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Entertainment Apps on the Go with Windows 10
by Ian Dixon Garry WhittakerThis book enables you to unleash the entertainment potential of your Windows 10 PC, tablet, or phone--or any combination of the three! Learn how to stream movies and TV shows, manage your media collection, purchase new media, and upload your music collection to the cloud. Make your entertainment experience truly mobile by streaming wirelessly between devices in the home, or from cloud services that let you take your content anywhere. Learn to push content from Windows 10 to other devices like TVs, or your Xbox One. Tap into a wide range of popular streaming services, including Netflix, Spotify, and Google Play. Ian Dixon and Garry Whittaker take the hassle out of managing and enjoying music, TV, and movies from your own collection and beyond. Whether you already have an extensive music and video collection, or are just getting started, this book will help you get the best entertainment from Windows. What you'll learn Use music streaming services on a phone, tablet or laptop Stream from thousands of radio stations to your Windows 10 phone or PC Purchase and manage music and video collections Use iTunes with Windows 10 tablets, laptops and phones Find out what type of media files work with Windows 10 Enjoy your existing music collection on Windows 10 PCs, phones and tablets Stream movies and TV shows from Netflix, and stream music to Windows, Android, and iOS devices Use Windows 10's Data Sense app to monitor your phone and PC data usage Use Windows 10 to wirelessly access media stored on Windows 7, Windows 8. 1 and Windows 10 PCs around the home Use PlayTo to send content to Network Attached (NAS) devices in your home, including Xbox One, TVs and media players Get started building your personal media cloud so you can access your music and videos from anywhere in the world and on any device Who this book is for The book is for home users that are either new to Windows or upgrading from previous versions of the operating system and want to enjoy music, movies and TV shows on their phone, tablet, or laptop. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Music Services On the Go Chapter 2: Storing Your Music in the Cloud Chapter 3: Watching Videos, Movies, and TV Shows Chapter 4: Streaming Your Media Collection from Windows Devices Chapter 5: Streaming Media Around the Home Chapter 6: Setting Up Media Servers to Stream Your Content
Entertainment Computing and Serious Games
by Ralf Dörner Stefan Göbel Michael Kickmeier-Rust Maic Masuch Katharina ZweigThe aim of this book is to collect and to cluster research areas in the field of serious games and entertainment computing. It provides an introduction and gives guidance for the next generation of researchers in this field. The 18 papers presented in this volume, together with an introduction, are the outcome of a GI-Dagstuhl seminar which was held at Schlo#65533; Dagstuhl in July 2015.
Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2016
by Günter Wallner Simone Kriglstein Helmut Hlavacs Rainer Malaka Artur Lugmayr Hyun-Seung YangThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th InternationalConference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2016. The 16 full papers, 13 short papers, and 2 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The multidisciplinary nature of entertainment computing is reflected by the papers. They are organized in the following topical sections: games for health, learning, and social change; use and evaluation of digital entertainment; and entertainment technology.
