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Beginning C# Game Programming (Game Development)
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Are you ready to try your hand at programming games using C#? “Beginning C# Game Programming” is your ideal introductory guide—designed to jumpstart your experience with C# and DirectX 9. It includes the fundamental topics you’ll need to know and covers additional topics that you’ll find helpful along the way. Begin with a comprehensive look at programming with C#—from the basics of classes to advanced topics such as polymorphism and abstraction. Then it’s on to DirectX 9 as you learn how to create a basic framework and a Direct3D device. You’ll also cover DirectSound and DirectInput. Put your newfound knowledge to the test as you program a complete game!
Provides true beginners with the programming skills they need to create games using C#.
Shows readers how to combine C# with DirectX 9.
Covers comprehensive game development topics, including sound and graphics.
Comes complete with Q&As, extensive end-of-chapter exercises, and a CD to reinforce self-practice and learning.

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Progressive Methods in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence: Concepts and Compe
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Recent technological advancements in data warehousing have been contributing to the emergence of business intelligence useful for managerial decision making. Progressive Methods in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence: Concepts and Competitive Analytics presents the latest trends, studies, and developments in business intelligence and data warehousing contributed by experts from around the globe. Consisting of four main sections, this book covers crucial topics within the field such as OLAP and patterns, spatio-temporal data warehousing, and benchmarking of the subject.
About the Author
David Taniar received a PhD degree in databases from Victoria University (Australia, 1997). He is now a senior lecturer at Monash University (Australia). He has published more than 100 research articles and edited a number of books in the web technology series. He is in the editorial board of a number of international journals, including Data Warehousing and Mining, Business Intelligence and Data Mining, Mobile Information Systems, Mobile Multimedia, Web Information Systems, and Web and Grid Services. He has been elected as a fellow of the Institute for Management of Information Systems (UK).

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Happy About Global Software Test Automation: A Discussion of Software Testing for Exe
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Testing problems are difficult, expensive, and hard to understand. Most software companies have bugs escape the testing cycles and reach customers. How can some of the inherent problems with software testing be eliminated? This book addresses this fundamental issue and helps the reader understand the high-level elements necessary to better execute software test automation and outsourcing initiatives.
Although your team may know about test automation, have they ever executed efficiently to meet the goals of faster delivery, better quality, and saving money? If not, this book is a must read.
The goal of the book is to help make testing less of an albatross and to provide a guide to software testing success. If done right, you can: Increase quality, Decrease cost and Increase speed to market.
Co-Apple founder Steve Wozniak says that “Software is complex but I’m tired of finding bug after bug that a 5th grader wouldn’t have turned in. Virtually every technical product these days includes a lot of software. It’s a rare engineer that can write nearly perfect code. Methodical and thorough testing of software is the key to quality products that do what the user expects. Read this book to learn what you need to do!”


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Core Java, Volume 1: Fundamentals
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This revised edition of the classic Core Java™, Volume I–Fundamentals, is the definitive guide to Java for serious programmers who want to put Java to work on real projects. Fully updated for the new Java SE 6 platform, this no-nonsense tutorial and reliable reference illuminates the most important language and library features with thoroughly tested real-world examples.
The example programs have been carefully crafted to be easy to understand as well as useful in practice, so you can rely on them as an outstanding starting point for your own code. Volume I is designed to quickly bring you up to speed on what’s new in Java SE 6 and to help you make the transition as efficiently as possible, whether you’re upgrading from an earlier version of Java or migrating from another language. The authors concentrate on the fundamental concepts of the Java language, along with the basics of user-interface programming.

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Windows Vista Plain & Simple
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Get the fast answersing full colorthat make learning the new Windows Vista operating system plain and simple! Windows Vista helps you more effectively use your PCwith simple ways to find and use your information, enjoy your digital media, and connect to technologies and people.
This no-nonsense guide helps you learn the easy way to navigate this new operating system with numbered steps and concise, straightforward language that show the most expedient ways to learn a new skill or solve a problem. Youll discover how to perform everyday tasks and answer your own questions quicklylearning the essentials for customizing your desktop, setting up a home network, managing digital media, publishing files to the Web, and more. With Plain & Simple, you dont have to wade through superfluous details.
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Bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users
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The key to mastering any Unix system, especially Linux and Mac OS X, is a thorough knowledge of shell scripting. Scripting is a way to harness and customize the power of any Unix system, and it’s an essential skill for any Unix users, including system administrators and professional OS X developers. But beneath this simple promise lies a treacherous ocean of variations in Unix commands and standards. “bash Cookbook” teaches shell scripting the way Unix masters practice the craft. It presents a variety of recipes and tricks for all levels of shell programmers so that anyone can become a proficient user of the most common Unix shell — the bash shell — and cygwin or other popular Unix emulation packages. Packed full of useful scripts, along with examples that explain how to create better scripts, this new cookbook gives professionals and power users everything they need to automate routine tasks and enable them to truly manage their systems — rather than have their systems manage them.

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Maya Feature Creature Creations
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Discover how to build commercial-quality, anatomy-based CG characters using Maya with “Maya Feature Creature Creations, Second Edition.” In today’s competitive entertainment market, animated movies and video games require superior graphics and realistic characters, making it imperative that 3D artists and designers master state-of-the-art software like Maya. With this book, you will learn all of the steps required to create a character, from concept to completion. Using step-by-step instructions and explanations, the book lays out a method for building anatomy-based, photo-realistic computer-generated characters with physicsdriven skin. The most up-to-date techniques and technology are presented, including how to create skin and muscle deformations, and how to rig your character without binding tools. You will also gain an understanding of how to work within a high-resolution pipeline. Insight and advice from a professional animator will help you troubleshoot along the way. “Maya Feature Creature Creations, Second Edition” provides you with all the skills and techniques needed to create your own fantastic, Hollywood-style creatures and characters.

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Innovations in Information Systems Modeling: Methods and Best Practices
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Modeling is used across a number of tasks in connection to information systems, but it is rare to see and easily compare all the uses of diagrammatical models as knowledge representation in one place, highlighting both commonalities and differences between different kinds of modeling.
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Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator’s Companion
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This comprehensive administrator s reference delivers the details you need to successfully deploy, manage, and support Windows Small Business Server 2008. The authors, experts in Microsoft operating systems and server technologies, provide easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics. Delve into system features and capabilities and get hands-on insights for completing everyday tasks, including implementing messaging and collaboration, Internet access, database administration, security, faxing, support for line-of-business applications, and end-to-end network administration. This single volume covers all Small Business Server 2008 components, including Windows Server(r) 2008, Windows SharePoint(r) Services 3 technologies, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 technologies, Microsoft SQL Server(r) 2008, Windows(r) Update Services 3.0, Web Server technologies, Windows Live OneCare for Server, and remote administration services. The book also includes timesaving tools and scripts and a complete eBook on the CD.

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