Creating Game Environments in Blender 3D
Discover how to create a simple game environment in Blender 3D, from modeling and texturing game assets, to placing them in a scene. You'll export and import game assets as well as look at open-source game engines that will work with your game assets. Creating Game Environments in Blender 3D introduces the power of Blender 3D when creating a low poly game environment. The book starts by discussing the basics of game terminology, such as knowing the difference between low poly and high poly assets and the types of game you're likely to work on. You'll also take a brief look at Blender's background and installation. The following chapters talk about the process for creating a simple game environment. This is discussed in detail along with a sample project. These chapters discuss the common tools for starting a game environment and the methods for enhancing your game environment, such as color fundamentals. The final chapter shows how you can export the game assets you created in Blend ...
Discover how to create a simple game environment in Blender 3D, from modeling and texturing game assets, to placing them in a scene. You'll export and import game assets as well as look at open-source game engines that will work with your game assets. Creating Game Environments in Blender 3D introduces the power of Blender 3D when creating a low poly game environment. The book starts by discussing the basics of game terminology, such as knowing the difference between low poly and high poly assets and the types of game you're likely to work on. You'll also take a brief look at Blender's background and installation. The following chapters talk about the process for creating a simple game environment. This is discussed in detail along with a sample project. These chapters discuss the common tools for starting a game environment and the methods for enhancing your game environment, such as color fundamentals. The final chapter shows how you can export the game assets you created in Blend ...
Azure DevOps for Web Developers
Explore the architecture, product offerings, and the various stages of implementation processes in Azure DevOps. The book starts with the basic concepts of DevOps and moves on to discuss project management in Azure DevOps. Next, you will learn requirement management and version control in DevOps. Along the way, you will go through test management followed by continuous integration and build automation with more details on code quality and security implementations. Moving forward, you will learn release pipeline and infrastructure as code implementation including ARM-based environment provisioning and execution. Finally, you'll cover DevOps architecture blueprints used for deploying your web applications to different platforms. After reading this book, you will be able to understand each stage of Azure DevOps and master its implementation. ...
Explore the architecture, product offerings, and the various stages of implementation processes in Azure DevOps. The book starts with the basic concepts of DevOps and moves on to discuss project management in Azure DevOps. Next, you will learn requirement management and version control in DevOps. Along the way, you will go through test management followed by continuous integration and build automation with more details on code quality and security implementations. Moving forward, you will learn release pipeline and infrastructure as code implementation including ARM-based environment provisioning and execution. Finally, you'll cover DevOps architecture blueprints used for deploying your web applications to different platforms. After reading this book, you will be able to understand each stage of Azure DevOps and master its implementation. ...
Deep Learning with Swift for TensorFlow
Discover more insight about deep learning algorithms with Swift for TensorFlow. The Swift language was designed by Apple for optimized performance and development whereas TensorFlow library was designed by Google for advanced machine learning research. Swift for TensorFlow is a combination of both with support for modern hardware accelerators and more. This book covers the deep learning concepts from fundamentals to advanced research. It also introduces the Swift language for beginners in programming. This book is well suited for newcomers and experts in programming and deep learning alike. After reading this book you should be able to program various state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms yourself. The book covers foundational concepts of machine learning. It also introduces the mathematics required to understand deep learning. Swift language is introduced such that it allows beginners and researchers to understand programming and easily transit to Swift for TensorFlow, respecti ...
Discover more insight about deep learning algorithms with Swift for TensorFlow. The Swift language was designed by Apple for optimized performance and development whereas TensorFlow library was designed by Google for advanced machine learning research. Swift for TensorFlow is a combination of both with support for modern hardware accelerators and more. This book covers the deep learning concepts from fundamentals to advanced research. It also introduces the Swift language for beginners in programming. This book is well suited for newcomers and experts in programming and deep learning alike. After reading this book you should be able to program various state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms yourself. The book covers foundational concepts of machine learning. It also introduces the mathematics required to understand deep learning. Swift language is introduced such that it allows beginners and researchers to understand programming and easily transit to Swift for TensorFlow, respecti ...
Modern Front-end Architecture
Learn how to build front-end applications that can help you ship applications faster with fewer defects. Many software projects fail because they are not planned well, or lack organization. Applying strategies from other industries can help you create better software. This book explores the "mise en place" technique from cooking and reveals how you can apply it to the art of creating software. In many professional kitchens, the work of preparing a meal is divided and performed in workstations to help create the whole. You'll review the philosophy behind this and see how to leverage this approach in your code. You'll also learn to visualize your applications as a series of components and build parts of your application in isolation - just like a professional chef crafting each part of the meal. The book describes to how to structure your code base for reuse, and how to communicate the code's intent to other developers. You'll develop your components in isolation and test these bui ...