Entity Framework Core Cookbook - Second Edition
by Ricardo PeresLeverage the full potential of Entity Framework with this collection of powerful and easy-to-follow recipes About This Book * Learn how to use the new features of Entity Framework Core 1 * Improve your queries by leveraging some of the advanced features * Avoid common pitfalls * Make the best of your .NET APIs by integrating with Entity Framework Who This Book Is For This book is for .NET developers who work with relational databases on a daily basis and understand the basics of Entity Framework, but now want to use it in a more efficient manner. You are expected to have some prior knowledge of Entity Framework. What You Will Learn * Master the technique of using sequence key generators * Validate groups of entities that are to be saved / updated * Improve MVC applications that cover applications developed using ASP.NET MVC Core 1 * Retrieve database information (table, column names, and so on) for entities * Discover optimistic concurrency control and pessimistic concurrency control. * Implement Multilatency on the data side of things. * Enhance the performance and/or scalability of Entity Framework Core * Explore and overcome the pitfalls of Entity Framework Core In Detail Entity Framework is a highly recommended Object Relation Mapping tool used to build complex systems. In order to survive in this growing market, the knowledge of a framework that helps provide easy access to databases, that is, Entity Framework has become a necessity. This book will provide .NET developers with this knowledge and guide them through working efficiently with data using Entity Framework Core. You will start off by learning how to efficiently use Entity Framework in practical situations. You will gain a deep understanding of mapping properties and find out how to handle validation in Entity Framework. The book will then explain how to work with transactions and stored procedures along with improving Entity Framework using query libraries. Moving on, you will learn to improve complex query scenarios and implement transaction and concurrency control. You will then be taught to improve and develop Entity Framework in complex business scenarios. With the concluding chapter on performance and scalability, this book will get you ready to use Entity Framework proficiently. Style and approach Filled with rich code-based examples, this book takes a recipe-based approach that will teach .NET developers to improve their understanding of Entity Framework and help them effortlessly apply this knowledge in everyday situations.
Envisioning the Future of Online Learning
by Johan Eddy Luaran Janudin Sardi Anealka Aziz Nor Aziah AliasThis book shares insights into the various ways technology can be used for educational purposes, utilizing an approach suitable for both novice and advanced practitioners in this niche area. It features selected papers presented at the International Conference on e-Learning 2015 (ICeL 2015), where professionals discussed how technology can not only serve as a tool in the classroom, but as the classroom itself. As the title "Envisioning the Future of Online Learning" suggests, this book showcases current best practices in the field of e-learning, where technology has been leveraged to re-engineer the landscape of education, particularly in the context of Malaysia.
Erfolgreiches IT-Recruiting trotz Fachkräftemangel: Methoden zur Personalbeschaffung und -bindung (essentials)
by Frank RechsteinerFrank Rechsteiner liefert neue Strategien und Handlungsempfehlungen zur Rekrutierung von hochqualifizierten IT-Spezialisten. Basierend auf zahlreichen Umfragen und Studien zeigt er wichtige Trends f#65533;r den Arbeits- und Bewerbermarkt im IT-Bereich auf und gibt Tipps zum erfolgreichen Umgang mit den derzeitigen Herausforderungen. Das essential l#65533;dt HR-Verantwortliche und Gesch#65533;ftsf#65533;hrer ein, spezialisierte IT-Mitarbeiter nicht nur als Ressource zu betrachten, sondern auf die besonderen Bed#65533;rfnisse dieser Berufsgruppe einzugehen. Die daraus abgeleiteten Ma#65533;nahmen erm#65533;glichen es, geeignete Experten zu finden und dauerhaft an das Unternehmen zu binden.
Erlang and Elixir for Imperative Programmers
by Wolfgang LoderLearn and understand Erlang and Elixir and develop a working knowledge of the concepts of functional programming that underpin them. This book takes the author's experience of taking on a project that required functional programming and real-time systems, breaks it down, and organizes it. You will get the necessary knowledge about differences to the languages you know, where to start, and where to go next. Have you been told by your customer or manager that they heard good things about Erlang, you should use it for the next project? Never had to deal with functional programming or real-time systems? In 2014, the author, Wolfgang Loder, developed a repository for digital assets that had to deliver those assets in binary form quickly and reliably, being able to deal with at least hundreds of requests per second. Since he could decide the architecture and software stack of the solution, he immediately thought of Erlang and its libraries and started to evaluate this option. It was not long after that he discovered Elixir, which sits on top of the Erlang virtual machine and has features more palatable for non-functional programmers, although it is a functional programming language itself. Erlang and Elixir for Imperative Programmers gives you a basis for deciding whether the effort is viable for your next project. This book is partly a tale of the author's own experience and partly a description of the bigger and more subtle differences between Erlang/Elixir and languages such as C++, Java, and C#. What You'll Learn Discover functional programming, Erlang, and Elixir Work on service design and service features Set up your environment: deployment, development, and production Implement the service including public interface, asset processing, and deployment Use the patterns and concepts found in Erlang including type creation concepts and code structuring. Who This Book Is For Experienced and savvy programmers, coders, and developers new to Erlang and Elixir.
