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Book Description

Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK gets you up and running developing Kinect applications for your PC using Microsoft tools and the official SDK. You will have a working Kinect program by the end of the first chapter! The following chapters will open up the secrets of three-dimensional vision, skeleton tracking, audio through the Kinect, and more. Examples illustrate the concepts in the form of simple games that react to your body movements. The result is a fun read that helps you learn one of the hottest technologies out there today.

Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDKalso provides building blocks and ideas for mashing up the Kinect with other technologies to create art, interactive games, 3D models and enhanced office automation. You’ll learn the fundamental code basic to almost all Kinect applications. You’ll learn to integrate that code with other tools and manipulate data to create amazing Kinect applications. Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK is your gateway into the exciting world of three-dimensional, real-time computer interaction.

• Helps you create a proper development environment for Kinect applications.
• Covers the basics of three-dimensional vision, skeleton tracking, gesture recognition, and audio
• Provides fun examples that keep you engaged and learning

What you’ll learn

• Create a proper development environment Download Now »

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Pro Office 365 Development is a practical, hands-on guide to building cloud-based solutions using the Office 365 platform. This groundbreaking offering from Microsoft provides enterprise-class collaborative solutions at an affordable price, and this book shows you how to use the Office 365 platform to easily build amazing custom applications, including coding for Excel Services, Microsoft Access, and SharePoint Online.

This book provides everything you’ll need to start developing custom solutions. You’ll find step-by-step instructions for providing custom features using the cloud-based services, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. There are lots of sample programs using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), JavaScript and Silverlight.

Whether you want to build desktop client applications or browser-only solutions with Microsoft’s new cloud-based productivity offering, this book will show you how to do it.

• Develop SharePoint solutions, including declarative workflows
• Use Access and Excel services to quickly build SharePoint sites
• Build content-sensitive collaborative solutions with instant messaging and video conferencing

What you’ll learn

• Configure and administer an enterprise Office 365 account Download Now »

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Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Data Structures is designed to be used in a 2 or 3 semester/quarter sequence for beginning programmers. Tony Gaddis emphasizes problem-solving and program design by teaching the Java programming language through a step-by-step detailed presentation. He introduces procedural programming early and covers control structures and methods before objects. Students are engaged and have plenty of opportunity to practice using programming concepts through practical tools that include end-of-section and chapter exercises, case studies and programming projects.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Computers and Java
Chapter 2. Java Fundamentals
Chapter 3. Decision Structures
Chapter 4. Loops and Files
Chapter 5. Methods
Chapter 6. A First Look at Classes
Chapter 7. A First Look at GUI Applications
Chapter 8. Arrays and the ArrayList Class
Chapter 9. A Second Look at Classes and Objects Download Now »

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You can’t truly understand Systems Analysis and Design (SAD) by only reading about it; you have to do it. In Systems Analysis and Design, Third Edition, Dennis, Wixom, and Roth offer a hands-on approach to actually doing SAD. Building on their experience as professional systems analysts and award-winning teachers, these three authors capture the experience of actually developing and analyzing systems. They focus on the core set of skills that all analysts must possess––from gathering requirements and modeling business needs, to creating blueprints for how the system should be built.

From the Back Cover
A modern, hands-on approach to doing SAD––in UML!Get the core skills you need to actually do systems analysis and design with this highly practical, hands-on approach to SAD using UML! Authors Alan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom, and David Tegarden guide you through each part of the SAD process, with clear explanations of what it is and how to implement it, along with detailed examples and exercises that allow you to practice what you’ve learned.

Now updated to include UML Version 2.0 and revised, this Second Edition features a new chapter on the Unified Process, increased coverage of project management, and more examples.

• Written in UML: The text takes a contemporary, object-oriented approach using UML.
• Focus on doing SAD: After presenting the how and what of each major technique, the text guides you through practice problems and then invites you to use the technique in a project.
• Rich examples of both success and failure Download Now »

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Objective-C Phrasebook, Second Edition – Updated for ARC, OS X 10.7, and iOS 5

Objective-C Phrasebook gives you the code phrases you need to quickly and effectively complete your programming projects with Objective-C.

The second edition of Objective-C Phrasebook has been updated for the new version of Objective-C supported by Apple’s LLVM compiler 3.0 on OS X 10.7 and iOS 5, and includes new coverage of ARC and other Objective-C features introduced with recent versions of Xcode.

• Concise and Accessible
  Easy to carry and easy to use–lets you ditch all those bulky books for one portable pocket guide
• Flexible and Functional
  Packed with more than 100 customizable code snippets–so you can readily create solid Objective-C code in just about any situation

Table of Contents
1. The Objective-C Philosophy
2. An Objective-C Primer
3. Memory Management
4. Common Objective-C Patterns
5. Numbers
6. Manipulating Strings Download Now »

Book Description

Based on the principles of cognitive science and instructional design, Fluent Visual Basic, part of the Fluent Learning series, is a true tutorial that will help you build effective working models for understanding a large and complex subject: developing .NET Framework applications in Visual Basic.

Most introductory books just talk at you and give you “exercises” that have more to do with taking dictation than actually learning. Fluent Visual Basic is different. It guides you through learning the way your mind likes to learn: by solving puzzles, making connections, and building genuine understanding instead of just memorizing random facts.

Detailed information on How to…

• Write .NET applications in Visual Basic
• Leverage the incredible power of the .NET Framework Class Library
• Apply Object-Oriented principles, Design Patterns, and best practices to your code
• Develop desktop applications using the powerful Windows Presentation Foundation user interface API

Table of Contents
Part I: Getting Started
1. Application Development
2. The .NET Platform
3. The Visual Studio UI Download Now »