Welcome to the March 2016 ACM Learning Center Bulletin, keeping you current on the many online learning tools ACM offers to help extend our members' skills and knowledge. To suggest addition of books, courses, future Webinar speakers and topics, or just offer feedback, leave a note in the Learning Center Suggestion Box

TOP STORIES

•  Register for April 1 Webcast: "YOGA - A Software Development Process Based On Ancient Principles"

•  Available on Demand: Webcast with Barry Devlin: "From BI to Big Data - Architecture, Ethics, and Economics"

•  Available on Demand: Webcast with ACM Queue's Tom Limoncelli: "Fail Better: Radical Ideas from the Practice of Cloud Computing"

•  New Books and Videos Added to Safari Books Online Library

LEARNING CENTER: Books, Courses, Videos

•  Featured Skillsoft Course: C++11: Programming Fundamentals

•  New Skillsoft Books: March 2016

•  New Skillsoft Short Videos: March 2016

•  Featured MK Title: Commercial Data Mining

•  ACM Interview: ACM Interview: Mike Hinchey

Register for April 1 Webcast: "YOGA - A Software Development Process Based On Ancient Principles"
Register for our next ACM Learning Webinar, "YOGA - A Software Development Process Based On Ancient Principles", presented live on Friday, March 26, at 12 pm ET by Seth Winis, Software Development Guru YOGA Expert (at the encouragement of David Weiss, long time researcher in software engineering and IEEE Fellow). Seth will discuss YOGA, a software development process based on ancient principles and derived from many years of experience with software production and introspective research into and measurement of software production. ACM SIGSOFT Past Chair Will Tracz moderates the questions and answers session. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.

Available on Demand: Webcast with Barry Devlin: "From BI to Big Data - Architecture, Ethics, and Economics"
If you missed it live, "From BI to Big Data - Architecture, Ethics, and Economics", presented by data warehousing co-founder Barry Devlin, is now available on demand. In this presentation, Devlin stresses looks beyond just making the right architectural and technological choices vital in designing and managing the automated environments big data should have and the Internet of Things will demand, toward the broader ethical and economic issues raised by big data: personal privacy, employment, and social disruption. Peter Aiken of ACM SIGMIS and SIGMOD moderates (see questions and answers here). You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.

Available on Demand: Webcast with ACM Queue's Tom Limoncelli: "Fail Better: Radical Ideas from the Practice of Cloud Computing"
If you missed it live, "Fail Better: Radical Ideas from the Practice of Cloud Computing", presented by ACM Queue columnist Tom Limoncelli, internationally recognized author, speaker, and system administrator, is now available on demand. Distributed or "cloud" computing involves many moving parts, any of which can break or fail. Succeeding in this environment requires embracing failure, not running or hiding from it. To do this requires challenging our instincts with radical ideas. Tom highlights some of the most radical advice from the new book The Practice of Cloud System Administration. ACM SIGMIS Information Director Indira Guzman, Professor of Information Technology Management and Director of the Ph.D. Program in the Glenn R. Jones College of Business at Trident University, moderates the questions and answers session (see questions and answers here). You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.

New Books and Videos Added to Safari Books Online Library
Check out the latest book and video titles from Safari Books Online, recently added to the ACM Learning Center eBook collection. You'll find new and updated coverage of topics such Android Programming, AngularJS, Apache Spark, Big Data, CISSP, Docker, Data Science, Functional Programming, Go, Hadoop, Haskell, iOS 9 and Swift, Linux, Microservices, Python, R Programming, and Spring.

For a list of all the books and videos being removed from and added to our eBook library visit http://learning.acm.org/safariswap.cfm. See our full collection of eBooks at http://learning.acm.org/books/ebooks_catalog.cfm.

Featured Skillsoft Course: C++11: Programming Fundamentals
This month's featured Skillsoft course is C++11: Programming Fundamentals. This course covers essential C++11 programming essentials, as well as containers, data structures, and data types. It also features lambda expressions, iterators, and enumeration classes.