ERP and Information Systems
by Tarek SamaraThis research attempts to explore and identify eventual relationships between the evolution of ERP systems and information systems integration or disintegration. The aim of this research is to know if the relationships between the ERP systems and the information systems are guided by certain factors and, as a result, to understand, more in-depth, the factors affecting these relationships. More precisely, this analysis aims to study whether assigned values given to these factors could guide the evolution of ERP systems in a manner that promotes IS integration; and if the opposite assigned values to these same factors could guide the evolution of ERP systems in a manner that provokes IS disintegration instead.
Erste Schritte mit Scratch für Dummies Junior (Für Dummies)
by Derek BreenWillst du Figuren am Computer zeichnen, vor einen selbst gestalteten Hintergrund stellen und laufen lassen? Das ist zu schwer? Keine Sorge! In der Programmiersprache Scratch, die von Forschern extra für Kinder und Jugendliche entwickelt wurde, werden Computerprogramme aus Bausteinen zusammengesetzt. Du brauchst nur mit der Maus klicken und ziehen, ein paar Einstellungen ändern und schon fliegt die Fledermaus oder läuft die Schildkröte. Du kannst auch Poster gestalten und deine Lehrer in der Schule mit einer tollen Präsentation beeindrucken. Dabei lernst du ganz nebenbei, wie ein Programmierer denkt und arbeitet. Bestens geeignet für Kinder und Jugendliche ab 10 Jahre.
Essential Cybersecurity Science
by Josiah DykstraIf you're involved in cybersecurity as a software developer, forensic investigator, or network administrator, this practical guide shows you how to apply the scientific method when assessing techniques for protecting your information systems. You'll learn how to conduct scientific experiments on everyday tools and procedures, whether you're evaluating corporate security systems, testing your own security product, or looking for bugs in a mobile game.Once author Josiah Dykstra gets you up to speed on the scientific method, he helps you focus on standalone, domain-specific topics, such as cryptography, malware analysis, and system security engineering. The latter chapters include practical case studies that demonstrate how to use available tools to conduct domain-specific scientific experiments.Learn the steps necessary to conduct scientific experiments in cybersecurityExplore fuzzing to test how your software handles various inputsMeasure the performance of the Snort intrusion detection systemLocate malicious "needles in a haystack" in your network and IT environmentEvaluate cryptography design and application in IoT productsConduct an experiment to identify relationships between similar malware binariesUnderstand system-level security requirements for enterprise networks and web services
Essential Excel 2016
by David SlagerThis book shows you how easy it is to create, edit, sort, analyze, summarize and format data as well as graph it. Loaded with screen shots, step-by-step instructions, and reader exercises, Essential Excel 2016 makes it easy for you to get to grips with this powerful software and what it can do. What You'll Learn How to create amazing visualizations of your data Easy and accurate methods for entering data How to extract just the information you want from imported data, and manipulate it and format it the way you want Export your results to other programs or share with others in the cloud Organize, Summarize, Filter, and Consolidate your Data in almost any way imaginable Audit, Validate and Protect your Data Who This Book Is For Anyone new to Excel, or looking to take better advantage of the platform and find out its latest features
Essential Skills in Character Rigging
by Nicholas B. ZemanCharacter rigging is the method with which you create a system for animating a character. A rig is represented by two primary mechanics: the skeleton, consisting of hierarchical rotations to drive the motions, and a skin, or method of deforming the geometry that makes up the character model. Essential Skills in Character Rigging is a beginner's gui
Essential SQLAlchemy
