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Develop creative writing skills with inspiration from the world of Roald Dahl.Who can be a writer? You can! Start the story machine, choose your heroes and villains, and you’re off – from brilliant beginnings to excellent endings!Supports the Key Stage 2 curriculum for ages 7-11Packed full of fun activities and writing prompts to expand vocabulary and develop creative writing skills.Find out how to set the scene, give your characters a voice, and guide them through the action.By the end of this book you’ll have written your very own splendiferous story!How to Be a Writer gives aspiring writers to room to get creative. Pick up a pen and have a go at new techniques and styles! Filled with tips and examples inspired by the world of Roald Dahl to spark ideas, and with plenty of space on the page to practise the skills needed for story writing.

"Masterful story of Blitz Britain...a beautifully told coming-of-age story." The Telegraph, Children's Book of the Week "An emotion-packed tale of survival, heartbreak and hope." Lancashire Evening PostFrom the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Geraldine McCaughrean comes an utterly immersive and unforgettable novel set during the London Blitz, inspired by her firefighter father. With the Second World War looming, four young people sit on a train waiting to be evacuated to a safer place...but they don't want to go. They climb out of the carriage and head back home to Greenwich, forming an unlikely friendship.They spend their days trying to be useful. Laurence is building a secret machine. Gemmy searches bombed-out homes for things of value - only to find an adorable mutt she can't even give away.Franklin wants to join the Fire Service, although it means lying about his age. Olive looks after her father, who is broken by the deaths of his fellow firefighters. And toget

Turn Excel into an unstoppable data-and number-crunching machine Microsoft Excel is the Swiss Army knife of apps. With over 470 built-in functions and countless custom formulas, the program can help make you the smartest guy or gal in any room. And now that it's been supercharged with Copilot—Microsoft's AI-powered helper—it's even easier to produce accurate and useful results anywhere, anytime.Best of all, it doesn't take an advanced degree in mathematics or data science to take full advantage of Excel's functionality. Just grab a copy of this latest edition of Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies and get a flying start on the Excel functions and formulas that power up your data superpowers. With this book, you'll: Learn to create and use hundreds of formulas and functions, correct common mistakes, and make calculationsDiscover how to analyze data and calculate statistics, and even work with dates and timesUse the ever-evolving, AI-powered Copilot to expand Excel's functionality

The riveting account of Nvidia, the tech company that has exploded in value for its artificial intelligence computing hardware, and Jensen Huang, Nvidia's charismatic, uncompromising CEO.'Superb' SEBASTIAN MALLABY'A page-turning biography' DAVID EPSTEIN'Exceptional reporting' RAY KURZWEILIn June of 2024, spurred by the frenzy of investment following the launch of ChatGPT, and thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny's restaurant, Nvidia became the most-valuable corporation on Earth. In The Thinking Machine, acclaimed journalist Stephen Witt recounts the unlikely story of how a manufacturer of video game components shocked Silicon Valley by conquering the market for AI hardware, and in the process re-invented the computer.Essential to Nvidia's meteoric success is its visionary CEO Jensen Huang, who more than a decade ago, on the basis of a few promising scientific results, bet his entire company on AI. Through unprecedented access to Huang, his friends, his investors, and his empl

Spring Boot + Spring Cloud + Docker是目前國內相關領域工程人員搭建微服務架構的主要解決方案之一，它基於的是流行的Java開發框架――Spring，現已成為微服務架構的首選技術方案。本書通過大量案例介紹使用Spring Boot + Spring Cloud + Docker開發微服務架構（應用程序）的方法，包括開發服務註冊中心程序、服務提供者程序、服務消費者程序、認證服務、API網關等組件，進而搭建完整的微服務架構。為了便於初學者學習和理解相關內容，編者大量使用流程圖和架構圖對問題進行描述和講解；同時，精選“秒殺搶購”案例，使讀者直觀地瞭解微服務架構在實際應用程序開發工作中的應用，提升讀者的實戰技能。本書可作為高等院校相關課程的教材，也可作為廣大互聯網應用程序開發人員的參考書。

本書從基礎知識講起，逐步深入，涵蓋了SSM框架的各方面，包括Spring、Spring MVC和MyBatis的核心概念、配置、**實踐等。 本書共7章，內容豐富，結構清晰。第1章介紹SSM框架，讓讀者對SSM有一個整體的認識。第二～四章分別詳細介紹Spring、Spring MVC和MyBatis的核心知識，包括依賴注入、注解配置、映射文件和SQL語句等。第5章則重點講解SSM框架的整合與實戰案例，幫助讀者將所學知識融會貫通。第6章和第7章則分別介紹SSM框架的**實踐和常見問題及解決方案。本書的特色在於實戰性強，注重培養讀者的實際操作能力。書中提供了大量的實例和案例，幫助讀者深入地理解SSM框架的應用。 本書適合Java開發者閱讀，無論是有一定經驗的開發者還是初學者都能從本書中獲得收穫，也可作為高等院校和培訓機構的參考用書。

Microsoft Certified Fundamentals(MCF)，由微軟與國際專業認證考試機構Certiport合作推出。依工作角色職能規劃認證類別，角色職能涵蓋系統管理員、DevOps工程師、資料工程師、程式開發人員、AI工程師、商務功能顧問、安全性工程師、資料科學家、雲端解決方案架構師。透過MCF使應試者以階段式全盤理解微軟雲服務在人工智能、大數據、資料科學、商業智慧和雲端運算等領域的實務應用。本書整理Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals認證考科綱要所涵蓋的知識，包含Microsoft Power Platform的商業價值，與Dataverse、Power BI、Power Apps、Power Automate、Copilot Studio (Power Virtual Agents)、Power Pages等各項基礎元件的功能應用與解決方案，考生可透過本書各章節重點內容，迅速掌握應考方向與重點。