Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive
today in Coders at Work, offering a brand-new companion volume to Apress’s
highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the
words “at...
Ada Programming: Reliable, Strongly-Typed Systems Programming offers an in-depth exploration of Ada, a language renowned for its reliability, robustness, and versatility in systems programming. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just beginning...
Disclaimer: If you know anything beyond the word itself, you probably know more about matrices than I do. This discussion is a nonmathematical practical guide to using matrix math in OpenGL apps. The routines in the source code are for the most...
Learn how to program games for the NES! You'll learn how to draw text, scroll the screen, animate sprites, create a status bar, decompress title screens, play background music and sound effects and more. While using the book, take advantage of the...
• The only project book on the PIC 18 series using the C programming language
• Features 20 complete, tried and test projects
• Includes a CD-ROM of all the programs, hex listings, diagrams, and data...
JavaScript Succinctly was written to give readers an accurate, concise examination of JavaScript objects and their supporting nuances, such as complex values, primitive values, scope, inheritance, the head object, and more. If you’re an...
At first glance, it may seem like I’m reinventing the wheel; Windows already comes with a very complex, very functional GUI. Unfortunately, while the Windows GUI is great for office apps, quite frequently, it’s not suited for many games. Games...
The Atari 2600 was released in 1977, and now there's finally a book about how to write games for it! You'll learn about the 6502 CPU, NTSC frames, scanlines, cycle counting, players, missiles, collisions, procedural generation, pseudo-3D, and more....