Cutting-edge computer games rival the best that Hollywood has to offer in visual effects, musical score, and pure adrenaline rush. But games are a form of entertainment unlike any other; they can keep players glued to their monitors for hours on end. What sets games apart and makes them so engrossing is interactivity. In a computer game, you...

Learn the fundamentals of creating and using object oriented databases with C++ Database Development, 2nd Edition. This comprehensive guide covers the history and principles of database management, advanced techniques for designing and writing C++ persistent object database programs, and using PARODY the Persistent, Almost-Relational...

The Python Text Processing Beginner's Guide is intended to provide a gentle, hands-on introduction to processing, understanding, and generating textual data using the Python programming language. Care is taken to ensure the content is example-driven, while still providing enough background information to allow for a solid...

EVEN THE MOST SKILLED WEB DESIGNERS can find the complexities of creating a full-functioned Web site to be a daunting task. Here to help designers create sites that not only work, but work well and are easy to update and maintain is an easy-to-read guide to Web programming basics from best-selling author Charles Wyke-Smith. Just as architects...

Designed to get programmers up to professional levels as fast as possible, ADO.NET: From Novice to Pro is geared toward developers who have little or no .NET or ADO.NET experience, as well as programmers who are not yet comfortable with database programming. Best-selling author Peter Wright painlessly moves readers...

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A First Course in Game Programming
Most of today’s commercial games are written in C++ and are created using a game engine. Addressing both of these key elements, Programming 2D Games provides a complete, up-to-date introduction to game programming. All of the code in the book was carefully crafted...