Learn how to build front-end applications that can help you ship applications faster with fewer defects. Many software projects fail because they are not planned well, or lack organization. Applying strategies from other industries can help you create better software. This book explores the "mise en place" technique from cooking and reveals how you can apply it to the art of creating software. In many professional kitchens, the work of preparing a meal is divided and performed in workstations to help create the whole. You'll review the philosophy behind this and see how to leverage this approach in your code. You'll also learn to visualize your applications as a series of components and build parts of your application in isolation - just like a professional chef crafting each part of the meal. The book describes to how to structure your code base for reuse, and how to communicate the code's intent to other developers. You'll develop your components in isolation and test these bui ...
The Coding Workbook
This beginner-friendly introduction to web development enables anyone to build a website by writing out code by hand - no computer or internet required. It's a fun, hands-on approach to coding that teaches the basics of using the HTML and CSS programming languages (the language of web pages). You write the code in the pages of your workbook and then draw what it would look like in a web browser. Teachers: This has everything you need to teach an introductory web development class, and the pages are perforated! Students: Learn the basics of HTML and CSS to build your own custom website! Once you've finished the workbook you'll have the skills to easily build and launch a website. It's that easy! This exercise-filled workbook is packed with illustrations and progress quizzes, making it perfect for at-home learning or schools lacking sufficient computer or internet access. It has everything you need to teach a coding class or learn basic web programming yourself. You don't n ...
This beginner-friendly introduction to web development enables anyone to build a website by writing out code by hand - no computer or internet required. It's a fun, hands-on approach to coding that teaches the basics of using the HTML and CSS programming languages (the language of web pages). You write the code in the pages of your workbook and then draw what it would look like in a web browser. Teachers: This has everything you need to teach an introductory web development class, and the pages are perforated! Students: Learn the basics of HTML and CSS to build your own custom website! Once you've finished the workbook you'll have the skills to easily build and launch a website. It's that easy! This exercise-filled workbook is packed with illustrations and progress quizzes, making it perfect for at-home learning or schools lacking sufficient computer or internet access. It has everything you need to teach a coding class or learn basic web programming yourself. You don't n ...
How To Build a Website With CSS and HTML
This project-based eBook will introduce you to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a stylesheet language used to control the presentation of websites, by building a personal website using our demonstration site as a model. Though our demonstration site features Sammy the Shark, you can switch out Sammy's information with your own if you wish to personalize your site. Alongside HTML and JavaScript, CSS is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web. If you have some understanding of HTML and are looking to grow your front-end development skills, learning CSS is a great next step. The first half of this book will introduce CSS through hands-on exercises and the second half of the tutorial series will provide steps for recreating the demonstration website. By the end of this CSS book, you will have files ready for deploying a website to the cloud, as well as an understanding of how to continue modifying the site's design with HTML and CSS. You will also have a foundation for lea ...
This project-based eBook will introduce you to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a stylesheet language used to control the presentation of websites, by building a personal website using our demonstration site as a model. Though our demonstration site features Sammy the Shark, you can switch out Sammy's information with your own if you wish to personalize your site. Alongside HTML and JavaScript, CSS is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web. If you have some understanding of HTML and are looking to grow your front-end development skills, learning CSS is a great next step. The first half of this book will introduce CSS through hands-on exercises and the second half of the tutorial series will provide steps for recreating the demonstration website. By the end of this CSS book, you will have files ready for deploying a website to the cloud, as well as an understanding of how to continue modifying the site's design with HTML and CSS. You will also have a foundation for lea ...
Design and Build Great Web APIs
APIs are transforming the business world at an increasing pace. Gain the essential skills needed to quickly design, build, and deploy quality web APIs that are robust, reliable, and resilient. Go from initial design through prototyping and implementation to deployment of mission-critical APIs for your organization. Test, secure, and deploy your API with confidence and avoid the "release into production" panic. Tackle just about any API challenge with more than a dozen open-source utilities and common programming patterns you can apply right away. Good API design means starting with the API-first principle - understanding who is using the API and what they want to do with it - and applying basic design skills to match customers' needs while solving business-critical problems. Use the Sketch-Design-Build method to create reliable and scalable web APIs quickly and easily without a lot of risk to the day-to-day business operations. Create clear sequence diagrams, accurate specifications ...
APIs are transforming the business world at an increasing pace. Gain the essential skills needed to quickly design, build, and deploy quality web APIs that are robust, reliable, and resilient. Go from initial design through prototyping and implementation to deployment of mission-critical APIs for your organization. Test, secure, and deploy your API with confidence and avoid the "release into production" panic. Tackle just about any API challenge with more than a dozen open-source utilities and common programming patterns you can apply right away. Good API design means starting with the API-first principle - understanding who is using the API and what they want to do with it - and applying basic design skills to match customers' needs while solving business-critical problems. Use the Sketch-Design-Build method to create reliable and scalable web APIs quickly and easily without a lot of risk to the day-to-day business operations. Create clear sequence diagrams, accurate specifications ...
