Database Design
Summary This open textbook presents a complete guide to database design principles and practice. It aims to equip students and professionals with skills to develop robust, maintainable database systems using the relational model. The textbook covers fundamental concepts and advances to modeling, normalization, transactions and administration. Practical exercises reinforce learning. Detailed Overview [...]
Introduction to the GNAT Toolchain
Summary This comprehensive tutorial provides beginners with guidance on setting up an Ada development environment using the GNU Ada (GNAT) toolchain. It introduces the basic build tools for compiling and managing Ada projects from the command line. Considerable coverage is given to the integrated development environment GNAT Studio and debugging techniques. The [...]
Open Softwear
Fashionable prototyping and wearable computing using the Arduino
Summary This free, open-source book teaches the fundamentals of integrating microcontrollers, electronics and coding into fashion and textile designs using the popular Arduino platform. It covers all aspects of getting started with wearable technology projects, from choosing hardware components to uploading finished programs. Examples explore utilizing digital and analog pins, programming inputs [...]