The casual users survival guide! For users who understand the basics and want a brief text to demonstrate the less intuitive functions. The book is aimed at Project Management Professionals who are casual or new users and understand the software basics but require a short and snappy guide.
The SolidWorks Electrical 2016 Black Book, is written to help professionals as well as learners in performing various tedious jobs in Electrical control designing.
You don’t need to own a factory to make toys. Author and toymaker Bob Knetzger has been making fun stuff all his life with simple technology like vacuum forming and mold-making. In an age where makers are tantalized by the capabilities of 3d printers and other digital fab technology, this book takes you back to old-school hand tools, simple electronics, and working with metal and plastic to make toys every bit as good as those you can find in a big-box store.
Web-based REST and Hypermedia services are becoming more common every day, but very few client libraries take advantage of these powerful API features-mostly because the techniques and patterns needed to create successful hypermedia clients have been ignored. Yet, when done right, hypermedia-based client applications exhibit more stability and flexibility than typical one-off custom client code.
The easy way for kids to get started with electronics
If your youngster likes to tinker, “Electronics For Kids For Dummies” is here to teach them the core concepts of electronics in a fun and engaging way. Written in a language elementary-to-middle-school-aged kids can understand, it’s packed with full-color photos, easy-to-follow instructions, simple examples, and 13 cool projects that will boost your child’s confidence while instilling valuable electronics lessons.
If you’ve successfully used Apache Spark to solve medium sized-problems, but still struggle to realize the “Spark promise” of unparalleled performance on big data, this book is for you. High Performance Spark shows you how take advantage of Spark at scale, so you can grow beyond the novice-level. It’s ideal for software engineers, data engineers, developers, and system administrators working with large-scale data applications.
Python and Javascript are the perfect complement for turning data into rich, interactive web visualizations, in a world that increasingly expects more than a pre-rendered, static image. Developers need to know how to turn raw, unprocessed data, often “dirty” or malformed, into dynamic, interactive web visualizations. Author Kyran Dale teaches you how to leverage the power of best-of-breed Python and Javascript libraries to do so, using engaging examples and stressing hard-earned best-practice.
The easy way to take control of project timelines, resources, budgets, and details Project manager, meet your new assistant! Once you discover Project 2016 you’ll be amazed at how efficient and effective the project management process can be. Written by an expert author who knows project management processes backward and forward, this friendly, hands-on guide shows you how to get started, enter tasks and estimate durations, work with resources and costs, fine-tune your schedule, set baselines, collect data, analyze progress, and keep your projects on track.
With this practical book, you’ll not only come to understand the specifics of the popular Puppet configuration management tool, but you’ll also learn important configuration management concepts and various deployment methodologies. It’s ideal for system administrators, developers, and anyone else interested in ensuring that their deployments go smoothly.
Eco-friendly gardening is fast catching on. Butterfl ies are visible signs of a healthy garden, and, with their whimsical flight patterns and glorious colours, they are among the most alluring ofour aerial visitors. Gardening for Butterflies shows how to attract these beautiful insects, giving step-by-step instructions for planning and planting a garden that will cater for the greatest number and diversity of butterflies.
This is the third in a series of amazing artist sketches. Spanning 180 pages, ImagineFX magazine has collected sketch art from some of the top artists working in games, film and illustration today.
Are you a newcomer to Near Field Communication and baffled by the scant documentation and online support available for this powerful new technology? You’ve come to the right place! Written in a friendly and easily accessible manner, NFC For Dummies takes the intimidation out of working with the features of NFC-enabled devices and tells you exactly what it is and what it does-and doesn’t do.
This book provides a clear, unbiased overview of the entire web content management ecosystem, from platforms to implementations, without needing deeply technical knowledge. The information in Web Content Management will give you a foundation of understanding necessary to make better decisions about platforms, features, architectures, and implementation methods to ensure your project solves the right problems and positions your organizations for future success.
This book will help you create great games for the Android platform. There are plenty of books out there that tackle this subject, but only this book gives you a unique perspective by showing you how easy it is to bring native PC games to the platform with minimum effort. This is done using real-world examples and source code in each chapter. Keep in mind that before you dig into this book, you will need a solid foundation in Java and ANSI C. I have tried to clearly and simply explain the most complicated concepts with a combination of graphics and sample code. The source code provided for each chapter will help you understand the concepts in detail and make the most of your time as a mobile game developer.
The latest edition of this bestselling game development reference offers proven tips and techniques for the real-time rendering of special effects and visualization data that are useful for beginners and seasoned game and graphics programmers alike.
This book, the third volume in the popular Game Engine Gems series, contains 22 new chapters that concisely present particular techniques, describe clever tricks, or offer practical advice within the subject of game engine development. Each chapter is filled with the expert knowledge and wisdom of seasoned professionals from both industry and academia.
Adobe Premiere Elements 12 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for you to master all the new features in Adobe’s top-rated consumer-targeted video-editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on your growing knowledge of the program, while end-of-chapter review questions reinforce each lesson. You will learn the basics of editing your videos with Premiere Elements and learn how best to use the program’s many new features.
This book will guide you through the path of the rapidly spreading Javascript Framework called Vue.js!
The Windows 10 Book is the complete guide to the newest operating system, here to walk you through everything you need to know, from setting up your PC or tablet, to showcasing the very best apps you should be downloading.
