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Game Programming Gems 2

Charles River, 2001

A collection of articles on key topics in computer game programming. Highlights include coverage of artificial intelligence, geometry management, audio programming, and other topics. The CD-ROM contains code and demos for the text. System requires a C and C++ x86 assembler, Open GL, and Direct3D. DLC: Computer games--Programming.
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CISCO TCP/IP Routing Professional Reference, Revised and Expanded

McGraw-Hill, 1998

An absolute gem of a reference guide, Cisco TCP/IP Routing Professional Reference brings the empyreal realm of routers and protocols solidly to earth. The author provides excellent analogies coupled with practical tips, making this book suitable for those new to the strange terrain of Cisco routers and TCP/IP networking as well as for the...

Lucene in Action (In Action series)

Manning Publications, 2004

Lucene is a gem in the open-source world‹-a highly scalable, fast search engine. It delivers performance and is disarmingly easy to use. Lucene in Action is the authoritative guide to Lucene. It describes how to index your data, including types you definitely need to know such as MS Word, PDF, HTML, and XML. It introduces you...

Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs With Perl

Addison Wesley, 1997

Effective Perl Programming is a gem of a Perl book. Its author, Joseph Hall, is a well-known Perl instructor and frequent poster on the seminal comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup. The book's technical editor is none other than Randal Schwartz, noted Net personality, enigmatic author of Learning Perl, and contributor to Programming...

Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with XHTML, CSS, and DOM Scripting

Friends of Ed, 2007

Here at friends of ED, we know that as a web designer or developer, your work involves more than just working to pay the bills. We know that each day, you strive to push the boundaries of your medium, unleashing your creativity in new ways to make your websites more engaging and attractive to behold, while still maintaining cross-browser support,...

A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology

Springer, 2007

This practical guide provides a succinct treatment of the general concepts of cell biology, furnishing the computer scientist with the tools necessary to read and understand current literature in the field.

The book explores three different facets of biology: biological systems, experimental methods, and language and...

Raven: Scripting Java Builds with Ruby

Apress, 2007

Raven is a Ruby-based build system that leverages Ruby tools (namely Rake and Gems) to help you effectively and easily manage your Java projects, providing a way to handle dependencies and specific tasks for Java. Raven: Scripting Java™ Builds with Ruby

covers the most productive and flexible Java build tool around with the...

Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones (Symbian Press)

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Richard Harrison’s existing books are the bestsellers in the Symbian Press Portfolio.Ð His latest book, co-written with Mark Shackman is the successor to "Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones" Volumes One and Two. Written in the same style as the two previous volumes, this is set to be another gem in the series.Ð

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Microsoft Visual Basic: Developer's Workshop

Microsoft Press, 1998

The authors of this guide present a smorgasbord of tips and techniques for Visual Basic developers. The first part details the new features of Visual Basic 6 and lays out conventions for clear and productive programming style. However, these important preliminary discussions are covered in only two quick chapters, and most of the book is...

The Pursuit of Perfect Packing

Taylor & Francis, 2000

This is a timely book … In general, materials scientists and engineers venturing into the world of nano-structures should read this book as a general introduction to a fascinating field.
-T. M Sabine, Consultant Physicist, The Physicist

It is an entertaining introduction to the field for both specialists and the more general...

The Focal Easy Guide to Combustion 4: For New Users and Professionals

Focal Press, 2005

"...there isn't anything he has left out in this small but powerful, full-color, 340 page guide -- a remarkable accomplishment in a book with a list price of US $25.00. This book can help motion graphics artists, broadcast designers, 3D animators, web artists, compositors and visual effects artists working for video and film based...

JRuby Cookbook

O'Reilly, 2008

If you're interested in JRuby, you probably don't need a turorial on Ruby, Rails, or Java -- you just need to know how to get things done. This Cookbook offers practical solutions for using the Java implementation of the Ruby language, with targeted recipes for deploying Rails web applications on Java servers, integrating JRuby code with Java...

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