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June 9 – 15, 2022

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Really good R books Kay Ewbank R’s popularity as a language for statistics, data analysis, and data mining is growing year by year, and as you’d expect, there are some great books on the subject. The strengths of R make it one of the most commonly used programming languages ​​in data mining. In this guide, we’ve highlighted the best of the R books we’ve reviewed on I Programmer.

Multitasking Harry Fairhead We take multitasking for granted now, but it was a difficult technology to master – and it still is. We take a look at how it all developed and variations on the basic idea.

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Books of the week

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Verdict: It’s a great book as long as you’re not a complete beginner and you’re a scientist or similar and are particularly interested in C++ as a numerical or scientific programming language. If you are not part of this target audience, the extent to which you will like the book depends entirely on how far you are from the audience. I think the generalist C++ programmer could get a lot of enjoyment out of this book.

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This is the second of our something completely different titles that examine what makes Python special and sets it apart from other programming languages. These books are not intended for complete beginners and some familiarity with object-oriented programming and Python is assumed. The first in the series, Programmer’s Python: Everything is an object, about to be available in its second edition, reveals how Python has a unique and unifying approach when it comes to classes and objects. Following the same philosophy, the language also processes data in a distinctly Pythonic way. What we have in Python are very usable and very extensible data objects. From integers with unlimited precision, called bignums, to choosing a list to act as the array, to having the dictionary available as a built-in data type, Python behaves differently from other languages ​​and this book is what you need to help you get the most out of these special features. There are also comprehensive chapters on Boolean logic, dates and times, regular expressions, and bit manipulation.

Programmers think differently from non-programmers, they see and solve problems in a way the rest of the world doesn’t. In this book, Mike James takes programming concepts and explains what the skill entails and how a programmer goes about it. In each case, Mike examines how we convert a dynamic process into static text that can be understood by other programmers and put into action by a computer. If you’re a programmer, its intention is to give you a better understanding of what you’re doing so that you enjoy it even more.