Cengage-Visual C Sharp Game Programming for Teens 2011 RETAiL EBook-DiGiBook | 10 MB
VISUAL C# GAME PROGRAMMING FOR TEENS teaches teens and other beginners how to create games using C# and Windows Forms (GDI+). A true beginner’s guide, this book covers each essential step for creating your own complete role-playing game, including a character creation screen and a combat system. This book serves as a comprehensive introductory guide for readers who are new to programming or new to programming for games. The reader is shown how to load and draw bitmaps, create sprites, render a game world, keep track of inventory and character stats, and build tools: a level editor, character editor, item editor, monster editor. Every chapter contributes toward a growing game library that is used to improve and add new and more advanced features to the game, and when the student is finished they will have created a complete game. Continue Reading »
Cambridge University Press-Modern Computer Arithmetic 2010 RETAiL EBook-DiGiBook | 5 MB
Modern Computer Arithmetic focuses on arbitrary-precision algorithms.
Efficiently performing arithmetic operations such as addition, multiplication and division, and their connections to topics such as modular arithmetic, greatest common divisors, the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), and the computation of elementary and special functions. Brent and Zimmermann present algorithms that are ready to implement in your favourite language, while keeping a high-level description and avoiding too low-level or machine-dependent details.
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Pearson-Using Microsoft Project 2010 RETAiL EBook-DiGiBook | 10 MB
More than any other book, Special Edition Using Microsoft Project 2000 reflects the realities of project management with Project 2000 as students will encounter it in today’s complex and rapidly changing organizations. This book is a definitive guide to effective project management with Microsoft Project 2000 and Microsoft Project Central, which extends the power of Microsoft Project to the Web, where it can be utilized for more effective collaboration across teams and entire organizations.
The authors begin with a clear, practical overview of the discipline of project management that explains exactly how Microsoft Project 2000 fits into the process. The author’s comprehensive, step-by-step feature coverage is organized to follow the project cycle of starting, developing, and implementing a plan; tracking and analyzing progress; adjusting to changes and unforeseen events; and preparing both interim and final reports.
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Pragmatic-Crafting Rails Applications 2011 RETAiL eBOOk-rebOOk | 20 MB
Rails Core developer Jose Valim guides you through seven different tutorials, each of them using test-driven development to build a new Rails extension or application that solves common problems with these new APIs. You will understand how the Rails rendering stack works and customize it to read templates from the database while you learn how to mimic Active Record behavior, like validations, in any other object. You will find out how to write faster, leaner controllers, and you’ll learn how to mix Sinatra applications into your Rails apps, so you can choose the most appropriate tool for the job. In addition, you will improve your productivity by customizing generators and responders.
This book will help you understand Rails 3′s inner workings, including generators, template handlers, internationalization, routing, and responders. With the knowledge you’ll gain, you’ll be ready to tackle complicated projects more easily than ever before, creating solutions that are well-tested, modular, and easy to maintain.
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Cambridge University Press-Cooperative Cellular Wireless Networks 2011 RETAiL EBook-DiGiBook | 20 MB
A self-contained guide to the state-of-the-art in cooperative communications.
Networking techniques for next generation cellular wireless systems, this comprehensive book provides a succinct understanding of the theory, fundamentals and techniques involved in achieving efficient cooperative wireless communications in cellular wireless networks. It consolidates the essential information, addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of cooperative communications and networking in the context of cellular design.
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IT Governance Publishing-PCI DSS A Pocket Guide 2nd Edition 2011 RETAiL EBook-DiGiBook | 5 MB
Target dates for compliance with the PCI DSS itself have all long since passed.
Many organisations – particularly those that fall below the top tier of payment card transaction volumes – are not yet compliant – and can no longer afford to put off the work required to fall into line with this global standard. This handy pocket guide will provide you with all the information you will need when considering how to approach the PCI DSS, and is an ideal tool for awareness training for your PCI staff.
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Wiley-Modeling and Simulation of Catalytic Reactors for Petroleum Refining 2011 RETAiL EBook-DiGiBook | 5 MB
The main conversion processes used in the petroleum refining industry catalytic hydrotreating, catalytic reforming, and fluid catalytic cracking.
It explains and analyzes approaches for modeling of catalytic reactors for steady-state and dynamic simulations and discusses aspects such as thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, process variables, process scheme, and reactor design. It uses laboratory and commercial data to validate models developed. This is an essential reference for chemical and process engineers, computational chemists and modelers, catalysis researchers, and professionals in the petroleum industry.
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Hodder-BTEC Level 3 National in IT 2011 RETAiL EBook-DiGiBook | 10 MB
Bursting with full-colour screenshots, photographs and illustrations, you will find it easy to locate all the information you need in this brand new book. With bite-sized chunks of information linked to the learning outcomes and activities to help generate the necessary evidence, you are clearly guided towards a pass, merit or distinction. The core units are covered along with the most popular optional units, giving you comprehensive coverage.
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Cambridge University Press-Machine Vision 2010 RETAiL EBook-DiGiBook | 5 MB
An accessible and comprehensive introduction to machine vision. It provides all the necessary theoretical tools and shows how they are applied in actual image processing and machine vision systems.
A key feature is the inclusion of many programming exercises that give insights into the development of practical image processing algorithms.
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PublicAffairs-The Age of Airpower 2011 RETAiL EBook-DiGiBook | 5 MB
Air power has been at the cutting edge of 20th-century war. Its story is most often told from a triumphalist perspective. Van Creveld, professor emeritus of history at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, acknowledges air power’s past glory with his usual blend of perception and panache. He then tells the rest of the story-the part air power enthusiasts neglect. Even in its heyday, air power’s achievements were limited: armies and navies did not disappear. For more than half a century, air power’s operational effectiveness has been limited by thermonuclear weapons at one end of the spectrum and low-intensity conflict at the other. Air forces are whipsawed between the growing demand of publics and governments that war be waged with minimal casualties, and a limited number of targets. But as the cost and complexity of aircraft metastasize, they are no longer expendable assets. Yet the very cultures of air forces are eroding, as pilots become increasingly passive aboard their computer-directed, ground-controlled aircraft rather than flying them. Van Creveld’s suggestion that helicopters and drones represent air power’s future is extreme, but cannot be dismissed as a flight of fancy. (May)
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