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Write your first code in Java 23 using simple, step-by-step examples that model real-word objects and events, making learning easy. With this book you will be able to pick up core programming concepts without fuss and write efficient Java code in no time. Clear code descriptions, and layout ensure you get your code running as soon as possible. Author Iuliana Cosmina focuses on practical knowledge and getting you up to speed quickly-all the bits and pieces a novice needs to get started programming in Java. In this edition, you will discover how Java has changed since version 17, and how to design and write code using the most recently introduced Java features such as new collection methods, virtual threads, pattern and record matching in switch expressions, structured concurrency tasks, unnamed classes and instance methods and many more.This book is a complete Java guide, covering the following topics: setting up a development environment, programming concepts and well-known programming principles, writing Java code following industry-specific design patterns and coding conventions, executing it, debugging, testing, documenting it and even using specialized tools such as IntelliJ IDEA for writing Java code, Maven for building, JUnit Jupiter for testing, VisualVM for monitoring. After reading this book, you'll have all the necessary skills and knowledge to pass an interview for a starting Java development position.What You Will Learn Set up a Java development environment Use the Java language to write high-quality code Understand fundamental programming concepts and algorithms Use virtual threads, records, and other Java renown features Debug, test, and document Java code Improve performance by customizing the JVM

Creativity diagnostics is actually paradoxical and "an impossible task." It is neither plannable nor retrievable on demand, nor can it be prescribed with the motto: "Be spontaneous" or "Be creative!" All previous attempts to assess creative performance or behavior, for example through creativity tests using the criteria of "idea richness" and "idea diversity" under formal standardization rules (e.g. time limits) and norms, have mostly failed to meet expectations, whether in schools or in corporate aptitude diagnostics. At best, creativity could be demonstrated in the artistic-scientific field through work samples or "brilliant inventions." In day-to-day operations and workplaces, creativity is typically observable over a longer period, taking into account its usefulness and social acceptance.What "approaches" might be possible in psychological diagnostics to assess creativity, and what limitations they are subject to, is the topic of this "creative" article.Target groupsPsychologists and HR experts in both academia and practice, as well as school educators and HR managers responsible for evaluating the creative performance of their employees.About the authorDr. Heribert Wienkamp, a certified psychologist with a PhD in Psychology, has worked for many years in various HR roles in a bank and a building society.The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Manipulations are present everywhere in daily life, as it is impossible not to manipulate! Both personality diagnostics and the analysis of social systems and processes focus on these "social stages," which are subject to mutual influences, and this book deals with extensively. Traditionally, psychological diagnostics either use so-called "lie scales" or measure conspicuous bodily signals, such as polygraphs, to uncover attempts at manipulation or deception. Differentially diagnosed personality profiles generally round off the assessment of individuals. System-relevant analyses in social situations examine interactions between competing parties that want to achieve their influencing or action strategies through "rational" moves and observe the processes from a higher level. You will learn about the insights from the diagnostics of manipulations that you can benefit from as a reader in this reading.Target Groups: Executives, HR experts in academia and practice, and specialists who need to assess the credibility of statements based on "fiction and truth" or are involved in other support mandates.Author: Dr. Heribert Wienkamp, Dipl.-Psychologist and PhD in Psychology, has worked for many years in various roles in the human resources department of a bank and a building society.The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

The ability to deliver software quickly and efficiently is paramount to a company's success. This book is a comprehensive guide to continuous integration and continuous delivery, providing insights and practical strategies for streamlining the software delivery pipeline for speedy and efficient deployments. You'll start by reviewing the fundamentals of CI/CD, and how it enables teams to automate the building, testing, and deployment of software, for faster and more reliable releases. The book then examines CI/CD pipelines, tooling, caching, and how to leverage these tools to expedite delivery workflows, before highlighting the increased importance of testing and monitoring during that process. You'll also gain insights into various testing methodologies and learn how to implement them effectively within their CI/CD pipelines, while keeping QA engineers and other skeptical team members happy. However, the journey towards accelerated software delivery is not just about technology. It also requires a cultural shift within your software development team. The book accomplishes this by delving into strategies for getting apprehensive team members on board. CI/CD Unleashed provides the tools and techniques you need to ensure the quality and reliability of their software, while staying relatively agnostic regarding things like language and framework choices.You Will Learn To:  Understand the advantages continuous integration and continuous delivery provide. Automate the building, testing, and deployment of software for faster releases. See how CI/CD can aid a cultural shift within software development teams. Implement CI/CD best practices to deliver streamlined and more cost-effective deployments for your organization. Review WIP limits, small batch releases, and the importance of fostering a blame-free culture. Apply various testing methodologies such as unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.

