Android Tablet Games Programming

• Paperback: 196 pages
• Author: Jeremy Kerfs
• Publisher: Apress, 1 Edition, 2011-11-30
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430238526
• ISBN-13: 9781430238522
• Format: PDF, EPUB
• File Size: 7MB

Android games programmers now have the power to write games for Android tablets. Beginning Android Tablet Games Programming explains how to enhance your Android games using the new tablet interface and the additional screen estate. You’ll learn how to bring your programming skills up to date and into a world where touch screens, games physics, and artificial intelligence come together in new and surprising ways.
Beginning Android Tablet Games Programming shows how to quickly and easily set up an Android development environment—in no time at all, you’ll be programming away. You’ll begin with some simple games using sprites and choreographed movement. Next, you’ll learn how to handle user input in the modern age of touch screens and motion.
Along the way, you’ll discover how to use that extra screen space on a tablet to provide more relaxed and more interesting user interactions in your games. You’ll learn how to use sound and music, for instance, to make your application menus more user-friendly.
The Android operating system has recently acquired multicore functionality to meet the demands of multicore devices now entering the tablet market. With Beginning Android Tablet Games Programming, you’ll discover how to harness that new power with your games programming through more process-demanding and fun techniques, including physics modeling, rich game world representation, artificial intelligence, and multiplayer interactions.
Throughout each chapter of Beginning Android Tablet Games Programming, you’ll find code that you can add or adapt to your own games to create the components you want. You can also work up to wrapping everything together into a complete Mario-type example game.
Finally, when you have your first games ready, learn how developers have released their games and made a profit. You’ll find tips on how to present your games in the Android and other application markets, and a solid approach to games marketing and monetization.

What you’ll learn

• How to set up an Android tablet programming environment
• How to program for touchscreens and other input devices
• Techniques to take advantage of the extra screen size of a tablet
• How to take advantage of multicore processing power in your games
• How to program a multiplayer game
• How to add artificial intelligence to in-game opponents
• How to program game modes, game states, and game worlds
• How to program a complete game
• About in-app marketing and games monetization

Who this book is for

This is a book for Java programmers new to Honeycomb, tablets and games programming. An experienced games programmer can also use this book to migrate their existing expertise to the Android and the tablet environment.

Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Author: Donald J. Reifer
• Publisher: Microsoft Press, 1 Edition, 2011-12-28
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735664757
• ISBN-13: 9780735664753
• Format: PDF, EPUB
• File Size: 5.88MB

Why is it so difficult to change organizations? What does it really take to make “process improvement” yield measurable results? For more than 30 years, Donald Riefer has been guiding software teams through the technical, organizational, and people issues that must be managed in order to make meaningful process changes—and better products. This practical guide draws from his extensive experience, featuring 11 case studies spanning the public and private sectors and even academia. Each case study illuminates the original conditions; describes options and recommendations; details reactions, outcomes, and lessons learned; and provides essential references and resources.

• Eleven case studies provide insightful, empirical data from real-world organizations
• Provides a broad view across organizational settings and factors, such as personnel, and technical environments, including cloud, Agile, and open source options
• Illuminates the hard-won lessons, tradeoffs, and impacts—with advice on how to engineer successful, sustainable changes yourself

Google+ For Dummies

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Author: Jesse Stay
• Publisher: For Dummies, Portable Edition, 2011-11-15
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1118181298
• ISBN-13: 9781118181294
• Format: PDF
• File Size: 3.6 MB

A new social network! Here’s your user’s guide to Google+

Google+ is Google’s new social network and from day one it has had the social media world abuzz with excitement. Early fans claim it’s easier to use than Facebook and Twitter and has a wealth of creative new features. If you want to learn how to navigate this new social neighborhood, take along Google+ For Dummies as your guide. Early Google+ adopter and social media consultant Jesse Stay shows you how to get started, create a profile, set up privacy settings, chat, post, control who sees what, and much more.

• Explains how to join Google+, protect your information, and make the most of this new social network
• Explores cool new features, such as Circles, which allows you to drag and drop friends into different circles
• Covers creating a profile, finding friends, adding people to Circles, chatting with others in Hangouts, importing photos, controlling who sees what, and more
• Conveys helpful information in the clear, friendly, easy-to-follow language that has defined the Dummies series for two decades

Confidently enter the exciting new Google+ social neighborhood with Google+ For Dummies.

TypePad for Dummies

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Author: Melanie Nelson
• Publisher: For Dummies, 1 Edition, 2010-02-15
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470550945
• ISBN-13: 9780470550946
• Format: PDF
• File Size: 10.5 MB

TypePad is known for its intuitive user interface, built-in SEO features, optional advertising, free professionally designed templates, fully hosted blogs, and outstanding customer support. This book guides you through the technical tasks necessary for starting, using, and customizing a TypePad blog.
Step-by-step tutorials walk you through the process of signing up for a new TypePad blog, while screen shots from real-world blogs bring the book’s concepts to life.

• Guides you through choosing the right TypePad membership plan, signing up, configuring, using, and customizing a blog using the TypePad system
• Explains the process of signing up for a new TypePad blog and publishing your content on the Web
• Shares real-world examples that bring the book’s ideas to life

Get blogging today with TypePad!

Internet Marketing with WordPress

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Author: David Mercer
• Publisher: Packt Publishing, 1 Edition, 2011-12-18
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184951674X
• ISBN-13: 9781849516747
• Format: PDF
• File Size: 2.7MB

The book’s accompanying Interactive learning environment on siteprebuilder.com gives you an online place to enhance and extend your practical experience through exercises, consolidate your learning and theoretical knowledge with marked quizzes, interaction with your WordPress marketing community, and fun and exciting extras such as challenges and competitions. This book is for people already using WordPress, who want more visitors, better visitors, and to convert more of them into paying customers. No prior marketing experience is required, although a basic understanding of either hosted or self-hosted WordPress blogs is assumed.

iPod: The Missing Manual

This is the missing manual of iPod ! don't loose it ...

Apple's iPod still has the world hooked on portable music, pictures, videos, movies, and more, but one thing it doesn’t have is a manual that helps you can get the most out this amazing device. That’s where this book comes in. Get the complete scoop on the latest line of iPods and the latest version of iTunes with the guide that outshines them all—iPod: The Missing Manual.
The 10th edition is as useful, satisfying, and reliable as its subject. Teeming with high-quality color graphics, each page helps you accomplish a specific task—everything from managing your media and installing and browsing iTunes to keeping calendars and contacts. Whether you have a brand-new iPod or an old favorite, this book provides crystal-clear explanations and expert guidance on all of the things you can do:

• Fill ’er up. Load your Nano, Touch, Classic, or Shuffle with music, movies, and photos, and learn how to play it all back.
  
• Tour the Touch. Surf the Web, use web-based email, collect iPhone apps, play games, and more.
  
• Share music and movies. Copy music between computers with Home Sharing, beam playlists around the house, and whisk your Nano’s videos to YouTube.
  
• iTunes, tuned up. Pick-and-choose which music, movies, and photos to sync; create instant playlists with Genius Mix; and auto-rename “Untitled” tracks.
  
• iPod power. Create Genius playlists on your iPod, shoot movies on your Nano, use the Nano’s FM radio and pedometer, and add voice memos to your Touch.
  
• Shop the iTunes Store. Find what you’re looking for in a snap, whether it’s music, movies, apps, lyrics, or liner notes.