Download or read book Core Data by Tutorials Fourth Edition written by Aaron Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Core Data with Swift! Take control of your data in iOS apps using Core Data, through a series of high quality hands-on tutorials. Start with with the basics like setting up your own Core Data Stack all the way to advanced topics like syncing with iCloud, migration, performance, multithreading, and more! By the end of this book, you'll have hands-on experience with Core Data and will be ready to use it in your own apps. Who This Book Is For: This book is for intermediate iOS developers who already know the basics of iOS and Swift development but want to learn how to use Core Data to save data in their apps. Topics Covered in Core Data by Tutorials: Your First Core Data App: You'll click File\New Project and write a Core Data app from scratch! NSManagedObject Subclasses: Learn how to create your own subclasses of NSManagedObject - the base data storage class in Core Data. The Core Data Stack: Learn how the main objects in Core Data work together, so you can move from the starter Xcode template to your own system. Intermediate Fetching: This chapter covers how to fetch data with Core Data - fetch requests, predicates, sorting and asynchronous fetching. NSFetchedResultsController: Learn how to make Core Data play nicely with table views using NSFetchedResultsController! Versioning and Migration: In this chapter, you'll learn how to migrate your user's data as they upgrade through different versions of your data model. Unit Tests: In this chapter, you'll learn how to set up a test environment for Core Data and see examples of how to test your models. Measuring and Boosting Performance: Learn how to measure your app's performance with various Xcode tools and deal with slow spots in your code. Multiple Managed Object Contexts: Learn how multiple managed object contexts can improve performance and make for cleaner code.

Download or read book Core Data by Tutorials Eighth Edition written by raywenderlich Tutorial Team and published by Razeware LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Core Data With Swift!Take control of your data in iOS apps using Core Data, through a series of high quality hands-on tutorials.Start with the basics like setting up your own Core Data Stack all the way to advanced topics like migration, performance, multithreading, and more! By the end of this book, you'll have hands-on experience with Core Data and will be ready to use it in your own apps.Who This Book Is For:This book is for intermediate iOS developers who already know the basics of iOS and Swift development but want to learn how to use Core Data to save data in their apps.Topics Covered in Core Data by Tutorials:Your First Core Data App: You'll click File\New Project and write a Core Data app from scratch!NSManagedObject Subclasses: Learn how to create your own subclasses of NSManagedObject - the base data storage class in Core Data.The Core Data Stack: Learn how the main objects in Core Data work together, so you can move from the starter Xcode template to your own system.Intermediate Fetching: This chapter covers how to fetch data with Core Data - fetch requests, predicates, sorting and asynchronous fetching.NSFetchedResultsController: Learn how to make Core Data play nicely with table views using NSFetchedResultsController!Versioning and Migration: In this chapter, you'll learn how to migrate your user's data as they upgrade through different versions of your data model.Unit Tests: In this chapter, you'll learn how to set up a test environment for Core Data and see examples of how to test your models.Measuring and Boosting Performance: Learn how to measure your app's performance with various Xcode tools and deal with slow spots in your code.Multiple Managed Object Contexts: Learn how multiple managed object contexts can improve performance and make for cleaner code.Core Data and CloudKit: Learn how to synchronize Core Data across all of a user's devices.

Download or read book iPhone Programming written by Aaron Hillegass and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Big Nerd Ranch’s popular iPhone Bootcamp class, iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads you through the essential tools and techniques for developing applications for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. In each chapter, you will learn programming concepts and apply them immediately as you build an application or enhance one from a previous chapter. These applications have been carefully designed and tested to teach the associated concepts and to provide practice working with the standard development tools Xcode, Interface Builder, and Instruments. The guide’s learn-while-doing approach delivers the practical knowledge and experience you need to design and build real-world applications. Here are some of the topics covered: Dynamic interfaces with animation Using the camera and photo library User location and mapping services Accessing accelerometer data Handling multi-touch gestures Navigation and tabbed applications Tables and creating custom rows Multiple ways of storing and loading data: archiving, Core Data, SQLite Communicating with web services ALocalization/Internationalization "After many 'false starts' with other iPhone development books, these clear and concise tutorials made the concepts gel for me. This book is a definite must have for any budding iPhone developer." –Peter Watling, New Zealand, Developer of BubbleWrap

