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The Alpha Book Program

Want to get an early look at our titles? Try an Alpha Book! An Alpha Book is a pre-release, still-in-development version of an Apress title. When you purchase an Alpha Book, you get the opportunity to review its content as it advances through the production process. Alpha Book files are updated on a regular basis in your account as new material is completed, all the way through final publication. Following is our current roster of Alpha Books:

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  • Beginning Modern Cocoa

    Beginning Modern Cocoa

    Alex Cone

    Beginning Modern Cocoa is a modern or apps era Cocoa programming tutorial that introduces you to the world of Mac OS X app programming as Apple redefines the platform to its core.  Action packed with examples, this definitive tutorial is written by one of the founders of the Cocoa framework and - by extension - Cocoa touch.
  • Big Data Imperatives

    Big Data Imperatives

    Soumendra Mohanty, Madhu Jagadeesh, Harsha Srivatsa

    Big Data Imperatives, focuses on resolving the key questions on every one’s mind: 'Which data matters? Do you have enough data volume to justify the usage? How do you want to process this amount of data? How long do you really need to keep it active for your analysis, marketing, and BI applications?
  • Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4

    Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4

    Sue Blackman

    Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4 introduces key game production concepts in an artist-friendly manner, removes the hurdles to understanding scripting. It enables independent game artists to learn how to produce casual games for mobile, desktop, and console platforms.
  • Visual Studio Lightswitch 2012

    Visual Studio Lightswitch 2012

    Tim Leung

    Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012 shows users how to get the most from this innovative product by going beyond the "one-click-and-you're-done" mind set. Author Tim Leung discusses how this breakthrough product is maturing and provides invaluable tips and advice for regular and power users alike.
  • Pro Windows Phone App Development

    Pro Windows Phone App Development

    Pro Windows Phone App Development, Third Edition helps you unlock the potential of Microsoft's newest mobile platform including updates to develop visually rich, highly functional applications for the Windows Phone Marketplace.
  • Beginning ASP.NET MVC 4

    Beginning ASP.NET MVC 4

    Jose Guay Paz

    There’s never been a better time to learn how to use ASP.NETMVC 4. The technology will speed your development times, reduce theverbosity of your code and simplify your application designs all at once. Takethe first step towards ASP.NET MVC mastery with Beginning ASP.NET MVC 4.
  • Pro Hibernate and MongoDB

    Pro Hibernate and MongoDB

    Anghel Leonard

    Pro Hibernate and MongoDB shows you how to use and integrate Hibernate and MongoDB together as a complete out of the box persistence and database application solution.  More specifically, this book guides you through bootstrap, queries and mappings for an enterprise application and then migrating to the Cloud.
  • Beginning Arduino

    Beginning Arduino

    Michael McRoberts

    In Beginning Arduino, Second Edition, you will learn all about the popular Arduino microcontroller by working your way through an amazing set of 50 cool projects.
  • Plan Your Financial Future

    Plan Your Financial Future

    Keith R. Fevurly

    In Plan Your Financial Future, financial planner and educator Keith Fevurly describes a novel way of analyzing and putting into place the personal financial planning process by teaching readers how to protect themselves, their family and their property; accumulate wealth; defend their accumulated wealth; and distribute their accumulated wealth.
  • Moving from C to C++

    Moving from C to C++

    Arunesh Goyal

    The author says it best, "I hope to move you, a little at a time, from understanding C to the point where C++ becomes your mindset". This remarkable book is designed to streamline the process of learning C++ in a way that discusses programming problems, why they exist, and the approach C++ has taken to solve such problems.

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