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1. |  Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2 By: Ira Greenberg; Dianna Xu; Deepak Kumar Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 29-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 18-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2
Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2 is a fun and creative approach to learning programming. Using the easy to learn Processing programming language, you will quickly learn how to draw with code, and from there move to animating in 2D and 3D. These basics will then open up a whole world of graphics and computer entertainment.
If you've been curious about coding, but the thought of it also makes you nervous, this book is for you; if you consider yourself a creative person, maybe worried programming is too non-creative, this book is also for you; if you want to...
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2. |  Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript By: Jonathan Lane; Tom Barker; Joseph R. Lewis; Meitar Moscovitz Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 18-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 30-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript shows the entire process of building a website. This process involves much more than just technical knowledge, and this book provides all the information you'll need to understand the concepts behind designing and developing for the Web, as well as the best means to deliver professional results based on best practices.
Of course, there is far more to building a successful website than knowing a little Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The process starts long before any coding takes place, and this book introduces you to the...
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3. |  Foundation Adobe Edge Animate: for HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Development By: Tom Green; Michael Clawson Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 07-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 09-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundation Adobe Edge Animate: for HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Development
Foundation Adobe Edge Animate is a project-oriented book that will walk you through the features of Edge Animate - Adobe's exciting new motion and interaction tool for web standards development. Edge Animate is an application that allows web designers and developers to make full use of many of the features of CSS3, JavaScript, and HTML5.
Edge Animate enables you to animate graphics without the need to hand code everything using canvas or SVG. It exports well-formed, standards-compliant code that you can either use to create new web products, or add directly into existing projects. It...
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4. |  Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript By: Rex van der Spuy Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 23-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 08-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript
Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript teaches you everything you need to know about how to make video games. 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.
Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript starts by showing you how you can use basic programing to create...
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5. |  Foundation iPhone App Development: Build An iPhone App in 5 Days with iOS 6 SDK By: Nick Kuh Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 16-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundation iPhone App Development: Build An iPhone App in 5 Days with iOS 6 SDK
Taking a hands-on learning approach, Foundation iPhone App Development: Build An iPhone App in 5 Days with iOS 6 SDK quickly enables existing programmers to become familiar and comfortable coding Objective-C using Xcode 4.5, Storyboarding and the iOS 6 SDK to create apps for the iPhone. Nick Kuh, an experienced, Apple award-winning developer, will teach readers how to build an iOS 6 iPhone app from start to finish in 5 days.
During a 5-day process you will learn how to build a professional, custom-designed, object-oriented iPhone App. You'll start with a PhotoShop PSD design and an app...
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6. |  By: Craig Cook; Jason Garber Publisher: friends of Ed Publication Date: 26-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 01-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundation HTML5 with CSS3
If you want to get into developing web sites, the most important thing you'll need is a solid understanding of Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML—the most common language used to write web site content. The most recent version of the language is HTML5, and it contains a whole host of new features to give you more power when creating websites.
Foundation HTML5 with CSS3: A Modern Guide and Reference incorporates practical examples to show how to structure data correctly using HTML5, along with styling and layout basics using the latest release of Cascading Style Sheets, CSS3.
This book...
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7. |  CSS3 Solutions: Essential Techniques for CSS3 Developers By: Marco Casario; Nathalie Wormser; Dan Saltzman; Anselm Bradford; Jonathan Reid; Francesco Improta; Aaron Congleton Publisher: friends of Ed Publication Date: 15-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 24-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CSS3 Solutions: Essential Techniques for CSS3 Developers
CSS3 brings a mass of changes, additions, and improvements to CSS across a range of new modules. Web designers and developers now have a whole host of new techniques up their sleeves, from working with colors and fonts accurately, to using media queries to ensure correct styling across a multitude of devices. But all of these new technologies bring more tags to learn and more avenues for things to go wrong. CSS3 Solutions provides a collection of solutions to all of the most common CSS3 problems. Every solution contains sample code that is production-ready and can be applied to any...
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8. |  The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design By: Craig Grannell; Victor Sumner; Dionysios Synodinos Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 11-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 14-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design
The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design has been fully revised from its critically acclaimed first edition, and updated to include all of the new features and best practices of HTML5 and CSS3. This book reveals all you'll need to design great web sites that are standards-compliant, usable, and aesthetically pleasing, but it won't overwhelm you with waffle, theory, or obscure details!
You will find The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design invaluable at any stage of your career, with its mixture of practical tutorials and reference material. Beginners will quickly pick up...
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9. |  HTML5 Games Most Wanted: Build the Best HTML5 Games By: Egor Kuryanovich; Shy Shalom; Russell Goldenberg; Mathias Paumgarten; David Strauß; Seb Lee-Delisle; Gaëtan Renaudeau; Jonas Wagner; Jonathan Bergknoff; Brian Danchilla; Rob Hawkes Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 21-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HTML5 Games Most Wanted: Build the Best HTML5 Games
HTML5 Games Most Wanted gathers the top HTML5 games developers and reveals the passion they all share for creating and coding great games. You'll learn programming tips, tricks, and optimization techniques alongside real-world code examples that you can use in your own projects. You won't just make games—you'll make great games.
The book is packed full of JavaScript, HTML5, WebGL, and CSS3 code, showing you how these fantastic games were built and passing on the skills you'll need to create your own great games. Whether you're a coding expert looking for secrets to push your games...
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10. |  Foundation Version Control for Web Developers By: Chris Kemper; Ian Oxley Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 21-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundation Version Control for Web Developers
Foundation Version Control for Web Developers explains how version control works, what you can do with it and how. Using a friendly and accessible tone, you will learn how to use the three leading version control systems—Subversion, Git and Mercurial—on multiple operating systems. The history and integral concepts of version control are covered so that you will gain a thorough understanding of the subject, and why it should be used to manage all changes in web development projects.
