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alexa skills This page features the latest and most popular technology books that teach skills related to Alexa skills development. You'll find books that cover key topics like designing voice user interfaces, working with the Alexa Skills Kit, handling user requests and responses, integrating with AWS services, and optimizing skill performance. Whether you're new to voice app development or looking to take your skills to the next level, these books provide practical guidance directly from experts in the field.

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Recently released programming books which are getting a lot of attention.

C++ Programming for Linux Systems

Sep 2023 288 pages

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€18.99 ~~€27.99~~

Expert C++

Aug 2023 604 pages

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€20.98 ~~€29.99~~

iOS 17 Programming for Beginners

Oct 2023 604 pages

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€17.99 ~~€26.99~~

Developer Career Masterplan

Sep 2023 310 pages

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€17.99 ~~€25.99~~

Refactoring with C#

Nov 2023 434 pages

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€21.99 ~~€31.99~~

Python Real-World Projects

Sep 2023 478 pages

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€18.99 ~~€27.99~~

The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI

Nov 2023 386 pages

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€18.99 ~~€27.99~~

Extending Microsoft Business Central with Power Platform

Aug 2023 458 pages

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€20.98 ~~€29.99~~

Quantum Computing Algorithms

Sep 2023 342 pages

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€22.99 ~~€32.99~~

Career Pathways

A collection of reading lists made by our expert authors to help get you your next job.

Building a Strong Foundation in Python

Explore this list for refining your Python skills and tackling business challenges. Discover techniques for writing clean code and building modern, high-performance, and scalable applications.

Getting Ahead of the C++ Learning Curve

Enhance your C++ skills and scale its challenging learning curve. Learn to optimize code speed, ensure maintainable code, and build applications for a range of domains. Test your C++ prowess by exercising and solving diverse problems, thus keeping yourself ahead of the game.

Become a Professional .NET Developer

This list enhances your .NET skills for advanced, robust, secure, and clean application development. If you're a .NET developer seeking to master clean coding and maintainable apps across domains, these resources will guide you effectively.

Mastering C # Programming

Carefully selected, this reading list aids in mastering C# programming. Books listed here deepen your knowledge of programming basics, covering key areas like code reviews, TDD, BDD, and API design. Address inefficiencies, redundancies, and coding problems. Learn to utilize C# for real-world games, websites, and services.

Go Programming for professionals

Level up your Go programming with this list. Geared towards experienced developers, it offers practical insights, patterns, and explanations to harness Go's power in production systems. These books delve into nuances of Go with in-depth guides on types, packages, concurrency, network programming, compiler design, optimization and more.

Kickstart Your Career as a Java Web Developer

Entering Java web development? This list jumpstarts your journey, whether new to coding or switching languages. Build a solid base and advance into professional application development using Java's ecosystem.

Crack the Coding Interview

For recent grads or role changers, this list boosts interview prowess. Whether you have experience in Java, Python, or C++, confidently tackle interview questions with logical responses.

Do More with Rust

If you're a developer who has dabbled in Rust in your projects and are looking to learn what more you can do with the language, then this reading list will help you. You'll discover how to use Rust for a wide range of use cases, from web development through to systems programming and cloud development. By the end, you'll be able to confidently use Rust partially as well as fully in your own projects.

Problem Solving and Productivity Hacks for Python Devs

Although one of the most desired skills in the IT industry, it's hard to come across developers who possess great problem-solving skills. This reading list is curated for those who are looking to stand out from the crowd by learning how to approach application development from the perspective of solving problems rather than mere coding. Find out how you can boost your productivity at the workplace as well as in your personal projects with the help of expert tips and highly effective techniques.

Mastering Blockchain Programming

This reading list delves into blockchain essentials like its technical foundations, cryptography, and consensus. It also offers expertise on decentralized app development, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and more. You'll even venture into blockchain's broader applications, like IoT, enterprise, quantum computing, AI, and its future prospects.

Learn Microsoft Power Platform

Discover how to architect, design, and manage solutions with Microsoft Power Platform. Explore Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents to address application lifecycle management, security, and extensibility.

Microservices Architecture and Implementation

This reading list is for developers and enterprise software architects keen on gaining hands-on microservices knowledge on designing, implementing, and managing complex distributed systems with microservices architecture concepts.

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Greg Deckler

Greg Deckler is Vice President of the Microsoft Practice at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a superuser within the Power BI community with over 100,000 messages read, more than 11,000 replies, over 2,300 answers, and more than 75 entries in the Quick Measures Gallery. Greg founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presents at numerous conferences and events, including SQL Saturday, DogFood, and the Dynamic Communities User Group/Power Platform Summit.

