Shows how Austen theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, argued that jointly strategizing with a partner is the surest foundation for intimacy, and analyzed why superiors are often strategically clueless about inferiors. Illustrates the wide relevance of game theory and how, fundamentally, we are all strategic thinkers.

Guides web developers through the complete development of a  third-party JavaScript application, providing techniques for developing widgets that collect data for analytics, provide helpful overlays and dialogs, or implement features like chat or commenting. Examples throughout demo best practices for this emerging field.

Develop smaller, lighter web apps that are simple to create and easy to test, extend, and maintain as they grow. This hands-on guide introduces you to AngularJS, the open source JavaScript framework that uses Model–view–controller (MVC) architecture, data binding, client-side templates, and dependency injection to create a much-needed structure for building web apps.

The development of the Semantic Web, with machine-readable content, has the potential to revolutionize the World Wide Web and its uses. Suitable for use as a textbook or for independent study by professionals, this introduction and guide describes key ideas, languages, and technologies and includes exercises, project descriptions, and annotated references to relevant online materials.

Subtitled Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2 provides a fun and creative approach to learning programming. Using the easy-to-learn Processing programming language,shows how to draw with code, and animate in 2D and 3D. These basics open up a whole world of graphics and computer entertainment.

Written by a developer for developers who want to make the leap to object-oriented technologies, provides a solutions-oriented approach to object-oriented programming. Learn to understand the proper uses of inheritance and composition, the difference between aggregation and association, and the important distinction between interfaces and implementations.

Collision detection, extra lives, power ups, and other essential design elements were invented by the mostly anonymous designers at early pioneering companies. Learn to use modern, free software tools such as Unity3D to create clones of five classic games: Pong, Breakout, Space Invaders, Galaxian, and Pacman. Code and art sources of the clone versions are freely available on the companion DVD and web site.

Learn the fundamentals of Windows 8 programming-and begin creating apps for desktops, laptops, tablets, and other devices. If you have previous experience with HTML5 and JavaScript-simply start here! This book introduces must-know concepts and getting-started techniques through easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and exercises.

Begin from first-principles and progress through step-by-step examples to become a competent, C-language programmer. As the basis for C#, Objective-C and C++, C is a foundational language that every programmer ought to know and will even help you better understand more modern languages such as Java.

A rapid introduction to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch programming with Objective-C and the core frameworks. With this easy-to-follow guide, you’ll learn how to develop your first marketable iOS application, from opening Xcode to submitting your product to the App Store. Packed with code samples, this book has been updated for iOS 6 and Xcode 4.

Introduces Redis and walks you through examples that demonstrate how to use it effectively. Begins by getting Redis set up properly and exploring the key-value model. Then dives into real use cases including simple caching, distributed ad targeting, and more. Experienced developers will appreciate chapters on clustering and internal scripting to make Redis easier to use.

Intended for anyone who wants to learn the C# programming language in depth this book not only teaches the language’s capabilities, it also looks behind the scenes to build a solid foundation to aid you in understanding the .NET platform as a whole. See our review of C# 4.0 edition.