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Learn eight principles to simplify your code and become a more effective (and successful) programmer.Most software developers waste thousands of hours working with overly complex code. The eight core principles in The Art of Clean Coding will teach you how to write clear, maintainable code without compromising functionality. The book’s guiding principle is simplicity: reduce and simplify, then reinvest energy in the important parts to save you countless hours and ease the often onerous task of code maintenance.Bestselling author Christian Mayer leverages his experience helping thousands perfect their coding skills in this new book. With expert advice and real-world examples, he’ll show you how to: Concentrate on the important stuff with the 80/20 principle -- focus on the 20% of your code that matters mostAvoid coding in isolation: create a minimum viable product to get early feedbackWrite code cleanly and simply to eliminate clutter Avoid premature optimization that risks over-complicating code Balance your goals, capacity, and feedback to achieve the productive state of FlowApply the Do One Thing Well philosophy to vastly improve functionalityDesign efficient user interfaces with the Less is More principleTie your new skills together into one unifying principle: Focus  The Python-based The Art of Clean Coding is suitable for programmers at any level, with ideas presented in a language-agnostic manner.

A comprehensive user’s guide to Inkscape, a vector illustration application.Dmitry Kirsanov, a former core Inkscape developer, shares hisknowledge of Inkscape's inner workings as he shows how to useInkscape to draw with various tools, work with objects, apply realisticand artistic effects, and more. Step-by-step task-based tutorials showyou how to create business cards, animations, technical and artisticdrawings, and graphic assets for games.This second edition covers the new tools, improved text features,advanced new path effects and filters, as well as many new UIconveniences in Inkscape 1.0. A new chapter describes Inkscape'sextensions for both users and developers.Learn how to:Navigate the canvas and customize your workspace and viewsCreate new objects and transform, style, clone, and combine themUse gradients, patterns, filters, and path effects to liven up your workWork with layers, groups, object order, and locks to control your artworkView and manipulate your document’s structure with the XML Editor and the new Objects dialogExport your work to various formats

Volume 3 of the PoC or GTFO series collects humorous poems through to deeply technical essays bound in the form of a bible.

A fun guide to learning Bayesian statistics and probability through unusual and illustrative examples.

A sequel to the wildly popular hacker's bible PoC or GTFO, Volume 2 features technical and humorous essays from infamous hackers across the globe.

An indispensable collection of practical tips and real-world advice for tackling common Python problems and taking your code to the next level.

Become a master hacker with this expert-written deep dive into hardware attacks on embedded systems.

The Car Hacker's Handbook shows how to identify vulnerabilities in modern automotive vehicles.

Hacking APIs is a crash course in web API security testing that will prepare you to penetration-test APIs, reap high rewards on bug bounty programs, and make your own APIs more secure.Hacking APIs is a crash course on web API security testing that will prepare you to penetration-test APIs, reap high rewards on bug bounty programs, and make your own APIs more secure. You’ll learn how REST and GraphQL APIs work in the wild and set up a streamlined API testing lab with Burp Suite and Postman. Then you’ll master tools useful for reconnaissance, endpoint analysis, and fuzzing, such as Kiterunner and OWASP Amass. Next, you’ll learn to perform common attacks, like those targeting an API’s authentication mechanisms and the injection vulnerabilities commonly found in web applications. You’ll also learn techniques for bypassing protections against these attacks. In the book’s nine guided labs, which target intentionally vulnerable APIs, you’ll practice:Enumerating APIs users and endpoints using fuzzing techniquesUsing Postman to discover an excessive data exposure vulnerabilityPerforming a JSON Web Token attack against an API authentication processCombining multiple API attack techniques to perform a NoSQL injectionAttacking a GraphQL API to uncover a broken object level authorization vulnerability By the end of the book, you’ll be prepared to uncover those high-payout API bugs other hackers aren’t finding and improve the security of applications on the web.

An accessible yet rigorous crash course on recursive programming using Python and JavaScript examples.Recursion has an intimidating reputation: it's considered to be an advanced computer science topic frequently brought up in coding interviews. But there's nothing magical about recursion. The Recursive Book of Recursion uses Python and JavaScript examples to teach the basics of recursion, exposing the ways that it's often poorly taught and clarifying the fundamental principles of all recursive algorithms. You'll learn when to use recursive functions (and, most importantly, when not to use them), how to implement the classic recursive algorithms often brought up in job interviews, and how recursive techniques can help solve countless problems involving tree traversal, combinatorics, and other tricky topics. This project-based guide contains complete, runnable programs to help you learn: How recursive functions make use of the call stack, a critical data structure almost never discussed in lessons on recursionHow the head-tail and "leap of faith" techniques can simplify writing recursive functionsHow to use recursion to write custom search scripts for your filesystem, draw fractal art, create mazes, and moreHow optimization and memoization make recursive algorithms more efficient Al Sweigart has built a career explaining programming concepts in a fun, approachable manner. If you've shied away from learning recursion but want to add this technique to your programming toolkit, or if you're racing to prepare for your next job interview, this book is for you.

