Here are the Lectures Videos for the Introductionto Computer Programming forScientists and Engineers course (Spring, 2009) atthe University of California at Berkeley (Engineering 7). Thedescription of this class is as follows: “Elements of procedural andobject-oriented programming. Induction, iteration, and recursion. Realfunctions and floating-point computations for engineering analysis.Introduction to data structures. Representative examples are drawn frommathematics, science, […]

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Delivering Pervasive User Profiles - New Essentials Series!
by Greg Shields

There’s more to a computer than the sum of its hardware and software components. Over time, you personify that piece of silicon and plastic. You add pictures of fond memories. You keep a record of web sites that are important to you. Even the settings related to your desktop and your printers are customized to your liking. All these elements combine to define the personality of that computer. And without the right tools in place, any replacement or upgrade of it forces your users to start that process over from scratch.For too long IT organizations have disregarded the comfortable workspace created by the users of computers. Replacing hardware, upgrading operating systems, and adding remote application infrastructures all create entirely new and separate locations where personalization has to begin again. That process takes time, takes away from productive work, and reduces customer satisfaction.The solution for these problems is to create an environment of pervasive personalization. With such an environment, no matter where your users log in – desktops, laptops, remote applications, recently-replaced hardware – they will experience the same comfortable workspace every time. The Essentials Series: Delivering Pervasive User Profiles will illuminate the power of pervasive personalization, where it fits, and how to make it happen in your environment today.

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Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives - New eBook Release!
by Rebecca Herold

Too many times publications about data protection are written in such a way that only readers with a deep understanding of information technology (IT) can get value from reading them. The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives is written to serve as a “Rosetta Stone” of data protection for all levels of corporate staff. Each chapter is written in such a way to explain the importance of data protection so that four major roles throughout the enterprise, spanning from executive to IT, will understand. The target audiences includes 1) corporate business leaders (CxO, legal counsel; and other roles with holistic business responsibility), 2) compliance professionals (internal auditors, privacy officers, compliance officers, etc.), 3) IT operations (technology architects, engineers, programmers, and others involved with implementation issues), and 4) security personnel (staff responsible for all aspects of information security and safeguards, including technologies and related options).

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Here is an excellent AJAXProgramming Tutorial for creating adesktop/homepage, located at musestorm.com. It provides lessons that cover thecreation and hosting of AJAX web pages. The perquisites for the mostpart of this tutorial are that the user should know HTML, someJavascript and CSS.This AJAX Tutorial is a great starting point to create somereally good applications with AJAX.A sample […]

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Here are six C++ programming tutorial and learningdocuments, with several related to embedded and portabledevice development. Alsoincluded below are three other documents, two of which cover embedded Linuxdevelopment on a Windows host. All of these C++ documents are hosted byappinf.com.C++Coding Style Guide: Rules and Recommendations Version 1.3  (52 pages, 392kb, pdf format)Table of Contents:1. Introduction2. […]

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These 3 Windows Forms Tutorials at Microsoft Developer Network provide a detailed overview ofthe Windows Forms and Graphics Services in Windows and Visual Studio,how Windows Forms are generated with lots a sample code, and how userscan work with them. WindowsFormsThis section provides in depth coverage of getting started with Windowsforms and working with applications to […]

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These tutorials on CreatingWindows-based Applications Tutorials at Microsoft Developer Networkprovide an overview of developing software applications in Windows,and how Windows forms are generated (and when web forms should bechoosen instead). They also discuss the various application servicesavailable for Windows developer and the structure of the WindowsPresentation Foundation.These tutorials can be used as a detailed reference guide […]

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Building Code Quality - New eBook Available!
by Don Jones

The Definitive Guide to Building Code Quality presents a comprehensive review of modern techniques used to transform raw source code into finished product. In addition to exploring current tools and methods, the guide reviews common techniques and best practices for debugging, testing, and preparing code for commercial release. Throughout, the emphasis is on completeness of coverage in test cases, complete exercise and optimization of code, and use of appropriate procedures and workflows to ensure that changes to code bases are properly recognized, tested, and integrated.The primary development environment targeted in this book is Visual Studio 2008, but even those who use other development environments and toolsets will find the exploration of code analysis and metrics, taxonomies and illustrations of common coding errors, and automated code optimization techniques to be of great interest. The discussion includes methods to reduce code complexity, make most effective use of resources, analyze code path length, and determine optimal use of code libraries, and predefined objects and methods.

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Here 61 PHPTutorials and Articlesat phpro.org that delve into the more complex topics in PHP and explainthem in detail.These PHP tutorials explain the integration of PHP with MySQL andSimpleXML. It introduces Xajax, which is an open source class libraryof AJAX for PHP; they also discuss XSL and video conversion withFFMPEG, and they introduce the various design […]

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This document provides the authoritative and complete statement of the requirements and usage of the TEI encoding scheme, a markup language for representing the structural, renditional, and conceptual features of texts.

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