A Crack In Creation: Gene Editing And The Unthinkable Power To Control Evolution

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A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril.

Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the new gene-editing tool CRISPR—a revolutionary new technology that she helped create—to make heritable changes in human embryos. The cheapest, simplest, most effective way of manipulating DNA ever known, CRISPR may well give us the cure to HIV, genetic diseases, and some cancers, and will help address the world’s hunger crisis. Yet even the tiniest changes to DNA could have myriad, unforeseeable consequences—to say nothing of the ethical and societal repercussions of intentionally mutating embryos to create “better” humans.

Writing with fellow researcher Samuel Sternberg, Doudna shares the thrilling story of her discovery, and passionately argues that enormous responsibility comes with the ability to rewrite the code of life. With CRISPR, she shows, we have effectively taken control of evolution. What will we do with this unfathomable power?

Programming Language: 3 Books In 1: Beginner's Guide + Best Practices + Advanced Guide To Programming Code With Python

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This e-book will cover the MPLAB IDE for code generation, simulation and debugging. A sample test code will be written using the MPLAB to test the output signal to LED’s and read the switches using the ports of the MCU.

Swift 3.0 - Code Syntax Guide

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Javascript: 2 Books In 1: Beginner's Guide + Tips And Tricks To Programming Code With Javascript

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Android Pocket Primer (pocket Primer Series)

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As part of the best selling Pocket Primer series, this book provides an overview of the major aspects and the source code to use the latest versions of Android. It has coverage of the fundamental aspects of Android that are illustrated via code samples for versions 4.x through 7.x and features the Google Pixel phone. This Pocket Primer is primarily for self-directed learners who want to learn Android programming and it serves as a starting point for deeper exploration of its numerous applications.

Features

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Book 1 - Python: Beginner's Guide to Programming Code with Python Learn Python programming today and begin your path towards Python programming mastery! In this Definitive Python Beginner's Guide, you’re about to discover… How to program code in Python through learning the core essentials that every Python programmer must know. Python is a very popular programming language, and there are a great many books on the market concerning it. We cut to the chase and tell you why you should get this one: Here is a Preview of What You'll Learn… Essentials of Python programming. Quickly pick up the language and start applying the concepts to any code that you write Major facets of Python programming - including concepts you can apply to *any* language Various mechanics of Python programming: control flow, variables, lists/dictionaries, and classes – and why learning these core principles are important to Python programming success Object-oriented programming, its influence to today’s popular computer languages, and why it matters … And much, much more! Book 2 - Python: Tips and Tricks to Programming Code with Python Have you been coding for awhile now, but could still use some useful Python coding tips? Do you have some basic knowledge with Python and want to learn more? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then look no further - this book is for you. In this Definitive Python Intermediate Level Guide, you’re about to discover… Several different tips and tricks to help improve your work with Python. You will find coding in each chapter that helps with a certain application each chapter will cover a different tip, and will have different coding. Here is a Preview of What You'll Learn… How to change colors using Python for better looking interfaces Accessing E-mails and Text messages How to manipulate images Scheduling and timing programs … And much, much more!

Code Generation With Roslyn

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Learn how Roslyn's new code generation capability will let you write software that is more concise, runs faster, and is easier to maintain. You will learn from real-world business applications to create better software by letting the computer write its own code based on your business logic already defined in lookup tables. Code Generation with Rosyln is the first book to cover this new capability. You will learn how these techniques can be used to simplify systems integration so that if one system already defines business logic through lookup tables, you can integrate a new system and share business logic by allowing the new system to write its own business logic based on already existing table-based business logic. One of the many benefits you will discover is that Roslyn uses an innovative approach to compiler design, opening up the inner workings of the compiler process. You will learn how to see the syntax tree that Roslyn is building as it compiles your code. Additionally, you will learn to feed it your own syntax tree that you create on the fly. What You Will Learn: • Structure logic to be stored in database design • Build complex conditional logic based on lookup data in the database • Compile code that you generate programmatically • Discover generated code and run it dynamically to implement new business logic • Debug problems in generated code • Deploy and access generated code Who This Book Is For: Back end developers in very dynamic fast-paced business environments. Developers focused on integrating different systems across an enterprise should also find this information useful.

Infrastructure As Code (iac) Cookbook

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Over 90 practical, actionable recipes to automate, test, and manage your infrastructure quickly and effectively. About This Book Bring down your delivery timeline from days to hours by treating your server configurations and VMs as code, just like you would with software code. Take your existing knowledge and skill set with your existing tools (Puppet, Chef, or Docker) to the next level and solve IT infrastructure challenges. Use practical recipes to use code to provision and deploy servers and applications and have greater control of your infrastructure. Who This Book Is For This book is for DevOps engineers and developers working in cross-functional teams or operations and would now switch to IAC to manage complex infrastructures. What You Will Learn Provision local and remote development environments with Vagrant Automate production infrastructures with Terraform, Ansible and Cloud-init on AWS, OpenStack, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, and more Manage and test automated systems using Chef and Puppet Build, ship, and debug optimized Docker containers Explore the best practices to automate and test everything from cloud infrastructures to operating system configuration In Detail Infrastructure as Code (IAC) is a key aspect of the DevOps movement, and this book will show you how to transform the way you work with your infrastructure―by treating it as software. This book is dedicated to helping you discover the essentials of infrastructure automation and its related practices; the over 90 organized practical solutions will demonstrate how to work with some of the very best tools and cloud solutions. You will learn how to deploy repeatable infrastructures and services on AWS, OpenStack, Google Cloud, and Digital Ocean. You will see both Ansible and Terraform in action, manipulate the best bits from cloud-init to easily bootstrap instances, and simulate consistent environments locally or remotely using Vagrant. You will discover how to automate and test a range of system tasks using Chef or Puppet. You will also build, test, and debug various Docker containers having developers' interests in mind. This book will help you to use the right tools, techniques, and approaches to deliver working solutions for today's modern infrastructure challenges. Style and approach This is a recipe-based book that allows you to venture into some of the most cutting-edge practices and techniques about IAC and solve immediate problems when trying to implement them.