Download or read book IOS App Distribution Best Practices First Edition written by Pietro Rea and published by Razeware LLC. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharing Apple Apps With Your Team, Testers & the World You'll learn how to sign up for Apple Developer Program, generate the various certificates needed, configure your app and submit an app to the App Store for approval, both manually and through automated processes through automated pipelines. You'll learn how to use Apple TestFlight to add internal and external testers and receive feedback and crash reports. iOS App Distribution starts with explaining hurdles everyone faces, such as code signing, provisioning profiles, and how to do manual releases. It'll then go into more advanced topics, including distribution through TestFlight, build customization, automation, and continuous integration. Who This Book Is For This book is for beginner to experienced developers who want to know the best and most common workflow to release an app to the App store, as well as limiting frustration by troubleshooting and debugging common issues and problems associated with distributing apps. Topics Covered in iOS App Distribution & Best Practices App Store quick start: Your quickest way from no account to the App Store. Provisioning, code signing & entitlements: In-depth explanation of what they are, why you need them, and how they work. Distribution channels & TestFlight: Learn different ways of distributing your app, within an enterprise, with internal or external testers. App Store Connect: Learn about the Apple review process, what are the guidelines, what can go wrong and how to dispute them. Build customizations: Learn the ins and outs of configuring Xcode and build configurations. Build automation: Automate builds, build servers, and learn about tools such as fastlane. Continuous integration: Build your own CI pipeline to code, build, test, release, and repeat! After reading this book, you'll take your app build process and distribution to the next level, automate most of its tedious processes, and have an easier time debugging obscure app submission problem

Download or read book R for Data Science written by Hadley Wickham and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible. Authors Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund guide you through the steps of importing, wrangling, exploring, and modeling your data and communicating the results. You'll get a complete, big-picture understanding of the data science cycle, along with basic tools you need to manage the details. Each section of the book is paired with exercises to help you practice what you've learned along the way. You'll learn how to: Wrangle—transform your datasets into a form convenient for analysis Program—learn powerful R tools for solving data problems with greater clarity and ease Explore—examine your data, generate hypotheses, and quickly test them Model—provide a low-dimensional summary that captures true "signals" in your dataset Communicate—learn R Markdown for integrating prose, code, and results

Download or read book Data Structures Algorithms in Swift Fourth Edition written by raywenderlich Tutorial Team and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Data Structures & Algorithms in Swift!Data structures and algorithms form the basis of computer programming and are the starting point for anyone looking to become a software engineer. Choosing the proper data structure and algorithm involves understanding the many details and trade-offs of using them, which can be time-consuming to learn - and confusing.This is where this book, Data Structures & Algorithms in Swift, comes to the rescue! In this book, you'll learn the nuts and bolts of how fundamental data structures and algorithms work by using easy-to-follow tutorials loaded with illustrations; you'll also learn by working in Swift playground code.Who This Book Is ForThis book is for developers who know the basics of Swift syntax and want a better theoretical understanding of what data structures and algorithms are to build more complex programs or ace a whiteboard interview.Topics Covered in Data Structures & Algorithms in Swift*Basic data structures and algorithms, including stacks, queues and linked lists. *How protocols can be used to generalize algorithms. *How to leverage the algorithms of the Swift standard library with your own data structures. *Trees, tries and graphs. *Building algorithms on top of other primitives. *A complete spectrum of sorting algorithms from simple to advanced. *How to think about algorithmic complexity. *Finding shortest paths, traversals, subgraphs and much more.After reading this book, you'll have a solid foundation on data structures and algorithms and be ready to solve more complex problems in your apps elegantly.

