• Untangle your game development workflow, make cleaner code, and create structurally solid games
• Implement key programming patterns that will enable you to make efficient AI and remove duplication
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Learn how to program in Python while making and breaking ciphers—algorithms used to create and send secret messages! 

After a crash course in Python programming basics, you’ll learn to make, test, and hack programs that encrypt text with classical ciphers like the transposition cipher and Vigenère...

iOS 8 App Development Essentials is the latest edition of this popular book series and has now been fully updated for the Swift programming language, the iOS 8 SDK and Xcode 6. Beginning with the basics, this book provides an outline of the steps necessary to set up an iOS development environment. An introduction to the architecture of iOS 8...

• Architect a Hadoop solution with a modular design for data collection, distributed processing, analysis, and reporting
• Build a multi-node Hadoop cluster on Windows servers
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Do you know Java is being used worldwide? These days it is difficult to find a platform not running on Java. Their uses begin from commercial e-commerce website to Android apps, from desktop applications to games, from financial applications to scientific applications, from J2ME applications to open source library...

This textbook provides an engaging and motivational introduction to traditional topics in discrete mathematics, in a manner specifically designed to appeal to computer science students. The text empowers students to think critically, to be effective problem solvers, to integrate theory and practice, and to recognize the importance of...

• Learn how to develop modular, scalable, maintainable, and adaptable web applications by taking advantage of TypeScript
• Create object-oriented JavaScript that adheres to the...

The 41 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully selected from 101 submissions during two...

• Set up OpenCV and an Android development environment on Windows, Mac, or Linux
• Capture and display real-time videos and still images
• Manipulate image data using OpenCV and Apache Commons Math
• Track objects and render 2D and 3D graphics on top of them
• ...

We describe in this book, hybrid intelligent systems using type-2 fuzzy logic and modular neural networks for pattern recognition applications. Hybrid intelligent systems combine several intelligent computing paradigms, including fuzzy logic, neural networks, and bio-inspired optimization algorithms, which can be used to produce...