Learn C++ for Game Development 
by Bruce Sutherland
If you're new to C++ but understand some basic programming, then Learn C++ for Game Development lays the foundation for the C++ language and API that you'll need to build game apps and applications.Most of today's popular console and PC game platforms use C++ in their SDKs. Even the Android NDK and now the iOS SDK allow for C++; so C++ is growing in use for today's mobile game apps. Game...
Price: $18.95 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Johan Vos, Weiqi Gao, James Weaver, Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson
In Pro JavaFX 8 expert authors show you how to use the JavaFX platform to create rich-client Java applications. You'll discover how you can use this powerful Java-based UI platform, which is capable of handling large-scale data-driven business applications for PC as well as now mobile and embedded devices.Covering the JavaFX API, development tools, and best practices, this book provides code examples t...
Price: $5.37 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
HTML5 Game Development Insights
by Colt McAnlis, Peter Lubbers, Duncan Tebbs, Brandon Jones, Andrzej Mazur, Sean Bennett, Florian d'Erfurth, Bruno Garcia, Shun Lin, Ivan Popelyshev, Jason Gauci, Jon Howard, Ian Ballantyne, Jesse Freeman, Takuo Kihira, Tyler Smith, Don Olmstead, John M
HTML5 Game Development Insights is a from-the-trenches collection of tips, tricks, hacks, and advice straight from professional HTML5 game developers. The 24 chapters here include unique, cutting edge, and essential techniques for creating and optimizing modern HTML5 games. You will learn things such as using the Gamepad API, real-time networking, getting 60fps full screen HTML5 games on mobile, using langu...
Price: $41.69 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Sue Blackman
With Unity for Absolute Beginners you'll become familiar with the Unity editor, key concepts and functionality. You'll learn how to import, evaluate and manage resources. You'll explore C# scripting in Unity, and learn how to use the Unity API. Using the provided art assets, you will learn the fundamentals of good game design and iterative refinement as you take your game from a simple protot...
Price: $39.31 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Beginning Google Glass Development
by Jeff Tang
Beginning Google Glass Development is your number one resource for learning how to develop for Google Glass - the paradigm-shifting mobile computing platform taking the world by storm now and for years to come. Mobile developers have always had to think for the future, and right now that means getting started with Google Glass.You will also learn how to develop enterprise and web-based Glass apps using the ...
Price: $37.67 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Josh Juneau
Java 8 Recipes offers solutions to common programming problems encountered while developing Java-based applications. Fully updated with the newest features and techniques available, Java 8 Recipes provides code examples involving Lambdas, embedded scripting with Nashorn, the new date-time API, stream support, functional interfaces, and much more. Especial emphasis is given to features such as lambdas that a...
Price: $53.95 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Ian F. Darwin
From lambda expressions and JavaFX 8 to new support for network programming and mobile development, Java 8 brings a wealth of changes. This cookbook helps you get up to speed right away with hundreds of hands-on recipes across a broad range of Java topics. You'll learn useful techniques for everything from debugging and data structures to GUI development and functional programming.Each recipe includes ...
Price: $33.58 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Java Performance: The Definitive Guide
by Scott Oaks
Coding and testing are often considered separate areas of expertise. In this comprehensive guide, author and Java expert Scott Oaks takes the approach that anyone who works with Java should be equally adept at understanding how code behaves in the JVM, as well as the tunings likely to help its performance.You'll gain in-depth knowledge of Java application performance, using the Java Virtual Machine (JV...
Price: $24.69 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by David Sklar, Adam Trachtenberg
Want to understand a certain PHP programming technique? Or learn how to accomplish a particular task? This cookbook is the first place to look. With more than 350 code-rich recipes revised for PHP 5.4 and 5.5, this third edition provides updated solutions for generating dynamic web content - everything from using basic data types to querying databases, and from calling RESTful APIs to testing and securing y...
Price: $35.52 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Client-Server Web Apps with JavaScript and Java
by Casimir Saternos
As a Java programmer, how can you tackle the disruptive client-server approach to web development? With this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how today's client-side technologies and web APIs work with various Java tools. Author Casimir Saternos provides the big picture of client-server development, and then takes you through many practical client-server architectures. You'll work with hands...
Price: $7.69 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014