The book was originally written as a blog, to entertain my children at night, and was originally intended as a an unending adventure.
The story revolves around the adventures of an unlikely and unwilling hero, Percival the Pig, who wins the hand of his great love, Bessie, only to lose her on their honeymoon, As the story unfolds, Percival sets of in search of her, with his one time rivals, Basil and Thyme,
As they journey in search of her, they make some unlikely friends, who are captured by an evil, magical, race called The Mrodics. During the course of their adventures, Percival finds...

Unlike many C programming books written by C programmers, this brief, self-teaching introduction was written by an instructor familiar with the needs of students. The book defines key programming terms as it teaches the basics of C programming. It contains numerous real world programming examples showing first the algorithm, immediately followed by the program for the algorithm, and then, its output. End of chapter exercises with -hints- help to review and master the material under discussion. An appendix with fifteen -C Lab projects- with their solutions is also included.

Unlike many C programming books written by C programmers, this brief, self-teaching introduction was written by an instructor familiar with the needs ...

This overview of cloud computing in a -self-teaching- format, contains state-of-the art chapters with tips and insights about cloud computing, its architecture, applications, information on security and privacy, and numerous case studies. It includes questions for discussion and -Cloud Computing Lab Experiments- to help in mastering its complex services and technologies. Recent research shows that cloud computing will be worth billions of dollars in new investments. Organizations are flocking to the cloud services to benefit from the elasticity, self-services, resource abundance, ubiquity,...