Learn IT - Books tags games

Taking Your iPod Touch to the Max (Technology in Action)

Apress, 2008

Fast and fun to read, Taking Your iPod Touch to the Max gives you all the tips and techniques you could ever think of to make the most of your Apple iPod Touch. Erica Sadun is an expert at hacking devices to discover undocumented tricks, and this book reveals everything and more about the functionality of the iPod Touch....

Head First PMP: A Brain-Friendly Guide to Passing the Project Management Professional Exam

O'Reilly, 2007

A PMP certification is more than just passing a test. It means that you have the knowledge to solve most common project problems, and proves that you know your stuff. Once you're certified, your projects are more likely to succeed because you have the skills and knowledge to make them successful. Not only that, it can mean a better job, more money,...

Visual Basic 2008 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Apress, 2008

Sometimes you just need to solve a problem and get on with your work. To that end, Visual Basic 2008 Recipes is a compendium of practical solutions for busy VB .NET programmers. Create time for the more interesting aspects of your VB .NET project by solving common problems with the practical solutions and dozens of code examples in this...

Foundation Expression Blend 2: Building Applications in WPF and Silverlight

Friends of Ed, 2008

In this book, you'll:

Learn the Blend 2 and Visual Studio 2008 development environments
Create designs using Blend 2's unique tools
Use XAML and C# to add interactivity to your designs
Publish your Rich Media Applications to the Web using Silverlight

The only real tool available...

Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems

No Starch Press, 2008

PHP is an easy-to-use scripting language perfect for quickly creating the Web features you need. Once you know the basics of how the language works, wouldn't it be great to have a collection of useful scripts that solve those tricky problems and add interesting functionality to your site? We thought so, too.

Instead of starting at "Hello...

Big Book of Windows Hacks

O'Reilly, 2007

Bigger, better, and broader in scope, the Big Book of Windows Hacks gives you everything you need to get the most out of your Windows Vista or XP system, including its related applications and the hardware it runs on or connects to. Whether you want to tweak Vista's Aero interface, build customized sidebar gadgets and run them from a USB...

Image-Based Rendering

Springer, 2006

Image-based rendering (IBR) refers to a collection of techniques and representations that allow 3D scenes and objects to be visualized in a realistic way without full 3D model reconstruction. IBR uses images as the primary substrate. The potential for photorealistic visualization has tremendous appeal, and it is thus not surprising that IBR has...

Maya for Games: Modeling and Texturing Techniques with Maya and Mudbox

Focal Press, 2008

Thank you for choosing, in my opinion, one of the best books available for next-generation modeling and 3D game art techniques. I would like to take a moment to say a few words regarding the purpose of this book (or, as I would call it, training courseware) and what you can expect to learn from it. Many years ago when I was new to 3D and learning...

Creating Vista Gadgets: Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript with Examples in RSS, Ajax, ActiveX (COM) and Silverlight

Sams Publishing, 2008

A one-stop resource for each aspect of designing and developing Sidebar gadgets, perfect for anyone who wants to create killer gadgets

Explores one of the super cool features new to Windows Vista -- the Sidebar

It is a one-stop resource for each aspect of designing and developing Sidebar gadgets, perfect for anyone who wants...

iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone

O'Reilly, 2008

Certain technologies bring out everyone's hidden geek, and iPhone did the moment it was released. Even though Apple created iPhone as a closed device, tens of thousands of developers bought them with the expressed purpose of designing and running third-party software. In this clear and concise book, veteran hacker Jonathan Zdziarski -- one of the...

The New Media Reader

MIT Press, 2003

This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs--many of them now almost impossible to find--that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media. General introductions by Janet Murray and Lev Manovich, along with short introductions to each of the texts, place the works in their historical...

Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution

Arcade Publishing, 2004

The Edge calls Trigger Happy a "seminal piece of work." For the first time ever, an aficionado with a knowledge of art, culture, and a real love of gaming takes a critical look at the future of our videogames, and compares their aesthetic and economic impact on society to that of film. Thirty years after the invention of the simplest of...

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