Ace your software engineering job interviews by preparing yourself for the concurrent programming rounds. This book fills the gap in practical resources designated for concurrency interview prep. It simplifies complex concepts in C++ and provides example questions to help you approach your interview with confidence.Today, interviews for software engineering roles typically include several different rounds: coding, system design, behavioral, and domain knowledge. The domain knowledge round can vary based on the job description, but one extremely common focus is concurrent programming. While not intended to be a comprehensive reference, this book distills the essential interview insights drawn from author Bonan Liu's personal experiences to stand out from the competition. Key topics include mutexes and locks, condition variables, thread abstraction, STL features, and lock-free implementations, with each concept reinforced through practical exercises like building a file handler cache and implementing read/write locks.Software interviews are more than just exams; they are hours-long conversations with real people. You'll not only develop a solid understanding of concurrency, but also learn how to best showcase your expertise to enhance your performance throughout the entire process, including general coding rounds.You will: Acquire foundational knowledge of concurrent programming in C++. Practice relevant interview questions for each section of this knowledge. Develop strategies for best demonstrating learned skills in the general coding round.

This book approaches robotics from a deep learning perspective. Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed many fields, including robotics. This book shows you how to reimagine decades-old robotics problems as AI problems and is a handbook for solving problems using modern techniques in an era of large foundation models. The book begins with an introduction to general-purpose robotics, how robots are modeled, and how physical intelligence relates to the movement of building artificial general intelligence, while giving you an overview of the current state of the field, its challenges, and where we are headed. The first half of this book delves into defining what the problems in robotics are, how to frame them as AI problems, and the details of how to solve them using modern AI techniques. First, we look at robot perception and sensing to understand how robots perceive their environment, and discuss convolutional networks and vision transformers to solve robotics problems such as segmentation, classification, and detection in two and three dimensions. The book then details how to apply large language and multimodal models for robotics, and how to adapt them to solve reasoning and robot control. Simulation, localization, and mapping and navigation are framed as deep learning problems and discussed with recent research. Lastly, the first part of this book discusses reinforcement learning and control and how robots learn via trial and error and self play.The second part of this book is concerned with applications of robotics in specialized contexts. You will develop full stack knowledge by applying the techniques discussed in the first part to real -world use cases. Individual chapters discuss the details of building robots for self-driving, industrial manipulation, and humanoid robots. For each application, you will learn how to design these systems, the prevalent algorithms in research and industry, and how to assess trade-offs for performance and reliability. The book concludes with thoughts on operations, infrastructure, and safety for data-driven robotics, and outlooks for the future of robotics and machine learning.In summary, this book offers insights into cutting-edge machine learning techniques applied in robotics, along with the challenges encountered during their implementation and practical strategies for overcoming them.What You Will Learn Explore ML applications in robotics, covering perception, control, localization, planning, and end-to-end learning Delve into system design, and algorithmic and hardware considerations for building efficient ML-integrated robotics systems Discover robotics applications in self-driving, manufacturing, and humanoids and their practical implementations Understand how machine learning and robotics benefit current research and organizations