by Rick Copeland Jason MyersDive into SQLAlchemy, the popular, open-source code library that helps Python programmers work with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL, and SQLite. Using real-world examples, this practical guide shows you how to build a simple database application with SQLAlchemy, and how to connect to multiple databases simultaneously with the same metadata.SQL is a powerful language for querying and manipulating data, but it's tough to integrate it with your application. SQLAlchemy helps you map Python objects to database tables without substantially changing your existing Python code. If you're an intermediate Python developer with knowledge of basic SQL syntax and relational theory, this book serves as both a learning tool and a handy reference.Essential SQLAlchemy includes several sections:SQLAlchemy Core: Provide database services to your applications in a Pythonic way with the SQL Expression LanguageSQLAlchemy ORM: Use the object relational mapper to bind database schema and operations to data objects in your applicationAlembic: Use this lightweight database migration tool to handle changes to the database as your application evolvesCookbook: Learn how to use SQLAlchemy with web frameworks like Flask and libraries like SQLAcodegen
Essentials of Excel, Excel VBA, SAS and Minitab for Statistical and Financial Analyses
by Cheng-Few Lee John Lee Jow-Ran Chang Tzu TaiThis introductory textbook for business statistics teaches statistical analysis and research methods via business case studies and financial data using Excel, MINITAB, and SAS. Every chapter in this textbook engages the reader with data of individual stock, stock indices, options, and futures. One studies and uses statistics to learn how to study, analyze, and understand a data set of particular interest. Some of the more popular statistical programs that have been developed to use statistical and computational methods to analyze data sets are SAS, SPSS, and MINITAB. Of those, we look at MINITAB and SAS in this textbook. One of the main reasons to use MINITAB is that it is the easiest to use among the popular statistical programs. We look at SAS because it is the leading statistical package used in industry. We also utilize the much less costly and ubiquitous Microsoft Excel to do statistical analysis, as the benefits of Excel have become widely recognized in the academic world and its analytical capabilities extend to about 90 percent of statistical analysis done in the business world. We demonstrate much of our statistical analysis using Excel and double check the analysis and outcomes using MINITAB and SAS - also helpful in some analytical methods not possible or practical to do in Excel.
The Essentials of Instructional Design: Connecting Fundamental Principles with Process and Practice, Third Edition
by Timothy D. Green Abbie H. BrownThe Essentials of Instructional Design, 3rd Edition introduces the essential elements of instructional design (ID) to students who are new to ID. The key procedures within the ID process--learner analysis, task analysis, needs analysis, developing goals and objectives, organizing instruction, developing instructional activities, assessing learner achievement and evaluating the success of the instructional design--are covered in complete chapters that describe and provide examples of how the procedure is accomplished using the best known instructional design models. Unlike most other ID books, The Essentials of Instructional Design provides an overview of the principles and practice of ID without placing emphasis on any one ID model. Offering the voices of instructional designers from a number of professional settings and providing real-life examples from across sectors, students learn how professional organizations put the various ID processes into practice. This introductory textbook provides students with the information they need to make informed decisions as they design and develop instruction, offering them a variety of possible approaches for each step in the ID process and clearly explaining the strengths and challenges associated with each approach.
Essentials of Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel® 6th edition
by David R. Anderson Dennis J. Sweeney Thomas A. WilliamsFrom the renowned author team that has been writing market-leading business statistics textbooks for more than 20 years, ESSENTIALS OF MODERN BUSINESS STATISTICS, 6TH EDITION provides a brief introduction to business statistics. The text balances a conceptual understanding of statistics with the real-world application of statistical methodology using problem-scenarios and real-life examples. Step-by-step instructions and screen captures demonstrate how to most effectively use the latest version of Excel in statistical procedures, while numerous exercises give readers hands-on experience putting what they learn into practice. The Sixth Edition is packed with all-new Case Problems, Statistics in Practice applications, and real data examples and exercises.
