If you’ve never done any programming before and don’t know where to start, this book will show you how to make games from start to finish. You’ll learn all the latest programming technologies (HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript) to create your games. All written in a fun and friendly style with open-ended projects that encourage you to build your own original games.

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 supports Windows 8, Windows Phone, WindowsRT, and Windows Azure cloud development. By focusing entirely on Visual Studio 2012 Professional, the authors have gone deeper into Microsoft’s core product than ever before with coverage debugging through refactoring, automation through enterprise-class development.

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Now updated to .NET 4.5 this is a 5th Edition. In his review of previous edition Ian Elliot awarded  5* (top) rating concluding: covers just about everything you need to know about ASP.NET in an up-to-date and modern style but without deviating into fashionable territory such as Silverlight or MVC.

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Provides in–depth coverage of best practices for troubleshooting performance problems based on a solid understanding of both SQL Server and Windows internals. Shows how to master the use of specific troubleshooting tools and how to interpret their output to identify and resolve any performance issue on any server running SQL Server.

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Dedicated to the memory of Alan Turing and with a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, discusses the foundations of computation in relation to nature, asking What is computation? How does nature compute? World-renowned experts discuss computation from a variety of perspectives,

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Learn to program the four major USB controllers, UHCI, OHCI, EHCI, and the new xHCI, and communicate with devices attached to their root hubs, without operating system intervention. This book teachs you how to communicate with the bare hardware to request the device descriptors and then send and received data from various USB devices including USB external Hubs.

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The open source Google Web Toolkit lets you write web application in Java, and it crosscompiles it into JavaScript. This updated edition covers the new features introduced in GWT 2.4 and 2.5 and best development practices that have emerged in the GWT community. After an introduction to GWT and Ajax get up to speed with GWT concepts and tools.

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If you’re writing applications that call for asynchronous programming, this concise hands-on guide shows you how the async feature in C# 5.0 can make the process much simpler. Written for experienced C# programmers contains code examples to extend for your own projects.

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Shows how to move from a theoretical understanding of offensive computing concepts to a practical implementation and forge your own weapons using the Python programming language. This book demonstrates how to write Python scripts to automate large-scale network attacks, extract metadata, and investigate forensic artifacts.

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R has become the de facto standard for doing, teaching, and learning computational statistics. This hands-on book shows how to use the open-source statistical language to write and save scripts, build and import data files, and write your own custom statistical functions.

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Up-to-date coverage of every DBA task, including creating database environments, data modeling, normalization, design, performance, data integrity, compliance, governance, security, backup/recovery, disaster planning, data and storage management and more.

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Teaches professional software engineers how to integrate the latest HTML5 APIs and semantic markup into rich web applications using JavaScript, ASP.NET MVC, and WCF. Written from the .NET perspective, this book is full of practical applications and ways to connect the new web standards with your existing development practices.

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