• 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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• See some of the new features of Java 9 and be introduced to parts of the Java SDK
• This book provides a set of diverse, interesting projects that range in complexity from fairly simple to advanced and cover HTTP 2.0
• Take advantage of Java's new modularity features to write...

This book is Volume III of the series DSP for MATLAB™ and LabVIEW™. Volume III covers digital filter design, including the specific topics of FIR design via windowed-ideal-lowpass filter, FIR highpass, bandpass, and bandstop filter design from windowed-ideal lowpass filters, FIR design using the transition-band-optimized Frequency...

HTML5 will transform web and mobile gaming. As new browsers rapidly adopt it, HTML5 will do everything “legacy” technologies such as Flash and Silverlight have done—and...

Inspired by the groundbreaking A History of the World in 100 Objects, this book draws on the unique collections of The Strong museum in Rochester, New York, to chronicle the evolution of video games, from Pong to first-person shooters, told through the stories of dozens of objects essential to the field’s creation and...

• Design, simulate, build and program an interactive autonomous mobile robot
• Program Robot Operating System using Python
• Get...

This book is really the end product of over a decade of work, on and off, on diagrammatic reasoning in artificial intelligence (AI). In developing this book, I drew inspiration from a variety of sources: two experimental studies, the development of two prototype systems, an extensive literature review and analysis in AI,...

Arduino is an open-source platform that makes DIY electronics projects easier than ever. Gone are the days when you had to learn electronics theory and arcane programming languages before you could even get an LED to blink. Now, with this new edition of the bestsellingArduino: A Quick-Start Guide, readers with no electronics experience...

Human faces are familiar to our visual systems. We easily recognize a person's face in arbitrary lighting conditions and in a variety of poses; detect small appearance changes; and notice subtle expression details. Can computer vision systems process face images as well as human vision systems can? Face image processing has potential...

• Implement Spark's interactive shell to prototype distributed applications
• Deploy Spark jobs to various clusters such as Mesos, EC2, Chef, YARN, EMR, and so on
• Use Shark's SQL query-like syntax with...