To access this and more than 1,300 Skillsoft Learning Collections courses, visit the ACM Learning Center, log in with your member credentials, and click on Skillsoft Learning in the top right corner. To jump directly to particular subject areas, visit the Skillsoft Learning Collections page. For more on these changes and new features in Skillport 8, see our Skillsoft FAQ/Support page.

New Skillsoft Books: March 2016
New books covering the latest IT skills and technologies are always being added to the ACM Skillsoft Learning Collections. Here are some of the notable titles added in March:

• Android Application Development All-in-One for Dummies, 2nd Edition
• Beginning Django CMS
• Business Intelligence: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Volumes I-IV
• Game Art: Art from 40 Video Games and Interviews with Their Creators
• Hadoop Architecture and SQL: The Best HiveQL Book in the Universe
• Learn PHP 7: Object-Oriented Modular Programming using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, XML, JSON, and MySQL
• Practical Sitecore 8 Configuration and Strategy: A User Guide for Sitecore's Content and Marketing Capabilities
• Pro Couchbase Server, Second Edition
• Python Crash Course: A Hands-on, Project-Based Introduction to Programming
• Search Engine Optimization All-in-One for Dummies, Third Edition
• Statistics for Big Data for Dummies
• Twitter for Dummies, 3rd Edition
• Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015

New Skillsoft Short Videos: March 2016
Did you know that ACM members have access to thousands of IT and productivity videos from Skillsoft? Covering a variety of today's hottest topics, these videos offer "on-the-job" support and solutions for busy practitioners. Recently, Skillsoft added significant video content in the following knowledge areas:

• Apache Accumulo Fundamentals
• ARCH: Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures
• Defensive Programming in Java: Defending Against Attacks
• Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
• Extending Jenkins: .NET Source Code Cloning
• Google Tag Manager
• iRise
• Managing Citrix XenDesktop 7 Solutions
• Microsoft Excel 2016
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2016
• Microsoft SharePoint 2016
• PHP Applications with the Zend Framework
• Python Fundamentals
• RHCVA
• Titanium
• VMware Certified Cloud Professional
• VMware NSX Network Virtualization
• WIFUND: Implementing Cisco Wireless Network Fundamentals

Featured MK Title: Commercial Data Mining
Commercial Data Mining is an accessible reference outlining the entire process and related themes. Author David Nettleton guides you through the process from beginning to end and covers everything from business objectives to data sources, and selection to analysis and predictive modeling. Commercial Data Mining includes case studies and practical examples from Nettleton's 20+ years of commercial experience. Real-world cases covering customer loyalty, cross-selling, and audience prediction in industries including insurance, banking, and media illustrate the concepts and techniques explained throughout the book. THe book illustrates cost-benefit evaluation of potential projects, includes vendor-agnostic advice on what to look for in off-the-shelf solutions as well as tips on building your own data mining tools. Includes practical examples and case studies as well as actionable business insights from author's own experience.

This is just one of more than 460 titles from publishers Morgan Kaufmann (MK) and Syngress in ACM's eBook collection, covering the most bleeding-edge topics in computing, such as Big Data, Cybersecurity, Human-Computer Interaction, Parallel Computing, and more. The books are available in PDF (and some in ePub) and are downloadable to your desktop, laptop, tablet, and any popular eBook reader on your mobile device. All members (Student and Professional) can access them through the ACM Learning Center eBook catalog as well as the ACM Digital Library.

ACM Interview: Mike Hinchey
Tune in as the leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs advancing computing as a science and a profession discuss their background, experience, and career highlights, all while providing invaluable insights and lessons learned for future computing professionals in this ongoing series of exclusive interviews conducted by Stephen Ibaraki, Chair of the ACM Professional Development Committee.

In a recent ACM Podcast Stephen Ibaraki interviewed Mike Hinchey, Director of the Irish Software Research Centre (Lero), Professor of Software Engineering at University of Limerick, and former Director of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre. Hinchey talks about his nomination as President of IFIP, his past academic journey, work at NASA and founding the NASA journal Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, and more.