Sams Teach Yourself Scratch 2.0 in 24 Hours

by Timothy Warner    (Find this book)
In Full Color!
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to make your own animations, games, simulations, and interactive stories with MIT Media Lab’s amazingly easy Scratch 2.0! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll walk through everything from joining the global Scratch community to adding audio/video and sensing the outside environment. You’ll learn to write reliable, efficient code and take advantage of millions of Scratch programs shared online. Every hands-on lesson builds upon what you’ve already learned, fully preparing you to create inspired projects of your own!
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Scratch 2.0 programming tasks.
Quizzes at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.
Challenges give you the opportunity to extend upon what you’ve learned in each chapter and flex your new-found programming skills.
Notes present interesting information related to the discussion.
Tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.
Cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.
Learn how to…

• Create your first project
• Master basic features including the Stage, Backdrops, Sprites, and Costumes
• Make things happen with Motion blocks
• Add sophisticated logic without complicated coding
• Use audio and video you capture with a webcam or microphone
• Include your own drawings in your projects
• Sense what your game’s players are doing and interact with them
• Write programs that respond to outside changes such as temperature and touch
• Test your projects to find and fix problems
• Document and publish projects so others can help you improve them
• “Remix” projects with online Scratch code and content
• Create games with multiple game screens and button controls
• Master skills you can use with even the most powerful programming languages

Who Should Read This Book

• Brand new to programming: Welcome! You don’t need any prior experience with programming in order to gain value from this book.
• Considering a career change: Perhaps you are a K-12, junior college, or university student who has perhaps a bit of past programming experience, and you are pondering a full-time career as a software developer. Learning Scratch serves as an excellent diagnostic to gauge your aptitude and interest in the subject matter.
• Just tinkering: Maybe you are a technology buff who always wondered what work went into developing a software project. You have no real career aspirations in programming--you just enjoy tinkering and having fun.

If you find that you don’t belong in any of the previous three classifications, then don’t worry about it. Set your sights on learning as much as you can and, above all else, having fun, and you’ll be fine!  --  Publisher Marketing

Joomla! 3 Explained: Your Step-By-Step Guide

by Stephen Burge    (Find this book)
Master Joomla! Hands-On, Step-by-Step, Using Easy, Practical Examples
Today, millions of websites rely on Joomla!–from personal sites to those of huge organizations like General Electric, Porsche, and the United Nations. Now, using Joomla! 3, you too can create websites that are mobile-ready, responsive, flexible, powerful, and secure–even if you’re an absolute beginner.
In Joomla!^® 3 Explained, top Joomla! trainer Stephen Burge teaches you everything you need to know. Burge has taught thousands of Joomla! newcomers and thousands more who’ve experimented with Joomla! but haven’t mastered it yet. Nobody knows more about guiding you up the Joomla! learning curve.
You’ll master Joomla! 3 hands-on, through a complete case study, crystal-clear visuals, simple explanations, and on-target analogies, all extensively tested with real Joomla! beginners. Burge walks you through installing Joomla! 3, planning sites that are easy to use and manage, adding content, and incorporating powerful site features without programming. Finally, Burge shows you how to run your site securely and efficiently, no matter how big or popular it becomes!  --  Publisher Marketing

The iPad in the Music Studio: Connecting Your iPad to Mics, Mixers, Instruments, Computers, and More!

by Thomas Rudolph    (Find this book)
(Quick Pro Guides). The iPad in the Music Studio focuses on the iPad's connectivity to the professional, project, and home music studios. The authors take you on a tour of the latest iPad-related music hardware and software on the market. Get a firsthand look at: * Hardware to link microphones and instruments for live multitrack recording * Controlling desktop software with the iPad * Using the iPad and iPhone with mixers * The iPad and Guitar EFX software and hardware * DJ equipment and apps * Using the iPad to publish and distribute your music on social media. This book will guide you step by step through the most popular and productive apps for the iPad 2, third- or fourth-generation iPad, or iPad mini-running the latest versions of the iOS. Written by two experienced authors of music technology textbooks, training, and courses, The iPad in The Music Studio provides guidance on the best apps for music and how to apply them in your musical life.  --  Publisher Marketing

Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

by Brian Krebs    (Find this book)
Now a New York Times bestseller!
Winner of a 2015 Prose Award!
There is a Threat Lurking Online with the Power to Destroy Your Finances, Steal Your Personal Data, and Endanger Your Life.
In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank accounts. Tracing the rise, fall, and alarming resurrection of the digital mafia behind the two largest spam pharmacies-and countless viruses, phishing, and spyware attacks-he delivers the first definitive narrative of the global spam problem and its threat to consumers everywhere.
Blending cutting-edge research, investigative reporting, and firsthand interviews, this terrifying true story reveals how we unwittingly invite these digital thieves into our lives every day. From unassuming computer programmers right next door to digital mobsters like "Cosma"-who unleashed a massive malware attack that has stolen thousands of Americans' logins and passwords-Krebs uncovers the shocking lengths to which these people will go to profit from our data and our wallets.
Not only are hundreds of thousands of Americans exposing themselves to fraud and dangerously toxic products from rogue online pharmacies, but even those who never open junk messages are at risk. As Krebs notes, spammers can-and do-hack into accounts through these emails, harvest personal information like usernames and passwords, and sell them on the digital black market. The fallout from this global epidemic doesn't just cost consumers and companies billions, it costs lives too.
Fast-paced and utterly gripping, Spam Nation ultimately proposes concrete solutions for protecting ourselves online and stemming this tidal wave of cybercrime-before it's too late.
"Krebs's talent for exposing the weaknesses in online security has earned him respect in the IT business and loathing among cybercriminals... His track record of scoops...has helped him become the rare blogger who supports himself on the strength of his reputation for hard-nosed reporting." -Bloomberg Businessweek  --  Publisher Marketinghttp://catalog.uhls.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1595900__SSpam%20Nation%3A%20The%20Inside%20Story%20of%20Organized%20Cybercrime-From%20Global%20Epidemic%20to%20Your%20Front%20Door%20__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng&suite=gold