Twitter is a massive social networking site tuned towards fast communication. More than 140 million active users publish over 400 million 140-character ‘Tweets’ every day. Twitter’s speed and ease of publication have made it an important...
Images are still the number one cause of bloat on the web. Images take up massive amounts of internet bandwidth because they often have large file sizes. According to the HTTP Archive, 60% of the data transferred to fetch a web page is images composed of JPEGs, PNGs...
This book is intended for students who have to do a software-intensive team project as part of their course of study. Most students find it hard to apply theories they previously learnt in the context of an actual project. This book is an attempt to help such...
This book developed from notes for a two-quarter course at Stanford – called CS109: Introduction to Computer Science – that serves a number of goals. The first goal is to give beginning computer science majors a solid foundation for further study. However,...
While there have been already a lot of wonderful books about algorithms, data structures and math, however, few of them provide the comparison between the procedural solution and the functional solution. It can be found that functional solution sometimes is very...