Head First Software Development
by Dan Pilone

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Even the best developers have seen well-intentioned software projects fail -- often because the customer kept changing requirements, and end users didn't know how to use the software you developed. Instead of surrendering to these common problems, let...
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Engineering a Compiler
by Keith Cooper

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Today's compiler writer must choose a path through a design space that is filled with diverse alternatives. "Engineering a Compiler" explores this design space by presenting some of the ways these problems have been solved, and the constraints that made...
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Just Say No to Microsoft
by Tony Bove

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"Just Say No to Microsoft" begins by tracing Microsoft's rise from tiny software startup to monopolistic juggernaut and explains how the company's practices over the years have discouraged innovation, stunted competition, and helped foster an environment...
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Write Great Code Volume 2
by Randall Hyde

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The second volume in the Write Great Code series supplies the critical information that today's computer science students don't often get from college and university courses: How to carefully choose their high-level language statements to produce...
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Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D
by Peter Walsh

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"Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D" offers coverage of the latest need-to-know topics in the game industry. It covers advanced topics that have not been covered in other books on the market that have focused on introductory material necessary to...
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Data Crunching
by Greg Wilson

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Every day, all around the world, programmers have to recycle legacy data, translate from one vendor's proprietary format into another's, check that configuration files are internally consistent, and search through web logs to see how many people have...
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Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence #62: Graph-Theoretic Techniques for Web Content Mining
by Adam Schenker

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This book describes exciting new opportunities for utilizing robust graph representations of data with common machine learning algorithms. Graphs can model additional information which is often not present in commonly used data representations, such as...
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Developer's Guide to Web Application Security
by Matt Fisher

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75% of attacks targeted against specific systems are aimed against the web application itself; not the operating system or network. While current security technologies and practices are aimed for the operating system and network, the custom developed...
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System Level Design with Rosetta (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Systems on Silicon)
by Perry Alexander

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The steady and unabated increase in the capacity of silicon has brought the semiconductor industry to a watershed challenge. Now a single chip can integrate a radio transceiver, a network interface, multimedia functions, all the "glue" needed to hold it...
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Game Programming Golden Rules (Game Development)
by Martin Brownlow

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Game Programming Golden Rules provides indispensable techniques that should be part of every game programmer's arsenal. Written as a series of easy-to-remember rules, the book provides a building block approach in which each new rule builds upon the...
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Video Game Art
by Nic Kelman

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By 2008 most analysts predict that the video game industry will be larger than the film and music industries combined. Games today already command Hollywood budgets and teams of dozens of artists, writers, musicians, and designers... And yet almost...
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Martian Principles for Successful Enterprise Systems: 20 Lessons Learned from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission
by Ronald Mak

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When you need to land and operate a robot on Mars, "halfway" software is not an option. While helping to develop the Collaborative Information Portal, or CIP, for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, Ronald Mak identified and refined a set of...
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Write Great Code Volume 1 Understanding The
by Randall Hyde

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If you've asked someone the secret to writing efficient, well-written software, the answer that you've probably gotten is learn assembly language programming. By learning assembly language programming, you learn how the machine really operates and that...
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Windows Game Programming for Dummies 2ND Edition
by Andre Lamothe

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The multimedia and computer-games industry has exploded in recent years.  Games have gotten incredibly sophisticated—and incredibly entertaining. The programs used to create them have improved also, to the point that you don’...
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Pocket PC Game Programming with CDROM (Prima Tech's Game Development)
by Jonathan S Harbour

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Pocket PC Game Programming will help you develop the tools and source code needed to write multiplayer games that can be played on wireless devices and the Internet. You will not only learn essential programming skills for the Pocket PC, but you will...
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Practical Model-Based Testing: A Tools Approach
by Mark Utting

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This book gives a practical introduction to model-based testing, showing how to write models for testing purposes and how to use model-based testing tools to generate test suites. It is aimed at testers and software developers who wish to use model-based...
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Going Wireless: Transform Your Business with Mobile Technology
by Jaclyn Easton

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The future of communications is wireless. Portable devices will soon go far beyond the capabilities of cell phones, allowing users to use email, access the internet, and send and receive information anywhere in the world in real time. Wireless technology...
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Software Development on a Leash
by David Birmingham and Valerie Haynes Perry

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Software Development on a Leash is designed as a roadmap for experienced developers and architects to align their approaches and development priorities for high reuse and innovation. Author David Birmingham's products have been successfully deployed in a...
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Awesome 3D Game Development: No Programming Required (Game Development)
by Clayton E Ii Crooks

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Awesome 3D Game Development: No Programming Required teaches aspiring game developers how to create their own computer games without programming skills and provides an in-depth understanding of how the game design process works. Using hands-on tutorials...
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Mobile Device Game Development (Game Development)
by Clayton E Ii Crooks

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Mobile Device Game Development explores game development tools and practices for the rapidly growing mobile device market. The text uses the AppForge« MobileVB SDK and Paint Shop Pro« in conjunction with Visual Basic« to create games...
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