Selasa, 03 September 2013

Wow! eBook: HTML5 Game Development with GameMaker - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: HTML5 Game Development with GameMaker - 5 new eBooks

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HTML5 Game Development with GameMaker

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 09:41 AM PDT

Book Description

The introduction of HTML5 has revolutionized the web browser as a legitimate gaming platform with unlimited potential. Making games for the browser has never been simpler, especially with GameMaker Studio. Developers have full control over asset management, built-in systems for physics, particles and path finding. In addition, it offers a rich scripting language and extensions for developers now enabling everyone to create games and monetize them quickly and easily.

HTML5 Game Development with GameMaker will show you how to make and release browser based games using practical examples. This book utilizes GameMaker's powerful scripting language allowing you to create your first game in no time. With this guide you will develop a thorough skill set and a coherent understanding of the tools to develop games of increasing complexity, gradually enhancing your coding abilities and taking them to a whole new level.

The GameMaker Studio environment allows you to jump right into building browser based games quickly and releasing them online. The chapters focus on core practical elements, such as, artificial intelligence and creating challenging boss battles. This book guides you on how to use advanced features easily and effectively, these include, data structures and demonstrating how to create rigid body physics with simple explanations and visual examples. By the end of this book you will have an in-depth knowledge of developing and publishing online social browser based games with GameMaker.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create great web based and social networking games, including games for Facebook, no experience is needed
  • Implement Pathfinding and Artificial Intelligence
  • Make games in various genres using the GameMaker Language
  • Explore and appreciate the most popular mobile games genre, Physics based games
  • Add unlockable levels, equipment and inventories
  • Create amazing particle effects for any game
  • Publish your games online, play with friends on Facebook

Approach
The book is a friendly but explosive reference for all skill levels, with several action packed projects. You will develop the ability to build games from scratch with a comprehensive practical tutorial guide. This book is assured to boost your skill set to another level.

Who this book is for
This book is for anyone with a passion to create fun and action packed web browser games using GameMaker Studio. This intuitive practical guide appeals to both beginners and advanced users wanting to create and release online games to share with the world, using the powerful GameMaker tool.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 364 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849694109
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849694100
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NumPy: Beginner’s Guide, 2nd Edition

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 09:37 AM PDT

Book Description

NumPy is an extension to, and the fundamental package for scientific computing with Python. In today’s world of science and technology, it is all about speed and flexibility. When it comes to scientific computing, NumPy is on the top of the list.

NumPy Beginner’s Guide will teach you about NumPy, a leading scientific computing library. NumPy replaces a lot of the functionality of Matlab and Mathematica, but in contrast to those products, is free and open source.

Write readable, efficient, and fast code, which is as close to the language of mathematics as is currently possible with the cutting edge open source NumPy software library. Learn all the ins and outs of NumPy that requires you to know basic Python only. Save thousands of dollars on expensive software, while keeping all the flexibility and power of your favourite programming language.You will learn about installing and using NumPy and related concepts. At the end of the book we will explore some related scientific computing projects. This book will give you a solid foundation in NumPy arrays and universal functions. Through examples, you will also learn about plotting with Matplotlib and the related SciPy project. NumPy Beginner’s Guide will help you be productive with NumPy and have you writing clean and fast code in no time at all.

What you will learn from this book

  • Install NumPy
  • NumPy arrays
  • Universal functions
  • NumPy matrices
  • NumPy modules
  • Plot with Matplotlib
  • Test NumPy code
  • Relation to SciPy

Approach
The book is written in beginner's guide style with each aspect of NumPy demonstrated with real world examples and required screenshots.

Who this book is for
If you are a programmer, scientist, or engineer who has basic Python knowledge and would like to be able to do numerical computations with Python, this book is for you. No prior knowledge of NumPy is required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 310 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing; 2nd Edition (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782166084
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782166085
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PrestaShop 1.5: Beginner’s Guide

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 09:34 AM PDT

Book Description

PrestaShop is an open source, e-commerce solution which allows you to build a highly functional, flexible, and attractive online store.

In”PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide” you will learn how to set up, extend, and personalize your own online shop. Newly updated to focus on PrestaShop 1.5, this book features descriptive and practical tutorials on everything you need to make a splash in the world of e-commerce.

If you want to start selling your products online but are a bit daunted about shipping, tax, and designing your online presence, then this is the book for you.

This practical book starts by showing you how to download, install, and configure your own shop. Using a step-by-step approach, this book takes you through the processes required to create a fully functioning online shop with the potential to make you serious money.

With distinct chapters on the methods required to make your products stand out to your customers better, this title will enable you to create and customize a vivid, online presence to get people visiting your store and buying your goods.

