The human mind is evolutionarily designed to take shortcuts in order to survive. We jump to conclusions because our brains want to keep us safe. A majority of our biases work in our favor, such as when we feel a car speeding in our direction is dangerous and we instantly move, or when we...
You’ve bested creepers, traveled deep into caves, and maybe even gone to The End and back—but have you ever transformed a sword into a magic wand? Built a palace in the blink of an eye? Designed your own color-changing disco dance floor?
In Learn to Program with Minecraft®, you’ll do all this and...
In general, there is a perception that Calculus is an extremely difficult subject, probably because
the required number of good teachers and good books are not available. We know that books
cannot replace teachers, but we are of the opinion that, good books can definitely reduce
dependence on teachers, and students can gain more...
If you are a web developer who has already realized the power of Ruby on Rails but wants to take your Rails knowledge further, this book will be invaluable to you. Practical Rails Projects assumes you know the basics of using the framework, concentrating instead on taking you through the creation of a multitude of practical real-world...
With this book you could have the home of tomorrow, literally tomorrow. Its totally practical approach is perfect for the hobbyist who wants to use Netduino to automate their home. Full of fun projects and clear instructions.
Overview
Automate your house using a Netduino and a bunch of common...
The development of neural networks has now reached the stage where they are employed in a large variety of practical contexts. However, to date the majority of such implementations have been in software. While it is generally recognised that hardware implementations could, through performance advantages, greatly increase the use of neural...
Welcome to Practical Shader Development. This book is intended to be the gentlest introduction possible to the theory and practice of writing shaders for video games. Shader writing is a very large topic, and I can remember feeling very lost when I was starting out. My hope is that this book will help you avoid that same feeling and allow you...
After learning the language of design, how does one effectively use standards-based technologies to create visually strong Web sites? The full-color Professional Web Standards Design and Development gives developers a peek into the process of the best designers in the world through the work of high profile, real-world Web...
Modern consumers carry many electronic devices, like a mobile phone, digital camera, GPS, PDA and an MP3 player. The functionality of each of these devices has gone through an important evolution over recent years, with a steep increase in both the number of features as in the quality of the services that they provide. However, providing the...
We all hate to throw electronics away. Use your 5 volt Arduino and have fun with them instead! Raid your electronics junk box to build the Cestino (Arduino compatible) board and nine other electronics projects, from a logic probe to a microprocessor explorer, and learn some advanced, old-school techniques along the way. Don’t have a...
We have seen the revolution in computer and communication technologies in the twentieth century. The telecommunications industry has gone through sea-changes from analog to digital networking that enabled today’s very powerful Internet technology. Transition from the analog to the digital world offered many opportunities in every walk of...
