Programming and scripting languages: general

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You should learn a programming language every year, as recommended by The Pragmatic Programmer.

Delve inside the Windows Runtime - and learn best ways to design and build Windows Store apps.

Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours teaches the basics of COBOL programming in 24 step-by-step lessons.

Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours is a hands-on guide to the C++ programming language.

You're already a great coder, but awesome coding chops aren't always enough to get you through your toughest projects.

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Learn to use one of the most powerful text processing and manipulation tools available Regular expression experts have long been armed with an incredibly powerful tool, one that can be used to perform all sorts of sophisticated text processing and manipulation in just about every language and on every platform.

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In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will learn professional techniques to design and build efficient databases and query them to extract useful information.

The Fifth Edition of Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days More than 48,000 sold!

IBM's Best-Selling Guide to XPages Development-Now Updated and Expanded for Lotus Notes/Domino 9.

Kotlin is a statically typed programming language designed to interoperate with Java and fully supported by Google on the Android operating system.

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This ebook offers basic training for the Objective-C programming language and explores the vital parts of the elegant language.

Introducing the Boost libraries: the next breakthrough in C++ programming Boost takes you far beyond the C++ Standard Library, making C++ programming more elegant, robust, and productive.

Extend your C# skills to F#-and create data-rich computational and parallel software components faster and more efficiently.

Extend your C# skills to F#-and create data-rich computational and parallel software components faster and more efficiently.

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Your Python code may run correctly, but you need it to run faster.

Get the lowdown on CockroachDB, the elastic SQL database built to handle the demands of today's data-driven world.

As networks, devices, and systems continue to evolve, software engineers face the unique challenge of creating reliable distributed applications within frequently changing environments.