Download or read book Learning QGIS written by Anita Graser and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest guide to using QGIS 2.14 to create great maps and perform geoprocessing tasks with ease About This Book Learn how to work with various data and create beautiful maps using this easy-to-follow guide. Give a touch of professionalism to your maps both for functionality and look and feel with the help of this practical guide. A progressive hands-on guide that builds on a geo-spatial data and adds more reactive maps by using geometry tools. Who This Book Is For This book is great for users, developers, and consultants who know the basic functions and processes of GIS and want to learn to use QGIS to analyze geospatial data and create rich mapping applications. If you want to take advantage of the wide range of functionalities that QGIS offers, then this is the book for you. What You Will Learn Install QGIS and get familiar with the user interface Load vector and raster data from files, databases, and web services Create, visualize, and edit spatial data Perform geoprocessing tasks and automate them Create advanced cartographic outputs Design great print maps Expand QGIS using Python In Detail QGIS is a user-friendly open source geographic information system (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows. The popularity of open source geographic information systems and QGIS in particular has been growing rapidly over the last few years. Learning QGIS Third Edition is a practical, hands-on guide updated for QGIS 2.14 that provides you with clear, step-by-step exercises to help you apply your GIS knowledge to QGIS. Through clear, practical exercises, this book will introduce you to working with QGIS quickly and painlessly. This book takes you from installing and configuring QGIS to handling spatial data to creating great maps. You will learn how to load and visualize existing spatial data and create data from scratch. You will get to know important plugins, perform common geoprocessing and spatial analysis tasks and automate them with Processing. We will cover how to achieve great cartographic output and print maps. Finally, you will learn how to extend QGIS using Python and even create your own plugin. Style and approach A step by step approach to explain concepts of Geospatial map with the help of real life examples

Download or read book SwiftUI by Tutorials Fourth Edition written by raywenderlich Tutorial Team and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn & Master SwiftUI!?Every developer wants to build the most fluid and engaging declarative UI for their apps with as little code as possible. SwiftUI will help you do just that. Learn all the main concepts through an easy-to-follow tutorials where you'll build apps that teach you to create modern, responsive UI and animations that look great on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and even macOS.?Who This Book Is For?This book is for intermediate iOS developers who already know the basics of iOS, and who wish to know everything there is to know about SwiftUI.?Topics Covered in SwiftUI by Tutorials?SwiftUI Overview: Learn SwiftUI features, as well as the differences between Apple ́s platforms with SwiftUI. Customize your apps for AppKit, UIKit, WatchKit, tvOS, iPadOS and even Catalyst.Testability: See how to apply UI Testing to your SwiftUI apps in this very simple, yet powerful course.Controls & User Input: Learn about controls such as TextField, Button, Toggle, Slider, Stepper, pickers and many more.State & Data Flow: Learn how to bind data to the UI, about reactive updates to the UI through state management, and in-depth usage of the attributes related to SwiftUI.Accessibility: Learn how to navigate your app with VoiceOver on an iOS device and use the SwiftUI Accessibility API attributes to improve your app's accessible UI.Drawing Custom Graphics & Animations: Create drawings, graphics, animations and even view transitions in SwiftUI.macOS: Learn how to create a document-based Mac app and later start with an existing iOS app and learn how to re-use code, views and assets for creating a macOS app.One thing you can count on: After you finish reading this book, you'll be able to take advantage of the latest and greatest features of SwiftUI to bring modern declarative UX to your apps.

Download or read book Core Data by Tutorials Third Edition written by Raywenderlich Com Team and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Core Data with Swift! Take control of your data in iOS apps using Core Data, through a series of high quality hands-on tutorials. Start with with the basics like setting up your own Core Data Stack all the way to advanced topics like syncing with iCloud, migration, performance, multithreading, and more! By the end of this book, you'll have hands-on experience with Core Data and will be ready to use it in your own apps. Who This Book Is For: This book is for intermediate iOS developers who already know the basics of iOS and Swift development but want to learn how to use Core Data to save data in their apps. Topics Covered in Core Data by Tutorials: Your First Core Data App: You'll click File\New Project and write a Core Data app from scratch! NSManagedObject Subclasses: Learn how to create your own subclasses of NSManagedObject - the base data storage class in Core Data. The Core Data Stack: Learn how the main objects in Core Data work together, so you can move from the starter Xcode template to your own system. Intermediate Fetching: This chapter covers how to fetch data with Core Data - fetch requests, predicates, sorting and asynchronous fetching. NSFetchedResultsController: Learn how to make Core Data play nicely with table views using NSFetchedResultsController! Versioning and Migration: In this chapter, you'll learn how to migrate your user's data as they upgrade through different versions of your data model. Synchronize with iCloud: Learn how to make your apps synchronize across devices, using the power of iCloud! Unit Tests: In this chapter, you'll learn how to set up a test environment for Core Data and see examples of how to test your models. Measuring and Boosting Performance: Learn how to measure your app's performance with various Xcode tools and deal with slow spots in your code. Multiple Managed Object Contexts: Learn how multiple managed object contexts can improve performance and make for cleaner code. The iOS Tutorial Team takes pride in making sure each tutorial we write holds to the highest standards of quality. We want our tutorials to be well written, easy to follow, and fun. And we don't want to just skim the surface of a subject - we want to really dig into it, so you can truly understand how it works and apply the knowledge directly in your own apps.

