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Applied Discrete Structures
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Best open source book in Discrete Math. Covers all the subjects in a standard Discrete Math class for mathematics or computer science students and contains sage cells for all subjects. Set Theory, Combinatorics, Logic, Relations, Recursion, Graph Theory, Trees, Algebraic Structures, Boolean Algebras, Automata, etc. Originally published commercially, its original text was peer-reviewed and was adopted for use at several universities throughout the country. Now in its open source version, has the same quality but it is free.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Reading
Textbook
Author:
Al Doerr
Ken Levasseur
Date Added:
12/03/2021
Automate the Boring Stuff
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If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you?

In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand-no prior programming experience required. Once you've mastered the basics of programming, you'll create Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation to:

Search for text in a file or across multiple files
Create, update, move, and rename files and folders
Search the Web and download online content
Update and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any size
Split, merge, watermark, and encrypt PDFs
Send reminder emails and text notifications
Fill out online forms

Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks.

Don't spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you've never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work. Learn how in Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Al Sweigert
Date Added:
01/24/2019
Beginning Excel
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This textbook was written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2016, the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of Excel as well. The book introduces new users to the basics of spreadsheets and is appropriate for students in any major who have not used Excel before.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
eCampusOntario
Author:
Barbara Lave
Diane Shingledecker
Julie Romey
Mary Schatz
Noreen Brown
Date Added:
03/09/2020
Beginning to Intermediate Excel
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CC BY
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This textbook was written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2019, the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of Excel as well. The book introduces new users to the basics of spreadsheets and is appropriate for students in any major who have not used Excel before. This textbook includes instructions for Excel for Mac also.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
South Puget Sound Community College
Author:
Art Schneider
Barbara Lave
Diane Shingledecker
Hallie Puncochar
Julie Romey
Mary Schatz
Noreen Brown
jevans10spsccedu
Date Added:
07/30/2021
Blueprints: Creating, Describing, and Implementing Designs for Larger-Scale Software Projects - version 2.3
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Blueprints is a concise yet comprehensive coverage of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design concepts, suitable for a second programming course in Computer Science. It introduces and teaches application development in a command-line environment, and assumes basic expertise with the Java programming language.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Stephen Davies
Date Added:
11/18/2021
A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB
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A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB is specifically designed for students with no programming experience. However, students are expected to be proficient in First Year Mathematics and Sciences and access to good reference books are highly recommended. Students are assumed to have a working knowledge of the Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows operating systems. The strategic goal of the course and book is to provide learners with an appreciation for the role computation plays in solving engineering problems. MATLAB specific skills that students are expected to be proficient at are: write scripts to solve engineering problems including interpolation, numerical integration and regression analysis, plot graphs to visualize, analyze and present numerical data, and publish reports.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
OpenStax CNX
Author:
Serhat Beyenir
Date Added:
11/26/2019
A Byte of Python
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"A Byte of Python" is a free book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for a beginner audience. If all you know about computers is how to save text files, then this is the book for you. There are many translations of the book available in different human languages.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Swaroop C.H.
Date Added:
03/21/2017
Computer Graphics and Computer Animation: A Retrospective Overview
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This book was developed in an attempt to maintain in one location the information and references that point to the many important historical developments of the short life of the computer graphics world as we know it.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Ohio State University
Provider Set:
Pressbooks
Date Added:
01/14/2019
Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice
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This open textbook aims to fill the gap between the open-source implementations and the open-source network specifications by providing a detailed but pedagogical description of the key principles that guide the operation of the Internet.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
The Saylor Foundation
Provider Set:
Saylor Textbooks
Author:
Olivier Bonaventure
Date Added:
03/06/2012
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach
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Suppose you want to build a computer network, one that has the potential to grow to global proportions and to support applications as diverse as teleconferencing, video on demand, electronic commerce, distributed computing, and digital libraries. What available technologies would serve as the underlying building blocks, and what kind of software architecture would you design to integrate these building blocks into an effective communication service? Answering this question is the overriding goal of this book—to describe the available building materials and then to show how they can be used to construct a network from the ground up.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Bruce Davie
Larry Peterson
Date Added:
09/12/2019
Computer Science I - Version 1.3.7
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This textbook covers the traditional introductory Computer Science I topics but takes a unique approach. Topics are covered in a language-agnostic manner in the first part with supplemental parts that cover the same concepts in a specific language. The current version covers C, Java, and PHP. This textbook as been used in several Computer Science I sections over multiple years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Chris Bourke
Date Added:
11/18/2021
Database Design-2nd Edition
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CC BY
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Database Design - 2nd Edition covers database systems and database design concepts. New to this edition are SQL info, additional examples, key terms and review exercises at the end of each chapter.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
BCcampus
Provider Set:
BCcampus Open Textbooks
Author:
Adrienne Watt
Nelson Eng
Date Added:
11/26/2014
Defend Dissent
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Defend Dissent is an introduction to cryptography paired with the social impacts of surveillance and the protective potential of encryption, with a focus on US social movements. Each chapter ends with a story that brings social context to the material—from surveillance used against contemporary US protests to the African National Congress’s use of partially manual encryption in fighting apartheid in South Africa in the 80s.