Hands-On Data Visualization
Tell your story and show it with data, using free and easy-to-learn tools on the web. This introductory book teaches you how to design interactive charts and customized maps for your website, beginning with simple drag-and-drop tools such as Google Sheets, Datawrapper, and Tableau Public. You'll also gradually learn how to edit open source code templates like Chart.js, Highcharts, and Leaflet on GitHub. Hands-On Data Visualization takes you step-by-step through tutorials, real-world examples, and online resources. This practical guide is ideal for students, nonprofit organizations, small business owners, local governments, journalists, academics, and anyone who wants to take data out of spreadsheets and turn it into lively interactive stories. No coding experience is required. - Build interactive charts and maps and embed them in your website; - Understand the principles for designing effective charts and maps; - Learn key data visualization concepts to help you choose the righ ...
Tell your story and show it with data, using free and easy-to-learn tools on the web. This introductory book teaches you how to design interactive charts and customized maps for your website, beginning with simple drag-and-drop tools such as Google Sheets, Datawrapper, and Tableau Public. You'll also gradually learn how to edit open source code templates like Chart.js, Highcharts, and Leaflet on GitHub. Hands-On Data Visualization takes you step-by-step through tutorials, real-world examples, and online resources. This practical guide is ideal for students, nonprofit organizations, small business owners, local governments, journalists, academics, and anyone who wants to take data out of spreadsheets and turn it into lively interactive stories. No coding experience is required. - Build interactive charts and maps and embed them in your website; - Understand the principles for designing effective charts and maps; - Learn key data visualization concepts to help you choose the righ ...
Beginning Entity Framework Core 5
Use the code-driven approach of Entity Framework Core 5 to build a functional web application that accesses a database on the backend server. This book covers the common use cases of Entity Framework that a developer needs to master in order to begin building applications that run against a database. Throughout the book you will be shown how to use Entity Framework Core 5 by implementing a simple ASP.NET Core Razor Pages line-of-business application. This example application will be similar to those you might write yourself and deploy to your users on a web or intranet site via a browser. This book takes a code-first approach in which your database will be created and seeded programmatically. You won't need to create the database through your database engine's interface. Instead, you will be shown how to define your data model in Entity Framework, and then let Entity Framework do the work of creating your database and schema for you. From there you will learn how to seed your databa ...
Use the code-driven approach of Entity Framework Core 5 to build a functional web application that accesses a database on the backend server. This book covers the common use cases of Entity Framework that a developer needs to master in order to begin building applications that run against a database. Throughout the book you will be shown how to use Entity Framework Core 5 by implementing a simple ASP.NET Core Razor Pages line-of-business application. This example application will be similar to those you might write yourself and deploy to your users on a web or intranet site via a browser. This book takes a code-first approach in which your database will be created and seeded programmatically. You won't need to create the database through your database engine's interface. Instead, you will be shown how to define your data model in Entity Framework, and then let Entity Framework do the work of creating your database and schema for you. From there you will learn how to seed your databa ...
Mastering TypeScript, 4th Edition
TypeScript is both a language and a set of tools to generate JavaScript. It was designed by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft to help developers write enterprise-scale JavaScript. Using a fast-paced, but easy-to-follow set of code samples, this fourth edition will get you up and running with Typescript quickly, introduce core concepts, and then build on this knowledge to help you understand and then apply more advanced language features. Mastering TypeScript, 4th Edition also covers a variety of modern JavaScript and TypeScript frameworks and compares their respective strengths and weaknesses. As you advance through this TypeScript book, you'll explore Angular, React, Vue, RxJs, Express, NodeJS, and others. You'll get up to speed with unit and integration testing, data transformation, serverless technologies, and asynchronous programming. You'll also learn how to integrate with existing JavaScript libraries, control your compiler options, and use decorators and generics. By the en ...
TypeScript is both a language and a set of tools to generate JavaScript. It was designed by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft to help developers write enterprise-scale JavaScript. Using a fast-paced, but easy-to-follow set of code samples, this fourth edition will get you up and running with Typescript quickly, introduce core concepts, and then build on this knowledge to help you understand and then apply more advanced language features. Mastering TypeScript, 4th Edition also covers a variety of modern JavaScript and TypeScript frameworks and compares their respective strengths and weaknesses. As you advance through this TypeScript book, you'll explore Angular, React, Vue, RxJs, Express, NodeJS, and others. You'll get up to speed with unit and integration testing, data transformation, serverless technologies, and asynchronous programming. You'll also learn how to integrate with existing JavaScript libraries, control your compiler options, and use decorators and generics. By the en ...