Pro Python Best Practices: Debugging, Testing And Maintenance

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Software engineering is difficult. Programs of any substantial length are inherently prone to errors of all kinds. The development cycle is full of traps unknown to the apprentice developer. Yet, in Python textbooks little attention is paid to this aspect of getting your code to run. At most, there is a chapter on debugging or unit testing in your average basic Python book. However, the proportion of time spent on getting your code to run is much higher in the real world. Pro Python Best Practices aims to solve this problem.

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The Gourmet Ios Developer's Cookbook: Even More Recipes For Better Ios App Development

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The Gourmet iOS Developer’s Cookbook offers a fresh banquet of delicious cutting-edge iOS programming recipes for projects both big and small. Renowned iOS programming expert Erica Sadun brings together reliable, proven code for creating today’s richest, most robust apps. Sadun presents innovative ways to make the most of AVFoundation, Text Kit, animation, adaptive interface programming, and much more. As in all of her iOS best-sellers, this pragmatic guide translates modern best practices into working code, distilling key concepts into recipes you can understand and build on. This is more than just cut-and-paste using examples, Sadun offers a deep dive into the “how” and “why” of advanced iOS development. The code reflects iOS’s latest capabilities, and every chapter groups related tasks together, so you can jump straight to your solution. Coverage includes Providing advanced speech generation and barcode recognition features through AVFoundation Automatically updating app text presentation based on user preferences and expectations Extending rich, flexible text throughout your apps with UIKit and Text Kit Seamlessly migrating text designs between iOS screens and other destinations Generating attributed text strings from HTML sources Integrating real-world physics for exciting animations and interactions Creating better interfaces with dynamic animators–and overcoming their pitfalls Achieving greater visual impact with improved user alerts and popovers Implementing clever and compelling effects with non-rectangular views Building adaptive apps that gracefully respond to any iOS display, orientation, or screen Streamlining development with expert methods, functions, and techniques Exploring the core concepts you’ll need to migrate successfully to Swift This book’s source code is frequently updated by the author and can be downloaded at

Swift Style: An Opinionated Guide To An Opinionated Language

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Discover the do's and don'ts involved in crafting readable Swift code as you explore common Swift coding challenges and the best practices that address them. From spacing, bracing, and semicolons to proper API style, discover the whys behind each recommendation, and add to or establish your own house style guidelines. This practical, powerful, and opinionated guide offers the best practices you need to know to work successfully in this equally opinionated programming language.

Apple's Swift programming language has finally reached stability, and developers are demanding to know how to program the language properly. Swift Style guides you through the ins and outs of Swift programming best practices. This is the first best practices book for serious, professional Swift programmers and for programmers who want to shine their skills to be hired in this demanding market.

A style guide offers a consistent experience of well-crafted code that lets you focus on the code's underlying meaning, intent, and implementation. This book doesn't offer canonical answers on Swift coding style. It explores the areas of Swift where structure comes into play. Whether you're developing a personal style or a house style, there are always ways to enhance your code choices. You'll find here the ideas and principles to establish or enhance your own best style practices.

Begin with simple syntactical styling. Strengthen code bracing for easy readability. Style your closures for safety and resilience. Perfect spacing and layout. Master literal initialization and typing. Optimize control flow layout and improve conditional style choices. Transition from Objective-C and move code into Swift the right way. Boost API design using proper naming and labeling. Elevate defaulted arguments and variadics to their right places. Finally, Erica offers her own broad recommendations on good coding practice.

What You Need:

Recent version of the Swift programming language

Test-driven Development With Python, 2nd Edition [early Release]

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By taking you through the development of a real web application from beginning to end, the updated second edition of this hands-on guide demonstrates the practical advantages of test-driven development (TDD) with Python. You’ll learn how to write and run tests before building each part of your app, and then develop the minimum amount of code required to pass those tests. The result? Clean code that works.

Author Harry J.W. Percival uses a concrete example—the development of a web site, from scratch—to teach TDD methodology and how it applies to web programming, from the basics of database integration and Javascript to more advanced topics such as mocking, Ajax, and REST APIs. It's ideal for relative newcomers and self-taught web developers looking to take their skills to the next level with a more structured approach.

Set In Stone: America's Embrace Of The Ten Commandments

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The Ten Commandments need no introduction. In fact, we probably think we know all there is to know about these divine dos and don'ts. But as this imaginative and vivid account reveals, there is a lot more to this ancient biblical code than Moses and Mount Sinai. Situating the Ten Commandments within the context of modern America, prominent historian and engaging story-teller Jenna Weissman Joselit takes the reader from Indian burial mounds in 19th-century Ohio to the sand dunes of 1920s California and into the civic squares of the 1950s to reveal the centrality of the Ten Commandments to the nation's identity.

Rich in incident and story and inhabited by a lively cast of characters whose ranks include forgers and filmmakers, architects and archaeologists, ordinary citizens and politicians, this book compels us to take another look at the Ten Commandments and see them afresh. Through a series of deftly-rendered vignettes, this compelling account recasts the cultural impact of the Ten Commandments in American society not as a legal code or theological imperative, but as a physical, material, and visual phenomenon. We come away with the understanding that they are not cast in stone but a fertile repository of American history.