Hi there, and welcome to the world of Android game development. You came here to learn about game development on Android, and we hope to be the people who enable you to realize your ideas.
Together we’ll cover quite a range of materials and topics: Android basics, audio and
graphics programming, a...
Agile methods have transformed how developers think about organizing the development of a
project. Rather than months (or years) of development, followed by months of field test leading
up to a release, agile methods organize development into short iterations with continuous testing
and a flexible release date. The agile approach...
On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the
proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Product-Focused Software
Process Improvement (PROFES 2011), held in Torre Canne, Italy. Since 1999
PROFES has grown in the software engineering community and has become a
premium conference that brings together...
Since the World Wide Web became widely available in the
mid 1990s, Web-based applications have developed rapidly.
The Web has come to be used by a range of people for many
different purposes, including online banking, e-commerce,
distance education, social networking, data sharing, collaborating
on team projects, and...
We are deluged by data—scientific data, medical data, demographic data, financial
data, and marketing data. People have no time to look at this data. Human
attention has become a precious resource. So, we must find ways to automatically
analyze the data, to automatically classify it, to automatically summarize it, to...
On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call. As
with many things, the test was purely accidental. Graham spilled acid on his leg, and
Watson, his assistant, heard his call for help through the telephone. So, what has changed
over the last 129 years? It would be easier to discuss what hasn’t...
In the five years since the first edition was published,
Microsoft has made impressive progress in building out its
data warehousing and business intelligence tools suite. It is
gratifying to those of us who work in this space to see the
steady commitment that Microsoft has made to provide
usable, professional quality tools. During...
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference
on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency
(PETRI NETS 2011). The Petri Net conferences serve as annual meeting places
to discuss the progress in the field of Petri nets and related models of concurrency.
They provide a forum for...
Many of us wish to create our own video games. For some, gaming is a hobby, and
for others it is something fun to participate in casually. But for the rest of us,
gaming and the dream of making our own games is more like a passion. Chances
are, if you’ve purchased this book, you are looking to turn your desire and passion
into...
This is the joint post-proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on High
Performance Computing (ISHPC-VI) and the First International Workshop on
Advanced Low Power Systems 2006 (ALPS2006). The post-proceedings also
contain the papers presented at the Second HPF International Workshop: Experiences
and Progress (HiWEP2005) and the...
More than fifteen years ago, I was faced with the following problem in an assignment
for a class in computer science. A brewery had to deliver beer to five stores, and the task
was to write a computer program for determining the shortest route for the truck driver to
visit all stores and return to the brewery. All my attemps to find a...
Train. Coffee shop. Soccer field. Now you can connect, collaborate, and get things done—virtually anywhere—using Microsoft Office 365. Guided by business productivity expert Katherine Murray, you’ll get a running start with Office 365 cloud-based business services. And you’ll take wing as you learn best...