A comprehensive guide to the threats facing Apple computers and the foundational knowledge needed to become a proficient Mac malware analyst.Defenders must fully understand how malicious software works if they hope to stay ahead of the increasingly sophisticated threats facing Apple products today. The Art of Mac Malware: The Guide to Analyzing Malicious Software is a comprehensive handbook to cracking open these malicious programs and seeing what’s inside. Discover the secrets of nation state backdoors, destructive ransomware, and subversive cryptocurrency miners as you uncover their infection methods, persistence strategies, and insidious capabilities. Then work with and extend foundational reverse-engineering tools to extract and decrypt embedded strings, unpack protected Mach-O malware, and even reconstruct binary code. Next, using a debugger, you’ll execute the malware, instruction by instruction, to discover exactly how it operates. In the book’s final section, you’ll put these lessons into practice by analyzing a complex Mac malware specimen on your own.You’ll learn to:Recognize common infections vectors, persistence mechanisms, and payloads leveraged by Mac malwareTriage unknown samples in order to quickly classify them as benign or maliciousWork with static analysis tools, including disassemblers, in order to study malicious scripts and compiled binariesLeverage dynamical analysis tools, such as monitoring tools and debuggers, to gain further insight into sophisticated threatsQuickly identify and bypass anti-analysis techniques aimed at thwarting your analysis attemptsA former NSA hacker and current leader in the field of macOS threat analysis, Patrick Wardle uses real-world examples pulled from his original research. The Art of Mac Malware: The Guide to Analyzing Malicious Software is the definitive resource to battling these ever more prevalent and insidious Apple-focused threats.

Bug bounty programmes are company-sponsored programmes that invite researchers to search for vulnerabilities on their applications and reward them for their findings. This book is designed to help beginners with little to no security experience learn web hacking, find bugs, and stay competitive in this booming and lucrative industry. You''ll learn how to hack mobile apps, find vulnerabilities in APIs, and automate your hacking process. By the end of the book, you''ll have learned the tools and techniques necessary to be a competent web hacker and find bugs on a bug bounty programme.

Power up your Python with object-oriented programming and learn how to write powerful, efficient, and re-usable code.Object-Oriented Python is an intuitive and thorough guide to mastering object-oriented programming from the ground up. You’ll cover the basics of building classes and creating objects, and put theory into practice using the pygame package with clear examples that help visualize the object-oriented style. You’ll explore the key concepts of object-oriented programming — encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance — and learn not just how to code with objects, but the absolute best practices for doing so. Finally, you’ll bring it all together by building a complex video game, complete with full animations and sounds. The book covers two fully functional Python code packages that will speed up development of graphical user interface (GUI)  programs in Python.

A hands-on guide to hacking computer systems from the ground up, from capturing traffic to crafting sneaky, successful trojans.A crash course in modern hacking techniques, Ethical Hacking is already being used to prepare the next generation of offensive security experts. In its many hands-on labs, you’ll explore crucial skills for any aspiring penetration tester, security researcher, or malware analyst. You’ll begin with the basics: capturing a victim’s network traffic with an ARP spoofing attack and then viewing it in Wireshark. From there, you’ll deploy reverse shells that let you remotely run commands on a victim’s computer, encrypt files by writing your own ransomware in Python, and fake emails like the ones used in phishing attacks. In advanced chapters, you’ll learn how to fuzz for new vulnerabilities, craft trojans and rootkits, exploit websites with SQL injection, and escalate your privileges to extract credentials, which you’ll use to traverse a private network. You’ll work with a wide range of professional penetration testing tools—and learn to write your own tools in Python—as you practice tasks like: Deploying the Metasploit framework’s reverse shells and embedding them in innocent-seeming filesCapturing passwords in a corporate Windows network using MimikatzScanning (almost) every device on the internet to find potential victimsInstalling Linux rootkits that modify a victim’s operating systemPerforming advanced Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks that execute sophisticated JavaScript payloads Along the way, you’ll gain a foundation in the relevant computing technologies. Discover how advanced fuzzers work behind the scenes, learn how internet traffic gets encrypted, explore the inner mechanisms of nation-state malware like Drovorub, and much more. Developed with feedback from cybersecurity students, Ethical Hacking addresses contemporary issues in the field not often covered in other books and will prepare you for a career in penetration testing. Most importantly, you’ll be able to think like an ethical hacker⁠: someone who can carefully analyze systems and creatively gain access to them.

