Tabla de Contenidos: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Of Daddies, Downturns, and World of Work Dogma; Somewhere to Turn; PART 1 What You Know Reconciliation; CHAPTER 1 Career Management Means You 'Cause No One's Going to Do It for You; The Breakfast Club Career Panel; Why I Learned WordPress; Did You Break Stuff at Business Band Camp?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Copyright; Contents; Foreword (Maybe Backward); Foreword Part II; Preface - Directile Disfunction; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1Joining the Army of One; Why You Should (A) Not Drown Kittens and (B) Buy This Book; Me Actually Following My Own Advice; Now It's Your Turn to Follow My Advice; Sidebar: Penelope Spheeris Rocks Out on Rockin' the Boat; Sidebar: Bill Lustig on Porn Versus Film School; Summoning Your Inner Dominatrix; Something Great the French Gave Us, Besides a Fantastic Way to Make Out and a Tasty Way to Prepare Potatoes; All Pricks, Big and Small…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Introduction Game On -- Unrig Your Mind -- Built with Sweat, Backed by Science -- Lessons from the Elephant Boy -- Beat C-3PO -- Part One Get in the Game -- Chapter 1 Get Primed for Entry-Level Cattle Calls Clean Your House -- Scrub Those Leprotic Calluses -- The TMZ Test -- Chapter 2 Don't Fight the Tape Diligence Your Way to an Interview -- Diligence to Death -- Be a Troll -- Chapter 3 Be the Holy Trinity of Deals Your All-Important First Email -- Make Me Give a Damn -- Watch the Trapdoors -- The Rule of Three -- Go Out with a Bang -- Chapter 4 Failure as Fertilizer The Power of Persistence -- Be Unus -- Chapter 5 Strut Like a Peacock Your First Impression Might Be Your Last -- Find the Greater Fool -- Wear Some Damn Socks -- Master Half-Truths -- Customize -- Don't Compromise -- Know Oliver Stone from Oliver Twist -- Chapter 6 Ace the Personal Bake-Off Interviewing as Performance Art -- Show Time! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Setting up the page -- Adding parts to the drawing -- Preparing the drawing for print -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Building a Robot around Pico -- Technical requirements -- Cutting styrene parts -- Transferring CAD measurements to a plastic sheet -- Cutting the plastic sheet -- Finishing and sanding the chassis plate -- Assembling a robot chassis -- Attaching the caster and battery box -- Attaching the motors and wheels -- Wiring a Raspberry Pi Pico robot -- Wiring Pico and the motor controller into the breadboard -- Adding the batteries -- Wiring in the motors and encoders -- Powering the robot up -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Driving Motors with Raspberry Pi Pico -- Technical requirements -- Driving forward and back -- Testing each motor with CircuitPython -- Driving wheels in a straight line -- Steering with two motors -- An introduction to pulse width modulation speed control -- Driving fast and slow -- Turning while moving -- Driving along a planned path -- Putting line and turn moves together -- The flaw with driving this way -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- Part 2: Interfacing Raspberry Pi Pico with Simple Sensors and Outputs -- Chapter 6: Measuring Movement with Encoders on Raspberry Pi Pico -- Technical requirements -- About encoders and odometry -- Absolute and relative sensing -- Types of encoders -- Encoder pulse data -- Wiring in encoders on a Raspberry Pi Pico robot -- Examining the motors -- Examining the wiring -- Programming Raspberry Pi Pico PIO -- Introduction to PIO programming -- Introducing PIOASM -- Detecting input with PIO -- PIO instructions and registers -- Making a counter with PIO -- Measuring encoder count for movement -- Making a simple PIO change detection loop -- Making a bidirectional counter with PIO -- Making reusable encoder code…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How would you describe your experience? -- Could you identify any significant turning points in your career? …”

“…Here are just a few of the sessions you’ll receive in this video package: Data Science: The Two Most Important Algorithms in Predictive Modeling Today—Jeremy Howard (Kaggle), Mike Bowles (Sole Proprietor) Architecting Virtualized Infrastructure for Big Data—Richard McDougall (VMware) Business & Industry: Data Jujitsu: The Art of Turning Data into Product—DJ Patil (Greylock Partners) Improving Productivity Using Real-Time Data—Jacomo Corbo (QuantumBlack) Visualization & Interface: Science of Visualization—Jock Mackinlay (Tableau Software) Roll Your Own Front End: A Survey of Creative Coding Frameworks—Michael Edgcumbe (Columbia University), Eric Mika (The Department of Objects) Hadoop & Big Data: I Didn't Know You Could Do All that with Hadoop—Jack Norris (MapR) Storm: distributed and fault-tolerant realtime computation—Nathan Marz (Twitter) Domain Data: Understanding Social Contagion—Marcel Salathé (Penn State University) Changing Data Standards from Wall Street to DC and Beyond—John Mulholland (Fannie Mae)…”

“…The texts which comprise it — forms of essay, talk, dialogue — at one time saw themselves as individualists who went somewhere (to small press magazines) on their own. …”