Subtitled "All Lab, No Lecture" this hands-on introduction includes more than 30 educational (and fun) experiments that help you explore this fascinating field on your own. Perfect for middle- and high-school students and homeschoolers and DIY enthusiasts, this full-color guide teaches you the basics of biology lab work and shows you how to set up a safe lab at home.

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Introduces you to programming for the Kinect. You’ll learn to set up a software environment, stream data from the Kinect, and write code to interpret that data. The progression of hands-on projects in the book leads you even deeper into an understanding of how the device functions and how you can apply it to create fun and educational projects.

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Jump in and build working Android apps with the help of more than 200 tested recipes. Find solutions for working with the user interfaces, multitouch gestures, location awareness, web services, and with the phone, camera, and accelerometer. Also includes useful steps on packaging your app for the Android Market.

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Complete sample apps illuminate key concepts with fully explained code and real-world context. Presents real-world best practices for building highly functional and attractive Metro interfaces; integrating touch, rich media, and data; testing; profiling; and more.

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Teaches how to code Java in Roo, with a particular focus on Spring-based applications. Hands-on examples, show how Roo, a lightweight Java console shell that simplifies compile-time tasks, creates well-formed application structures and supports best practices and tools. Plus, you'll get a quick-and-dirty guide to setting up Roo effectively in your environment.

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Updated and expanded to cover iOS 5 and Xcode 4.3 this 3ed edition leads you through the essential concepts, tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications. Provides the understanding and  confidence you need to tackle iOS projects of your own. Our review of 2nd edition concluded "Highly recommended to all readers except the complete beginner".

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If you’re interested in how things work, this guide will help you experiment with one crucial system you usually ignore—your body and its health. Long hours focusing on code or circuits tends to stifle notions of nutrition, but with this educational and highly useful book you can approach fitness through science, whether it’s investigating your ancestral health or using the latest self-tracking apps and gear.

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Hands-on walkthroughs that cover every area of App Inventor development, for both Google and MIT versions. Begins with the absolute basics of program structure, syntax, flow, and function, and then demonstrates simple ways to solve common mobile development problems. Build a dozen real Android apps, from games and geotrackers to navigation systems and news tickers.

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GIMP, the open source graphics and digital imaging application, has almost all the features of  Photoshop.  But what can photographers and artists actually do with photos and graphical images? These questions are answered here in a photo projects chapter as well as a chapter on digital painting.Covers GIMP 2.8

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Provides a foundation for people new to the digital forensics field. Teaches you how to conduct examinations by discussing what digital forensics is, the methodologies used, key technical concepts and the tools needed to perform examinations. It includes details on digital forensics for computers, networks, cell phones, GPS, the cloud, and Internet.

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Hands-on introduction to the cloud. Covers data storage, data sharing, performing cloud-based automated backups, and using other cloud-based applications by the end of Chapter 1. Continues with software as a service (Saas), platform as a service (Paas), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), server and desktop virtualization and more.

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