Six questions for Dustin Coates, author of Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant
Interview conducted by Frances Lefkowitz, Development Editor, Manning Publications
Dustin A. Coates is a web developer who has been programming for and writing about voice-first devices since the Alexa Skills Kit was first released. He shares his knowledge online at talkingtocomputers.com. He’s a Google Developers Expert for Assistant, and is Voice Search Go-To-Market Lead at Algolia.
From Modern Fortran by Milan Curcic
From C++ Concurrency in Action, Second Edition by Anthony Williams
This article talks about how you can improve the responsiveness by separating concerns with concurrency.
From Modern Fortran by Milan Curcic
Stock price analysis and prediction has been an increasingly popular topic since the early days of high-level programming, and Fortran has been used in the bowels of many financial trading and banking systems, mainly thanks to its robustness, reliability, and efficiency. In this article, we’ll work with a dataset that is freely available, small enough to be easily downloaded, and yet large enough to demonstrate the power of Fortran arrays.
From Rust in Motion by Carol Nichols and Jake Goulding
Naomi Ceder, author of The Quick Python Book, Third Edition
By Frances Lefkowitz, Development Editor, Manning Publications
Naomi Ceder earned a Ph.D in Classics, but, since 2001, has been learning, teaching, and using Python. An elected fellow of the Python Software Foundation, Naomi currently serves as chair of its board of directors. She also speaks internationally about the Python community, and on inclusion and diversity in technology in general. By day she leads a team of Python programmers for Dick Blick Art Materials, and in her spare time she enjoys sketching, knitting, and deep philosophical conversations with her dog.
From Learning Clientside GraphQL with Apollo
By Azat Mardan
From Get Programming with Python in Motion
By Ana Bell
From Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant by Dustin Coates
This excerpt from Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant discusses the fundamentals of voice UI design.
Chapters selected by Craig Grummitt