Nov 28, 2011 |
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Book Description
Adobe Flash Professional is the most popular software available for creating animations for the Web. Most people start using Flash to create vector-based animations that output small file sizes perfect for the Web. Later they want to branch out into creating rich interactive experiences for websites and mobile devices, and for that they need to learn ActionScript.
Doug Winnie draws on the experience he’s gained from his years as an educator to teach not only what ActionScript can do, but also to show how the code works. This gives the reader a deeper understanding of how ActionScript functions, and gives them the power to come up with original solutions when creating their own projects.
Doug’s book dives right into the concepts of manipulating Flash objects and the fundamentals of functions and mathematical operators. After presenting events and using scripts to control the Flash timeline, classes and conditionals are covered in depth.
The final part of the book covers creating desktop applications with Adobe AIR, developing mobile applications, and working with external code libraries. Real-world projects are sprinkled generously throughout the book and Appendices include information on debugging, deciphering documentation, and using Adobe Flash Builder as an ActionScript development environment.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Accessing and Manipulating Objects
Chapter 2. Dynamically Adding Objects to the Stage Download Now »
Nov 24, 2011 |
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Book Description
With the Mac App Store launch in early 2011, a new age in Mac development began. Look for many of the cool apps for iPhone and iPad coming to an iMac or MacBook Pro near you!
Beginning OS X Lion Apps Development explains how to develop OS X Lion-based apps and publish them in the Mac App Store. It begins with the basics of Objective-C and Cocoa, and then moves through all the topics necessary to build and publish your first successful Mac apps!
If you’re new to Mac or new to iPhone or iPad apps development, and looking to develop apps for the Macbook Pro or Mac desktop, this book is for you!
What you’ll learn
- How to use Apple’s development tools
- How to build user interfaces and create user experiences (UX)
- How to respond to user input
- How to integrate your apps into the Mac ecosystem
- How to store and retrieve data
- How to publish your apps to the new Mac App Store Download Now »
Nov 19, 2011 |
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Book Description
It’s your first day on the new job. You’ve got the programming chops, you’re up on the latest tech, you’re sitting at your workstation… now what? New Programmer’s Survival Manual gives your career the jolt it needs to get going: essential industry skills to help you apply your raw programming talent and make a name for yourself. It’s a no-holds-barred look at what really goes on in the office–and how to not only survive, but thrive in your first job and beyond.
Programming at industry level requires new skills – you’ll build programs that dwarf anything you’ve done on your own. This book introduces you to practices for working on large-scale, long-lived programs at a professional level of quality. You’ll find out how to work efficiently with your current tools, and discover essential new tools.
But the tools are only part of the story; you’ve got to get street-smart too. Succeeding in the corporate working environment requires its own savvy. You’ll learn how to navigate the office, work with your teammates, and how to deal with other people outside of your department. You’ll understand where you fit into the big picture and how you contribute to the company’s success. You’ll also get a candid look at the tougher aspects of the job: stress, conflict, and office politics.
Finally, programming is a job you can do for the long haul. This book helps you look ahead to the years to come, and your future opportunities–either as a programmer or in another role you grow into.
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Nov 15, 2011 |
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Book Description
How do you use R to import, manage, visualize, and analyze real-world data? With this short, hands-on tutorial, you learn how to collect online data, massage it into a reasonable form, and work with it using R facilities to interact with web servers, parse HTML and XML, and more. Rather than use canned sample data, you’ll plot and analyze current home foreclosure auctions in Philadelphia.
This practical mashup exercise shows you how to access spatial data in several formats locally and over the Web to produce a map of home foreclosures. It’s an excellent way to explore how the R environment works with R packages and performs statistical analysis.
- Parse messy data from public foreclosure auction postings
- Plot the data using R’s PBSmapping package
- Import US Census data to add context to foreclosure data
- Use R’s lattice and latticeExtra packages for data visualization
- Create multidimensional correlation graphs with the pairs() scatterplot matrix package
About the Author
Jeremy Leipzig is a bioinformatics software developer at DuPont Crop Genetics. He has conducted academic research in viral integration, metagenomics, schizophrenia, and alternative splicing. While a graduate student, he developed one of the first faculty-review websites and wrote “Work Issues in Software Engineering”, a survey-based study of “death march” projects. Download Now »
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Book Description
A unique book-and-video package presented by Java guru Yakov Fain
As one of the most popular software languages for building Web applications, Java is often the first programming language developers learn. The latest version includes numerous updates that both novice and experienced developers need to know. With this invaluable book-and-video package, Java authority Yakov Fain fully covers Java’s new features as well as its language extensions, classes and class methods, and the Swing Application Framework. For each lesson that he discusses in the book, there is an accompanying instructional video to reinforce your learning experience.
Lessons include:
- Introducing Java
- Eclipse IDE
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Class Methods
- Back to Java Basics
- Packages, Interfaces, and Encapsulation
- Programming with Abstract Classes and Interfaces
- Introducing the Graphic User Interface
- Event Handling in UI Download Now »
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Book Description
Grasp the basic concepts that drive all Microsoft® .NET-based languages—and prepare yourself to learn .NET programming. If you have absolutely no previous experience, no problem—simply start here! This ebook provides the foundation for all other .NET programming language books in the Start Here! series. You’ll explore programming concepts and techniques with clear explanations, easy-to-follow examples, and exercises. It’s the perfect reference for understanding how computer programs work.
- Delve into object-oriented concepts such as properties, methods, and events
- Discover what multiprocessing is—and how it’s changing computing
- Examine how programs store data in files, object stores, and databases
- Explore controls, such as labels, text boxes, menus, and scroll bars
- Learn how programming environments help you design and run programs
- Get an extensive glossary of key programming terms
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Computer Hardware
Chapter 2 Multiprocessing
Chapter 3 Programming Environments
Chapter 4 Windows Program Components
Chapter 5 Controls
Chapter 6 Variables Download Now »
