Discover how to decipher the most important job interview questions so you can tell your interviewer what they really want to know.

Have you ever left a job interview thinking you really nailed it, only to hear nothing back except a short, polite rejection? Didn’t you say all the right things? Here’s the truth: probably not! Interview Speak shows you how to ace job interviews by answering the questions behind the questions.

In Interview Speak you’ll learn how to:

• Break down questions from the interviewer’s point of view
• Anticipate potential questions from a job description
• Develop authentic answers that make you stand out
• Navigate different interview stages
• Recognize and respond to different types of interview questions

Maximize your portfolio, analyze markets, and make data-driven investment decisions using Python and generative AI.

Programmers have a unique superpower when it comes to managing financial stock analysis, price forecasting, and strategic investing. Using popular open-source Python libraries and cutting-edge AI tools, you can do the kind of sophisticated analysis that’s normally limited to expensive software and financial professionals. This book shows you how!

In Investing for Programmers you’ll learn how to:

• Build stock analysis tools and predictive models
• Identify market-beating investment opportunities
• Design and evaluate algorithmic trading strategies
• Use AI to automate investment research
• Analyze market sentiments with media data mining

Essential advice for anyone aspiring to start up a technology company, based on decades of business experience.

In Tech Startup Toolkit, you’ll discover the good, the bad, and the ugly of succeeding with a tech startup. Author Jothy Rosenberg reveals the insights he’s learned from an entrepreneurial career that’s seen both $100 million sales, dramatic failures, and everything in between.

Tech Startup Toolkit gives you concrete, actionable advice on how to:

• Succeed as a first-time CEO
• Pitch and raise money from various types of investors
• Develop a go-to-market strategy
• Create a strong positive culture
• Understand what makes a VC tick
• Write an elevator pitch
• Understand investment deal terms
• Hone and align teams
• Effectively downsize or wind down a company
• Position a company to be acquired

Learn about computer science by exploring the fascinating journey it took to make this book!

How Computers Make Books introduces what’s wonderful about computer science by showing how computers have transformed the art of publishing books.

Author and publishing software developer John Whitington reveals the elegant computer science solutions invented to solve big publishing challenges.

In How Computers Make Books you’ll discover:

• How human descriptions are translated into computer programs
• How a computer can understand document formatting
• How a program decides where to print ink on a page
• Why computer science is so interesting to computer scientists, and why it might interest you
• …and much more!

Cryptography is the keystone of internet security.

Exploring Modern Cryptography offers a close look at some of the most common techniques for keeping your applications and online activity safe and secure. And it's yours for free!

The Women-in-Tech Anthology contains four candid and insightful essays from women working across the tech industry.

Filled with spirited anecdotes, hard-won lessons, and sage advice, each essay is a must-read for anyone looking to survive, thrive, and support their colleagues in tech. Alongside these unique essays, the anthology contains Manning book chapters written by accomplished women working at the top of their fields.

To score a job in data science, machine learning, computer graphics, and cryptography, you need to bring strong math skills to the party.

Math for Programmers teaches the math you need for these hot careers, concentrating on what you need to know as a developer. Filled with lots of helpful graphics and more than 200 exercises and mini-projects, this book unlocks the door to interesting–and lucrative!–careers in some of today’s hottest programming fields.

Penetration testing is about more than just getting through a perimeter firewall.

The biggest security threats are inside the network, where attackers can rampage through sensitive data by exploiting weak access controls and poorly patched software. Designed for up-and-coming security professionals, The Art of Network Penetration Testing teaches you how to take over an enterprise network from the inside. It lays out every stage of an internal security assessment step-by-step, showing you how to identify weaknesses before a malicious invader can do real damage.

In a globally-connected world, business records need to be secure, trusted, and transparent.

Permissioned blockchains make this possible through advanced cryptography and digital identity management, allowing all partners to independently verify key data-like transactions, inventory, and sources of material. Written by experienced blockchain architects Mansoor Ahmed-Rengers and Marta Piekarska-Geater, Permissioned Blockchains in Action is filled with insight, tips and tricks for building and deploying permissioned blockchain systems. You’ll learn vital developer skills for securing your blockchains against threats, writing smart contracts on permissioned blockchains, and picking the blockchain stack that’s best for your project.

In most applications data is collected, stored, and controlled by some central authority such as a bank, retailer, or governmental institution.

Decentralized applications, or Dapps, shift control to their users, operating without any single agency managing the process. Instead Dapps store their data in a secure, unchangeable form called a blockchain, maintained concurrently on thousands of servers owned by different parties. Users do not need to trust any institution to be confident their data will be processed and stored correctly; the Dapp technology itself guarantees it. The open-source Ethereum blockchain platform provides tools for developers to start building and deploying their own Dapps, including an innovative smart contracts transaction model and Solidity, a JavaScript-like programming language.

Exploring Ethereum Dapps is a free primer created with hand-picked chapters from Building Ethereum Dapps by Roberto Infante. It explains how decentralized applications work and gets you ready to start building them. You'll quickly learn with what Dapps look like, how they function, and what kind of application is best suited to being decentralized. Once you've grasped the basics you'll dive into the Ethereum blockchain, including the Ethereum smart contracts that form the basis of all Ethereum Dapps. When you’re done, you'll have the grounding you'll need to start building your first Dapps.

If you think Bitcoin is just an alternative currency for geeks, it's time to think again.

Grokking Bitcoin opens up this powerful distributed ledger system, exploring the technology that enables applications both for Bitcoin-based financial transactions and using the blockchain for registering physical property ownership. With this fully illustrated, easy-to-read guide, you'll finally understand how Bitcoin works, how you can use it, and why you can trust the blockchain.

Bitcoin is hailed by its supporters as a secure independent money system, offering the potential to end centralized banking along with economic issues like inflation and financial exclusion.

The key to bitcoin's security and the reason its supporters trust it so much is its reliance on an incorruptible digital ledger, known as the blockchain.

In Exploring Bitcoin, author and Bitcoin expert Kalle Rosenbaum presents two chapters from his own book, Grokking Bitcoin. In the first fully-illustrated chapter, you'll start with a simple traditional money system and improve on it using Bitcoin technology. You'll learn about cryptographic hash functions and digital signatures. Digital signatures are then used to guard against imposters by authenticating payments.

In the second chapter, you'll take a close look at Bitcoin's blockchain which enables anyone to fully verify the complete transaction history. The blockchain also enables lightweight Bitcoin wallets to save bandwidth and storage space. Exercises in each chapter reinforce all that you've learned along the way. By the end of this free ebook, you'll understand how some parts of the Bitcoin system works.

Building Ethereum Dapps introduces you to decentralized applications based on the Ethereum blockchain platform. In this book, you'll learn the principles of Dapps development by rolling up your sleeves and actually building a few!

Hello, Scratch! is a how-to book that helps parents and kids work together to learn programming skills by creating new versions of old retro-style arcade games with Scratch.

This easy-to-follow book includes terrific tutorials and plenty of exercises and examples that let you learn by doing.

It starts by giving you a hands-on orientation to the TI-84 Plus calculator. Then, you'll start exploring key features while you tackle problems just like the ones you'll see in your math and science classes.