There are many more people who want to study programming other than aspiring computer scientists with a passing grade in advanced calculus. This guide appeals to your intelligence and ability to solve practical problems, while gently teaching the most recent revision of the programming language Python.

You can learn solid software design skills and accomplish practical programming tasks, like extending applications and automating everyday processes, even if you have no programming experience at all. Authors Tim Hall and J–P Stacey use everyday language to decode programming jargon and teach Python 3 to the absolute beginner.
What you’ll learn

* Cultivate a problem–solving approach and acquire software design skills.
* Learn how to create your own software from simple “Hello World” type programs to stand–alone windowed applications.
* Document while programming, program while documenting.
* Decode programmers’ jargon.
* Master the Python 3 programming language.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2009, held in Chantilly, VA, USA, in October 2009.
The 15 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers address all current topics in Web reasoning and rule systems such as proof/deduction procedures, scalability, uncertainty, knowledge amalgamation and querying, and rules for decision support and production systems.

The Zend Framework is a truly amazing PHP–based web application development framework and platform that is breathing new life into PHP development. One of the most common uses for a framework such as this is to build content–driven web sites.

Pro Zend Framework CMS offers
A structured guide for PHP developers, ultimately helping you to create more flexible software much more quickly
Clear guidance through the entire process of building a custom CMS with the Zend Framework
The ideal example project, building a CMS, to illustrate how to use the many different aspects of the framework

Welcome to the cloud for users, where the speed of Ubuntu and the ease of cloud applications unite. You can now speed up your netbook, connect to the world using 3G modems, or make calls using Skype with Ubuntu. You can even change your desktop altogether without having to worry about netbook screen real estate. Now, you will never have to worry about the lack of documentation for your netbook again.

* Install and configure Ubuntu on a netbook.
* Connect and secure Ubuntu on your netbook.
* Tune Ubuntu and cloud applications to run on your netbook.

Adding a cache layer to the popular LAMP stack is becoming the common solution to significantly reduce the load on back–end databases, and also allows for better web application performance. This new caching component is represented by another "m" in LAMMP, which stands for memcached—a high–performance, distributed memory object caching system that provides caching for web applications. The author walks you through the process of using Perl to develop web applications both in terms of the front–end display logic as well as the back–end data retrieval from MySQL and memcached. You also see how to configure the Apache web server to run these mod—perl applications.
You?ll discover that MySQL and memcached are where the data is stored, and Apache is the server that hosts this functionality. You?ll also examine each system while you learn how to install, set up, and administer it.

Perfectly suited to the innovative Problem Design Solution approach, ASP.NET MVC is a new development model that separates code for the data, look, and business processes of a Web site. This nuts-and-bolts guide thoroughly covers creating a Web site with MVC and discusses solving the most common problems that you may encounter when creating your first application or trying to upgrade a current application. The material is based on the highly praised and widely used TheBeerHouse ASP.NET Starter Kit that was developed in the bestselling ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem–Design–Solution. Additional coverage includes registration and membership systems and user-selectable themes; content management systems for articles and photos; polls, mailing lists, and forums; e-commerce stores, shopping carts, and order management with real-time credit card processing, and more.

10th anniversary edition of the bestselling AutoCAD Bible

Even AutoCAD developers turn to this book for answers!

Find out what fans of all the previous bestselling editions of this book already know: this is the top all-in-one guide to everything you need to master AutoCAD. Whether you're a novice looking to start with the basics and progress to programming, or an AutoCAD veteran exploring what's new or seeking a quick refresher, every feature is covered. Start drawing today in AutoCAD 2010 with the one book you need to succeed.

One of the fastest ways to learn Linux is with this perennial favorite

Eight previous top-selling editions of Linux For Dummies can't be wrong. If you've been wanting to migrate to Linux, this book is the best way to get there. Written in easy-to-follow, everyday terms, Linux For Dummies 9th Edition gets you started by concentrating on two distributions of Linux that beginners love: the Ubuntu LiveCD distribution and the gOS Linux distribution, which comes pre-installed on Everex computers. The book also covers the full Fedora distribution.