Billboard Magazine – March 12, 2016
English | 72 pages | True PDF | 29 Mb
Unlock the secrets to creating random mazes! Whether you’re a game developer, an algorithm connoisseur, or simply in search of a new puzzle, you’re about to level up. Learn algorithms to randomly generate mazes in a variety of shapes, sizes, and dimensions. Bend them into Moebius strips, fold them into cubes, and wrap them around spheres. Stretch them into other dimensions, squeeze them into arbitrary outlines, and tile them in a dizzying variety of ways. From twelve little algorithms, you’ll discover a vast reservoir of ideas and inspiration.
From holiday get-togethers to everyday family gatherings, sometimes we need tasty recipes to a feed a crowd.
This introduction to SQL for the Oracle database begins by discussing exactly how data is stored and maintained in a relational database, familiarizing readers with SQL INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.
Many other web development books take you through confusing programming concepts and rarely teach you anything practical. In contrast, my goal in this book is to give you the knowledge to get up and running as quickly as possible so that you can see how web development works without getting bogged down in unnecessary details.
Vegan cooking made fast, fresh, and flavorful with the convenience of a pressure cooker. For the growing number of people who eat vegan, a pressure cooker is a blessing when it comes to saving time and enjoying a wider variety of foods on a regular basis.
A diverse collection of recipes that are naturally gluten-free, but just as tempting as traditional baked goods.
Through conversations held with fifteen of the most accomplished contemporary cinematographers, the authors explore the working world of the person who controls the visual look and style of a film. This reissue includes a new foreword by cinematographer John Bailey and a new preface by the authors, which bring this classic guide to cinematography, in print for more than twenty-five years, into the twenty-first century.
Painted screens have long been synonymous in the popular imagination with the Baltimore row house. Picturesque, practical, and quirky, window and door screens adorned with scenic views simultaneously offer privacy and ventilation in crowded neighborhoods.
Small Basic is a free, beginner-friendly programming language created by Microsoft to inspire kids to learn to program. Based on BASIC, which introduced programming to millions of first-time PC owners in the 1970s and 1980s, Small Basic is a modern language that makes coding simple and fun.
Currently, no books exist that focus on the practicalities of Java application performance tuning, as opposed to the theory and internals of Java virtual machines. This practical guide is the “missing link” that aims to move Java performance tuning from the realm of guesswork and folklore to an experimental science.
Think DSP: Digital Signal Processing in Python is an introduction to signal processing and system analysis using a computational approach. The premise of this book (like the others in the Think X series) is that if you know how to program, you can use that skill to learn other things. By the end of the first chapter, you’ll be able to decompose a sound into its harmonics, modify the harmonics, and generate new sounds. Subsequent chapters follow a logical progression that develops the important ideas incrementally, with a focus on applications.
Furnitecture is a sourcebook exploring the furnishings, interior environments, and solutions for small spaces at the meeting point between design and architecture. The book features the work of a rising generation of designers across the globe who are starting to think about furniture in an architectural way, resulting in pieces that brilliantly transform interior spaces.
The sous vide technique has been the secret of great chefs around the world for decades.
The shale revolution triggered The Domino Effect, a cascading series of events that has profoundly transformed energy markets, reshaped major related industries and remodeled the global economic and geopolitical landscape. This book presents a unique, integrated perspective on natural gas, crude oil and natural gas liquids that is vital to understanding energy prices, product flows, infrastructure, equity values and the global energy economy.
The UK’s best loved stock cube is, of course, OXO’s. Invaluable for super-tasty gravy, casseroles, soups and more, they have been used by cooks around the country for more than a hundred years.