1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785478603321

Autore

Langdell Cheri Colby

Titolo

Coping with vision loss : understanding the psychological, social, and spiritual effects / / Cheri Colby Langdell and Tim Langdell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2010

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-63214-3

1-282-93303-5

9786612933035

0-313-34665-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 180 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

LangdellTim

Disciplina

617.7

Soggetti

Blindness

Medicine in literature

Vision disorders - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A brief history of blindness in world literature -- Fiction by and about the blind -- Insights from the blind today : non-fiction writing -- The spiritual dimensions of blindness -- Current insights : what the future holds.

Sommario/riassunto

More than one million people in the United States are fully blind or legally blind, suffering impairments from retinal and macular degeneration to eye loss. And as America with Baby Boomers and beyond ages, the numbers of legally blind will double. In this work where the authors are assisted by a blind executive, readers are taken into the world of the legally and fully blind, to understand the practical challenges that creates for the person experiencing vision loss, and also the family members and friends of that person.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910825998903321

Autore

Roy Aanand Shekhar

Titolo

Kotlin programming cookbook : explore more than 100 recipes that show how to build ro bust mobile and web applications with Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Android / / Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Birmingham, England : , : Packt Publishing, , 2018

2018

Edizione

[First edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (434 pages)

Disciplina

005.1

Soggetti

Application software - Development

Mobile apps - Development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

Discover Android programming and web development by understanding the concepts of Kotlin Programming About This Book Practical solutions to your common programming problems with Kotlin 1.1 Leverage the functional power of Kotlin to ease your Android application development Learn to use Java code in conjunction with Kotlin Who This Book Is For This book will appeal to Kotlin developers keen to find solutions for their common programming problems. Java programming knowledge would be an added advantage. What You Will Learn Understand the basics and object-oriented concepts of Kotlin Programming Explore the full potential of collection frameworks in Kotlin Work with SQLite databases in Android, make network calls, and fetch data over a network Use Kotlin's Anko library for efficient and quick Android development Uncover some of the best features of Kotlin: Lambdas and Delegates Set up web service development environments, write servlets, and build RESTful services with Kotlin Learn how to write unit tests, integration tests, and instrumentation/acceptance tests. In Detail The Android team has announced first-class support for Kotlin 1.1. This acts as an added boost to the language and more and more developers are now looking



at Kotlin for their application development. This recipe-based book will be your guide to learning the Kotlin programming language. The recipes in this book build from simple language concepts to more complex applications of the language. After the fundamentals of the language, you will learn how to apply the object-oriented programming features of Kotlin 1.1. Programming with Lambdas will show you how to use the functional power of Kotlin. This book has recipes that will get you started with Android programming with Kotlin 1.1, providing quick solutions to common problems encountered during Android app development. You will also be taken through recipes that will teach you microservice and concurrent programming with Kotlin. Going forward, you will learn to test and secure your applications with Kotlin. Finally, this book supplies recipes that will help you migrate your Java code to Kotlin and will help ensure that it's interoperable with Java. Style and approach This book explains concepts related to Kotlin Programming using a practical approach and with the help of easy-to-follow recipes.