The first two chapters of this book are related and should be read in sequence. Chapter 1 is about preparing computer-aided design (CAD) and/or building information models (BIM) for enhancement, and Chapter 2 teaches you how to add the enhancements (such as color, pattern, shadow, and lineweight) in Photoshop.

I am guilty! After publicly complaining about the existence of too many Python based web frameworks, after praising the merits of Django, Pylons, TurboGears, CherryPy, and web.py, after having used them professionally and taught them in University level courses, I could not resist and created one more: web2py.

Welcome to Java—the world’s most widely used computer programming language. In this book, you’ll learn object-oriented programming—today’s key programming methodology.

You’ll create and work with many software objects in this text.

Greenfoot is a programming environment that can be used by individuals, in schools or in introductory university courses to learn and teach the principles of programming. It is flexible enough to be suitable for teenagers as well as older students.

The New Perspectives Series’ critical-thinking, problem-solving approach is the ideal way to prepare students to transcend point-and-click skills and take advantage of all that Microsoft Office 2010 has to offer.

Image processing is used in a wide variety of applications, for two somewhat different purposes:

1. improving the visual appearance of images to a human observer, including their printing and transmission, and

2. preparing images for the measurement of the features and structures which they reveal.

HTML5 promises to be the hot new platform for online games. HTML5 games work on computers, smartphones, and tablets, including iPhones and iPads. Be one of the first developers to build HTML5 games today and be ready for tomorrow!