing Bulletproof Android Applications
Chapter 17. Planning the Android Application Experience
Chapter 18. Testing Android Applications
Chapter 19. Publishing Your Android Application

Part VI: Appendixes
Appendix A. Mastering the Android Development Tools
Appendix B. Quick-Start Guide: The Android Emulator
Appendix C. Quick-Start Guide: Android DDMS
Appendix D. Android IDE and Eclipse Tips and Tricks
Appendix E. Answers to Quiz Questions

Book Details

  • Paperback: 672 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 4th Edition (November 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321940261
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321940261
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The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 03:48 AM PST

Book Description

"Capers Jones has accumulated the most comprehensive data on every aspect of software engineering, and has performed the most scientific analysis on this data. Now, Capers performs yet another invaluable service to our industry, by documenting, for the first time, its long and fascinating history. Capers' new book is a must-read for every software engineering student and information technology professional."
— From the Foreword by Tony Salvaggio, CEO and president, Computer Aid, Inc.

Software engineering is one of the world's most exciting and important fields. Now, pioneering practitioner Capers Jones has written the definitive history of this world-changing industry. Drawing on several decades as a leading researcher and innovator, he illuminates the field's broad sweep of progress and its many eras of invention. He assesses the immense impact of software engineering on society, and previews its even more remarkable future. Decade by decade, Jones examines trends, companies, winners, losers, new technologies, productivity/quality issues, methods, tools, languages, risks, and more. He reviews key inventions, estimates industry growth, and addresses "mysteries" such as why programming languages gain and lose popularity. Inspired by Paul Starr's Pulitzer Prize–winning The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Jones' new book is a tour de force—and compelling reading for everyone who wants to understand how software became what it is today.

Coverage includes:

  • The human need to compute: from ancient times to the modern era
  • Foundations of computing: Alan Turing, Konrad Zuse, and World War II
  • Big business, big defense, big systems: IBM, mainframes, and COBOL
  • A concise history of minicomputers and microcomputers: the birth of Apple and Microsoft
  • The PC era: DOS, Windows, and the rise of commercial software
  • Innovations in writing and managing code: structured development, objects, agile, and more
  • The birth and explosion of the Internet and the World Wide Web
  • The growing challenges of legacy system maintenance and support
  • Emerging innovations, from wearables to intelligent agents to quantum computing
  • Cybercrime, cyberwarfare, and large-scale software failure

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Prelude: Computing from Ancient Times to the Modern Era
Chapter 2. 1930 to 1939: The Foundations of Digital Computing
Chapter 3. 1940 to 1949: Computing During World War II and the Postwar Era
Chapter 4. 1950 to 1959: Starting the Ascent of Digital Computers and Software
Chapter 5. 1960 to 1969: The Rise of Business Computers and Business Software
Chapter 6. 1970 to 1979: Computers and Software Begin Creating Wealth
Chapter 7. 1980 to 1989: The Rise of Personal Computers and Personal Software
Chapter 8. 1990 to 1999: Expansion of the World Wide Web and the Rise of Dot-Coms
Chapter 9. 2000 to 2009: The Rise of Social Networks and Economic Crises
Chapter 10. 2010 to 2019: Clouds, Crowds, Blogs, Big Data, and Predictive Analytics
Chapter 11. Modern Software Problems
Chapter 12. A Brief History of Cybercrime and Cyberwarfare

Appendix A. Annotated Bibliography and References

Book Details

  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (November 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321903420
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321903426
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SysML Distilled

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 03:43 AM PST

Book Description

The Systems Modeling Language (SysML) extends UML with powerful systems engineering capabilities for modeling a wider spectrum of systems and capturing all aspects of a system's design.  SysML Distilled is the first clear, concise guide for everyone who wants to start creating effective SysML models.

