• Learn how to go about developing some simple, yet powerful applications with ease using recipes and example code
• Teaches how to use the features of iOS 6 to integrate Facebook, Twitter,...

• Implement the critical main game loop and structure your games to enable an array of advanced features
• Animate your characters with sprite sheets, add multiple scrolling parallax...

• Craft game environments with extreme clarity by adding realism to characters, objects, and props
• Import and set up custom assets such as meshes, textures, and normal maps in Unity
• A step-by-step guide written in a...

Groovy brings you the best of both worlds: a flexible, highly productive, agile, dynamic language that runs on the rich framework of the Java Platform. Groovy preserves the Java semantics and extends the JDK to give you true dynamic language capabilities. Programming Groovy 2 will help you, the experienced Java developer, learn and...

This unique book-and-DVD package prepares you to get more out of Excel by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to automate your routine or labor-intensive Excel tasks. Microsoft Excel MVP and author Tom Urtis walks through a series of lessons while the...

• Begin developing your own games of any scale by learning to harness the power of the Award Winning CryENGINE® 3 game engine
• Build your game worlds in real-time with CryENGINE® 3 Sandbox as we share...

As an incredibly cheap, credit-card sized computer, the Raspberry Pi is breaking down barriers by encouraging people of all ages to experiment with code and build new systems and objects; and this book provides readers with inspiring and insightful examples to explore and build upon. Written for intermediate to seasoned Raspberry Pi users,...

Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic difference become entangled with political debates about cultural and group differences in America? Such issues are a conspicuous part of the histories of three hereditary diseases: Tay-Sachs, commonly...

• Develop practical skills that are required to create media center applications using BeagleBone
• Use the provided design toolbox that will act as a bridge between your ideas and the final...

• Build solid, high performance applications in Swift
• Increase your efficiency by getting to grips with concurrency and parallel programming
• Use Swift to design...