Saturday, August 1, 2020
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Can you name ten women of science? Five? My leader at work is a woman who also is a mother. She and her daughter have been reading Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky together, and she highly recommended it to me. It tells about the lives and accomplishments of 50 women of science. There were a few names I already knew; Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, Grace Hopper... but there were so many more that I had never heard of. Well written and researched, this is an excellent book for kids you hope to inspire. At the same time, the adult reading along will find this to be exceptionally good.
Friday, July 31, 2020
The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams
Being a professional software developer can be fun and profitable (I did it all through the 90's and 2000s), but the amount of knowledge necessary to make it work can seem prohibitive. Back when I was doing it for money, knowing a few programming languages like Perl and Visual Basic was enough to land lots of profitable gigs. Now, new languages and systems come out every few months it seems.
The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide lays out a framework for how to learn, use, market, and make profitable new technologies rapidly. New and experienced programmers alike reading this will find useful pearls of wisdom. You can read a sample right here:
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope
So far we here at GeekyBooks have stuck with technical books about data science and programming. That changes today... I'm a die-hard Star Trek fan. I grew up with The Original Series before it went into re-runs. So when Star Trek: Picard was released, I was in heaven. One thing I particularly like are novelizations and tie-ins of my favorite TV Series and movies. Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope does not disappoint!
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems (2nd Edition)
You've gotten pretty good with Python and R, and you'd like to take your first steps into Deep Learning. You're in for a treat, because there is a lot of support in both languages for deep learning now. You can learn to take advantage of these free open source tools, Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, to create deep learning intelligent systems. Published by O'Reilly, this book will get you hands-on fast with these concepts.
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Friday, July 24, 2020
Python Crash Course, 2nd Edition: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming
Python is the "glue" that holds a lot of the internet together. Python can be used to write internet clients and servers and plugs into thousands of libraries that can handle everything from robotics to gaming to graphics to cryptography to data science. But how do you actually write and use Python? Do you want to go beyond talking about Python to actually coding Python? Python Crash Course, 2nd Edition: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming is a great way to quickly build your skills in Python, starting from installing it to learning the basics and then on to advanced programming.
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Thursday, July 23, 2020
R for Data Science
Data Science and Machine Learning are the big thing these days, but where do you go to learn how to actually do them? Lots of people talk a good game, but being able to write software that learns about the world from data is a rare skill. R for Data Science is the source. Written by Hadley Wickham himself, it will teach the practical methods for doing actual Data Science.
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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Can you name ten women of science? Five? My leader at work is a woman who also is a mother. She and her daughter have been reading Women in...