Download or read book The IOS Apprentice Fourth Edition written by Matthijs Hollemans and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely up to date for iOS 9, Xcode 7, and Swift 2.0. Learn iPhone and iPad Programming via Tutorials! If you're new to iOS and Swift, or to programming in general, learning how to write an app can seem incredibly overwhelming. That's why you need a book that: Shows you how to write an app step-by-step Has tons of illustrations and screenshots to make everything clear Is written in a fun and easygoing manner! In this book, you will learn how to make your own iPhone and iPad apps, through a series of four epic-length hands-on tutorials. These hands-on tutorials describe in full detail how to build a new app from scratch. Four tutorials, four apps. Each new app will be a little more advanced than the one before, and together they cover everything you need to know to make your own apps. By the end of the series you'll be experienced enough to turn your ideas into real apps that you can sell on the App Store. Tutorial 1: Bull's Eye. In the first tutorial in the book, you'll start off by building a simple but fun game to learn the basics of iPhone programming. In the process, you'll get familiar with Xcode, Interface Builder, and Swift in an easygoing manner. Tutorial 2: Checklists. In the second tutorial in the series, you'll create your own to-do list app. In the process, you'll learn about the fundamental design patterns that all iOS apps use and about table views, navigation controllers and delegates. Now you're making apps for real! Tutorial 3: MyLocations. In the third tutorial, you'll develop a location-aware app that lets you keep a list of spots that you find interesting. In the process, you'll learn about Core Location, Core Data, Map Kit, and much more! Tutorial 4: StoreSearch. Mobile apps often need to talk to web services and that's what you'll do in this final tutorial of the book. You'll make a stylish app for iPhone and iPad that lets you search for products on the iTunes store using HTTP requests and JSON. It is my sincere belief that this series can turn you from a complete newbie into an accomplished iOS developer, but you do have to put in the time and effort. By writing this book I've done my part, now it's up to you...

Download or read book Fundamentals of Crime Mapping written by Rebecca Paynich and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition of the popular Fundamentals of Crime Mapping: Principles and Practice walks readers through the research, theories, and history of GIS in law enforcement. This accessible text explains the day-to-day practical application of crime analysis for mapping. Factual data from real crime analysis is included to reflect actual crime patterns, trends, series and what an officer or analyst can expect to see when he or she sits down to analyze and apply concepts learned. Special topics discussed include: an up-to-date discussion of the current crime trends in rural and urban areas, the major ecological theories of crime, the notion of geographic profiling, empirical research using crime mapping tools, basic mapping terminology, and more. New to the Second Edition: • All exercises and examples have been updated to reflect ArcGIS 10.0 and Excel 2010. • Includes a workbook with engaging exercises to offer hands-on application of the material. • All exercises and graphics have been updated to account for ArcGIS 10.0 and Excel 2010, though all exercises and examples for Excel 2007 remain. • Contains a NEW chapter discussing the various types of policing, with an emphasis on the Compstat process, intelligence led policing, and problem-oriented policing.

Download or read book The Book of R written by Tilman M. Davies and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of R is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to R, the world’s most popular programming language for statistical analysis. Even if you have no programming experience and little more than a grounding in the basics of mathematics, you’ll find everything you need to begin using R effectively for statistical analysis. You’ll start with the basics, like how to handle data and write simple programs, before moving on to more advanced topics, like producing statistical summaries of your data and performing statistical tests and modeling. You’ll even learn how to create impressive data visualizations with R’s basic graphics tools and contributed packages, like ggplot2 and ggvis, as well as interactive 3D visualizations using the rgl package. Dozens of hands-on exercises (with downloadable solutions) take you from theory to practice, as you learn: –The fundamentals of programming in R, including how to write data frames, create functions, and use variables, statements, and loops –Statistical concepts like exploratory data analysis, probabilities, hypothesis tests, and regression modeling, and how to execute them in R –How to access R’s thousands of functions, libraries, and data sets –How to draw valid and useful conclusions from your data –How to create publication-quality graphics of your results Combining detailed explanations with real-world examples and exercises, this book will provide you with a solid understanding of both statistics and the depth of R’s functionality. Make The Book of R your doorway into the growing world of data analysis.

