Imagine this scenario: You create a hunter character with random stats and hit points and enter the dungeon to begin exploring for treasure. You stumble upon a zombie pacing near a pile of gear and gold! You attack the zombie and it strikes back! You roll 1D20 and score a critical hit! The 20 point die plus dexterity, against the...

This book is an introduction to C++ and computer programming that focuses on the essentials—and on effective learning. The book is designed to serve a wide range of student interests and abilities and is suitable for a first course in programming for computer scientists, engineers, and students in other disciplines. No prior...

In the emerging era of Web 3.0, securing cyberspace has gradually evolved into a critical organizational and national research agenda inviting interest from a multidisciplinary scientific workforce. There are many avenues into this area, and, in recent research, machine-learning and data-mining techniques have been applied to design,...

Scratch Cookbook will lead you through easy-to-follow recipes that give you everything you need to become a...

• Learn fundamental message/queue design patterns
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• Discover simple and advanced techniques for leveraging modern OpenGL and...

Web Forms—the page and control framework at the heart of ASP.NET—makes it easier to develop dynamic Web applications. But you can go...

Objects, Components, and Frameworks with UML: The Catalysis Approach is where you will...

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