Targeting further sales, this book then shows you how to develop a targeted search engine optimization campaign to get new customers and keep existing customers returning. From here you will learn how to tackle complicated tax rates and shipping costs efficiently and with less hassle to ensure your customers are satisfied with your service.

If you want to start your own e-commerce business using PrestaShop, then this book will show you how.

What you will learn from this book

  • Build an online shop with PrestaShop
  • Quickly configure and install PrestaShop
  • Use PrestaShop catalog features to present your products in an enticing and professional manner
  • Customize and configure the look and feel of your PrestaShop to make it unique and professional
  • Connect PrestaShop to a choice of payment handlers to take online payments
  • Secure PrestaShop using a wide range of built-in features and other tactics
  • Master the ins and outs of handling shipping, taxes, and currencies in PrestaShop
  • Market your new business using e-mail, social media, SEO, articles, blogs, forums, and more

Approach
This book is written in a friendly voice with lots of tips, tricks, and screenshots to help you set up, extend, and personalize your own online shop. If you want to start your own e-commerce business, then this book will help you do that.

Who this book is for
This book is for people who are interested in creating an online shop. Basic HTML and CSS skills would be beneficial but are not required as we will provide you with all the code and know-how you need.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 260 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782161066
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782161066
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concrete5: Beginner’s Guide, 2nd Edition

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Book Description

concrete5 is an open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. concrete5 is designed for ease of use, and for users with limited technical skills. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page. It provides version management for every page and allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page.

concrete5 Beginner's Guide shows you everything you need to get your own site up and running in no time. You will then learn how to change the look of it before you find out all you need to add custom functionality to concrete5.

concrete5 Beginner's Guide starts with installation, then you customize the look and feel and continue to add your own functionality. After you've installed and configured your own concrete5 site, we'll have a closer look at themes and integrate a simple layout into concrete5. Afterwards, we're going to build a block from scratch which you can use to manage a news section. We're also going to add a button to our site which can be used to create a PDF document on the fly. This book also covers some examples that show you how to integrate an existing jQuery plugin.

concrete5 Beginner's Guide is a book for developers looking to get started with concrete5 in order to create great websites and applications.

What you will learn from this book

  •  How to install concrete5
  •  Understand the configuration of concrete5
  •  What you need to know to build your own theme
  •  How you can turn the slideshow block into a gallery
  •  How to add a new dashboard page
  •  How to create new blocks from scratch
  •  How to put different elements into a package for easy handling and distribution
  •  What you need to know to use concrete5 in a different language
  •  How to deploy a local site to a production server

Approach
This is a beginner’s guide, which takes a clear, step-by-step approach to guide you through the process of creating and adding functionality to your site.

Who this book is for
This book is ideal for developers experienced with HTML and CSS and possibly PHP as well as JavaScript, who would like to build their first site with concrete5. Some knowledge of PHP, MySQL, or HTML would be useful, but no experience with concrete5 is expected.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 324 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing; 2nd Edition (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782169318
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782169314
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Puppet 3: Beginner’s Guide

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 09:27 AM PDT

Book Description

Everyone’s talking about Puppet, the open-source DevOps technology that lets you automate your server setups and manage websites, databases, and desktops. Puppet can build new servers in seconds, keep your systems constantly up to date, and automate daily maintenance tasks.

“Puppet 3 Beginner’s Guide” gets you up and running with Puppet straight away, with complete real world examples. Each chapter builds your skills, adding new Puppet features, always with a practical focus. You’ll learn everything you need to manage your whole infrastructure with Puppet.

“Puppet 3 Beginner's Guide” takes you from complete beginner to confident Puppet user, through a series of clear, simple examples, with full explanations at every stage.

Through a series of worked examples introducing Puppet to a fictional web company, you’ll learn how to manage every aspect of your server setup. Switching to Puppet needn’t be a big, long-term project; this book will show you how to start by bringing one small part of your systems under Puppet control and, little by little, building to the point where Puppet is managing your whole infrastructure.

Presented in an easy-to-read guide to learning Puppet from scratch, this book explains simply and clearly all you need to know to use this essential IT power tool, all the time applying these solutions to real-world scenarios.

What you will learn from this book

  • Installing and configuring your Puppet environment
  • Running Puppet on multiple servers
  • Deploy configuration files and templates for lightning-fast installations
  • Creating and monitoring reports and information
  • Managing user accounts, security, access control, and scheduled jobs
  • Best practices for organizing your Puppet code using Git

Approach
Presented in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorial format, Puppet 3 Beginner's Guide will lead you through the basics of setting up your Puppet server with plenty of screenshots and real-world solutions.

Who this book is for
This book is written for system administrators and developers, and anyone else who needs to manage computer systems. You will need to be able to edit text files and run a few commands on the command line, but otherwise no system administration or programming experience is required.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 204 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782161244
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782161240
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