Download or read book C in Depth written by Jonathan Skeet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective techniques and experienced insights to maximize your C# 6 and 7 programming skills Key Features Written by C# legend and top StackOverflow contributor Jon Skeet Unlock the new features of C# 6 and 7 Insights on the future of the C# language Master asynchronous functions, interpolated strings, tuples, and more Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. ”An excellent overview of C# with helpful and realistic examples that make learning the newest features of C# easy.” —Meredith Godar About The Book C# is the foundation of .NET development. New features added in C# 6 and 7 make it easier to take on big data applications, cloud-centric web development, and cross-platform software using .NET Core. Packed with deep insight from C# guru Jon Skeet, this book takes you deep into concepts and features other C# books ignore. C# in Depth, Fourth Edition is an authoritative and engaging guide that reveals the full potential of the language, including the new features of C# 6 and 7. It combines deep dives into the C# language with practical techniques for enterprise development, web applications, and systems programming. As you absorb the wisdom and techniques in this book, you’ll write better code, and become an exceptional troubleshooter and problem solver. What You Will Learn Comprehensive guidance on the new features of C# 6 and 7 Important legacies and greatest hits of C# 2–5 Expression-bodied members Extended pass-by-reference functionality Writing asynchronous C# code String interpolation Composition with tuples Decomposition and pattern matching This Book Is Written For For intermediate C# developers. About The Author Jon Skeet is a senior software engineer at Google. He studied mathematics and computer science at Cambridge, is a recognized authority in Java and C#, and maintains the position of top contributor to Stack Overflow. Table of Contents 1. Survival of the sharpest 2. C# 2 3. C# 3: LINQ and everything that comes with it 4. C# 4: Improving interoperability 5. Writing asynchronous code 6. Async implementation 7. C# 5 bonus features 8. Super-sleek properties and expression-bodied members 9. Stringy features 10. A smörgåsbord of features for concise code 11. Composition using tuples 12. Deconstruction and pattern matching 13. Improving efficiency with more pass by reference 14. Concise code in C# 7 15. C# 8 and beyond PART 1 C# IN CONTEXT PART 2 C# 2–5 PART 3 C# 6 PART 4 C# 7 AND BEYOND

Download or read book ASP NET Core 5 and Angular written by Valerio De Sanctis and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build robust modern web applications using .NET 5, Entity Framework Core, and Angular 11 Key FeaturesUpdated with the latest features and additions in ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular 11Design, build, and deploy a Single Page Application or Progressive Web AppAdopt a full stack approach to handle data management, Web APIs, application design, testing, SEO, security, and deploymentBook Description Learning full-stack development calls for knowledge of both front-end and back-end web development. ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular, Fourth Edition will enhance your ability to create, debug, and deploy efficient web applications using ASP.NET Core and Angular. This revised edition includes coverage of the Angular routing module, expanded discussion on the Angular CLI, and detailed instructions for deploying apps on Azure, as well as both Windows and Linux. Taking care to explain and challenge design choices made throughout the text, Valerio teaches you how to build a data model with Entity Framework Core, alongside utilizing the Entity Core Fluent API and EntityTypeConfiguration class. You’ll learn how to fetch and display data and handle user input with Angular reactive forms and front-end and back-end validators for maximum effect. Later, you will perform advanced debugging and explore the unit testing features provided by xUnit.net (.NET 5) and Jasmine, as well as Karma for Angular. After adding authentication and authorization to your apps, you will explore progressive web applications (PWAs), learning about their technical requirements, testing, and converting SWAs to PWAs. By the end of this book, you will understand how to tie together the front end and back end to build and deploy secure and robust web applications. What you will learnImplement a web API interface with ASP.NET Core and consume it with Angular using RxJS observablesSet up an SQL database server using a local instance or a cloud data storePerform C# and TypeScript debugging using Visual Studio 2019Create TDD and BDD unit tests using xUnit, Jasmine, and KarmaPerform DBMS structured logging using third-party providers such as SeriLogDeploy web apps to Windows and Linux web servers, or Azure App Service, using IIS, Kestrel, and nginxWho this book is for This book is for experienced ASP.NET developers who already possess some familiarity with ASP.NET Core and Angular and are looking to learn how to use them effectively together. The fully documented code samples (also available on GitHub) and the step-by-step implementation tutorials make this book easy to follow.

