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We've indexed 22 textbooks across all MCA Semester 3 subjects: Data Mining (MCA-301): • Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques - Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber • Building the Data Warehouse - W.H. Inmon Artificial Intelligence (MCA-302): • Artificial Intelligence - Elaine Rich, Kevin Knight • Introduction to AI and Expert Systems - Dan W. Patterson • Programming in Prolog - W.F. Clocksin, C.S. Mellish Python Programming (MCA-303-1): • Think Python (2nd Edition) - Allen B. Downey Internet of Things (MCA-304-3): • Internet of Things: A Hands-On Approach - Arshdeep Bahga, Vijay Madisetti • The Internet of Things: Connecting Objects - Hakima Chaouchi Distributed Systems (MCA-305-3): • Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design - George Coulouris et al. • Distributed Systems - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten Van Steen Every response includes clickable citations [[C1]], [[C2]] with exact page numbers from source documents.