Improving operating leverage is about operational resilience, structural operational efficiency, and sustainable revenue growth. Activity-based enterprise non-interest cost management is an important component of enterprise risk adjusted return management methodology. This book builds on the author Kannan Subramanian's earlier book, Event- and Data-Centric Enterprise Risk-Adjusted Return Management, delving in depth into enterprise non-interest operating cost management and operating leverage.Operating Leverage is about managing a bank's capabilities and its capacity to deliver its products and services efficiently. It is not limited to managing operational costs but includes the operational support for the growth of business and for improving profitability. Profit is an absolute measure that denotes the amount of money the bank makes after deducting all expenses. Profitability measures how efficient the bank is at utilizing its resources to generate risk-adjusted returns. The reader can learn to improve risk adjusted operational effectiveness by implementing a nuanced approach to managing performance, risk, control, and cost simultaneously, at the process level.You'll examine how some institutions have implemented activity-based costing in a siloed environment and without enterprise process automation.  Many institutions do not have a scientific way of managing non-interest costs. The book explains why hyperautomation, a technology that intelligently automates business processes, is a more advanced and comprehensive way to manage these factors in a holistic and integrated way. Improving Operating Leverage using Hyperautomation is your complete guide to enhancing risk adjusted operational performance through a nuanced approach to performance, risk, control, and costs at the process level.

Most personas and journey maps crash land shortly after takeoff. This step-by-step playbook provides a revolutionary approach to creating these pivotal artifacts in product design through the concept of altitudes. They will guide you in conceptualizing your users through research techniques that directly inform persona characteristics.Discover how to create personas that are free from irrelevant attributes and learn to develop high-altitude personas with sufficient lift to guide product roadmaps and organizational strategy. You'll also master constructing flight paths for journey maps that capture the user's journey at the perfect level of detail, uncovering key moments in their experience. Then, as personas and journeys evolve, you will learn to measure the impact of product experience improvements.With this book as your co-pilot, you'll navigate the creation process with the help of templates and real-world examples reflecting the latest methods for personas and journey maps. The Persona and Journey Map Playbook will provide you with the tools and strategies to create impactful personas and journey maps that will drive user-centered design and product success.

Future-proof your programming career through practical projects designed to grasp the intricacies of LangChain's components, from core chains to advanced conversational agents.  This hands-on book provides Python developers with the necessary skills to develop real-world Large Language Model (LLM)-based Generative AI applications quickly, regardless of their experience level.Projects throughout the book offer practical LLM solutions for common business issues, such as information overload, internal knowledge access, and enhanced customer communication. Meanwhile, you'll learn how to optimize workflows, enhance embedding efficiency, select between vector stores, and other optimizations relevant to experienced AI users. The emphasis on real-world applications and practical examples will enable you to customize your own projects to address pain points across various industries.Developing LangChain-based Generative AI LLM Apps with Python employs a focused toolkit (LangChain, Pinecone, and Streamlit LLM integration) to practically showcase how Python developers can leverage existing skills to build Generative AI solutions. By addressing tangible challenges, you'll learn-by-be doing, enhancing your career possibilities in today's rapidly evolving landscape.You will: Understand different types of LLMs and how to select the right ones for responsible AI. Structure effective prompts. Master LangChain concepts, such as chains, models, memory, and agents. Apply embeddings effectively for search, content comparison, and understanding similarity. Setup and integrate Pinecone vector database for indexing, structuring data, and search. Build Q & A applications for multiple doc formats. Develop multi-step AI workflow apps using LangChain agents.

Make a stand-alone weather data recorder to collect air pressure, air temperature, and humidity data using only an Arduino, SD-card, LCD display, and solar power. Start with that base data. Then easily extend your project to include more such as an XBee radio and sensors for air quality and radiation. Chunyin has years of experience as a researcher in meteorology and oceanography. The projects in this book are based on actual deployable weather data recorders used for collegiate and professional applications. These weather recorders were deployed over coastal water and lands including the Arctic. And you can deploy your own finished model in your backyard, school yard, roof top, or even in the field to collect data at programmed intervals.Don¿t worry about powering all that tech. Yoüll learn about solar controller, solar panels, and step-down DC transformers. Yoüll also make a 30-60 W solor powered battery charger for a 12-VDC battery. Find out whathappens when you combine a simple Arduino with sensors one at a time toward a final model capable of multiple measurements and a longlife of use without recharging or requiring external power. Then add a GPS module so that you constantly have accurate time and position information to pair with your data.Everything you need to know to integrate component and house them in an enclosure is covered. Photos of actual working units are provided, showing you exactly what your data collection station can look like. Yoüll even go a step beyond to understanding meteorology information and how to use the collected data, as well as some data analysis. Build a station capable of real meteorological research and then go beyond to add more sensors and capabilities for your own projects and experiments!What You'll LearnMeasure air pressure, temperature, humidity and more!Add an XBee radio and LCD display to a data recording project for interactivity and communicationWork with basic meteorological principles to understand how your data can be usedWho This Book Is ForMeteorological hobbyists, Makers, and students interested in learning how to collect and analyze data with low-cost hardware.

