• Acquaint yourself with Java and object-oriented programming, from zero previous experience
• Build four cool games for your phone and tablet, from retro arcade-style games to memory and education games, and gain the knowledge to design and create your own games too
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• A highly practical guide filled with numerous examples unleashing the power of design patterns with Go.
• Discover an introduction of the CSP concurrency model by explaining...

“Great design is about...

• introduces the evidence for sentence structure and reveals its purpose
• is based on a problem-solving approach to language
• teaches the reader how to identify word classes, such as noun, preposition and demonstrative
• uses simple tree structures to...

A multi-user game, web site, cloud application, or networked database can have thousands of users all interacting at the same time. You need a powerful, industrial-strength tool to handle the really hard problems inherent in parallel, concurrent environments. You need Erlang. In this second edition of the bestselling Programming...

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the design of sustainable and green computing systems (GSC).  Coverage includes important breakthroughs in various aspects of GSC, including multi-core architectures, interconnection technology, data centers, high performance computing (HPC), and sensor networks.  The authors address the...

Lua is the language of choice for anyone who needs a scripting language that is simple, efficient, extensible, portable, and free. Currently, Lua is being used in areas ranging from embedded systems to Web development and is widely spread in the game industry, where knowledge of Lua is an indisputable asset. Lua also has established itself as...