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This beginner's guide focuses on getting you through all the major learning points in a smooth, logical order. You'll also see how to avoid some common pitfalls. Are you an Android Java programmer who needs more performance? Are you a C/C++ developer who doesnt want to bother with Java stuff and its...

Packed with practical recipes, this is a step-by-step guide to learning data visualization with D3 with the help of detailed illustrations and code samples.If you are a developer familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and you wish to get the most out of D3, then this book is for you. This book can also serve as a desktop quick-reference guide for experienced data visualization developers.

In each chapter you'll build a complete game, starting with simple puzzlers and working your way up to games similar to the most popular online casual games. Each game introduces a range of essential skills that all Flash game developers should know. There's never a dull moment -- you're building...

The book is written in an easy to understand step-by-step style. It covers real-world examples for every topic, so that you gain most out of the book and are able to apply these techniques straight into your game. If you are a programmer interested in developing games using Unity and want to customize...

This is a cookbook with over 80 recipes offering solutions to common game development problems with Panda3D with explained sample code and screenshots added in. If you are a developer with experience in Python, Panda3D, and optionally C++ and shading languages and you are looking for quick and easy to integrate solutions to common game development problems with Panda3D, this book is for you.

A practical hands-on guide which focuses on interactive programming, numerical computing, and data analysis with IPython. This book is for Python developers who use Python as a scripting language or for software development, and are interested in learning IPython for increasing their productivity during...

Step-by-step instructions are included and the needs of a beginner are totally satisfied by the book. The book consists of plenty of examples with accompanying screenshots and code for an easy learning curve. You are a web developer with knowledge of server side scripting, and have experience with installing...

The first two chapters will provide you with grounding in Monkey. In each subsequent chapter you will create a complete game deployable to either iOS, Android, HTML5, FLASH, OSX, Windows and XNA. The last chapter will show you how to monetize the games so you can be commercially successful in the...

Written in an informal and friendly manner, the style and approach of this book will take you on an exciting adventure. Piece by piece, detailed examples help you along the way by providing real-world game code required to make a complete 3D video game. Each chapter builds upon the experience and achievements...

This book uses practical examples to teach readers, and imparts the key skills and techniques of working in Construct 2 through building complete game projects.This book is for complete beginners who have always wanted to learn how to make games and have never tried. It is the perfect introduction to game development, design, and production.

Create and manage spatial data with PostGIS Key Features Import and export geographic data from the PostGIS database using the available tools Maintain, optimize, and fine-tune spatial data for long-term viability Utilize the parallel support functionality that was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.6 Book...

This book is full of fun and engaging recipes with modular libraries that can be plugged into your project. Each recipe consists of explained code accompanied by screenshots for your understanding. If you want to elevate your basic Cocos2d project to the next level, this is the book for you. Some understanding...

This is a practical, hands-on book, with a lot of code and images. It presents the real code that generates every image and describes almost every single line of it, so that you know exactly what's going on. Introductory, descriptive, and theoretical parts are mixed with examples, so that reading and...

The book is an example based, hands-on guide where you will learn how to make a game from scratch, and learn how to develop games on the iOS platform. If you have great ideas for games and want to learn iOS game development, then this book is the right choice for you. Being familiar with iOS development...