Download or read book Metal by Tutorials Third Edition Beginning Game Engine Development With Metal written by Caroline Begbie and published by Razeware LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your own low-level game engine in Metal!This book introduces you to graphics programming in Metal - Apple's framework for programming on the GPU. You'll build your own game engine in Metal where you can create 3D scenes and build your own 3D games.Who This Book Is ForThis book is for intermediate Swift developers interested in learning 3D graphics or gaining a deeper understanding of how game engines work.Topics Covered in Metal by TutorialsThe Rendering Pipeline: Take a deep dive through the graphics pipeline.3D Models: Import 3D models with Model I/O and discover what makes up a 3D model.Coordinate Spaces: Learn the math behind 3D rendering.Lighting: Make your models look more realistic with simple lighting techniques.Shading: Understand how vertex and fragment shaders work.Textures & Materials: Design textures and surfaces for micro detail.Multipass Rendering: Add shadows with advanced lighting effects.Tile-based Deferred Rendering: Take full advantage of your Apple GPU with this rendering technique.GPU-Driven Rendering: Move the rendering setup to the GPU.Tessellation: Discover how to use tessellation to add a higher level of detail using fewer resources.Environment: Add realistic skies and water to your scenes.Particle Systems: Learn how to make stunning visual effects using GPU compute shaders.Character Animation: Bring your 3D models to life with joints and animation.Raytracing: Learn how to perform raytracing on the GPU.Advanced Lighting & Shadows: Discover signed distance fields and render beautiful shadows.Performance Optimization: Tune up your game with Xcode's new tools.After reading this book, you'll be prepared to take full advantage of graphics rendering with the Metal framework.

Download or read book Java 8 Pocket Guide written by Robert Liguori and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you need quick answers for developing or debugging Java programs, this pocket guide provides a handy reference to standard features of the Java programming language and its platform. You’ll find helpful programming examples, tables, figures, and lists, as well as Java 8 features such as Lambda Expressions and the Date and Time API. It’s an ideal companion, whether you’re in the office, in the lab, or on the road. This book also provides material to help you prepare for the Oracle Certified Associate Java Programmer exam. Quickly find Java language details, such as naming conventions, types, statements and blocks, and object-oriented programming Get details on the Java SE platform, including development basics, memory management, concurrency, and generics Browse through information on basic input/output, NIO 2.0, the Java collections framework, and the Java Scripting API Get supplemental references to fluent APIs, third-party tools, and basics of the Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Download or read book Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition written by Marijn Haverbeke and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely revised and updated, this best-selling introduction to programming in JavaScript focuses on writing real applications. JavaScript lies at the heart of almost every modern web application, from social apps like Twitter to browser-based game frameworks like Phaser and Babylon. Though simple for beginners to pick up and play with, JavaScript is a flexible, complex language that you can use to build full-scale applications. This much anticipated and thoroughly revised third edition of Eloquent JavaScript dives deep into the JavaScript language to show you how to write beautiful, effective code. It has been updated to reflect the current state of Java¬Script and web browsers and includes brand-new material on features like class notation, arrow functions, iterators, async functions, template strings, and block scope. A host of new exercises have also been added to test your skills and keep you on track. As with previous editions, Haverbeke continues to teach through extensive examples and immerses you in code from the start, while exercises and full-chapter projects give you hands-on experience with writing your own programs. You start by learning the basic structure of the JavaScript language as well as control structures, functions, and data structures to help you write basic programs. Then you'll learn about error handling and bug fixing, modularity, and asynchronous programming before moving on to web browsers and how JavaScript is used to program them. As you build projects such as an artificial life simulation, a simple programming language, and a paint program, you'll learn how to: - Understand the essential elements of programming, including syntax, control, and data - Organize and clarify your code with object-oriented and functional programming techniques - Script the browser and make basic web applications - Use the DOM effectively to interact with browsers - Harness Node.js to build servers and utilities Isn't it time you became fluent in the language of the Web? * All source code is available online in an inter¬active sandbox, where you can edit the code, run it, and see its output instantly.