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Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen Pluralsight & LinkedIn Learning courses.

He currently works for CNH writing APIs.
He was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS.

He has been a Microsoft MVP for 13 years.

His most recent book is Writing APIs with .NET (Packt 2024)

You can find him at https://jesseliberty.com/find-me, and see his bio at https://jesseliberty.com/bio ...more

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Python??

This series on AI is going to take two paths:

Writing promptsWriting apps that integrate AI (see Hypervideo)

If you are writing apps, you have a couple choices (well, more than a couple). One choice is to stay in the Azure/.NET world, in which case C# is just fine. The other (set of) choice(s) is to work in the rest of AI development, in which case Python is the language of choice.

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	Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days 3.77 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1994 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Programming C#: Building .NET Applications with C# 3.69 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Programming ASP.NET, 3rd Edition by Jesse Liberty (Goodreads Author), Dan Hurwitz 3.55 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours) by Jesse Liberty (Goodreads Author), Rogers Cadenhead (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 52 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself in 24 Hours Series) 3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning C# 3.0: Master the fundamentals of C# 3.0 by Jesse Liberty (Goodreads Author), Brian MacDonald 3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Programming C# 3.0: Best-Selling Guide to Building Windows and Web Applications with C# 3.0 by Jesse Liberty (Goodreads Author), Donald Xie 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning C# 2005: Get Started with C# 2.0 and .NET Programming (2nd Edition) by Jesse Liberty (Goodreads Author), Brian MacDonald 3.24 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning Visual Basic .Net 3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 10 Minutes 3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology

by Jon Meacham

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Tom's Crossing

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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

by Rick Atkinson

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