Website security made easy! Covers the most common ways websites get hacked and how web developers can defend themselves.

Build beautiful, microscale-sized LEGO castles complete with surrounding miniature medieval realms.

28 mad scientist themed projects and experiments to teach STEM topics and coding with the BBC micro:bit.

A master class in malware evolution that will give you the techniques and tools necessary to counter sophisticated, advanced threats.

The latest release in the best-selling Manga Guide series explains how cryptographic ciphers work and how to crack them.

Incredible Technic showcases spectacular models built with the LEGO Technic system, complete with diagrams and design notes.

The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Discovery Book is a complete beginner's guide to the EV3 kit from bestselling author and robotics expert Laurens Valk.

Statistics Done Wrong describes how researchers often go wrong and teaches you the best practices for avoiding their mistakes

If you work with embedded systems, you''re bound to encounter the ubiquitous Inter-Integrated Circuit bus (IIC, I2C, or I2C) - a serial protocol for connecting integrated circuits in a computer system. In The Book of I2C, the first comprehensive guide to this bus, bestselling author Randall Hyde draws on 40 years of industry experience to get you started designing and programming I2C systems.

A hands-on, beginner-friendly guide to building and programming LEGO® robots.You're the new owner of a LEGO® robotics kit. Now what? Getting Started with LEGO® MINDSTORMS teaches you the basics of robotics engineering, using examples compatible with the LEGO® MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor and SPIKE Prime sets. You'll be making remote-control vehicles, motorized grabbers, automatic ball launchers, and other exciting robots in no time.Rather than feature step-by-step instructions for building a handful of models, you'll find essential information and expert tips and tricks for designing, building, and programming your own robotic creations. The book features a comprehensive introduction to coding with Word Blocks, an intuitive visual programming language based on Scratch, and explores topics such as using motors and sensors, building sturdy structures, and troubleshooting problems when things go wrong. As you learn, loads of challenges and open-ended projects will inspire you to try out ideas. Your journey to becoming a confident robot designer begins here.

Strengthen your coding skills by exploring the weird world of esoteric programming languages.Explore the wonderful, wild, and often weird world of esoteric programming languages. The book begins with the history and theory of programming languages, addressing concepts like Turing machines and Turing completeness. You're then treated to a tour of three "atypical" programming languages, real languages that are unusual and require out of the box thinking. Following that are five chapters on existing esoteric languages (esolangs), some of which are easy to use, others quite difficult, and others novel because of their approach (programming with pictures, for example). Finally, the remaining chapters detail the development and use of two entirely new programming languages. The main point of the book is to encourage readers to think differently about what it means to express thought using a programming language, and to explore the limits and boundaries of what a programming language might be. Though readers aren't likely to use any of these languages in their day jobs, learning to think in these languages will make them better, more confident programmers.

Tag along with a master hacker on a truly memorable attack. From reconnaissance to infiltration, you’ll experience their every thought, frustration, and strategic decision-making first-hand in this exhilarating narrative journey into a highly defended Windows environment driven by AI.Step into the shoes of a master hacker and break into an intelligent, highly defensive Windows environment. You’ll be infiltrating the suspicious (fictional) offshoring company G & S Trust and their hostile Microsoft stronghold. While the target is fictional, the corporation’s vulnerabilities are based on real-life weaknesses in today’s advanced Windows defense systems. You’ll experience all the thrills, frustrations, dead-ends, and eureka moments of the mission first-hand, while picking up practical, cutting-edge techniques for evading Microsoft’s best security systems. The adventure starts with setting up your elite hacking infrastructure complete with virtual Windows system. After some thorough passive recon, you’ll craft a sophisticated phishing campaign to steal credentials and gain initial access. Once inside you’ll identify the security systems, scrape passwords, plant persistent backdoors, and delve deep into areas you don’t belong. Throughout your task you’ll get caught, change tack on a tee, dance around defensive monitoring systems, anddisable tools from the inside. Spark Flow’s clever insights, witty reasoning, andstealth maneuvers teach you to be patient, persevere, and adapt your skills at the drop of a hat. You’ll learn how to:Identify and evade Microsoft security systems like Advanced Threat Analysis,QRadar, MDE, and AMSISeek out subdomains and open ports with Censys, Python scripts, and other OSINT toolsScrape password hashes using KerberoastingPlant camouflaged C# backdoors and payloadsGrab victims’ credentials with more advanced techniques like reflection anddomain replication Like other titles in the How to Hack series, this book is packed with interesting tricks, ingenious tips, and links to useful resources to give you a fast-paced, hands-on guide to penetrating and bypassing Microsoft security systems.