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Swift is a new, modern programming language for developing applications for the iOS, OS X, and Apple Watch platforms. As you are probably well aware, these platforms are some of the most popular application development environments. In fact well over one million iOS apps have been developed and distributed to the Apple App Store. General users and IT professionals alike want to be able to quickly grasp the fundamentals of this technology and begin using it to build apps. This book was writ...

Prepare for the future of Microsoft automation with this no-nonsense guideWindows PowerShell 2 is the scripting language that enables automation within the Windows operating system. Packed with powerful new features, this latest version is complex, and Windows PowerShell 2 For Dummies is the perfect guide to help system administrators get up to speed.Written by a Microsoft MVP with direct access to the program managers and developers, this book covers every new fea...

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Designed as a beginner's tutorial to the latest version of C#, this informative guide discusses the most important features of the language and teaches how to use the .NET Framework. Written with clarity and readability in mind, it introduces important programming concepts and explains the process of building real-world applications, both desktop and web-based. With the most comprehensive coverage possible in a book for beginners, it includes such topics as C# language syntax, object-orien...

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Microsoft Azure Essentials from Microsoft Press is a series of free ebooks designed to help you advance your technical skills with Microsoft Azure. The second ebook in the series, Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation, introduces a fairly new feature of Microsoft Azure called Azure Automation. Using a highly scalable workflow execution environment, Azure Automation allows you to orchestra...

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Objective-C is an exciting and dynamic approach to C-based object-oriented programming; it's the approach adopted by Apple as the foundation for programming under Mac OS X, a Unix-based operating system gaining wide acceptance among programmers and other technologists. Objective-C is easy to learn and has a simple elegance that is a welcome breath of fresh air after the abstruse and confusing C++. To help you master the fundamentals of this language, you'll want to keep the Objective-C...

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