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Coding experts point to Python as one of the best languages to start with when you're learning coding. It's been a popular choice for schools and code camps who want to introduce coding to a younger audience. Python For Kids For Dummies helps teach the basics of coding and Python... to kids who don't have the opportunity to take coding classes at school or in camp as well as those who simply prefer to learn on their own. Broken down into smaller, goal-oriented projects, Python For Kids For Dummies introduces core coding concepts as it walks the student through steps for creating applications. The book is ideal for early-to-pre-teen learnersinterested in expanding their technology skills as well as younger readers eager to learn via step-by-step instruction. Projects include: Installing Python tools The 'Hello World' program Creating a guessing game Building a geek speak translator Making a trivia game Building a Minecraft chat client
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The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called surveillance capitalism, and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and resear...ch, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new behavioral futures markets, where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new means of behavioral modification. The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a Big Other operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled hive of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit--at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future--if we let it.
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JavaScript: The New Toys begins with a high-level list of the new features of JavaScript in "ES2015" and "ES2016," along with a discussion of the new process by which new features are added to the language, who's responsible, how to keep track of what's coming, and how to get inv...olved. Setup information comes next as not all JavaScript environments have the new features yet. After that the bulk of the book covers point-by-point "just the facts" coverage of the new features, along with recommendations for how old habits can be updated to take advantage of them. In those chapters, when introducing a new feature, we open with examples of the problems it helps solve, then explore how the new feature solves them and the details (without getting too academic) of how it works. We end with a brief look ahead ES2017 and ES2018. Four key topics amongst the coverage are: New let and const declarations: Why they're useful, how to use them, some non-obvious things they do for us. Classes: What problems they solve, how they work, how they both are and are not new, syntax details. Arrow functions and lexical this: Why we want to use them, how to use them, details of how they work. Promises: What they do for us, how to use them, some common pitfalls, technical details. In all cases, source code will primarily be fairly brief examples demonstrating the syntax and behavior of the features being discussed.
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Two defense experts investigate the present and future of conflict in a world where the front lines are only a click away.

Relax. Learning how to use Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 is now a breeze. With this book's easy-to-use instructions, you'll master the unique FrontPage interface in no time. From building your first basic Web page to working with dynamic content, Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003... Fast & Easy gives you the step-by-step instructions you need to complete your task quickly. Simply look and learn!
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