Ready to create rich interactive experiences with your artwork, designs, or prototypes? This is the ideal place to start. With this hands-on guide, you’ll explore several themes in interactive art and design—including 3D graphics, sound, physical interaction, computer vision, and geolocation—and learn the basic programming and electronics concepts you need to implement them. No previous experience is necessary. You’ll get a complete introduction to three free tools created specifically for artists and designers: the
Processing programming language, the Arduino microcontroller, and the openFrameworks toolkit.

You’ll also find working code samples you can use right away, along with the background and technical information you need to design, program, and build your own projects. Learn cutting-edge techniques for interaction design from leading artists and designers. Let users provide input through buttons, dials, and other physical controls. Produce graphics and animation, including 3D images with OpenGL. Use sounds to interact with users by providing feedback, input, or an element they can control. Work with motors, servos, and appliances to provide physical feedback. Turn a user’s gestures and movements into meaningful input, using Open CV.

WebMatrix is the latest addition to the hugely popular Microsoft ASP.NET web platform. This exciting new technology aims to simplify the process of developing websites by combining the new and powerful Razor syntax with a fully extensible set of data and HTML helpers for performing common web tasks. The WebMatrix installation includes all the tools the developer requires to quickly create fully-functional, data-driven, dynamic sites using ASP.NET web pages. The lightweight custom development tool works alongside SQL Server Compact Edition and Internet Information Services (IIS) Express to provide a seamless and easy-to-use environment which enables the web developer to concentrate on the rapid development of feature-rich websites, without the need to learn the complex concepts and highly structured programming models which many other frameworks require.

What you’ll learn: How to combine HTML and server-side C# Razor code with the powerful .NET framework to easily develop websites using Microsoft WebMatrix. How to create layouts which can be applied across multiple pages. How to interact with SQL Server and other databases, using proven techniques and best practices. How to add social networking features to your web site using WebMatrix Helpers. How to create your own custom functions and helpers to provide reusable code and content. How to secure your website using a role-based membership model. How to deploy your website to a hosting provider.

As the key scripting language for the web, JavaScript is supported by every modern web browser and allows developers to create client-side scripts that take advantage of features such as animating the canvas tag and enabling client-side storage and application caches. After an in-depth introduction to the JavaScript language, this updated edition of a bestseller progresses to break down how JavaScript is applied for web development using the latest web development technologies. Veteran author and JavaScript guru Nicholas Zakas shows how JavaScript works with the new HTML5 as well as other significant advances in web development as it relates to JavaScript.

Begins with an introduction to JavaScript basics and then moves on to more advanced topics regarding JavaScript and advances in web development technologies. Describes how JavaScript is implemented into HTML5. Covers browser/feature detection in scripts, event-driven JavaScript development, error reporting and debugging, offline application and data storage, and more. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 3rd Edition is an authoritative JavaScript resource that every web developers should have. If you want to achieve JavaScript’s full potential, it is critical to understand its nature, history, and limitations.

To that end, this updated version of the bestseller by veteran author and JavaScript guru Nicholas C. Zakas covers JavaScript from its very beginning to the present-day incarnations including the DOM, Ajax, and HTML5. Zakas shows you how to extend this powerful language to meet specific needs and create dynamic user interfaces for the web that blur the line between desktop and internet. By the end of the book, you’ll have a strong understanding of the significant advances in web development as they relate to JavaScript so that you can apply them to your next website.

Beginning Android 4 Games Development offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers. You’ll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress toward creating your own basic game engine and playable game that works on Android 4.0 and earlier devices. This will give you everything you need to branch out and write your own Android games. The potential user base and the wide array of available high-performance devices makes Android an attractive target for aspiring game developers. Do you have an awesome idea for the next break-through mobile gaming title? Beginning Android 4 Games Development will help you kick-start your project.

The book will guide you through the process of making several example games for the Android platform, and involves a wide range of topics: The fundamentals of Android game development targeting Android 1.5-4.0+ devices. The Android platform basics to apply those fundamentals in the context of making a game. The design of 2D and 3D games and their successful implementation on the Android platform. What you’ll learn: How to set up and use the development tools for developing your first Android 4 or earlier version game app. The fundamentals of game programming in the context of the Android platform.

Ext JS 4 is a JavaScript framework that provides resources to build Rich Internet Applications with great performance. Ext JS 4 has been packed with many new features and it is difficult to master, even for seasoned experts in Ext JS 3. Ext JS 4 First Look teaches you the main functional areas of Ext JS 4 that have significant new features, explains the new features and how to use them, while highlighting the differences between Ext JS 4 and the previous versions. This book will give you the knowledge to make the required changes to Ext JS 3 application to build a complete Ext JS 4 application. This book provides examples of how to load Ext JS components by demand, charts, grid, tree, forms and panels, new data model, themes and mvc architecture.

Ext JS 4 First Look provides full examples and illustrations to help you easily learn the new features of Ext JS 4. What you will learn from this book. Learn the major changes in Ext JS 4 and its compatibility with Ext JS 3, including how to load components by demand. Understand how to use the new Data package, including new features such as Model, Associations, Validations, new Proxies, etc. Organize Ext JS 4 components into containers. Approach: This book is a practical step-by-step tutorial which guides you to migrate from Ext JS 3 to Ext JS 4. There are examples backed with explanations and plenty of code and illustrations to look forward to. Who this book is for: This book is written for web developers who are familiar with Ext JS 3 and want to have detailed insights into the new features of Ext JS 4.