From the moment it was published almost ten years ago, Elements of User Experience became a vital reference for web and interaction designers the world over, and has come to define the core principles of the practice. Now, in this updated, expanded, and full-color new edition, Jesse James Garrett has refined his thinking about the Web, going beyond the desktop to include information that also applies to the sudden proliferation of mobile devices and applications.

Successful interact...

Game Design Workshop puts you to work prototyping, playtesting, and revising your own games with time-tested methods and tools. These skills will provide the foundation for your career in any facet of the game industry including design, producing, programming, and visual design.

This book provides a clear and practical approach to understanding the essentials of storytelling. This book distills fundamental elements, principles, and structures, explicitly tailored for animators, game designers, VFX artists, and XR creators, so they can seamlessly integrate these concepts into their work.

Developers, take note: databases aren't just for the IS group any more. You can build database-backed applications for the desktop, Web, embedded systems, or operating systems without linking to heavy-duty client-server databases such as Oracle and MySQL. This book shows how you to use SQLite, a small and lightweight database that you can build right into your application during development. Applications that handle data have an enormous advantage today, and with SQLite, you'll discover how t...

The Student's Guide to VHDL is a condensed edition of The Designer's Guide to VHDL, the most widely used textbook on VHDL for digital system modeling. The Student's Guide is targeted as a supplemental reference book for computer organization and digital design courses.Since publication of the first edition of The Student's Guide, the IEEE VHDL and related standards have been revised. The Designer's Guide has been revised to reflect the changes, so it is appropriate that The Student's Guide al...

Provides readers an understanding of IP routing protocols, teaches how to implement these protocols using Cisco routers, and brings readers up-to-date with protocol and implementation enhancements. This book also includes features that enhance routing integrity and secure routers from attacks initiated through routing protocols.

Publisher's note: This edition from 2020 is outdated and does not make use of the most recent Unity and C# features. A new sixth edition, updated for Unity 2021 and including new advanced C# topics, such as reading, writing, and serializing data, has now been published. Key FeaturesUnderstand C# programming basics, terminology, and coding best practicesPut your knowledge of C# concepts into practice by building a fun and playable gameCome away with a clear direction for taking your C# program...

Hoewel de bitcoin al tien jaar bestaat, heeft het grote publiek pas sinds kort interesse in dit digitale betaalmiddel. Dat het zo lang heeft geduurd, komt vooral doordat er nogal wat techniek bij bitcoins komt kijken. Je hoeft echter geen technisch wonder te zijn om bitcoins te kunnen gebruiken! Bitcoins voor Dummies legt in duidelijke taal uit wat bitcoins zijn, hoe ze werken, hoe je ze koopt en verkoopt en wat de voor- en nadelen zijn. Ook komt de blockchain aan bod, de technologie waarop d...

Mensen zijn denkende stukjes van de evoluerende kosmos. Onze samenleving lijkt

echter een noodtoestand te naderen qua klimaat, milieu en mondiale conflicten.

Bert Koene, natuurkundige en historisch onderzoeker, verkent onze voor-

geschiedenis en onderzoekt toekomstscenario’s.

Hij laat zien dat de fysieke wereld heel anders in elkaar zit dan wij intuïtief

denken, maar ook dat zij als het ware is gemáákt voor leven. Oorzaak van onze

huidige crises is volgens Koene het feit dat het gevoel n...