What Your First Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated)
What Your First Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated)

Author: E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 0553392395

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Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your First Grader Needs to Know What will your child be expected to learn in the first grade? How can you help him or her at home? How can teachers foster active, successful learning in the classroom? This book answers these all-important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that hundreds of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American first graders. Featuring a new Introduction, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering discussion, this first-grade volume of the acclaimed Core Knowledge Series presents the sort of knowledge and skills that should be at the core of a challenging first-grade education. Inside you’ll discover • Favorite poems—old and new, such as “The Owl and the Pussycat,” “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,” and “Thirty Days Hath September” • Beloved stories—from many times and lands, including a selection of Aesop’s fables, “Hansel and Gretel,” “All Stories Are Anansi’s,” “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” and more • Familiar sayings and phrases—such as “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and “Practice makes perfect” • World and American history and geography—take a trip down the Nile with King Tut and learn about the early days of our country, including the story of Jamestown, the Pilgrims, and the American Revolution • Visual arts—fun activities plus reproductions of masterworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Georgia O’Keeffe, and others • Music—engaging introductions to great composers and music, including classical music, opera, and jazz, as well as a selection of favorite children’s songs • Math—a variety of activities to help your child learn to count, add and subtract, solve problems, recognize geometrical shapes and patterns, and learn about telling time • Science—interesting discussions of living things and their habitats, the human body, the states of matter, electricity, our solar system, and what’s inside the earth, plus stories of famous scientists such as Thomas Edison and Louis Pasteur

Iterative Dynamic Programming
Iterative Dynamic Programming

Author: Rein Luus

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9781420036022

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Dynamic programming is a powerful method for solving optimization problems, but has a number of drawbacks that limit its use to solving problems of very low dimension. To overcome these limitations, author Rein Luus suggested using it in an iterative fashion. Although this method required vast computer resources, modifications to his original schem

Making Things See
Making Things See

Author: Greg Borenstein

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2012-01-27

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1449307078

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A guide to creating computer applications using Microsoft Kinect features instructions on using the device with different operating systems, using 3D scanning technology, and building robot arms, all using open source programming language.

Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch
Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Author: Zaid Sabih

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-07-31

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 1788624785

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Learn how to hack systems like black hat hackers and secure them like security experts Key Features Understand how computer systems work and their vulnerabilities Exploit weaknesses and hack into machines to test their security Learn how to secure systems from hackers Book Description This book starts with the basics of ethical hacking, how to practice hacking safely and legally, and how to install and interact with Kali Linux and the Linux terminal. You will explore network hacking, where you will see how to test the security of wired and wireless networks. You’ll also learn how to crack the password for any Wi-Fi network (whether it uses WEP, WPA, or WPA2) and spy on the connected devices. Moving on, you will discover how to gain access to remote computer systems using client-side and server-side attacks. You will also get the hang of post-exploitation techniques, including remotely controlling and interacting with the systems that you compromised. Towards the end of the book, you will be able to pick up web application hacking techniques. You'll see how to discover, exploit, and prevent a number of website vulnerabilities, such as XSS and SQL injections. The attacks covered are practical techniques that work against real systems and are purely for educational purposes. At the end of each section, you will learn how to detect, prevent, and secure systems from these attacks. What you will learn Understand ethical hacking and the different fields and types of hackers Set up a penetration testing lab to practice safe and legal hacking Explore Linux basics, commands, and how to interact with the terminal Access password-protected networks and spy on connected clients Use server and client-side attacks to hack and control remote computers Control a hacked system remotely and use it to hack other systems Discover, exploit, and prevent a number of web application vulnerabilities such as XSS and SQL injections Who this book is for Learning Ethical Hacking from Scratch is for anyone interested in learning how to hack and test the security of systems like professional hackers and security experts.

Brain Quest Grade 1, revised 4th edition
Brain Quest Grade 1, revised 4th edition

Author: Chris Welles Feder

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2012-05-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0761166513

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Brain Quest is beloved by kids, trusted by parents, used and recommended by teachers. It’s the curriculum-based, fast-paced, question-and-answer game that challenges kids on the stuff they need to know, when they need to know it. It’s the brand that says “It’s fun to be smart!” And it delivers. For the fourth edition every deck is thoroughly revised and includes 20 percent new material. The content aligns with national and state standards and is overseen by the Brain Quest Advisory Board, a panel of award-winning educators, each a recent state teacher-of-the-year award winner or a recipient of the prestigious Milken Educator Award. The covers and cards have a refreshed design, giving Brain Quest a cooler, updated look.

LET US C SOLUTIONS -15TH EDITION
LET US C SOLUTIONS -15TH EDITION

Author: Yashavant kanetkar

Publisher: BPB Publications

Published: 2018-06-01

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 8183331777

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Description: Best way to learn any programming language is to create good programs in it. C is not exception to this rule. Once you decide to write any program you would find that there are always at least two ways to write it. So you need to find out whether you have chosen the best way to implement your program. That's where you would find this book useful. It contains solutions to all the exercises present in Let Us C 15th Edition. If you learn the language elements from Let Us C, write programs for the problems given in the exercises and then cross check your answers with the solutions given in this book you would be well on your way to become a skilled C programmer. I am sure you would appreciate this learning path like the millions of students and professionals have in the past decade.Table Of Contents:IntroductionChapter 0 : Before We beginChapter 1 : Getting StartedChapter 2 : C InstructionsChapter 3 : Decision Control InstructionChapter 4 : More Complex Decision MakingChapter 5 : Loop control InstructionChapter 6 : More Complex RepetitionsChapter 7 : Case Control InstructionChapter 8 : FunctionsChapter 9 : PointersChapter 10 : RecursionChapter 11 : Data Types RevisitedChapter 12 : The C PreprocessorChapter 13 : ArraysChapter 14 : Multidimensional ArraysChapter 15 : StringsChapter 16 : Handling Multiple StringsChapter 17 : StructuresChapter 18 : Console Input/ OutputChapter 19 : File Input/outputChapter 20 : More Issues in Input/OutputChapter 21 : Operations on BitsChapter 22 : Miscellaneous featuresChapter 23 : C Under Linux