Senin, 20 Agustus 2012

Wow! eBook: LiveCode Mobile Development: Beginner’s Guide - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: LiveCode Mobile Development: Beginner’s Guide - 5 new eBooks

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LiveCode Mobile Development: Beginner’s Guide

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:56 AM PDT

LiveCode Mobile Development: Beginners Guide

Book Description

LiveCode is a tool for developing apps designed for those who don’t want to use Objective-, ++ or . Although it is a tool full of rich features to create apps it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build interactive and fun apps. Using this book, you can develop various apps and this book guides you through ’till you upload the apps in the appstore.

“LiveCode Beginner’s Guide” will explain create applications with the easiest, most practical cross platform framework available, Livecode and upload the apps to the appstore with minimal effort..

Throughout the book, you’ll learn details that will help you become a pro at mobile app using LiveCode. You begin with simple calculator application and quickly enhance it using LiveCode Mobile. Start by learning the interface controls for videos and images of LiveCode's environment. Dig into configuring devices, building user interfaces, and making rich applications, then finish by uploading the mobile applications to App Stores. You will learn build apps for devices such as , with the recently developed LiveCode Mobile through sample applications of increasing complexity.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create a simple sample application
  • Build the interface and write the code using a Multimedia Scrapbook as an example application.
  • Make a ‘To do/reminders application’
  • Build User Interfaces like interfaces
  • Uploading your final app to the
  • Create a jigsaw puzzle app that takes advantage of several mobile device features
  • Make standard looking buttons and fields, and programmatically create the screen layout

Approach
This book will follow a tutorial style, starting from basic LiveCode coding concepts to its real-world implementation. It will teach developers how to use this new framework to develop interactive, cross-platform mobile applications.

Who this book is written for
If you are a developer, consultant or student looking to create fast, scalable mobile applications, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of programming such as understanding variables, expressions, control structures and functions is required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 246 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849692483
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849692489
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Sony Vegas Pro 11: Beginner’s Guide

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:53 AM PDT

Sony Vegas Pro 11: Beginners Guide

Book Description

Pro is a widely used editing tool that provides an efficient and intuitive environment for creating professional quality videos. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced editor, Vegas Pro meets all your needs

Pro 11 Beginner’s Guide is packed with tips and advice on go about creating professional quality videos from . With this book in hand, even a novice can start making a or a short film quickly and easily.

Sony Vegas Pro 11 Beginner’s Guide takes you through the process of creating a video from . The book is packed with many screenshots to help illustrate time-saving editing techniques and spice up your video with beautiful effects and titles. You will also dive into editing, color correction, event panning and cropping along with various other techniques which will enable you to develop a solid foundation in video editing.

By the end of this book you will be able to create and edit videos with ease.

What will you learn from this book

  • Easy and quick steps to make a video
  • Import from different sources
  • Learn about the various editing tools available in Vegas Pro to save you time during the editing process
  • Add professional, animated titles and transitions to enhance your videos’ look
  • Fix the colors in your footage with advanced color correction tools
  • Export your projects to , , , and more

Approach
The book takes a clear, step-by-step approach to guide you through the process of creating a video with Vegas Pro. With each chapter, you will “level up” your video editing skills.

Who this book is written for
Are you keen on creating professional quality videos? You know little or nothing about video editing and Vegas Pro? Then this book is a perfect fit for you to dive headfirst into video production with Vegas Pro.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849691703
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849691703
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Mahara E-Portfolios: Beginner’s Guide

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:50 AM PDT

Mahara E Portfolios: Beginners Guide

Book Description

ePortfolios helps you to use software as you follow an experiential learning cycle. In you can:

  • Plan your learning.
  • Do what you do and gather evidence of your competence as you do those things.
  • View and organize your work by structuring your data in easy-to-make (web)pages and (mini-) collections of those pages.
  • Reflect on your learning by use of professional journals, engaging feedback on your pages and establishing and engaging in communities who share a similar interest.

Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide is a step-by-step guide to develop a feature-rich and highly personal electronic portfolio. Form a repository of reflective journals, action learning plans, presentations, reports, images and videos. Easily share this with your friends, family, tutors, students, team and others using this step-by-step guide written in a clear and easy to learn manner.

This book guides you to build an impressive e-Portfolio and to work in professional communities of interest within a Mahara walled garden. It brings to life the key features of Mahara which will help thoughtful people to display their artefacts coherently and to engage with like-minded peers professionally.

This book introduces you to exciting features of Mahara framework and helps you develop a feature-rich e-portfolio for yourself. You will see how easily you can create folders, upload multiple files like documents, pictures and videos and share them with your friends. You will learn to set up single pages and collections of pages which organize these files, making these visible only to your own chosen peers, supervisors or friends. Then, you will allow people to give their inputs.

You will learn to create journals, learning plans, your professional resume, group spaces and forums which help you get connected to the of the world. Customization and administration of your Mahara site will be easy after you have gone through this book. Imagine how good you will feel when you will see your knowledge, success, and ideas going live and available to your chosen audiences for their inputs.

Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide is a step-by-step guide to building an impressive professional e-portfolio using Mahara. It covers the key features of Mahara that will help you set up your customized portfolio and display the artefacts in your preferred way allowing contribution from selected users only.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create folders of your self-produced materials in a private area within Mahara, just like on your own computer, with an easy file facility
  • Create a variety of journals and plans in Mahara – facilitating your own action research and experiential learning journey
  • Make an impressive profile and digital resume using Mahara profile fields and tailor your own profile view
  • Create scores of new web pages or mini-websites (collections of pages) entirely from and customize each of them to allow much more flexibility and control over who sees what and when
  • Set an environment to receive public or private feedback on your pictures, videos, and articles
  • Connect with other Mahara users and get : discuss topics of common interest in forums and share views with each other in collectively-owned web pages
  • Manage different groups of learners within Mahara, tutor them and lock-down their work from further editing if you need to
  • Customize and administer your Mahara site to your own preferences using a number of configuration settings for easy administration

Approach
This book will provide you with step-by-step instructions to get started with Mahara and create an impressive electronic portfolio. The book is packed with many useful examples and screenshots for easy and quick learning.

Who this book is for
Pick up this book if you want to get started with Mahara. This book is for you if:

  • You are an employee, student or other type of learner wanting to maintain online documentation of your projects and share it with a particular assessor/CPD Manager/teacher/trainer for feedback.
  • You are a teacher or mentor wanting to set up an e-portfolio for your students or employees in order to encourage and advance personalized and reflective learning.
  • You are a professional wanting to share your journals and project documents with your team by sharing your existing knowledge and creating new knowledge in communities of professional practice.
  • You are a human resources professional who wants a software application which will enable your team to generate, capture and transfer tacit knowledge.
  • No previous experience of Mahara is required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 328 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849517762
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849517768
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Blackboard Essentials for Teachers

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:46 AM PDT

Blackboard Essentials for Teachers

Book Description

is the world’s most popular commercial learning management . With you can construct and deliver professional quality elearning courses with ease. Its many features, which allow you to manage courses, grading and assessments, and collaboration, are the standard against which other learning management systems are measured.

Essentials for Teachers shows you use Blackboard’s most essential features by guiding you through the of a demonstration course, built on Blackboard’s free site for teachers, coursesites.com. You will also learn more about Blackboard’s most important features, such as the gradebook, using clear instructions to guide you every step of the way.

By following an example course, this book will guide you, step-by-step, through creating your own Blackboard course. Start by adding static material for students to view, such as pages, links, and . Then, add interaction to your courses, with discussion boards, blogs, and wikis. Most importantly, engage your students in your course by communicating with them, assessing them, and putting them into groups. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers will enable you to take your elearning course from inception, to construction, to delivery.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create pages using Blackboard’s editor
  • Organize your course with pages and modules
  • Add files and for students to download
  • Interact with students using discussion boards, blogs, and wikis
  • Test your students by building and administering full-featured tests
  • Assess your students with submitted assignments
  • Ease your workload by managing groups of students
  • Communicate with your students using messages and announcements

Approach
This book develops a sample site with lots of step-by-step instructions and screenshots to get you up and running in no time at all.

Who this book is written for
If you are a teacher or course builder, you need only basic computer skills to get the most from this book. You don’t need any background in teaching or building pages.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849692920
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849692922
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OData Programming Cookbook for .NET Developers

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:38 AM PDT

OData Programming Cookbook for .NET Developers

Book Description

Odata (Open Data ) is a for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. OData enables data access among a variety of applications, services, and stores by adopting existing technologies such as HTTP, , and JSON. This book deals with common OData cases over the Microsoft .NET Framework platform and eases the learning curve for a .NET developer to start incorporating OData in data service .

This book provides a collection of recipes that help .NET developers to get familiar with OData in a quick and efficient manner. The recipes cover most OData features from the former Data Service to the current Data Service platform. In addition, all the sample cases here are based on real-world scenarios and issues that .NET developers might come across when with OData in application .

This book will be your handy guide with basic to advanced walkthroughs of common OData programming cases for the Microsoft .NET Framework platform. You will learn quick solutions to necessary tasks to integrate the power of OData at both -side and client-side.

This book will help you master the use of OData with .NET Framework by taking you through hands-on and practical recipes. It starts by talking about the common means for building OData services and consuming OData services in client applications. Then, some more specific topics like hosting, configuration and are discussed. The book also covers many popular and interesting topics such as integrating OData in web applications, and developing data-driven mobile applications with OData. Moreover, you can also find quite a few recipes discussing real-world OData producers and new features in latest and future versions.

Within “OData Programming Cookbook for .NET Developers”, all the recipes are selected based on real-world scenarios that you will commonly come across. Each recipe covers a specific topic, going from the description of the problem, through a conceptual , to a containing sample code. By following these recipes, you can acquire how to program with OData in a simple, effective, and easy manner.

What you will learn from this book

  • Build OData service with relational
  • Create OData service with custom data sources
  • Consume OData service with strong-type service proxy
  • Access OData service by sending raw HTTP requests
  • Use query options to perform advanced OData service query
  • Apply dynamic HTTP compression for hosted OData service
  • Host OData service with Cloud platform
  • Use JQuery for OData service query in AJAX web application
  • Access OData service in Window Phone 7 applications
  • Manipulate document library in 2010 sites through OData endpoint
  • Secure OData service with ASP.NET Forms authentication
  • Work with binary data stream in OData service

Approach
The recipes in this book are easy to understand and follow as the author discusses real-world scenarios.

It is not a comprehensive reference to the whole of OData, but a practical guide that boosts proficiency when working with the various aspects of OData programming. The examples are supported by relevant background information for ease of understanding.

Who this book is for
If you are a .NET developer and you want to learn how to use OData in real-world data access application development, then this book is for you. To follow the recipes you will need to be comfortable with .NET Framework, Visual Studio IDE, # language, and the basics of web programming like HTTP, , JSON.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 376 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849685924
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849685924
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