Visual Basic Game Programming for Teens, Third Edition teaches teens and other beginners how to create their own 2D role-playing game (RPG) using the free to download and easy to use Visual Basic 2008 Express. The game is built step-by-step throughout the book as readers learn new skills and build upon them. This new edition features almost...

• Practical, hands-on approach helps web designers or developers begin using HTML5 right away
• Step-by-step directions show how to implement HTML5 video, drawing, drag and drop, forms, and more
• Makes...

The authors of the bestselling Beginning iPhone 3 Development are back, with the same excellent material completely updated for iOS 4 and written from the ground up using the latest version of Apple's Xcode 3. All source code has been updated to use the latest Xcode templates and current APIs, and all-new screenshots show Xcode 3 in...

Since the release of the bestselling title Joel on Software in 2004, requests for a sequel have been relentless. So, we went back to the famed JoelonSoftware.com archives and pulled out a new batch of favorites, many of which have been downloaded over one million times. With Joel’s newest book, More Joel on Software,...

This is a book about making 3D games in Macromedia Director Shockwave Studio. Expect it to be a book about code, interface tricks, and wacky game ideas. Along the way, I will share my experiences, life, and attitudes about games and game development. I have always tended to swim upstream, so I doubt that much of this will seem comfortable or...

This book is about constraint programming, an alternative approach to programming which relies on a combination of techniques that deal with reasoning and computing. It has been successfully applied in a number of fields including molecular biology, electrical engineering, operations research and numerical analysis. The central notion is that...

XML has firmly established itself as the universal...

If you have anything to do with web development, you should know how to use HTML. XHTML, and CSS the modern, professional way. That's true if you want to become a web designer. That's true for web designers who still use tables for page layout when they should be using CSS. That's true for JavaScript programmers. And that's...

Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction is the first book to offer a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the theoretical and applied work on word collocations. Backed by solid theoretical results, the computational experiments described based on data in four languages provide support for the book’s basic argument for using syntax-driven...

This thesis presents several precise techniques that analyze object-oriented languages for security violations, together with evaluations on Java benchmarks. The key question that will be targeted throughout this work is “Can a given statement directly or indirectly influence another statement, and if this is possible, how can this...

The Official Joomla! Book is the authoritative and comprehensive Joomla! reference for every administrator, developer, designer, and content manager. Distilling the unsurpassed experience of two long-time Joomla! contributors, it teaches exactly what you need to know, through practical example sites and crystal-clear...