Computers - Computer Science

Many people have a distorted view of what computer scientists do, what it means to study computer science at the university, and what the prerequisites are. The image of the lone nerd programmer at his or her computer working long days with no contacts...

Fractals for the Classroom breaks new ground as it brings an exciting branch of mathematics into the classroom. The book is a collection of independent chapters on the major concepts related to the science and mathematics of fractals. Written at the mathematical level of...

Chapter 1. Review of Univariate Probability.- Chapter 2. Multivariate Discrete Distributions.- Chapter 3. Multidimensional Densities.- Chapter 4. Advance Distribution Theory.- Chapter 5. Multivariate Normal and Related Distributions.- Chapter 6. Finite Sample Theory of Order Statistics and Extremes.- Chapter 7. Essential Asymptotics and Applications.- Chapter...

Smart cards are used as ATM cards, credit cards, SIM cards, signature cards, pay TV cards and citizen cards. The security of these cards is of crucial importance. Power analysis attacks are one of the most effective attacks against cryptographic tokens like smart cards;...

This book will be a valuable reference for researchers in the eare of nonparametrics.Author: Alexandre B. TsybakovISBN-10: 1441927093ISBN-13: 9781441927095Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2010Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d

In its updated 2nd edition, this book presents a variety of image analysis applications, reviews their precise mathematics and shows how to discretize them. The book is intended for two audiences. First, the mathematical community, showing the contribution of mathematics to this domain, and...

From the reviews of the first edition: "Although the book is written as a textbook, with many carefully worked out examples and exercises, it will be very useful for the researcher since the authors discuss their favorite research topics (Monte Carlo optimization and convergence...

The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a solid background and understanding of the basic results and methods in probability theory before entering into more advanced courses (in probability and/or statistics). The presentation is fairly thorough and detailed with many...

Dismantling the Disabling Environments of Education: Creating New Cultures and Contexts for Accommodating Difference can be a valuable text for undergraduate and graduate courses in teacher education, as it addresses key issues of inclusion, diversity, equity, and differentiated approaches to educating the full range...

This second edition of Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education and Care is a foundational text that presents contemporary theories, debates, and political concerns regarding early education and child care around the globe.Author: Gaile S. CannellaISBN-10: 143315417XISBN-13: 9781433154171Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/2018Pages:...

STEM21: Equity in Teaching and Learning to Meet Global Challenges of Standards, Engagement and Transformation is designed to contribute to discourses about how STEM teaching and learning can become more equitable, serving the needs of readers across the STEM educational spectrum. Author: Sj MillerISBN-10:...

The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives consists of essays from the leading contemporary scholars of the university across the world. Author: Tina (Athlone C. ). BesleyISBN-10: 1433149796ISBN-13: 9781433149795Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2018Pages: 624Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Opening Doors: Community Centers Connecting Working-Class Immigrant Families and Schools examines the role and impact of a community-based organization, the Chinatown Community Center, and its youth program the Community Youth Center, which is located in an east coast city.Author: Sj Miller, Nga-Wing Anjela WongISBN-10:...

This book provides a deeper understanding of the phone-based composing practices of youth and their implications for literacy learning.Author: Michele Knobel, Julie WarnerISBN-10: 1433144085ISBN-13: 9781433144080Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/28/2017Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis provides a platform for critical educators, public intellectuals, and activists from all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in critical education and social movements.Author: Michael Adrian PetersISBN-10: 1433143798ISBN-13: 9781433143793Publisher: Peter Lang...

Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, Colleges at the Crossroads: Taking Sides on Contested Issues challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America's colleges and universities and instead critically examine important questions facing them in today's troubled world.Author: Shirley R. SteinbergISBN-10: 1433134217ISBN-13:...

A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity is a call to radical educators, grassroots organizers, and others on the left to recognize the enormous historical legacy of and potential for revolutionary praxis that exists among Women of Color and Indigeneity.Author: Peter...

Mapping Holisitic Learning: An Introductory Guide to Aestetigrams introduces the concept of aesthetigrams. These are participant-produced visual maps of aesthetic engagement. Author: Boyd White, Am駘ie LeMieuxISBN-10: 1433132761ISBN-13: 9781433132766Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2017Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d

This guide focuses on the dissertation work as a step-by-step process and details the structure and the content of dissertation chapters.Author: Shirley R. SteinbergISBN-10: 143313201XISBN-13: 9781433132018Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2017Pages: 210Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d

This book provides an expansive guide for designing and conducting robust qualitative research across a diverse range of purposes concerned with understanding new literacies in theory and in practice. It is based on the idea that one of the best ways of learning how...

This volume highlights Derrick Bell's influence as the first African American to earn tenure at the Harvard Law School and author of Race, Racism, and American Law on a number of prominent education and legal scholars by identifying some of his specific work and...

Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your 3D Printer by Charles Bell is your guide to keeping your 3D printer running through preventive maintenance, repair, and diagnosing and solving problems in 3D printing. If you've bought or built a 3D printer such as a MakerBot only to...

Unity for Absolute Beginners walks you through the fundamentals of creating a small third-person shooter game with Unity. Using the free version of Unity to begin your game development career, you'll learn how to import, evaluate and manage your game resources to create awesome...

Advanced .NET IL Assembler is a comprehensive drill-down into the inner workings of the .NET Framework. Acknowledged runtime expert and Microsoft insider Serge Lidin steps through the internal structures and operations that take place when .NET code is executed, showing how the syntax and...