Essentials of Online Course Design: A Standards-Based Guide (Essentials of Online Learning)
by Marjorie Vai Kristen SosulskiIn spite of the proliferation of online learning, creating online courses can still evoke a good deal of frustration, negativity, and wariness in those who need to create them. The second edition of Essentials of Online Course Design takes a fresh, thoughtfully designed, step-by-step approach to online course development. At its core is a set of standards that are based on best practices in the field of online learning and teaching. Pedagogical, organizational, and visual design principles are presented and modeled throughout the book, and users will quickly learn from the guide’s hands-on approach. The course design process begins with the elements of a classroom syllabus which, after a series of guided steps, easily evolve into an online course outline. The guide’s key features include: a practical approach informed by theory clean interior design that offers straightforward guidance from page one clear and jargon-free language examples, screenshots, and illustrations to clarify and support the text a checklist of online course design standards that readers can use to self-evaluate. a Companion Website with examples, adaptable templates, interactive learning features, and online resources: http://essentialsofonlinecoursedesign.com Essentials of Online Course Design serves as a best practice model for designing online courses. After reading this book, readers will find that preparing for online teaching is a satisfying and engaging experience. The core issue is simply good design: pedagogical, organizational, and visual. For more of Marjorie Vai in her own words, listen to this 2011 interview from the On Teaching Online podcast: http://onteachingonline.com/oto-16-essentials-of-online-course-design-with-marjorie-vai/
Essentials of Programming in Mathematica®
by Paul WellinEssentials of Programming in Mathematica® provides an introduction suitable for readers with little or no background in the language as well as for those with some experience using programs such as C, Java, or Perl. The author, an established authority on Mathematica® programming, has written an example-driven text that covers the language from first principles, as well as including material from natural language processing, bioinformatics, graphs and networks, signal analysis, geometry, computer science, and many other applied areas. The book is appropriate for self-study or as a text for a course in programming in computational science. Readers will benefit from the author's tips, which provide insight and suggestions on small and large points. He also provides more than 350 exercises from novice through to advanced level with all of the solutions available online.
Ethical IT Innovation: A Value-Based System Design Approach
by Sarah SpiekermannExplaining how ubiquitous computing is rapidly changing our private and professional lives, Ethical IT Innovation: A Value-Based System Design Approach stands at the intersection of computer science, philosophy, and management and integrates theories and frameworks from all three domains.The book explores the latest thinking on computer ethics, inc
Ethical Reasoning in Big Data
by Jeff Collmann Sorin Adam MateiThis book springs from a multidisciplinary, multi-organizational, and multi-sector conversation about the privacy and ethical implications of research in human affairs using big data. The need to cultivate and enlist the public's trust in the abilities of particular scientists and scientific institutions constitutes one of this book's major themes. The advent of the Internet, the mass digitization of research information, and social media brought about, among many other things, the ability to harvest - sometimes implicitly - a wealth of human genomic, biological, behavioral, economic, political, and social data for the purposes of scientific research as well as commerce, government affairs, and social interaction. What type of ethical dilemmas did such changes generate? How should scientists collect, manipulate, and disseminate this information? The effects of this revolution and its ethical implications are wide-ranging. This book includes the opinions of myriad investigators, practitioners, and stakeholders in big data on human beings who also routinely reflect on the privacy and ethical issues of this phenomenon. Dedicated to the practice of ethical reasoning and reflection in action, the book offers a range of observations, lessons learned, reasoning tools, and suggestions for institutional practice to promote responsible big data research on human affairs. It caters to a broad audience of educators, researchers, and practitioners. Educators can use the volume in courses related to big data handling and processing. Researchers can use it for designing new methods of collecting, processing, and disseminating big data, whether in raw form or as analysis results. Lastly, practitioners can use it to steer future tools or procedures for handling big data. As this topic represents an area of great interest that still remains largely undeveloped, this book is sure to attract significant interest by filling an obvious gap in currently available literature.
