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This open book walks through all the most important and useful Excel functionalities that will advance a career in financial services. From logical functions such as IFERROR to calculating the yield of a bond, CFI's Excel book provides the reader with numerous examples and key shortcuts. The authors express the hope that the reader will find this b

This online book is intended for those looking to gain an introduction into the world of user experience (UX) design or to freshen up their knowledge of the field. The author notes that the sheer number of topics covered in UX design is mind-boggling, citing interaction design, design thinking, and usability as just a few examples, which is what ma

This open access book will introduce the main concepts required to write a 3D game using the LWJGL 3 library. LWJGL is a Java library that provides access to native APIs used in the development of graphics (OpenGL), audio (OpenAL) and parallel computing (OpenCL) applications. This library leverages the high performance of native OpenGL applications

The primary intended audience of this open book is professional C++ developers who want to understand bare metal development a little bit better, get to know how to use their favourite programming language in an embedded environment, and probably bring their C++ skills to an "expert" level. The author asks "Why professional?" and explains that it i

Innovation and competition are driving analysts and data scientists toward increasingly complex predictive modeling and machine learning algorithms. This complexity makes these models accurate but also makes their predictions difficult to understand. When accuracy outpaces interpretability, human trust suffers, affecting business adoption, regulato

Microservices fundamentally change the way you design enterprise software. By adding network dependencies to your application logic, you invite in a host of potential hazards that grow proportionally with the number of connections you make. With the updated edition of this practical ebook, application architects and development team leads will lear

The MySQL Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow.

The jQuery Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow.

This open access book covers all facets of entity-oriented search - where "search" can be interpreted in the broadest sense of information access - from a unified point of view, and provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of the state of the art. It represents the first synthesis of research in this broad and rapidly developing area. Selecte

This book presents the outcomes of the "Design for Future - Managed Software Evolution" priority program 1593, which was launched by the German Research Foundation ("Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)") to develop new approaches to software engineering with a specific focus on long-lived software systems. The different lifecycles of software and