Exploring Computer Hardware. Mastering the Building Blocks of Technology, From Microcomputers to Cloud Computing

This course takes you on a journey through the intricate world of computer hardware, beginning with a solid foundation in the fundamentals of computing. Starting with an overview of computers and microcomputers, you’ll explore the core components that make up these machines, including embedded systems, software, and peripherals. Each chapter is designed to build your understanding of how these elements work together to create the technology we rely on daily.As you progress, the course delves into more complex topics like computer networks, the Internet, and cloud computing. You’ll gain insights into how hardware interacts with software and the critical role of security in maintaining the integrity of systems. Additionally, the course covers binary numbers, Boolean logic, and other essential concepts that underpin modern computing, offering a comprehensive understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects.By the end of this course, you’ll have a thorough knowledge of not just the hardware components but also the data processes like encryption, compression, and storage that ensure efficient and secure computing. Whether you're a beginner or someone with some background in technology, this course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate and understand the complex world of computer hardware.

Hands-On Financial Modeling with Excel for Microsoft 365. Build your own practical financial models for effective forecasting, valuation, trading, and growth analysis - Second Edition

Shmuel Oluwa

Financial modeling is a core skill required by anyone who wants to build a career in finance. Hands-On Financial Modeling with Excel for Microsoft 365 explores financial modeling terminologies with the help of Excel.Starting with the key concepts of Excel, such as formulas and functions, this updated second edition will help you to learn all about referencing frameworks and other advanced components for building financial models. As you proceed, you'll explore the advantages of Power Query, learn how to prepare a 3-statement model, inspect your financial projects, build assumptions, and analyze historical data to develop data-driven models and functional growth drivers. Next, you'll learn how to deal with iterations and provide graphical representations of ratios, before covering best practices for effective model testing. Later, you'll discover how to build a model to extract a statement of comprehensive income and financial position, and understand capital budgeting with the help of end-to-end case studies.By the end of this financial modeling Excel book, you'll have examined data from various use cases and have developed the skills you need to build financial models to extract the information required to make informed business decisions.

Full Stack Quarkus and React. Hands-on full stack web development with Java, React, and Kubernetes

Marc Nuri San Felix, Alex Soto Bueno

React has established itself as one of the most popular and widely adopted frameworks thanks to its simple yet scalable app development abilities. Quarkus comes across as a fantastic alternative for backend development by boosting developer productivity with features such as pre-built integrations, application services, and more that bring a new, revolutionary developer experience to Java. To make the best use of both, this hands-on guide will help you get started with Quarkus and React to create and deploy an end-to-end web application.This book is divided into three parts. In the first part, you’ll begin with an introduction to Quarkus and its features, learning how to bootstrap a Quarkus project from the ground up to create a tested and secure HTTP server for your backend. The second part focuses on the frontend, showing you how to create a React project from scratch to build the application’s user interface and integrate it with the Quarkus backend. The last part guides you through creating cluster configuration manifests and deploying them to Kubernetes as well as other alternatives, such as Fly.io.By the end of this full stack development book, you’ll be confident in your skills to combine the robustness of both frameworks to create and deploy standalone, fully functional web applications.

Mastering Apache Maven 3. Enhance developer productivity and address exact enterprise build requirements by extending Maven

Prabath Siriwardena, Morakande Gamage P Siriwardena

CMake Best Practices. Upgrade your C++ builds with CMake for maximum efficiency and scalability - Second Edition

Dominik Berner, Mustafa Kemal Gilor

Discover the cutting-edge advancements in CMake with the new edition of CMake Best Practices. This book focuses on real-world applications and techniques to leverage CMake, avoiding outdated hacks and overwhelming documentation.You’ll learn how to use CMake presets for streamlined project configurations and embrace modern package management with Conan 2.0. Covering advanced methods to integrate third-party libraries and optimize cross-platform builds, this updated edition introduces new tools and techniques to enhance software quality, including testing frameworks, fuzzers, and automated documentation generation. Through hands-on examples, you’ll become proficient in structuring complex projects, ensuring that your builds run smoothly across different environments. Whether you’re integrating tools for continuous integration or packaging software for distribution, this book equips you with the skills needed to excel in modern software development.By the end of the book, you’ll have mastered setting up and maintaining robust software projects using CMake to streamline your development workflow and produce high-quality software.

Getting Started with React. A light but powerful way to build dynamic real-time applications using ReactJS

Doel Sengupta, Manu Singhal, Danillo Corvalan

ReactJS, popularly known as the V (view) of the MVC architecture, was developed by the Facebook and Instagram developers. It follows a unidirectional data flow, virtual DOM, and DOM difference that are generously leveraged in order to increase the performance of the UI. Getting Started with React will help you implement the Reactive paradigm to build stateless and asynchronous apps with React. We will begin with an overview of ReactJS and its evolution over the years, followed by building a simple React component. We will then build the same react component with JSX syntax to demystify its usage. You will see how to configure the Facebook Graph API, get your likes list, and render it using React. Following this, we will break the UI into components and you’ll learn how to establish communication between them and respond to users input/events in order to have the UI reflect their state. You’ll also get to grips with the ES6 syntaxes. Moving ahead, we will delve into the FLUX and its architecture, which is used to build client-side web applications and complements React’s composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. Towards the end, you’ll find out how to make your components reusable, and test and deploy them into a production environment. Finally, we’ll briefly touch on other topics such as React on the server side, Redux and some advanced concepts.

IBM DB2 11.1 Certification Guide. Explore techniques to master database programming and administration tasks in IBM Db2

Robert (Kent) Collins, Mohankumar Saraswatipura

IBM Db2 is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that helps you store, analyze, and retrieve data efficiently. This comprehensive book is designed to help you master all aspects of IBM Db2 database administration and prepare you to take andpass IBM's Certification Exams C2090-600. Building on years of extensive experience,the authors take you through all areas covered by the test. The book delves deep into each certification topic: Db2 server management, physical design, business rules implementation, activity monitoring, utilities, high availability, and security. IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide provides you with more than 150 practice questions and answers, simulating real certification examination questions. Each chapter includes an extensive set of practice questions along with carefully explained answers.This book will not just prepare you for the C2090-600 exam but also help you troubleshoot day-to-day database administration challenges.

AngularJS Deployment Essentials

Zachariah Moreno