Ethics and Governance in Project Management: Small Sins Allowed and the Line of Impunity (Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management #26)
by Eduardo Victor Lopez Alicia MedinaThis book shows executive, project, program, and portfolio managers how ethical behavior can ensure that an organization has proper governance. Improper governance and unethical behavior have led to such well-known financial disasters as Enron and Madoff Investments. The book arms managers with two important tools: Small Sins Allowed (SSA) and Line of Impunity (LoI), which together can be the foundation for renewed and vigorous corporate governance. SSA is a powerful tool that helps managers establish a level above which adherence to ethical standards is expected. LoI aids managers in identifying ethical fault lines that may exist in a company and helps to keep unethical behavior in check.
Ethics in Computing
by Joseph Migga KizzaThistextbook raises thought-provoking questions regarding our rapidly-evolvingcomputing technologies, highlighting the need for a strong ethical framework inour computer science education. Ethicsin Computing offers a concise introduction to this topic, distilled fromthe more expansive Ethical and SocialIssues in the Information Age. Features: introduces the philosophical framework for analyzingcomputer ethics; describes the impact of computer technology on issues ofsecurity, privacy and anonymity; examinesintellectual property rights in the context of computing; discusses suchissues as the digital divide, employee monitoring in the workplace, and healthrisks; reviews the history ofcomputer crimes and the threat of cyberbullying;provides coverage of the ethics of AI, virtualization technologies, virtualreality, and the Internet; considers the social, moral and ethical challengesarising from social networks and mobile communication technologies; includesdiscussion questions and exercises.
Etudes for ClojureScript
by J. David EisenbergA short composition that provides practice material for a particular musical skill is called an étude. In this hands-on book, you'll find more than 30 études to help you practice ClojureScript skills for specific programming areas, ranging from functions and variables to asynchronous processing. Each of these small projects includes a description of a program that you will compose (write) in ClojureScript.Though not as difficult as their musical counterparts, these programming études will help you stretch beyond the material and examples that you find in most ClojureScript books or online references. One chapter features études for an open-ended project that will help you put together what you've learned. Solutions to each étude are revealed in the appendix.Programming areas include:Working with functions and variables with def and letInteracting with JavaScript and web pages, using several librariesLists, vectors, and higher-order map, filter, and reduce functionsData mapping with ClojureScriptUsing different ClojureScript libraries to program with ReactAdding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing rational and complex numbers with defprotocol and defrecordAsynchronous processing with core.async
The Euclidean Matching Problem
by Gabriele SicuroThis thesis discusses the random Euclidean bipartite matching problem, i. e. , the matching problem between two different sets of points randomly generated on the Euclidean domain. The presence of both randomness and Euclidean constraints makes the study of the average properties of the solution highly relevant. The thesis reviews a number of known results about both matching problems and Euclidean matching problems. It then goes on to provide a complete and general solution for the one dimensional problem in the case of convex cost functionals and, moreover, discusses a potential approach to the average optimal matching cost and its finite size corrections in the quadratic case. The correlation functions of the optimal matching map in the thermodynamical limit are also analyzed. Lastly, using a functional approach, the thesis puts forward a general recipe for the computation of the correlation function of the optimal matching in any dimension and in a generic domain.
Euro-Par 2016: Parallel Processing
by Pierre-François Dutot Denis TrystramThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2016, held in Grenoble, France, in August 2016. The 47 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers and one industrial paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. The papers are organized in 12 topical sections: Support Tools and Environments; Performance and Power Modeling, Prediction and Evaluation; Scheduling and Load Balancing; High Performance Architectures and Compilers; Parallel and Distributed Data Management and Analytics; Cluster and Cloud Computing; Distributed Systems and Algorithms; Parallel and Distributed Programming, Interfaces, Languages; Multicore and Manycore Parallelism; Theory and Algorithms for Parallel Computation and Networking; Parallel Numerical Methods and Applications; Accelerator Computing.