If you want to enrich your game’s experience with physics-based realism, the expanded edition of this classic book details physics principles applicable to game development. You’ll learn about collisions, explosions, sound, projectiles, and other effects used in games on Wii, PlayStation, Xbox, smartphones, and tablets. You’ll also get a handle on how to take advantage of various sensors such as accelerometers and optical tracking devices.Authors David Bourg and Bryan Bywalec show ...

Get up to speed on the principal technologies in the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7, and learn how the latest version embraces HTML5, focuses on higher productivity, and provides functionality to meet enterprise demands. Written by Arun Gupta, a key member of the Java EE team, this book provides a chapter-by-chapter survey of several Java EE 7 specifications, including WebSockets, Batch Processing, RESTful Web Services, and Java Message Service.You’ll also get self-paced instr...

Richard Bird is famed for the clarity and rigour of his writing. His new textbook, which introduces functional programming to students, emphasises fundamental techniques for reasoning mathematically about functional programs. By studying the underlying equational laws, the book enables students to apply calculational reasoning to their programs, both to understand their properties and to make them more efficient. The book has been designed to fit a first- or second-year undergraduate cours...

Racket is a descendant of Lisp, a programming language renowned for its elegance, power, and challenging learning curve. But while Racket retains the functional goodness of Lisp, it was designed with beginning programmers in mind. Realm of Racket is your introduction to the Racket language.In Realm of Racket, you'll learn to program by creating increasingly complex games. Your journey begins with the Guess My Number game and coverage of some basic Racket etiquette...

After years of using spacer GIFs, layers of nested tables, and other improvised solutions for building your web sites, getting used to the more stringent "standards-compliant" design that is de rigueur among professionals today can be intimidating.With standards-driven design, keeping style separate from content is not just a possibility but a reality. You no longer use HTML and XHTML as design tools, but strictly as ways to define the meaning and structure of web content. And Casc...

Master Application Development with Java WebSocketBuild dynamic enterprise Web applications that fully leverage state-of-the-art communication technologies. Written by the leading expert on Java WebSocket programming, this Oracle Press guide offers practical development strategies and detailed example applications. Java WebSocket Programming explains how to design client/server applications, incorporate full-duplex messaging, establish connections, create endpoints, hand...

This book helps you to get started how to build PHP programs which access PostgreSQL server. The following is highlight topics* Setting up Development Environment* Hello World - PHP and PostgreSQL* CRUD Operations* Working with Image and Blob Data* Transaction* Stored Procedures

Photon kit is a tiny Wi-Fi development kit to build an Internet of Things programs. This board has built-in WiFi Module. This book helps you to get started with Photon kit development. The following is highlight of the book:* Preparing Development Environment* Setting Up The Photon Development: Particle Build, Particle Dev, Particle CLI, GNU GCC ARM* GPIO Programming* UART* PWM and Analog Input* Working with I2C* SPI* Working with EEP...

Design and build land, air, and sea drones using Ardupilot with Pixhawk 2.1Key FeaturesExplore the best practices used by the top industry professionals that will not only help you build drones in time, but also build effective solutions to cater to.Navigate through the complexities of Ardupilot to put together a complete functional UAV and assemble your droneLearn through practical examples that help you build robust UAV flight and ground cont...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionThis book is targeted at system engineers and system administrators who want to upgrade their knowledge and skills in high availability and want to learn practically how to achieve high availability with CentOS Linux. You are expected to have good CentOS Linux knowledge and basic networking experience.What you will learnPrepare the CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 operating systems for cluster software installation

Introduce colors a bunch at a time with this beautifully illustrated coloring book. By following the instructions on how each image should be colored, your child will learn to recognize and appreciate the colors red, yellow, pink and green. This book will also improve your child's vocabulary and his/her ability to follow instructions. Secure a copy for your child today!

How did digital media happen ? Through a unique approach to digital documents, and detailed intricate histories of illicit internet piracy networks, The Digital Culture Industry goes beyond the Napster creation myth and illuminates the unseen individuals, code and events behind the turn to digital media.