Expertly presents, from start to finish, the process of programming commercially viable computer games! This is the kind of book that you won't let out of our sight. From page one, Mike McShaffry, a leading programmer for Origin Systems (Makers of Wing Commander and the Ultima series) and Microsoft (Bicycle Casino), shows you how to create and code the very best interactive games. With dozens of tips and code illustrations, plus extensive narration of critical non-code issues, Game Coding Complete is the guide to orchestrating bug-free, high-quality game code that passes the muster of leading publishers such as Electronic Arts and Microsoft. The book covers all critical facets of programming, working with teams, selecting the right game architecture, testing and debugging, scheduling, and more. The book includes hundreds of insider tricks and techniques used by programmers who learned their craft on cutting edge titles such as Ultima Online. The C++ language is used throughout to explain specific programming concepts. This book is destined to become a classic for all game programmers. Foreword by game industry icon Warren Spector.

In this book you will learn:

* The nuts and bolts of the game coding process
* Insider techniques for writing top-notch game code
* 2D and 3D graphics techniques used by professional game developers
* Unique insight on critical algorithms you can't live without, debugging secrets, and tips for managing critical projects
* Key "gotchas" to avoid that can really hurt game development projects

With dozens of tips and code illustrations, plus extensive narration of critical non-code issues, Game Coding Complete is the guide to orchestrating bug-free, high-quality game code that will pass muster with leading game publishers such as Electronic Arts and Microsoft. This book covers all critical facets of game programming, working with teams, selecting the right game architecture, code optimization, and more.

Книга адресована опытным PHP-программистам и разработчикам Web-приложений, проектирующим крупные Web-системы для решения сложных задач. В книге рассматривается пятая версия РНР и новые объектно-ориентированные возможности языка, однако многие рекомендации вполне применимы и для предыдущей версии PHP, a идеи и стратегии повышения скорости и надежности кода, описанные в книге, позволят усовершенствовать код, написанный практически на любом языке высокого уровня.

В книге рассматривается разработка высокопроизводительных, стабильных и расширяемых PHP-приложений, а также подробно освещаются методики блочного тестирования, обеспечения безопасности, методик кэширования и повышения производительности Web-приложений. Кроме того, в книге достаточно полно описано создание РНР- и Zend-расширений, увеличивающих возможности языка.

Серия книг связанных с гейм мейкерством.
Начаная от базовых знаних C/C++, DirectX и Opengl, заканчивая теорией игр.

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Once listed in the "nice to have" sections of job postings, these days the knowledge of JavaScript is a deciding factor when it comes to hiring web developers. And rightly so. Where in the past we used to have the occasional few lines of JavaScript embedded in a web page, now we have advanced libraries and extensible architectures, powering the "fat-client", AJAX-type rich internet applications.

JavaScript is the language of the browser, but it's also heavily employed in many other environments: server-side programming, desktop applications, application extensions and widgets. It's a pretty good deal: you learn one language and then code all kinds of different applications. While this book has one chapter specifically dedicated to the web browser environment including DOM, events, and AJAX tutorials, the rest is applicable to all the other environments too.

This book treats JavaScript as a serious object-oriented language, showing you how to build robust, maintainable, and powerful libraries and applications. Along the way, we cover many of the recent innovations such as AJAX, JSON, and interesting design and coding patterns. After reading this book, you'll be prepared to ace your JavaScript job interview and even impress with some bits that the interviewer maybe didn't know. You should read this book if you want to be able to take your JavaScript skills to a new level of sophistication.

What you will learn from this book?

* Learn to think in JavaScript, the language of the web browser
* The basics of object-oriented programming, and how they apply to JavaScript
* Set up and use your training environment (Firebug)
* Master data types, operators, and flow control statements
* Understand functions: usage patterns, variable scope, and built-in functions
* Closures demystified
* Create and use objects
* Understand and use prototypes
* Reuse code with common patterns for inheritance
* Understand and work with the BOM (Browser Object Model)
* The DOM (Document Object Model) - accessing, modifying, adding, and deleting nodes
* Build responsive web pages with AJAX
* JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
* Listen and respond to browser events
* Apply design patterns to solve common problems
* Adopt coding patterns that unleash the unique power of the language
* Make your programs cleaner, faster, and compatible with other programs and libraries
* Achieve missing object-oriented features in JavaScript such as private properties and methods

Who is this book written for?

The book requires no prior knowledge of JavaScript and works from the ground up to give you a thorough grounding in this powerful language. If you do already know some JavaScript, you will find plenty of eye-openers as you discover just what the language can do.

This book takes a do-it-yourself approach when it comes to writing code, because the best way to really learn a programming language is by writing code. You are encouraged to type code into Firebug's console, see how it works and then tweak it and play around with it. There are practice questions at the end of each chapter to help review what you have learned.

Completely updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 250 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers face every day. Every recipe in the book has been reconsidered with more than a third of them rewritten to take advantage of new C# 3.0 features. If you prefer solutions you can use today to general C# language instruction, and quick answers to theory, this is your book. C# 3.0 Cookbook offers a new chapter on LINQ (language integrated query), plus two expanded chapters for recipes for extension methods, lambda functions, object initializers, new synchronization primitives and more. The new edition is also complemented by a public wiki, which not only includes all of the C# 2.0 recipes from the previous edition unchanged by the release of C# 3.0, but invites you to suggest better ways to solve those tasks. Here are some of topics covered: LINQ Numeric data types and Enumerations Strings and characters Classes and structures Generics Collections Exception handling Delegates, events, and lambda expressions Filesystem interactions Web site access XML usage (including LINQ to XML, XPath and XSLT) Networking Threading Data Structures & Algorithms Each recipe in the book includes tested code that you can download from oreilly.com and reuse in your own applications, and each one includes a detailed discussion of how and why the underling technology works. You don't have to be an experienced C# or .NET developer to use C# 3.0 Cookbook. You just have to be someone who wants to solve a problem now, without having to learn all the related theory first.

jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library that can enhance your websites regardless of your background. In this book, creators of the popular jQuery learning resource, learningquery.com, share their knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm about jQuery to help you get the most from the library and to make your web applications shine. For designers, jQuery leverages existing CSS and HTML skills, allowing you to dynamically find and change any aspect of a page. This book provides a gentle introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing you to add interactions and animations to your pages-even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled. For programmers, jQuery offers an open -source, standards-compliant, unobtrusive approach to writing complex JavaScript applications. This book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features, as well as provide you with a reference to the jQuery library to return to again and again. This book begins with a tutorial to jQuery, followed by an examination of common, real-world client-side problems, and solutions for each of them. A detailed reference rounds off the book, making it an invaluable resource for answers to all your jQuery questions. Who this book is written for This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications. The reader will need the basics of HTML and CSS, and should be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries required.

+ В дополнение легкий мануал с перечнем основных функций (250Кб), очень полезный при работе с JQeury.

PHP используется миллионом программистов по всему миру. Любой серьезный программист PHP должнен быть в состоянии оптимизировать свои программы на PHP для оптимальной и быстрой работы. Эта книга раскроет для программиста техники, с помощью которых они смогут настроить проекты на лучшую производительности.

Книга "Pro PHP производительность приложений" поможет вам понять все технологии и компоненты, которые играют роль в быстродействии вашего приложения. Когда секунды выполнения программы означают сохранение  и потеря пользователей, важно для всех, иметь планы оптимизации для проекта.  Но, какие компоненты в вашем приложении вы должны анализировать? Как оптимизировать? И как вы можете оценить, насколько хорошо ваше приложение работет? Вот некоторые из вопросов, на которые вы найдете ответы в этой книге.

Эта книга основана на примерах из реальной практики, проведет вас через процесс создания MVC (модель-представление-контроллер) основанных веб-приложений. Вы будете создавать и развивать скрипт магазина. Книга охватывает общие ошибки и лучшие практики, которые будут полезны для разработчиков. Эта книга для веб-разработчиков PHP, которые хотят начать работать с Zend Framework. Если у вас есть наработки в использовании фреймворка, книга научит вас использовать его наилучшим образом и вы будете создавать качественные приложения. Базовые знания объектно-ориентированного дизайна, будут полезны при прочтении этой книги.

Это учебник из серии "шаг за шагом" для разработки веб-приложений с использованием Yii. Книга следует канону "сначала - тест", нарастающий, и итеративный подход к разработке программного обеспечения на примере разработки проекта управления задачами, приложение под названием "Trackstar". Если вы программист со знанием PHP объектно-ориентированного программирования и желаете быстро развивать современные, сложные веб-приложения, то эта книга для вас. Предварительных знаний о Yii не требуется, для прочтения этой книгу.

Easy and effective team work using MVC, agile development, source control, testing, bug tracking, and more

    * Work more effectively as a team by breaking up complex PHP projects into manageable sub-parts
    * Develop code that is much easier to maintain with source control, agile principles, and project tracking
    * Apply techniques related to process models, collaboration among team members, and continuous long-term improvement
    * A precise guide with examples to illustrate practical benefits

In Detail
Given the nature of the business environment today, organizations that want to build value-added enterprise PHP applications need a team of PHP people rather than an individual. You've got a team! What next? Customizing such applications to meet with organizational objectives and maintaining these applications over time can be quite a tedious task for your team with so many people involved.

In this book, you will explore how you can break up complex PHP projects into simple sub-parts that multiple team members can work on. The book highlights the use of the MVC pattern for separating concerns in the application and agile principles to deliver code that works. You will learn to blend the simplicity and power of PHP with evolving software engineering principles and tools to easily develop code that is easy to maintain. With this book in hand, you know how to avoid getting muddled up while working in a team and achieve success on your project with effective team work.

This O'Reilly Cookbook provides more than a hundred recipes to help programmers use regular expressions to manipulate text and crunch data. Every programmer needs a grasp of regular expressions, but their power doesn't come without problems--even seasoned users often have trouble tackling performance issues. With recipes for popular programming languages such as C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and VB.NET, this book offers step-by-step solutions to scores of common tasks involving regular expressions. This cookbook will help you:

• Understand the basics of regular expressions through a concise tutorial
  
• Use regular expressions effectively in several programming and scripting languages
  
• Learn how to validate and format input
  
• Manage words, lines, special characters, and numerical values
• Find solutions for using regular expressions in URLs, paths, markup, and data exchange
  
• Learn the nuances of more advanced regex features
  
• Understand how regular expression APIs differ from language to language
  
• Write better regular expressions for custom needs

Whether you're a novice or an experienced user, Regular Expressions Cookbook will help deepen your understanding of this tool. You'll learn powerful new tricks, avoid language-specific gotchas, and save valuable time with this huge library of proven solutions to difficult, real-world problems.

Practical Subversion, Second Edition draws on the experience of its authors, Daniel Berlin and Garrett Rooneyboth Subversion project membersto guide you through a complete introduction to this popular code management solution. And this edition has been updated to reflect the most recent changes to the popular Subversion version control system. After a crash course on Subversions key features, including a theme project that youre encouraged to follow, youll explore best practices, migration tips for moving from other versioning solutions, Subversion integration, and an overview of the Subversion APIs.