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CRITICAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING: A Comprehensive Training Guide is your essential resource for mastering the systems that power data centers. This book offers practical insights and real-world strategies to excel in the operation and maintenance of critical facilities. Explore the core components-cooling, power, and safety-and understand how they integrate to ensure flawless performance. Learn to maintain optimal environmental conditions, implement robust security and fire suppression systems, and optimize efficiency to cut energy costs while reducing environmental impact.

Sie tauschen Zeit gegen Geld. Und genau das hält Sie fest. Dieses Hörbuch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie im Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligenz ein digitales Einkommen aufbauen, das unabhängig von Ihrer täglichen Arbeitszeit funktioniert. Kein Theorie-Modell. Kein Motivationsgerede. Ein klares System.

Transform your game development process with the power of artificial intelligence and create immersive gaming experiences that captivate players. Whether you're an indie game developer working solo or a programming student exploring cutting-edge technology, this comprehensive guide reveals how AI is revolutionizing modern game creation from concept to launch. Discover practical techniques for implementing machine learning in game development, from intelligent NPC behavior systems to procedural content generation that creates infinite worlds.

This practical guide reveals exactly how to leverage three revolutionary AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor AI, and GitHub Codex) to create functional web applications at lightning speed. Whether you are a complete beginner, an entrepreneur, or an experienced developer looking to accelerate your workflow, you will discover the step-by-step process to transform ideas into working applications.

Most AI agents today impress in demos but fail in real-world applications. They forget context between conversations, hallucinate information, and break down on complex multi-step tasks. How to Give Your AI Agents a Brain is the practical developer's guide to building autonomous AI agents with advanced memory systems and intelligent reasoning. This isn't another surface-level AI book filled with theory. Instead, it provides concrete implementation strategies for creating agents that can handle complex workflows, maintain context across interactions, and continuously improve their performance.

The internet has revolutionized how individuals and businesses speak to each other, conduct business, and flourish. People used to go there to talk about their ideas, but today it's a place where people can live, companies can thrive, and opportunities come up faster than before. Things change rapidly, so it's not enough to be distinctive and grab notice every once in a while. Do it all the time.

Bitcoin did not appear out of nowhere. For decades prior to Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention, a diverse group of computer scientists, privacy activists, and heterodox economists tried to create a digital form of money that could operate independently of government control. The Genesis Book tells the story of the people and projects that inspired the invention of the world’s first successful peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

Agile Project Management for Dummies introduces you to the planning and execution approaches that can help you complete projects more quickly, with higher quality and using fewer resources. For companies in any industry—not just software development—agile project management reduces waste and increases transparency, while addressing customers' ever-changing requirements. You'll learn all the important terms, tools, and concepts, so you can infuse agility into your projects right away. Create a product roadmap and prepare for product launches with ease, thanks to this Dummies guide.

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company.

Now a sprawling video game franchise, Resident Evil has kept us on the edge of our seats for decades with its tried-and-true brand of jump scares, zombie action, and biological horror. But even decades after its release, we can't stop revisiting the original's thrills, chills, and sometimes unintentional spills. Pop culture writer and horror cinephile Philip J Reed takes dead aim at 1996's Resident Evil, the game that named and defined the genre we now call "survival horror."

This practical guide explains how you can apply key principles in psychology to build products and experiences that are more intuitive and human-centered. Author Jon Yablonski deconstructs familiar apps and experiences to provide clear examples of how UX designers can build experiences that adapt to how users perceive and process digital interfaces.

This friendly guide teaches you how to apply common algorithms to the practical problems you face every day as a programmer. You'll start with sorting and searching and, as you build up your skills in thinking algorithmically, you'll tackle more complex concerns such as data compression and artificial intelligence. This accesible introduction is suitable for self-taught programmers, engineers, or anyone who wants to brush up on algorithms. Each carefully presented example includes helpful diagrams and fully annotated code samples in Python.

Success isn’t a clear road for software developers. There’s too much information, and it can feel overwhelming. Many developers get stuck and have no idea what to do next. Soft Skills aims to solve this. To give you a clear path with actionable steps for your career (and life). So you can get back to what you enjoy doing...solving unique puzzles and fun problems.

A hilarious history of the golden period of computer games, from Pong to Playstation, from the creator of Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit. It is fair to say Steve McNeil likes video games. When he took his Nintendo Wii on honeymoon (obviously), he played it so much he damaged an eye and had to wear an eye patch. The locals nicknamed him 'the pale pirate'. Steve's obsession with video games can be traced back to the golden period from the late '70s to the mid '90s. In this book he delves into these games - from the appallingly bad to the breathtakingly good.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Lost and Founder written and read by Rand Fishkin. Everyone knows how a startup story is supposed to go: a young, brilliant entrepreneur has an cool idea, drops out of college, defies the doubters, overcomes all odds, makes billions and becomes the envy...

The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card, and athletic games also work in top-quality video games.

Brought to you by Penguin. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Hello World, written and read by Hannah Fry. You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate – a human or an algorithm? An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye...

Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a companion volume to Apress’ highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words “at work” suggest, Peter Seibel focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of programming, while revealing much more, like how they became great programmers, how they recognize programming talent in others, and what kinds of problems they find most interesting.