When carefully selected and used, Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) may simplify complex code, promote effective communication with customers, improve productivity, and unclog development bottlenecks. In Domain-Specific Languages , noted software development expert Martin Fowler first provides the information software professionals need to decide if and when to utilize DSLs. Then, where DSLs prove suitable, Fowler presents effective techniques for building them, and guides software engineers in choosing the right approaches for their applications. 
This book’s techniques may be utilized with most modern object-oriented languages; the author provides numerous examples in Java and C#, as well as selected examples in Ruby. Wherever possible, chapters are organized to be self-standing, and most reference topics are presented in a familiar patterns format. Armed with this wide-ranging book, developers will have the knowledge they need to make important decisions about DSLs—and, where appropriate, gain the significant technical and business benefits they offer. The topics covered include: • How DSLs compare to frameworks and libraries, and when those alternatives are sufficient • Using parsers and parser generators, and parsing external DSLs • Understanding, comparing, and choosing DSL language constructs • Determining whether to use code generation, and comparing code generation strategies • Previewing new language workbench tools for creating DSLs

The Joy of Thinking: The Beauty and Power of Classical Mathematical Ideas, Parts I and II (The Great Courses on DVD, 1421, 1422)

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Lecture 1: 2 ideas, vast implicationsLecture2: stop sign crime-the first ides of calculusLecture 3: another car, another crimeetc

Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear, Course No. 177, Part 1 & 2 (The Great Courses)

Many of the most significant events in our lives involve random chance, whether being struck by lightning, winning the lottery, or losing on the stock market. Probability is the study that accomplishes a seemingly impossible feat: giving a meaningful, numerical value to the likelihood that an event will occur when we do not and cannot know what will happen. In this course, we learn why coincidences are so common and why we must learn to expect the unexpected. Probability today has applications in many arenas, including mathematics, game theory, science, business, sports, genetic inheritance, and meteorology. Probability offers a rich field of inquiry, with questions and insights that are at once mathematical, practical, and philosophical.

What Are the Chances? Probability Made Clear. Lecture Transcript and Course Guidebook

As a rough estimate, geometry has approximately 1 million everyday, real-life uses, ranging from household projects to understanding flight. This course, taught by an award-winning mathematician, introduces us to the terms, concepts, and applications of classical geometry, a treasure trove of topics that frequently offers those satisfying "aha" moments when we discover how the world fits together. The course explores all of Euclid's elements as well as other university-level topics in geometry, including celebrated graphic challenges. It also tackles non-Euclidian geometry - critical to understanding the scientific underpinnings of our universe. Lectures build upon each other, always emphasizing the fundamental need for critical thinking. They culminate in our ability to form individual strategies for understanding and solving real-life geometric problems.

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The Joy of Thinking: The Beauty and Power of Classical Mathematical Ideas, Parts I and II (The Great Courses on DVD, 1421, 1422)

Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear, Course No. 177, Part 1 & 2 (The Great Courses)

What Are the Chances? Probability Made Clear. Lecture Transcript and Course Guidebook

Mathematics From the Visual World Lecture Transcript and Course Guidebook Part I-II (The Great Courses)

Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear, Course No. 177, Part 1 & 2 (The Great Courses)