Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers

 This book is designed as an introduction to Bayesian inference from a computational understanding-first, and mathematics-second, point of view. The book assumes no prior knowledge of Bayesian inference nor probabilistic programming.

Title Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers
Author(s) Cameron Davidson-Pilon
Publisher: GitHub, Inc. (Draft, 2013 - Date)
Language: English
eBook: https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers

Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python: A Beginner’s Guide to Cryptography with Python

Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python not only teaches you how to write in secret ciphers with paper and pencil. This book teaches you how to write your own cipher programs and also the hacking programs that can break the encrypted messages from these ciphers. Unfortunately, the programs in this book won’t get the reader in trouble with the law (or rather, fortunately) but it is a guide on the basics of both cryptography and the Python programming language.

Instead of presenting a dull laundry list of concepts, this book provides the source code to several fun programming projects for adults and young adults.

Title Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python: A Beginner’s Guide to Cryptography with Python
Author(s) Albert Sweigart
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (April 14, 2013); eBook (2013 - Date)
Hardcover/Paperback 436 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1482614375
ISBN-13: 978-1482614374
eBook: http://inventwithpython.com/HackingSecretCiphersWithPython.pdf

Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

This book is insightful and fascinating, a superbly observed picture of the motives, divisions and history of the free software and software freedom world.

Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source software (F/OSS) movement in the United States and Europe, Coding Freedom details the ethics behind hackers' devotion to F/OSS, the social codes that guide its production, and the political struggles through which hackers question the scope and direction of copyright and patent law.

Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software - and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project - reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source software (F/OSS) movement in the United States and Europe, Coding Freedom details the ethics behind hackers' devotion to F/OSS, the social codes that guide its production, and the political struggles through which hackers question the scope and direction of copyright and patent law. In telling the story of the F/OSS movement, the book unfolds a broader narrative involving computing, the politics of access, and intellectual property.

The author tracks the ways in which hackers collaborate and examines passionate manifestos, hacker humor, free software project governance, and festive hacker conferences. Looking at the ways that hackers sustain their productive freedom, Coleman shows that these activists, driven by a commitment to their work, reformulate key ideals including free speech, transparency, and meritocracy, and refuse restrictive intellectual protections. Coleman demonstrates how hacking, so often marginalized or misunderstood, sheds light on the continuing relevance of liberalism in online collaboration.

Title Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
Author(s) E. Gabriella Coleman
Publisher: Princeton University Press (November 12, 2012)
Paperback 264 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0691144613
ISBN-13: 978-0691144610
eBook: http://codingfreedom.com/buy_download.html