Reflecting the latest version of Blender the free and open source 3D computer modeling and animation program, John M. Blain helps beginners learn the basics of computer animation and looks at many new features of Blender, including developments to its GUI. This 2nd edition has new chapters on smoke simulation, movie making, and drivers and numerous new examples and figures.

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Want to understand a certain PHP programming technique? Or learn how to accomplish a particular task? In its third edition this cookbook from David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg has more than 350 code-rich recipes revised for PHP 5.4 and 5.5, for everything from using basic data types to querying databases, and from calling RESTful APIs to testing and securing your site.

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Discover SQL Server 2014’s new in-memory OLTP engine and performance-related improvements;  explore the fundamentals of database planning and the Server Transact-SQL language syntax and gain hands-on experience with the use of scalar and table-valued functions, branching, and more advanced data structures.

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In this full–color book subtitled "Interactive Front-End Web Development", Jon Duckett adopts a visual approach to teaching JavaScript & jQuery, showing you how to make web pages more interactive and interfaces more intuitive through the use of inspiring code examples, infographics, and photography. No programming experience, other than knowing how to create a basic web page in HTML & CSS, required.

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From Black Holes and Big Bangs to the Higgs boson and the infinitesimal building blocks of all matter, modern science has been spectacularly successful, with one glaring exception intelligence. Intelligence still remains as one of the greatest mysteries in science. With the subtitle "The Puzzle of Intelligence" Derek Patridge explores cleverness.

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This beginner's guide by UX designer and developer Clarissa Peterson is for anyone involved in the process of creating websites—not just developers and teaches you fundamental strategies and techniques for using HTML and CSS to design websites that not only adapt to any screen size, but also use progressive enhancement to provide a better user experience based on device capabilities such as touchscreens and retina displays.

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Security expert, researcher, and trainer Georgia Weidman introduces the core skills and techniques that every pentester needs. Using a virtual machine-based lab that includes Kali Linux and vulnerable operating systems, you'll run through a series of practical lessons with tools like Wireshark, Nmap, and Burp Suite and experience the key stages of an actual assessment.

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Millions of websites rely on Joomla!–from personal sites to those of huge organizations like General Electric, Porsche, and the United Nations. Using Joomla! 3, you too can create websites that are mobile-ready, responsive, flexible, powerful, and secure–even if you’re an absolute beginner and Stephen Burge teaches you everything you need to know.

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Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys. Paul Butcher shows how emerging technologies such as actors and functional programming address issues with traditional threads and locks development.

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Providing tips on running complex queries and writing code to communicate with the BigQuery API, this guide comes from Jordan Tigani and Siddartha Naidu, founding members of the Google BigQuery team. They explain and demonstrate streaming ingestion, transformation via Hadoop in Google Compute engine, AppEngine datastore integration and how to use GViz with Tableau to generate charts of query results, using real-world examples.

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From lambda expressions and JavaFX 8 to new support for network programming and mobile development, Java 8 brings a wealth of changes. This cookbook helps you get up to speed right away with hundreds of hands-on recipes, each with self-contained code solutions across a broad range of Java topics. You’ll learn useful techniques for everything from debugging and data structures to GUI development and functional programming.

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Written by the inventors of the technology, this book is the definitive technical reference for the Java programming language. It provides complete, accurate, and detailed coverage of the Java programming language. It fully describes the new features added in Java SE 8, including lambda expressions, method references, default methods, type annotations, and repeating annotations.

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