For many entrepreneurs, raising finance is the most important moment in their startup journey. For introverts, this can also be the time when they are at their weakest as well as a time when they absolutely, positively, cannot fail. This book will lead the reader to design that pitching process in the most positive and useful way for their abilities and their strengths.Having the confidence of knowing a presenter's message is clearly constructed and the interaction is engineered for maximum impact will make the presenter more relaxed and therefore, more confident. Featuring a series of case studies and a concise writing approach, this book will guide you through a proven method tested with investors in Europe, the USA and Asia.Author Richard Tierney shares his three decades of global experience as a business coach and media producer across many sectors. When done, The Three Slide Pitch Deck will lead you to greater conversion, greater investment, and more successful business ventures.You will Understand that preparation is the key to success. Focus the pitch process to your strengths. Review case studies that show you how to pitch in differing circumstance. See how you and your company can stand out from the crowd.Who This Book is ForIntroverted entrepreneurs, company founders and start-ups seeking finance.

This book explores the integration of Generative AI within the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sector, elucidating its implications, applications, and the future landscape of BFSI.The first part delves into the origins and evolution of Generative AI, providing insights into its mechanics and applications within the BFSI context. It goes into the core technologies behind Generative AI, emphasizing their significance and practical applications. The second part explores how Generative AI intersects with core banking processes, ranging from transactional activities to customer support, credit assessment, and regulatory compliance. It focuses on the digital transformation driving investment banking into the future. It also discusses AI¿s role in algorithmic trading, client interactions, and regulatory adaptations. It analyzes AI-driven techniques in portfolio management, customer-centric solutions, and the next-generation approach to financial planning and advisory matters. The third part equips you with a structured roadmap for AI adoption in BFSI, highlighting the steps and the challenges. It outlines clear steps to assist BFSI institutions in incorporating Generative AI into their operations. It also raises awareness about the moral implications associated with AI in the BFSI sector.By the end of this book you will understand Generative AI¿s present and future role in the BFSI sector.What You Will Learn Know what Generative AI is and its applications in the BFSI sector Understand deep learning and its significance in generative models Analyze the AI-driven techniques in portfolio management and customer-centric solutions Know the future of investment banking and trading with AI Know the challenges of integrating AI into the BFSI sectorWho This Book Is ForProfessionals in the BFSI and IT sectors, including system administrators and programmers

This book is a comprehensive guide that aims to revolutionize how developers approach app creation using Microsoft PowerApps, with a special emphasis on harnessing Copilot, an AI-powered coding assistant. The book is an essential resource for both novice and experienced developers, offering an in-depth exploration of integrating artificial intelligence in app development.The integration of AI in app development, particularly through tools such as Copilot, is more relevant now than ever before due to the rapid evolution of technology and the increasing demand for efficient, innovative, and user-friendly applications. Copilot for PowerApps represents a significant advance in this direction, offering developers a unique combination of AI-powered efficiency and the versatility of PowerApps.What You Will Learn Understand complex AI concepts and AI-assisted development Know how to use Copilot effectively and create sophisticated and reliable apps faster Stay abreast of the latest tools and techniques so you remain competitive and relevant in the ever-changing landscape of app development Benefit from case studies and real-world examples that demonstrate the practical application and benefits of using Copilot in PowerAppsWho This Book Is ForAnyone interested in the intersection of AI and app development. It will not only educate but also inspire and prepare readers for the future of this dynamic field.