Learning Stencyl 3.x Game Development
by Innes Borkwood
Creating video games has traditionally been a long and complicated process, requiring years of experience and a vast array of skills. However, with the introduction of comprehensive game-development toolkits such as Stencyl, the fun has returned to the art of game-creation - anyone who has the desire to create their own video game can now do so with almost any desktop computer and a free software download f...
Price: $26.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Building Minecraft Server Modifications
by Cody M. Sommer
If you have ever played Minecraft on a public server then the chances are that the server was powered by Bukkit. Bukkit plugins allow a server to be modified in more ways than you can imagine. Learning to program your own server mods will allow you to customize the game to your own liking.Building Minecraft Server Modifications is a complete guide that walks you through the creation of Minecraft server mods...
Price: $14.95 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js
by Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
Everyone has had to present during their lifetime. We've all spent agonizing hours trying to make those PowerPoint presentations engaging. Well now there is a tool that will make those presentations look like child's play.Impress.js is a powerful library that eases the task of creating presentations with smooth animations without depending on a software tool. You are no longer limited to desktop t...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Kinect in Motion - Audio and Visual Tracking by Example
by Clemente Giorio, Massimo Fascinari
Kinect is a motion-sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console and Windows PCs. It provides capabilities to enhance human-machine interaction along with a zero-to-hero journey to engage the user in a multimodal interface dialog with your software solution.Kinect in Motion - Audio and Visual Tracking by Example guides you in developing more than five models you can use to capture ge...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
by Daniel Williams
Corona SDK is a software development kit, which allows programmers to build mobile applications on iOS and Android devices. It is used by developers to build, both business and gaming apps at record speeds.Corona SDK Application Design will show you the power behind Corona SDK and how to make best use of its features to create your own apps. Learn to create apps using your unique ideas quickly and easily.Yo...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
PySide GUI Application Development
by Venkateshwaran Loganathan
Elegantly built GUI applications are always a massive hit among users. PySide is an open source software project that provides Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform UI framework. Combining the power of Qt and Python, PySide provides easy access to the Qt framework for Python developers and also acts as an excellent rapid application development platform available on all major operating systems.This book...
Price: $20.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
by Joe Kutner
Small changes to your habits can improve your health - without getting in the way of your work. The Healthy Programmer gives you a daily plan of action that's incremental and iterative just like the software development processes you're used to. Every tip, trick, and best practice is backed up by the advice of doctors, scientists, therapists, nutritionists, and numerous fitness experts.We'll ...
Price: $10.99 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2013
Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development
by Jeff Langr
If you program in C++ you've been neglected. Test-driven development (TDD) is a modern software development practice that can dramatically reduce the number of defects in systems, produce more maintainable code, and give you the confidence to change your software to meet changing needs. But C++ programmers have been ignored by those promoting TDD--until now. In this book, Jeff Langr gives you hands-on ...
Price: $20.57 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2013
Programming Erlang, 2nd Edition
by Joe Armstrong
A multi-user game, web site, cloud application, or networked database can have thousands of users all interacting at the same time. You need a powerful, industrial-strength tool to handle the really hard problems inherent in parallel, concurrent environments. You need Erlang. In this second edition of the bestselling Programming Erlang, you'll learn how to write parallel programs that scale effortlessl...
Price: $27.57 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2013
by Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Arnon Sturm, Tony Clark, Sholom Cohen, Jorn Bettin
Domain engineering is a set of activities intended to develop, maintain, and manage the creation and evolution of an area of knowledge suitable for processing by a range of software systems. It is of considerable practical significance, as it provides methods and techniques that help reduce time-to-market, development costs, and project risks on one hand, and helps improve system quality and performance on ...
Price: $98.17 | Publisher: Springer | Release: 2013