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Programming Computer Vision With Python by Jan Erik Solem, review by Patrick Mihelich — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Aug 28, 2012 03:10 AM —

• oreilly

Opening the table of contents, I was immediately impressed by the selection of topics. Computer vision is a broad field, and PCVwP manages to cover plenty of ground.

Arduino Cookbook by Michael Margolis, review by Tony Cappellini — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Apr 24, 2011 06:55 AM —

• oreilly

The Arduino Cookbook is a hefty tome, weighing in at 631 pages with minimal space covering introductory material. Page xvi refers to “What was left Out” which has references for programming, electronics and hardware. I’m glad to see this material isn’t duplicated in this book.

The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk Review by Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Feb 13, 2011 04:10 AM —

• oreilly

This is an excellent book for learning systems programming on Linux/Unix if you have a reading knowledge of the C programming language.

Land Of Lisp by Conrad Barski MD, Review by Raj Jammalamadaka — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Dec 20, 2010 05:25 AM —

• oreilly

LISP stands for List Processing. This book is a nice introduction to the Common LISP programming language. I started using the EMACS editor recently and really love it. As a result I wanted to learn more about the language on which the EMACS editor is built upon.

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming by Peter Seibel Review by Tony Cappellini — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Dec 10, 2010 05:20 AM —

• oreilly

Many of the books that I read that are typically referrals from a web page or cited in other book reviews. I can’t remember exactly how I was referred to Coders At Work, but it has been the most fortunate of happenings. I suspect that what drew me to the book is the interview with Joe Armstrong, because I’m currently obsessed with learning Erlang as well as its development.

Real World Instrumentation with Python by John M Hughes, review by Tony Cappellini — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Dec 09, 2010 09:20 PM —

• forthcoming
• oreilly

I’m very disappointed in this book, primarily because it is a repeat of so much other material. I’m also not happy that the publisher approved of the contents of this book, when they have published many books on the same introductory material that this book includes. If you’re going to publish an intermediate or advanced book, state the prerequisites and get on with the “real world instrumentation”.

Getting Started With Processing by Casey Reas and Ben Fry, Review By Tony Cappellini — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Oct 07, 2010 03:50 AM —

• oreilly

The authors of this book are also the creators of the Processing language and environment. Processing is “an open source programming environment for teaching computational design and sketching interactive media”.

R In A Nutshell by Joseph Adler. Reviewed by Raj Jammalamadaka — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Jul 13, 2010 05:30 AM —

• oreilly

This book is a very good introduction to the R programming language. R is a free, general purpose programming language(with a strong support for doing statistics). The language has its idiosyncrasies. For example, the assignment operator is denoted by a reverse arrow (x<-2); this book does a pretty good job of explaining all these in detail. Once you get past these details, you will find that R is a pretty versatile language.

Bioinformatics Programming Using Python by Mitchell L. Model Reviewed by Mark Voorhies — by Bill Deegan — posted on Apr 11, 2010 09:30 PM —

• oreilly

As a biologist preparing to teach my first course (on Python programming for biologists), I was excited to hear about Mitchell L. Model's Bioinformatics Programming Using Python. A quick look through the table of contents indicated a thorough coverage of the language and useful libraries, and the introduction indicated that it would be appropriate for students in the life sciences with no prior programming experience...

Natural Language Processing with Python Review By Sukanta Ganguly — by Bill Deegan — posted on Apr 11, 2010 09:05 PM —

• oreilly

This book is a near-perfect blend of Natural Language Processing done Python usage to its fullest. Not only did the authors describe NLP extremely well and provided great explanation to many different conditions but they also showed an effective use of Python to substantiate the technical content.