This book can be read linearly, or you can pick and choose what you would like to learn about. Each chapter is prefaced with what you should read first (for background) and concludes with what you might want to read next.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Oregon State University
Author:
Glencora Borradaile
Date Added:
07/27/2021
Designing the Digital World
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The book offers a blend of theory and practice in guiding readers to apply design thinking principles to solving some of our world’s biggest problems. At the same time, readers are encouraged to become aware of new and emerging technologies that make prototyping and applying solutions a reality.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Computer Science
Information Science
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Open Press at NUI Galway
Author:
Eileen Kennedy
Date Added:
05/31/2021
Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
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This book contains roughly three parts. The first 11 chapters discussthe JavaScript language itself. The next eight chapters are about webbrowsers and the way JavaScript is used to program them. Finally,two chapters are devoted to Node.js, another environment to programJavaScript in.Throughout the book, there are five project chapters, which describelarger example programs to give you a taste of real programming. Inorder of appearance, we will work through building an artificial life simulation,a programming language, a platform game, a paint program,and a dynamic website.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Marijn Haverbeke.
Date Added:
11/08/2018
Enterprise Pharo a Web Perspective
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Pharo is a clean, innovative, open-source, live-programming environment.

Enterprise Pharo is the third volume of a series of book covering Pharo and its community. Whereas the first volume Pharo by Example is intended for newcomers and the second volume Deep into Pharo covers deep topics of Pharo, this third volume covers libraries and frameworks for enterprises, and in particular those doing web development.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Attila Magyar
Christophe Demarey
Cyril Ferlicot Delbecque
Damien Cassou
Damien Pollet
Esteban Lorenzano
Gabriel Omar Cotelli
Guillaume Larchevêque
Johan Fabry
Liudmyla Dolia
Luc Fabresse
Mariano Martinez-Peck
Martín Dias
Max Leske
Norbert Hartl
Olivier Auverlot
Stéphane Ducasse
Sven Van Caekenberghe
Date Added:
10/06/2016
Ethical Hacking for Effective Defense (Modules, Labs, and Lectures)
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The following set of materials is used in the Textbook Transformation Grants implementation of Ethical Hacking for Effective Defense:

https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/compsci-collections/8/

Topics include:

TCP/IP Level Attacks
Port Scanning
DDoS
Footprinting and Social Engineering
Enumeration
Programming for Security Professionals
Operating System Vulnerabilities
Embedded System Security
Hacking Web Servers
Hacking Wireless Networks
Cryptography
Protecting Networks with Security Devices

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
University System of Georgia
Provider Set:
Galileo Open Learning Materials
Author:
Hossain Shahriar
Date Added:
06/20/2018