Hands-on Design Patterns with Kotlin. Build scalable applications using traditional, reactive, and concurrent design patterns in Kotlin

Alexey Soshin

Design patterns enable you as a developer to speed up the development process by providing you with proven development paradigms. Reusing design patterns helps prevent complex issues that can cause major problems, improves your code base, promotes code reuse, and makes an architecture more robust.The mission of this book is to ease the adoption of design patterns in Kotlin and provide good practices for programmers. The book begins by showing you the practical aspects of smarter coding in Kotlin, explaining the basic Kotlin syntax and the impact of design patterns. From there, the book provides an in-depth explanation of the classical design patterns of creational, structural, and behavioral families, before heading into functional programming. It then takes you through reactive and concurrent patterns, teaching you about using streams, threads, and coroutines to write better code along the way By the end of the book, you will be able to efficiently address common problems faced while developing applications and be comfortable working on scalable and maintainable projects of any size.

The Party and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A small collection of stories. The general theme of the stories is the diversity of emotions that the main characters experience, and by the end it turns out to be a bit painful. A variety of subjects, simple but wonderful, honed by irony. Most stories of unhappy marriages. The main characters can get married because of unhappy love or unexpected pregnancy.

A Ghost in Love and Other Plays Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Dean, Michael

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Michael Dean. Do you believe in ghosts? Jerry doesn't. He's a nineteen-year-old American, who just wants a good holiday with his friend, Brad. They are travelling round the north of England by bicycle. But strange things begin to happen in the small hotel where they are staying. First, Brad seems to think that he has been there before. And then a girl called Ellen appears . . . The first of these three original plays is set in the seventeenth century, and the other two take place in modern times. In each play, a ghost comes back from the dead to change the lives of living people.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a young boy, Huck, in search of freedom and adventure. He meets a run away slave named Jim and the two undertake a series of adventures based on the Picaresque novel by Mark Twain. As the story progresses the duo exploit an array of episodic enterprises, while Huckleberry slowly changes his views of bigotry. Along the way, Huck and Jim meet the King and Duke, who ultimately send the protagonists towards a different route on their journey. As Huck begins to have a change of heart, he gradually begins to distinguish between right and wrong, and conclusively, Huck is faced with the moral dilemma between the worlds prejudice, of which hes grown up with, and the lessons Jim has taught him throughout the story about the evils of racism. The complexity of his character is enhanced by his ability to relate so easily with nature and the river.

Mastering Java Machine Learning. A Java developer's guide to implementing machine learning and big data architectures

Uday Kamath, Krishna Choppella

Java is one of the main languages used by practicing data scientists; much of the Hadoop ecosystem is Java-based, and it is certainly the language that most production systems in Data Science are written in. If you know Java, Mastering Machine Learning with Java is your next step on the path to becoming an advanced practitioner in Data Science.This book aims to introduce you to an array of advanced techniques in machine learning, including classification, clustering, anomaly detection, stream learning, active learning, semi-supervised learning, probabilistic graph modeling, text mining, deep learning, and big data batch and stream machine learning. Accompanying each chapter are illustrative examples and real-world case studies that show how to apply the newly learned techniques using sound methodologies and the best Java-based tools available today.On completing this book, you will have an understanding of the tools and techniques for building powerful machine learning models to solve data science problems in just about any domain.

The Touch of Abner

H.A. Cody

This is a novel that tells the story from a dramatic moment when Abner signs $ 1,000 to a shelter fund and detonates a financial bomb at a close gathering of Glucom people. Abner Andrews is a naughty old farmer who promises a thousand dollars, which he does not have, to a new shelter. How will he fulfill his promise, especially with a crooked lawyer, to prevent him?

Wuthering Heights - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library

Bront, Emily

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble. He has invited in something that, like the wind, is safer kept out of the house.

Jak być szczerym ze sobą. Od unikania trudnych doświadczeń do prawdziwej akceptacji siebie

Monika Janiszewska, Adriana Klos

Zerwij z samooszukiwaniem się. Zaprzyjaźnij się z prawdą! Wymówki, usprawiedliwienia, pocieszacze. Słowa plastry przyklejane na obolałe poczucie własnej wartości, słowa zaklęcia, którymi chcemy odczarować nieprzyjemną rzeczywistość. Używamy ich wszyscy, kiedy coś się nam nie uda, kiedy z naszej winy ominie nas jakaś okazja, kiedy zabraknie nam odwagi albo determinacji. "Nic się nie stało". "Udałoby się, ale..." "I tak mi nie zależało". One są w porządku, o ile zbudowany z nich mur obronny nie zaczyna zasłaniać nam rzeczywistości. Można się za nim chować całymi latami, a w tym czasie życie będzie nam przeciekać przez palce. A my nie będziemy wiedzieli, dlaczego jesteśmy coraz bardziej zmęczeni, wypaleni, zniechęceni... Stop! Najwyższa pora zerwać z marazmem. Od teraz koniec opowiadania samym sobie bajek. Czas, by zmierzyć się z prawdą, choć na początku może to trochę zaboleć. Za to potem... Potem przestaniemy się bać życia, a zaczniemy mieć na nie wpływ. Będziemy pełni energii, skuteczni jak nigdy przedtem, akceptujący siebie. Jak to zrobić? Podpowiedź znajdziecie w tej książce. Oprócz praktycznych wskazówek o tym, jak poradzić sobie ze szkodliwymi skutkami zakłamywania rzeczywistości, są tu również historie osób, które takie doświadczenie mają za sobą, a które odrzuciły kokon iluzji, obrały kurs na prawdziwy świat i same z powodzeniem sterują swoim życiem.