Beginning Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 is your step-by-step guide to learning how to embrace responsive design for all devices. You will learn how to develop your existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills to make your sites work for the modern world....

Learn Office the easy way, no jargon. Clear, concise and to the point... Using Microsoft Office 365, is the essential step by step guide to getting the most out of the traditional Microsoft Office applications (not SharePoint), providing a complete resource for both the...

Learning how to write C/C++ code is only the first step. To be a serious programmer, you need to understand the structure and purpose of the binary files produced by the compiler: object files, static libraries, shared libraries, and, of course, executables. Advanced C...

You are interested in making an app. You have read all of the stories of successful developers and appreneurs. You are determined to get a piece of the pie. The world of apps is the fastest growing market in the world today, and it...

Pro JavaScript Development is a practical guide for front-end web developers who are experienced at building web pages with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and now wish to advance their JavaScript skills to a higher level. You will learn how to build large, well-structured, high...

Use Arrow's affordable and breadboard-friendly FPGA development board (BeMicro MAX 10) to create a light sensor, temperature sensor, motion sensor, and the KITT car display from Knight Rider. You don't need an electronics engineering degree or even any programming experience to get the most...

By now you'll have heard of ASP.NET MVC. This exciting new approach to developing ASP.NET web applications has taken the development world by storm over the last few years. Now a mature technology suitable for mainstream use, its adoption has exploded in recent times.Until...

Want to light up a display? Control a touch screen? Program a robot? The Arduino is a microcontroller board that can help you do all of these things, plus nearly anything you can dream up. Even better, it's inexpensive and, with the help of...

We all know how awesome LEGO is, and more and more people are discovering how many amazing things you can do with Arduino. In Arduino and LEGO Projects, Jon Lazar shows you how to combine two of the coolest things on the planet to...

JavaScript Programmer's Reference is an invaluable resource that won't stray far from your desktop (or your tablet!). It contains detailed information on every JavaScript object and command, and combines that reference with practical examples showcasing how you can use those commands in the real...

The agile, lightweight, open-source Spring Framework continues to be the de facto leading enterprise Java application development framework for today's Java programmers and developers. It works with other leading open-source, agile and lightweight Java technologies like Hibernate, Groovy, MyBatis, and more. Spring now also...

Today's Android apps developers are often running into the need to refine, improve and optimize their apps performances. As more complex apps can be created, it is even more important for developers to deal with this critical issue. Android allows developers to write apps...

Beginning Android 4 Games Development offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers. You'll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress toward creating your own basic game engine and playable game that works on Android...

Augmented reality (AR) offers a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment, where the elements and surroundings are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as graphics and GPS data. It makes a game more real. Your social media app puts you...

Dive into game development and create great multiplayer online games with Pro Android Web Game Apps. This hands-on guide covers both the theory and practice of browser game development for the Android platform. You'll use cutting-edge technologies to make game engines in your browser,...

This sixth edition of Beginning Ubuntu Linux introduces all of us--newbies, power users and system administrators--to the Natty Narwhal Ubuntu release. Based on the bestselling fifth edition, this edition introduces the new Unity interface while not neglecting the finely-tuned administration techniques for new users...

Foundations of SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence introduces the entire exciting gamut of business intelligence tools included with SQL Server 2008. Microsoft has designed SQL Server 2008 to be more than just a database. It's a complete business intelligence (BI) platform. The database...

Congratulations--you've purchased an iPhone 4, arguably the coolest smartphone on the market. Now it's time to learn how to take advantage of all the features, apps, and secret techniques available. To accomplish this, look no further than iPhone 4 Made Simple. Over 1,000 screen...

OpenOffice Calc is the most powerful and widespread open source spreadsheet application in existence. It is the only real alternative to Excel. Jacek Artymiak is widely regarded as the authority on OpenOffice Calc. He takes you, step by step, from the interface and handling...

It seems as if everyone is writing applications for Apple's iPhone and iPad, but how do they all do it? It's best to learn Objective-C, the native language of both the iOS and Mac OS X, but where to begin? Right here, even if...

Are you uncomfortable being classed as a "user" because it denotes exploitation? Is the only mail or monitor you know the one delivered by a postman or appointed by a class-teacher? Do you consider "hardware" as what you buy from a store to fix...

A book about programming, improving skill, and avoiding mistakes. The author spent two years researching every bug avoidance technique she could find. This book contains the best of them. If you want to program faster, with fewer bugs, and write more secure code, buy...

This book introduces basic programming of ARM Cortex chips in assembly language and the fundamentals of embedded system design. It presents data representations, assembly instruction syntax, implementing basic controls of C language at the assembly level, and instruction encoding and decoding. The book also...

The lambda-calculus lies at the very foundations of computer science. Besides its historical role in computability theory it has had significant influence on programming language design and implementation, denotational semantics, and domain theory. The book emphasises the proof theory for the type-free lambda-calculus. The...

Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations is a self-contained introduction to a fundamental field of numerical analysis and scientific computation. Written for undergraduate students with a mathematical background, this book focuses on the analysis of numerical methods without losing sight of the practical nature...

"This comprehensive reference work provides immediate, fingertip access to state-of-the-art technology in nearly 700 self-contained articles written by over 900 international authorities. Each article in the Encyclopedia features current developments and trends in computers, software, vendors, and applications...extensive bibliographies of leading figures in the...