It's easier to learn how to program a computer than it has ever been before. Now everyone can learn to write programs for themselves - no previous experience is necessary. Chris Pine takes a thorough, but lighthearted approach that teaches you the fundamentals of computer programming, with a minimum of fuss or bother. Whether you are interested in a new hobby or a new career, this book is your doorway into the world of programming. Computers are everywhere, and being able to program them is more important than it has ever been. But since most books on programming are written for other programmers, it can be hard to break in. At least it used to be. Chris Pine will teach you how to program. You'll learn to use your computer better, to get it to do what you want it to do. Starting with small, simple one-line programs to calculate your age in seconds, you'll see how to write interactive programs, to use APIs to fetch live data from the internet, to rename your photos from your digital camera, and more. You'll learn the same technology used to drive modern dynamic websites and large, professional applications. Whether you are looking for a fun new hobby or are interested in entering the tech world as a professional, this book gives you a solid foundation in programming. Chris teaches the basics, but also shows you how to think like a programmer. You'll learn through tons of examples, and through programming challenges throughout the book. When you finish, you'll know how and where to learn more - you'll be on your way. What You Need: All you need to learn how to program is a computer (Windows, macOS, or Linux) and an internet connection. Chris Pine will lead you through setting set up with the software you will need to start writing programs of your own.

Activities For The Apcalypse is a collection of thoughts, ideas, poems and has more adult activities in it than you can shake a facemask at. It is a compendium of modern day literary genius that encapsulates the absurd time that we are living in and offers up a plethora of ridiculous, funny, thought-provoking and sometimes sombre nuggets of intellectual stupidity – and if you don't agree, well, you're just an uncultured simpleton. Follow the tale of a free-falling narcissistic millennial attempting to make sense of a world that has fallen to bits over-night. Strug together with a number of swear-word filled poems and verses this book aims to inspire others creativity and encouraged adults to be adults. This is first and foremost an activity book, but it's main intention is to entertain, educate and poke fun at the most confusing and dark thing that the world we have known has ever faced. Get ready to imagine Llamas in your bedroom, make dick hats out of paper plates and get suffocated by your sleep paralysis demon cat. It also contains a number of drinking games and loads of ways to alleviate anxiety during lockdown, quarantine or indeed, the end of the world. Buckle up kids – It's going to be hellish! NB: This book is not intended for children – like for reals. My solicitors made me put this in so that I avoid jail time! Buy this fucking book! You'll fucking love it!

"Head First HTML5" introduces key features including improved text elements, audio and video tags, geolocation, and the Canvas drawing surface. Concrete examples and exercises are applied to reinforce these concepts.

What will you learn from this book? This brain-friendly guide teaches you everything from JavaScript language fundamentals to advanced topics, including objects, functions, and the browser’s document object model. You won’t just be reading—you’ll be playing games, solving puzzles, pondering mysteries, and interacting with JavaScript in ways you never imagined. And you’ll write real code, lots of it, so you can start building your own web applications. Prepare to open your mind as you learn (and nail) key topics including: The inner details of JavaScript How JavaScript works with the browser The secrets of JavaScript types Using arrays The power of functions How to work with objects Making use of prototypes Understanding closures Writing and testing applications What’s so special about this book? We think your time is too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First JavaScript Programming uses a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works, not a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep. This book replaces Head First JavaScript, which is now out of print.

Welcome to the world of Mirgon, the vast landscape perfect for the adventurer type, but not without consequence. Be it bandits, adventurers, or simple thugs, everyone wants a little freedom to do what they want. Unfortunately for Xeno and Josiah, who set off on their own travels, the government is corrupt, and has agents everywhere. Seemingly heartless at first, Xeno, and the allies he meets on the journey all travel together for different reasons, avoiding the watchful eye of the law, they come across something more corrupt than the evil lurking in the government. With the power he has had since childhood, can Xeno and company manage to fight against this darkness?

Is it possible to ever truly escape one’s past? For thirteen-year-old Matthew and his girlfriend Melissa, who are finally free from the dominance of a repressive religious cult, the Philadelphia Brethren, the answer seems to be no. Even though they are now members of loving adoptive families, the teens still have to deal with some troublesome lingering issues from their past lives. Melissa harbours a deep resentment towards her fanatically religious former parents for depriving her of a happy and carefree childhood. They had subjected her to years of mental and physical abuse, social isolation, and denial of personal freedoms. Matthew struggles with anxious thoughts about the safety of his loved ones and is having frightful nightmares about his demented ex-stepmother Vivian. To make matters worse, their otherwise idyllic 1960s Saskatchewan community is put on edge following attempts on both Melissa’s life and another innocent young person. Matthew’s graphic nightmares begin to overwhelm him as they resurrect painful memories of his troubled past, a past that he is desperately trying to forget. Matthew also believes that a few of those nightmares could actually be real-life excursions into horrific alternate realities where the familiar concepts of time and space become disjointed and incomprehensible. Menace From the Past is the fifth book in the Threefold Cord series that follows the story of the adopted sons in the Adamson family who are all religious cult “refugees” and it is the first in the series to be narrated by Matthew. A bonus supplement is also featured, Camp Purgatory, where Matthew recounts the last few weeks of his former life in the Philadelphia Brethren church when he and his best friend Danny were subjected to intensive religious indoctrination at a summer youth camp.

Perl by Example, Fifth Edition, is the easiest, most hands-on way to learn Perl. Legendary Silicon Valley programming instructor Ellie Quigley has thoroughly updated and condensed her classic to focus on the applications and skills today's Perl users care about most: from system task automation, data extraction, and testing through legacy code maintenance and CPAN. Quigley illuminates every technique with focused, classroom-tested code examples, detailed explanations, and real program output. She shows the code, the input and output, and provides detailed, line-by line explanations of how the code generates that output.