This book covers the valuable knowledge and transferable skills that will enable you use one of the three...
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11. |  Foundation Game Design with ActionScript 3.0, Second Edition By: Rex van der Spuy Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 11-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundation Game Design with ActionScript 3.0, Second Edition
In response to the success of the first edition of Foundation Game Design with Flash,
Rex van der Spuy has revised and updated all the code to meet current programming best practices, and the focus is now on accurate ActionScript 3.0, regardless of the IDE that you use.
We've all sneaked the odd five minutes here or there playing the latest Flash game that someone sent around the office, but creating those games is trickier than it looks. The aim of Foundation Game Design with ActionScript 3.0 is to take you, even if you've minimal multimedia or programming experience, through a...
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12. |  DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model, Second Edition By: Jeremy Keith; Jeffrey Sambells Publisher: friends of Ed Publication Date: 27-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 16-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model, Second Edition
There are three main technologies married together to create usable, standards-compliant web designs: XHTML for data structure, Cascading Style Sheets for styling your data, and JavaScript for adding dynamic effects and manipulating structure on the fly using the Document Object Model. This book is about the latter of the three.
DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model gives you everything you need to start using JavaScript and the Document Object Model to enhance your web pages with client-side dynamic effects. We start off by giving you a basic crash...
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13. |  By: Robert J. Townsend Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 27-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundation Drupal 7
Drupal is a content management framework that powers web sites from simple online brochures to more advanced sites including social networking sites, blogs, e-commerce sites, business portals, and more. It is free, open source software that allows anyone to quickly and easily build web sites. Its full range of modules—including user permissions, security mechanisms, JavaScript menus, image uploaders, WYSIWYG editors, and more—helps you easily create the foundation for a powerful web site. With its templating system (and a few tips and tricks), any graphic design file can be used to create...
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14. |  PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, Second Edition By: David Powers Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 16-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, Second Edition
This is the second edition of David Power's highly-respected PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy. This new edition has been updated by David to incorporate changes to PHP since the first edition and to offer the latest techniques--a classic guide modernized for 21st century PHP techniques, innovations, and best practices.
You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or perhaps storing all your content in a database. The problem is, you're not a programmer and the...
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15. |  Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers By: Tom Green; Tiago Dias Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 06-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 30-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers
Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available—allowing the creation of anything from animated banners and simple cartoons to Rich Internet Applications, interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, devices, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, and now it just got better.
Flash CS5 boasts a host of new features, including better support for mobile devices, a whole new animation engine enabling full manipulation of tweens and paths, custom easing, improved inverse kinematics, a revamped timeline, built-in 3D, and much...
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16. |  AdvancED Game Design with Flash By: Rex van der Spuy Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 01-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 30-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: AdvancED Game Design with Flash
Creating games in Flash is a never-ending journey of exploration, learning, and most of all, fun. Once you've mastered the basics, a new world is opened up to you, enabling you to take your existing skills to the next level and discover new skills that will in turn open new doors. This book is a direct continuation of Foundation Game Design with Flash, and is a complete point-by-point roundup of the most important skills a Flash game designer needs to know. You'll increase your ActionScript knowledge and your game design skills while creating some excellent example games. You'll learn...
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17. |  The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to Learn HTML5 and JavaScript By: Jeanine Meyer Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 22-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 29-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to Learn HTML5 and JavaScript
HTML5 opens up a plethora of new avenues for application and game development on the web. Games can now be created and interacted with directly within HTML with no need for users to download extra plugins, or for developers to learn new languages. Important new features such as the Canvas tag enable drawing directly onto the web page, the Audio tag allows sounds to be triggered and played from within your HTML code, the web sockets API brings the facility for real-time communication, and the local storage API enables data such as high scores or game preferences to be kept on a user's...
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18. |  By: Greg Goralski; LordAlex Leon Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 30-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 15-SEP-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundation Flash Catalyst
This book offers an introduction to Flash Catalyst for designers with intermediate to advanced skills. It discusses where Catalyst sits within the production process and how it communicates with other programs. It covers all of the features of the Flash Catalyst workspace, teaching you how to create designs from scratch, how to build application designs and add functionality, and how to master the Catalyst/Flex workflow.
Introduces Flash Catalyst
Focuses on production process
Covers the interrelation between Flash Catalyst and Photoshop/Illustrator/Flex/Flash
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19. |  Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight By: Victor Gaudioso Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 31-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 23-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight
Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight takes you through your first steps in creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using the latest release of Microsoft's technology. You'll explore features such as custom user controls that you can reuse throughout your projects and the media element that allows you to easily add sound and video to your applications. Silverlight 4 enables you to rapidly develop compelling, cross-platform RIAs using the extensive .NET 4 libraries, the powerful, design friendly Blend 4 Integrated Development Environment, and an enhanced workflow that allows...
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20. |  By: Shashank Tiwari; Elad Elrom Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 16-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 23-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: AdvancED Flex 4
AdvancED Flex 4 makes advanced Flex 4 concepts and techniques easy. Ajax, RIA, Web 2.0, mashups, mobile applications, the most sophisticated web tools, and the coolest interactive web applications are all covered with practical, visually oriented recipes.
Completely updated for the new tools in Flex 4
Demonstrates how to use Flex 4 to create robust and scalable enterprise-grade Rich Internet Applications.
Teaches you to build high-performance web applications with interactivity that really engages your users.
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