• Learn about shaders in a step-by-step, interactive manner
• Create stunning visual effects using vertex and fragment shaders
• Simplify your CPU code and improve your overall performance with instanced drawing through the use...

Learn iOS App Development is both a rapid tutorial and a useful reference. You'll quickly get up to speed with Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, and the iOS 7 SDK. It's an all-in-one getting started guide to building your first iPhone or iPad app. You'll learn best practices that ensure your code will be efficient and...

Pressure on space and changes in planning law mean that loft conversions are now at the forefront in the race to improve the performance of Britain's ageing housing stock. Since 1990, roof space conversions have increased UK housing capacity by more than 200 million square feet - a living area equivalent to a medium-sized city - without...

Laser velocimetry is an optical technique for velocity measurements; it is based on light scattering by...

• Learn about various attacks and tips and tricks to avoid them
• Get a grip on efficient ways to perform penetration testing.
• Use advanced techniques to bypass...

Introducing Java EE 7:  A Look at What’s New guides you through the new features and enhancements in each of the technologies comprising the Java EE platform.  Readers of this book will not have to wade through introductory material or information covering features that have been part of the EE platform for...

• Offers solutions to common Backbone.js related problems that most...

• Explore the best practices to develop applications of a superior quality with Django framework
• Unravel the common problems of web development in Django
• This course teaches you major Django functions and will help you improve your skills by developing models, forms, views, and...

Support Vector Machines: Optimization Based Theory, Algorithms, and Extensions presents an accessible treatment of the two main components of support vector machines (SVMs)―classification problems and regression problems. The book emphasizes the close connection between optimization theory and SVMs since optimization is...

ECMAScript 6 represents the biggest update to the core of JavaScript in the history of the language. In Understanding ECMAScript 6, expert developer Nicholas C. Zakas provides a complete guide to the object types, syntax, and other exciting changes that ECMAScript 6 brings to JavaScript. Every chapter is packed with example code that...

Using R for Data Management, Statistical Analysis, and Graphics presents an easy way to learn how to perform an analytical task in R, without having to...

Read this book before you write your thesis or journal paper! Communicating Science is a textbook and reference on scientific writing oriented primarily at researchers in the physical sciences and engineering. It is written from the perspective of an experienced researcher. It draws on the authors' experience of teaching and working with...