(Drawing on his pioneering experience at Lockheed Martin and NASA, Lenny Delligatti illuminates SysML's core components and provides practical advice to help you create good models and good designs. Delligatti begins with an easy-to-understand overview of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and an explanation of how SysML enables effective system specification, analysis, design, optimization, verification, and validation. Next, he shows how to use all nine types of SysML diagrams, even if you have no previous experience with modeling languages. A case study running through the text demonstrates the use of SysML in modeling a complex, real-world sociotechnical system.

Modeled after Martin Fowler's classic UML Distilled, Delligatti's indispensable guide quickly teaches you what you need to know to get started and helps you deepen your knowledge incrementally as the need arises. Like SysML itself, the book is method independent and is designed to support whatever processes, procedures, and tools you already use.

Coverage Includes:

  • Why SysML was created and the business case for using it
  • Quickly putting SysML to practical use
  • What to know before you start a SysML modeling project
  • Essential concepts that apply to all SysML diagrams
  • SysML diagram elements and relationships
  • Diagramming block definitions, internal structures, use cases, activities, interactions, state machines, constraints, requirements, and packages
  • Using allocations to define mappings among elements across a model
  • SysML notation tables, version changes, and sources for more information

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Overview of Model-Based Systems Engineering
Chapter 2. Overview of the Systems Modeling Language
Chapter 3. Block Definition Diagrams
Chapter 4. Internal Block Diagrams
Chapter 5. Use Case Diagrams
Chapter 6. Activity Diagrams
Chapter 7. Sequence Diagrams
Chapter 8. State Machine Diagrams
Chapter 9. Parametric Diagrams
Chapter 10. Package Diagrams
Chapter 11. Requirements Diagrams
Chapter 12. Allocations. Cross-Cutting Relationships

Appendix A. SysML Notation Desk Reference
Appendix B. Changes between SysML Versions

Book Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (November 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321927869
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321927866
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Adaptive Leadership

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 03:40 AM PST

Book Description

Lessons from Agile's First Decade…Leadership for Agile's Next Decade

The agile software movement has now been around for a full decade. As coauthor of the original Agile Manifesto, Jim Highsmith has been at its heart since the beginning. He's spent the past decade helping hundreds of organizations transition to agile/lean. When it comes to agile, he's seen it all–in a variety of industries, worldwide.

Now, in Adaptive Leadership, he has compiled, updated, and extended his best writings about agile and lean methods for a management audience. Highsmith doesn't just reveal what's working and what isn't; he offers a powerful new vision for extending agility across the enterprise.

Drawing on what's been learned in application development, this guide shows how to use adaptive leadership techniques to transform the way you deliver complete solutions, whatever form they take. You'll learn how enterprise agility can enable the ambitious organizational missions that matter most; how leaders can deliver a continuous stream of value; how to think disruptively about opportunities, and how to respond quickly by creating more adaptive, innovative organizations.

Coverage includes:

  • Discovering and executing new business opportunities far more quickly
  • Delivering complete business solutions earlier, and iterating them more often
  • Organizing for innovation, and systematically managing opportunity flow
  • Clarifying the degree of strategic, portfolio, and operational agility you need, and focusing on your highest-value transformations
  • Creating cultures that actually can adapt and learn
  • Reinvigorating the roots of agile value and values
  • Understanding IT's changing value proposition, and retraining your people accordingly
  • Integrating economics, products, and social responsibility
  • Choosing metrics that guide agility, not counterproductive traditional metrics
  • Understanding the financial implications of technical debt
  • Optimizing business value by doing less–and guiding the process with "NOT to do" lists
  • Speculating intelligently when you can't plan away uncertainty
  • Customizing management to each project's needs (because not all projects should be equally agile)

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Enterprise Agility
Chapter 2. Adaptive Leadership Today
Chapter 3. Deliver A Continuous Flow of Value
Chapter 4. Create an Adaptive, Innovative Culture
Chapter 5. Final Words

Book Details

  • Paperback: 124 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (November 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0133598446
  • ISBN-13: 978-0133598445
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