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“The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering“: A must-read book, free for a...
The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering is an apt title for a book that helps you move from programming (writing code) to software development (the larger process, which includes requirements,...
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Pluralsight’s courses are free for the month of April!
Pluralsight is making its 7,000+ video courses completely free for the month of April! If this is the first time you’ve heard this news, you still have 27-ish days to take advantage of this...
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A quick and dirty guide to installing a COBOL compiler and IDE on macOS (and...
OpenCobolIDE running on my MacBook Pro. Tap the screen shot to see it at full size. In an earlier post, I played around with an online COBOL compiler. Seeing as I’m a COVID-19 unemployment statistic...
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COBOL roundup: Save $20 on a COBOL book, recent articles, COBOL on...
Save $20 on Beginning COBOL for Programmers — today only! Don’t forget that today, Thursday, April 16, 2020, is the last day that you can get Apress’ Beginning COBOL for Programmers at a discount! Use...
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Today only: Manning has data science courses for $10 (instead of the regular...
Yes, the title of that 2012 article in Harvard Business Review may have stretched things a bit. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that any scientific, tech, or engineering endeavor has...
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Get 14 Python books for as little as $15 for a limited time only with the...
If you’re looking to learn Python or boost your Python skills — either as planning for the future or dealing with a laid-off present — you’ll want to capitalize on Humble Bundle’s “Learn you some...
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Get the best mobile development books for half price at RayWenderlich.com!
If you’ve been looking to set yourself apart by learning native mobile development — iOS development with Swift, Android development with Kotlin, or cross-platform development with Flutter — take...
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Happy Programmer’s Day! / Fanatical’s deal on FREE programming books
The origin of Programmer’s Day The 256th day of the year (the 100th day in hexadecimal) is known as the Day of the Programmer. On most years, it’s September 13th, but on leap years — which includes...
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Motorola phones on sale for Labor Day
If you’re looking for an inexpensive Android phone for doing development work or testing, or just as a phone, Motorola, my go-to vendor for inexpensive Android devices is having a Labor Day sale! Here...
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Happy Programmer’s Day 2021!
Once again, it’s September 13th — the 256th day of the year (on non-leap years)! As the number of values that can be expressed in a single byte, 256 means something to programmers, and as the largest...
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Free office furniture in the Tampa area
Tap to view at full size. If you’re looking for free office tables and chairs for your startup or home office and you can get a truck or van to the Westchase area in short order, you might want to...
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A ten-dollar head start on machine learning
Want to get a head start on the artificial intelligence wave? Among other things, you’ll need to get a solid understanding of Python and machine learning, and the $10 level of Humble Bundle’s...
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Humble Bundle’s deal on No Starch Press’ Python books
I love No Starch Press’ Python books. They’re the textbooks I use when teaching the Python course at Computer Coach because they’re easy to read, explain things clearly, and have useful examples. And...
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Humble Bundle’s deal on cybersecurity and forensics books from CRC Press
The latest interesting book bundle from Humble Bundle is the Cybersecurity and Forensics Bundle, which gets you 19 cybersecurity and cyberforensics books by CRC Press for a mere $25 — that’s just...
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Get these 5 books for 1 dollar at Humble Bundle!
There’s a Humble Bundle deal going on for the next nine days at the time of writing: the Popular Programming Languages book bundle, featuring books by O’Reilly. There’s a “15 books for $25” version of...
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45 (mostly) Python tutorials for $25 via Humble Bundle!
If you want to learn Python, machine learning, data science, and a few other related topics AND you have $25 handy, The Complete Python Mega Bundle has you covered, as you can see from the list of...
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Manning ebooks, print books, and videos are on sale until July 31!
From now until midnight Eastern time (UTC-4) on July 31st, Manning’s books and videos on software development and technology are selling at greatly reduced prices: ebooks: $22.99 instead of...
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Get started with Python and AI with 3 books for only a dollar!
Are you in Tampa on Thursday, September 7th? Join me and other Tampa AI enthusiasts at The SocialCode x Tampa for an AI panel and networking event! The current “best bang for your buck” deal on AI...
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