Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-482-and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of building Windows Store apps with HTML5 and JavaScript. Designed for experienced developers ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSD level.

For anyone who wants to understand computer programming. Code along with the book, writing programs to solve real-world problems as you learn the fundamentals of programming using Python 3. Paul Gries, Jennifer Campbell and Jason Montojo have updated their previous book (see our review), incorporating lessons learned over 5 years of teaching Python to people new to programming.

Now in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book takes you deep into the influences that underlie modern video games, and examines the elements they share with traditional games such as checkers. At the heart of his exploration, veteran game designer Raph Koster takes a close look at the concept of fun and why it’s the most vital element in any game.

The Windows Phone 8 platform provides a remarkable opportunity for Windows developers to create state-of-the-art mobile applications using their existing skills and a familiar toolset. This 3rd Edition, helps you unlock the potential of this platform and create dazzling, visually rich, and highly functional applications for the Windows Phone Store and bring you up to speed on the new features the Windows Phone 8 API provides.

In this pocket-sized guide, William R. Stanek delivers ready answers for core configuration and administrative tasks in Windows Server 2012 R2. Zero in on the essentials through quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists. You'll get the focused information you need to save time and get the job done - whether at your desk or in the field.

Axel Rauschmayer helps you approach the language in four standalone sections. First, a quick-start guide teaches you just enough of the language to help you be productive right away. For more experienced JavaScript programmers a reference covers language features in depth and there are sections on JavaScript's relationship with other languages and on tools and libraries.

A practical handbook for developers who want to blend Groovy into their day-to-day work with Java. Ken Kousen starts by introducing the key differences between Java and Groovy and how you can use them to your advantage. Then, he guides you step-by-step through realistic development challenges, from web applications to web services to desktop applications, and shows how Groovy makes things easier.

This Step-by-Step Guide to a User Experience Practice examines the following questions for organizations: How do you build user-centered design into your culture? What infrastructure do you need in order to make UX design faster, cheaper, and better? How do you create the organizational structure and staffing solution that will support UX design over time?

This guide on the basics of both cryptography and the Python programming language not only teaches you how to write in secret ciphers with paper and pencil but also how to write your own cipher programs and explores the hacking programs that can break the encrypted messages from these ciphers. Includes source code for fun programming projects.

You can print practically any 3D object you can imagine - from toys to gadgets to replacement parts, and beyond - with a 3D printer and they’re simpler and cheaper than you ever imagined. This full-color, step-by-step guide will get you started and also walks you through building your own 3D printer from an inexpensive kit.

Using the subtitle "Breaking Free with Managed Functional Programming" Dave Fancher shares his expertise in using F# to write succinct, reliable, and predictable code. By taking advantage of features like default immutability, pipelining, type inference, and pattern matching, you'll be amazed how efficient and elegant code can be.

David Bryant Copeland shows you specific ways to write command-line applications that are easy to use, deploy, and maintain, using a set of clear best practices and the Ruby programming language. This book, now updated for Ruby 2, is designed to make any programmer or system administrator more productive in their job. See our review of the previous edition.