by Theresa Neil
When you're under pressure to produce a well designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there's no time to reinvent the wheel. This concise book provides a handy reference to 70 mobile app design patterns, illustrated by more than 400 screenshots from current iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian apps.User experience professional Theresa Neil (Designing Web Interfaces) walks you...
Price: $4.04 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Dani Nordin
Are you a solo web designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal? This hands-on book provides the tools and techniques to get you going. Award-winning designer Dani Nordin guides you through site planning, teaches you how to create solid, user-centered design for the Drupal framework, and shows you tricks for using real, honest-to-goodness, developer Ninja Magick.If you&...
Price: $21.87 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Donald Miner, Adam Shook
Until now, design patterns for the MapReduce framework have been scattered among various research papers, blogs, and books. This handy guide brings together a unique collection of valuable MapReduce patterns that will save you time and effort regardless of the domain, language, or development framework you're using.Each pattern is explained in context, with pitfalls and caveats clearly identified to he...
Price: $19.90 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Learning JavaScript Design Patterns
by Addy Osmani
If you want to write beautiful, structured, and maintainable JavaScript code, this guide shows you how to apply both classical and modern design patterns to the language. The patterns in this book provide reusable code solutions to common problems in software design, and give you a shared vocabulary for describing solutions to others.You'll explore several popular design patterns in plain JavaScript as...
Price: $23.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards
by Todd Snyder, Joel Eden, PhD, Jeffrey Smith, Matthew Duffield
Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop. Silverlight enables you to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards that highlight Key Performance Indicators for your business.Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards is a concise and practical tutorial that shows you ho...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2012
Unreal Development Kit Game Design Cookbook
by Thomas Mooney
An intermediate, fast-paced UDK guide for game artists. The quickest way to face the challenges of game design with UDK. All the necessary steps to get your artwork up and running in game. Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible....
Price: $32.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2012
FREE EBOOK - A Practical Introduction to Python Programming
by Brian Heinold
This book started out as about 30 pages of notes for students in my introductory programming class at Mount St. Mary's University. Most of these students have no prior programming experience, and that has affected my approach. I leave out a lot of technical details and sometimes I oversimplify things. Some of these details are filled in later in the book, though other details are never filled in. But t...
Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2012
FREE EBOOK - Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
by Robert Harper
Types are the central organizing principle of the theory of programming languages. Language features are manifestations of type structure. The syntax of a language is governed by the constructs that define its types, and its semantics is determined by the interactions among those constructs. The soundness of a language design - the absence of ill-defined programs-follows naturally. The purpose of this book ...
Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2012
by Stanley B. Lippman, Josee LaJoie, Barbara E. Moo
Bestselling Programming Tutorial and Reference Completely Rewritten for the New C++11 Standard.Fully updated and recast for the newly released C++11 standard, this authoritative and comprehensive introduction to C++ will help you to learn the language fast, and to use it in modern, highly effective ways. Highlighting today's best practices, the authors show how to use both the core language and its sta...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2012
Learning Android Game Programming
by Richard A. Rogers
The book starts with an up-to-the-minute overview of today's Android mobile games marketplace, reviews each leading genre, and teaches you the foundational concepts of game development. You'll design a simple game, then master every step of game development with AndEngine - the powerful, open source, free game-development engine. Every chapter teaches with sample code you can actually use, includi...
Price: $8.40 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2012