Much has changed since the first edition of JavaScript Step by Step was written in 2007. The underlying JavaScript specification received a major update; Microsoft released Windows Internet Explorer 8—and now 9 (which is about to be released as I write this); JavaScript development frameworks have matured and are now ubiquitous; and...
Ideal for graduate and senior undergraduate level courses in computer arithmetic and advanced digital design, Computer Arithmetic: Algorithms and Hardware Designs provides a balanced, comprehensive treatment of computer arithmetic, covering topics in arithmetic unit design and circuit implementation that complement the architectural...
Formal engineering methods are changing the way that software systems are developed.
With language and tool support, they are being used for automatic code
generation, and for the automatic abstraction and checking of implementations.
In the future, they will be used at every stage of development: requirements,
specification,...
Welcome to Android Arcade Game App. In this book, you will learn how to
create an Android arcade-style game “from project to publish.” While I will walk
you through solutions to some gaming development problems, this book is not
necessarily for beginner developers.
This book is intended to have three roles and to serve three associated audiences: an
introductory text on Bayesian inference star ting from first principles, a graduate text on
effective current approaches to Bayesian modeling and computation in statistics and
related fields, and a handbook of Bayesian meth ods in applied...
iOS 6 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is your code reference and guide to developing solutions on iPad, iPhone, and other iOS 6 SDK devices and platforms. This book provides in-depth code samples and discussions for scenarios that developers face every day. You'll find numerous examples of real-world cases...
Since the first edition of this book, the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) has grown, transformed,
and emerged from a promising toolkit for web applications into a toolkit that
truly supports 1) developers and managers in delivering web applications that can
push the boundaries of the possible and 2) the application of...
A hands-on guide to help your nonprofit build its brand, raise its profile, strengthen impact and develop deeper relationships with donors, volunteers, and other stakeholders. Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding is about the power a constituency-focused, compelling brand can have to revolutionize an organization and the way...
Over the last decade, software product line engineering (SPLE) has emerged as one of the most promising software development paradigms for increasing productivity in IT-related industries. Detailing the various aspects of SPLE implementation in different domains, Applied Software Product Line Engineering documents best...
Computer-generated effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood movies. Yet when a critic complains that "technology swamps storytelling" (in a review of Van Helsing, calling it "an example of everything that is wrong with Hollywood computer-generated effects movies"), it says more about the weakness of the story than the...
While Edward B. (‘Ed’) Lewis is famous for his contributions to genetics and developmental
biology, few have read his research papers. One reason for this is availability,
many having been published in obscure journals or as book chapters. A second is
because his papers in those fields are very difficult to read. The...
