Welcome to RPG Maker for Teens! This book will help you learn a complete
computer game software application engineered toward creating one particular
game genre: role-playing games!
Role-playing games, also known as RPGs, are those sword-and-sorcery quest
games that feature turn-based combat, inventories full of unique...
This book has evolved from class notes for the undergraduate Automation and Robotics
course at the National Taiwan University. The course was originally designed for senior
students in the Department of Civil Engineering, enhancing their understanding of
robotics technology and its potential. As this course does not have any...
Computers are at the heart of most activities nowadays. A processor is the central component of
a computer, but nowadays, we can find processors embedded in many other components, such as
game consoles, consumer electronic devices and cars, just to mention a few.
This lecture presents a thorough study of the microarchitecture...
Wow! As I write this, it’s been almost seven years since Spring 1.0 was released and Ryan Breidenbach and I started work on the first edition of Spring in Action. Back then, who would have guessed that Spring would transform Java development as much as it has?
In that first edition, Ryan and I tried to cover every corner of...
Android is hot, and many people are developing Android applications (apps for short).
Perhaps you would also like to develop apps, but are unsure about how to get started.
Although you could study Google’s online Android Developer’s Guide
(http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html) to acquire the needed knowledge,
you...
Why should a Java developer learn about functional programming (FP)? After all, hasn’t
functional programming been safely hidden in academia for decades? Isn’t objectoriented
programming (OOP) all we really need? This book explains why functional
programming has become an important tool for the challenges of our time and how...
Welcome to the world of
Microsoft Word 2010. This new Picture
Yourself book from Cengage Learning will
help you use the many and varied features of one
of Microsoft’s most popular products—Microsoft
Word, part of the Microsoft Office Suite.
Microsoft Word 2010 is a powerful word processing
program that will take your...
Gaining access to the interactive learning activities on this Online Companion is
easy—all you need to do is create a user profile. This simple, one-time process
establishes you as a user in the CoursePort authentication system. By utilizing the
Online Companion, students and instructors can reinforce the concepts they’re...
So you’ve decided to be a photographer. You studied photography in
college or went to art school, and you’ve come to the point of deciding
that it’s time to hang out your shingle. Or maybe you’re self-taught and
everyone loves your work and says, “Hey, you could make...
We are deluged by data—scientific data, medical data, demographic data, financial
data, and marketing data. People have no time to look at this data. Human
attention has become a precious resource. So, we must find ways to automatically
analyze the data, to automatically classify it, to automatically summarize it, to...
The Definitive Guide to Governing Shared Services and SOA Projects
SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud is the result of a multi-year project to collect proven industry practices for establishing IT governance controls specific to the adoption of SOA...
Approximation algorithms have developed in response to the impossibility of solving
a great variety of important optimization problems. Too frequently, when attempting to
get a solution for a problem, one is confronted with the fact that the problem is NP-haid.
This, in the words of Garey and Johnson, means "I can't find an...