Most popular book of Greg Deckler

Learn Power BI

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Mr. Mark Price

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.

Most popular book of Mr. Mark Price

C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0

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Dr. Sebastian Raschka

Sebastian Raschka is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on machine learning and deep learning research. As Lead AI Educator at Grid AI, Sebastian plans to continue following his passion for helping people get into machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Most popular book of Dr. Sebastian Raschka

Instant Heat Maps in R How-to

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Duilio Tacconi

Duilio Tacconi is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Escalation Engineer at Microsoft EMEA Customer Support & Services (CSS). He joined Microsoft in 2008 after working in a customer IT department with a focus on system administration and development. Despite graduating with the highest score in Agricultural Science in 1996, he is in the ERP circuit since 1998 as developer and system implementer for several companies with Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies. Currently, he is a subject matter expert in EMEA for RDLC Report development and one of Microsoft EMEA CSS reference for Managed Service for Partners (MSfP). Three times IronMan finisher, Duilio lives in Cernusco Sul Naviglio (Italy) with his beloved wife Laura and his 2 years old son Leonardo.

Most popular book of Duilio Tacconi

Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

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Gabriel Baptista

Gabriel Baptista is a software architect who leads technical teams for Microsoft products across numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions specialist, a computing professor, a co-founder of a start-up for developing mobile applications, and also a speaker on the Channel 9 community.

Most popular book of Gabriel Baptista

Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5

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Per Larsen

Per Larsen works as a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Endpoint Manager - Customer Acceleration Team - Commercial Management Experiences (CMX) Engineering, where he takes learnings from Microsoft’s largest and most strategic customers back into the rest of engineering to drive improvements for the service so that customers have a continuously improving product experience. He also helps deploy and adopt Microsoft Endpoint Manager - Microsoft Intune. Per mainly focuses on the management of Windows and special devices such as HoloLens 2, Surface Hub, and Microsoft Teams Room System. Per was also an MVP in Enterprise Mobility, from 1st July 2016 to when he joined Microsoft on 1st April 2018.

Most popular book of Per Larsen

Mastering Microsoft Endpoint Manager

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Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Carl-Hugo Marcotte has been developing, designing, and architecting web applications professionally since 2005, wrote his first line of code at about eight years old, and holds a bachelor's degree in computer science. After working at a firm for a few years, he became an independent consultant, where he developed projects of different sizes for SMEs and educational institutions. He is now a Senior Solutions Architect at Export Development Canada and is passionate about software architecture, C#, ASP.NET Core, and the Cloud. He loves to share his knowledge, which led him to teaching programming, blogging, and creating, maintaining and contributing to multiple open-source projects.

Most popular book of Carl-Hugo Marcotte

An Atypical ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns Guide

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Ben Auffarth

Ben Auffarth is a full-stack data scientist who has >15 years of work experience. With a background and Ph.D. in computational and cognitive neuroscience from one of Europe's top engineering universities, he has designed and conducted wet lab experiments on cell cultures, analyzed experiments with terabytes of data, run brain models on IBM supercomputers with up to 64k cores, built production systems processing hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, and trained neural networks on millions of text documents. In his work, he often notices a lack of appreciation for the importance of time-related factors, a deficit he wanted to address in this book. He co-founded and is the former president of Data Science Speakers, London.

Most popular book of Ben Auffarth

Artificial Intelligence with Python Cookbook

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Maaike van Putten

Maaike van Putten is an experienced software developer and Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, and Bright Boost instructor. She has a passion for software development and helping others get to the next level in their career.

Most popular book of Maaike van Putten

JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

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Stefan Jansen

Stefan is the founder and CEO of Applied AI. He advises Fortune 500 companies, investment firms, and startups across industries on data & AI strategy, building data science teams, and developing end-to-end machine learning solutions for a broad range of business problems. Before his current venture, he was a partner and managing director at an international investment firm, where he built the predictive analytics and investment research practice. He was also a senior executive at a global fintech company with operations in 15 markets, advised Central Banks in emerging markets, and consulted for the World Bank. He holds Master's degrees in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and in Economics from Harvard and Free University Berlin, and a CFA Charter. He has worked in six languages across Europe, Asia, and the Americas and taught data science at Datacamp and General Assembly.

Most popular book of Stefan Jansen

Hands-On Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading

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