Enhance the performance of your applications by using React and adding the Progressive web app capability to itKey Features\[\*\] Bring the best of mobile sites and native apps to your users with progressive web applications\[\*\] Create fast, reliable, and engaging PWAs with React and Firebase\[\*\] Create high-performance applications even with low connection speeds by leveraging modern web technologiesBook DescriptionFor y...

How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life is based on a simple idea: your best essay means not only the highest grade, but also the easiest, least stressful writing process possible. You can have it all: the best results with less stress and less time.How? By putting an emphasis on thought over style. With this guide for university and college students, you'll learn how to beat procrastination and craft a thorough and engaging paper in as little time as possible. That's the dream- an...

Written by programming legend Charles Petzold and created jointly by Microsoft Press and Xamarin Inc., this Preview Edition ebook is about writing applications for Xamarin.Forms, the new mobile development platform for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone unveiled by Xamarin in May 2014. Xamarin.Forms lets you write shared user-interface code in C# and XAML (the eXtensible Application Markup Language) that maps to native controls on these three platforms. (The final edition of this ebook will b...

This second Preview Edition ebook, now with 16 chapters, is about writing applications for Xamarin.Forms, the new mobile development platform for iOS, Android, and Windows phones unveiled by Xamarin in May 2014. Xamarin.Forms lets you write shared user-interface code in C# and XAML that maps to native controls on these three platforms.

Bootstrap is one of the most complete frameworks out there. It uses the latest web technologies to provide powerful built-in features like fluid grid layout, responsive design, typography, custom forms elements and javascript iteration all within a tiny footprint.Bootstrap comes equipped with cross browser compatibility, hence it will significantly cut down testing and debugging time.Table of Contents- What is a Front-end framework?- Types of Front-end framew...

In the wee hours of the night, when inspiration strikes unexpectedly, don't let it slip away.If you write, you know what it's like. Insight and creativity—the desire to push the boundaries of your writing—strike when you least expect it. And you're often in no position to act: in the shower, driving the kids to school...in the middle of the night.The 3 A.M. Epiphany offers more than 200 intriguing writing exercises designed to help you think, write...

Do you want to build web pages, but have no previous experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You’ll begin at square one, learning how the Web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to create a simple site with multi-column pages that adapt for mobile devices.Learn how to use the latest techniques, best practices, and current web standards—including HTML5 and CSS3. Each chapter provides exercises ...

Some of the Hiragana Study Book's key features include detailed and easy to follow instructions on reading and writing hiragana (such as proper stroke order and pronunciation), a comprehensive set of character charts, and useful example vocabulary words that incorporate the target characters. This book by IE Institute gives you everything you need to master hiragana in one convenient package!

This "Academic Essay Writing Guide" is designed specifically for today's university and college students.  In a clear and simple manner, each chapter outlines the main organizational and structural components that your instructor, professor, tutor, or grader, is looking for in grading an academic essay.  With clear sentence-by-sentence templates, each chapter provides a practical approach to academic essay writing for students in the Humanities and Social Sciences.&nbsp...

'Excellent … This slim volume cannot fail as a pick-me-up' Observer_______________________Comprising fifty-two short pieces, Letters to a Young Writer is a direct address to the artistic, professional, and philosophical concerns that can challenge and torment an author.Ranging from practical matters of authorship – such as finding an agent, the pros and cons of creative writing degrees and handling bad rev...

Essential Skills--Made Easy!Create advanced websites, web apps, and standalone apps for Apple iOS and Google Android devices. HTML5 for iOS and Android: A Beginner's Guide explains, step by step, how to use HTML5 and CSS3 as well as supporting technologies, such as JavaScript, MySQL, and PHP. Download wrapper code from the book's companion website to enable your programs to run like native iOS or Android apps. You'll also get tips for distributing your creations in vario...

HTML5 continues to evolve, browsers are implementating at break-neck speed and HTML5 web sites spring up like flowers after rain. More than ever, you need to get acquainted with the powerful new possibilities in web and application design. That’s why we’ve crafted a second edition of this book to help you stay on top of current developments.This book shows you how to start adapting the language now to realize its benefits on today’s browsers. It concentrates on the practic...