Java Game Development with LibGDX 
by Lee Stemkoski
Learn to design and create video games using the Java programming language and the LibGDX software library. Working through the examples in this book, you will create 12 game prototypes in a variety of popular genres, from collection-based and shoot-em-up arcade games to side-scrolling platformers and sword-fighting adventure games. With the flexibility provided by LibGDX, specialized genres such as card ga...
Price: $35.10 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Robot Operating System (ROS) for Absolute Beginners
by Lentin Joseph
Learn how to get started with robotics programming using Robot Operation System (ROS). Targeted for absolute beginners in ROS, Linux, and Python, this short guide shows you how to build your own robotics projects.ROS is an open-source and flexible framework for writing robotics software. With a hands-on approach and sample projects, Robot Operating System for Absolute Beginners will enable you to begin your...
Price: $31.38 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Geoff Hulten
Produce a fully functioning Intelligent System that leverages machine learning and data from user interactions to improve over time and achieve success.This book teaches you how to build an Intelligent System from end to end and leverage machine learning in practice. You will understand how to apply your existing skills in software engineering, data science, machine learning, management, and program managem...
Price: $30.17 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Building Games with Ethereum Smart Contracts
by Kedar Iyer, Chris Dannen
Learn how to take your existing knowledge of Ethereum and Solidity to the next level. Hone your development skills and become more familiar with the syntax of the Solidity language by working through well-tested, well-documented intermediate-level sample projects.You will begin by covering the basics of Ethereum, Solidity, and gaming theory. From there, you will move onto sample projects that use smart cont...
Price: $28.06 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Mastering 3D Printing in the Classroom, Library, and Lab
by Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
Learn how to manage and integrate the technology of 3D printers in the classroom, library, and lab. With this book, the authors give practical, lessons-learned advice about the nuts and bolts of what happens when you mix 3D printers, teachers, students, and the general public in environments ranging from K-12 and university classrooms to libraries, museums, and after-school community programs.Take your exis...
Price: $25.32 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Manish Jain
Discover how to leverage modern Unix even if you've never worked with Unix before. This book presents everything in conceptual terms that you can understand, rather than tips to be committed raw to memory.You will learn everyday tasks ranging from basic system administration - partitioning and mounting filesystems, software installation, network configuration, working from the command line) - to Bourne...
Price: $29.29 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Modern Data Access with Entity Framework Core
by Holger Schwichtenberg
C# developers, here's your opportunity to learn the ins-and-outs of Entity Framework Core, Microsoft's recently redesigned object-relational mapper. Benefit from hands-on learning that will teach you how to tackle frustrating database challenges, such as workarounds to missing features in Entity Framework Core, and learn how to optimize the performance of your applications, head-on!Modern Data Acc...
Price: $34.19 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Pro Machine Learning Algorithms
by Kishore Ayyadevara
Bridge the gap between a high-level understanding of how an algorithm works and knowing the nuts and bolts to tune your models better. This book will give you the confidence and skills when developing all the major machine learning models. In Pro Machine Learning Algorithms, you will first develop the algorithm in Excel so that you get a practical understanding of all the levers that can be tuned in a model...
Price: $37.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Dmitri Nesteruk
Apply modern C++17 to the implementations of classic design patterns. As well as covering traditional design patterns, this book fleshes out new patterns and approaches that will be useful to C++ developers. The author presents concepts as a fun investigation of how problems can be solved in different ways, along the way using varying degrees of technical sophistication and explaining different sorts of tra...
Price: $67.41 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Warren Gay
Using FreeRTOS and libopencm3 instead of the Arduino software environment, this book will help you develop multi-tasking applications that go beyond Arduino norms. In addition to the usual peripherals found in the typical Arduino device, the STM32 device includes a USB controller, RTC (Real Time Clock), DMA (Direct Memory Access controller), CAN bus and more. Each chapter contains clear explanations of the ...
Price: $29.79 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018