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Practical Game AI Programming. Unleash the power of Artificial Intelligence to your game
Micael DaGraça
The book starts with the basics examples of AI for different game genres and directly jumps into defining the probabilities and possibilities of the AI character to determine character movement. Next, you’ll learn how AI characters should behave within the environment created.Moving on, you’ll explore how to work with animations. You’ll also plan and create pruning strategies, and create Theta algorithms to find short and realistic looking game paths. Next, you’ll learn how the AI should behave when there is a lot of characters in the same scene.You'll explore which methods and algorithms, such as possibility maps, Forward Chaining Plan, Rete Algorithm, Pruning Strategies, Wall Distances, and Map Preprocess Implementation should be used on different occasions. You’ll discover how to overcome some limitations, and how to deliver a better experience to the player. By the end of the book, you think differently about AI.
Practical UX Design. Click here to enter text
Scott Faranello
Written in an easy-to-read style, this book provides real-world examples, a historical perspective, and a holistic approach to design that will ground you in the fundamental essentials of interactive design, allow you to make more informed design decisions, and increase your understanding of UX in order to reach the highest levels of UX maturity. As you will see, UX is more than just delighting customers and users. It is also about thinking like a UX practitioner, making time for creativity, recognizing good design when you see it, understanding Information Architecture as more than just organizing and labeling websites, using design patterns to influence user behavior and decision making, approaching UX from a business perspective, transforming your client’s and company’s fundamental understanding of UX and its true value, and so much more.This book is an invaluable resource of knowledge, perspective, and inspiration for those seeking to become better UX designers, increase their confidence, become more mature design leaders, and deliver solutions that provide measurable value to stakeholders, customers, and users regardless of project type, size, and delivery method.
Philippe Hong
Web design is the process of creating websites. It encompasses several different aspects, including webpage layout, content production, and graphic design. This book offers you everything you need to know to build your websites. The book starts off by explaining the importance of web design and the basic design components used in website development. It'll show you insider tips to work quickly and efficiently with web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, concluding with a project on creating a static site with good layout. Once you've got that locked down, we'll get our hands dirty by diving straight into learning JavaScript and JQuery, ending with a project on creating dynamic content for your website. After getting our basic website up and running with the dynamic functionalities you'll move on to building your own responsive websites using more advanced techniques such as Bootstrap. Later you will learn smart ways to add dynamic content, and modern UI techniques such as Adaptive UI and Material Design. This will help you understand important concepts such as server-side rendering and UI components. Finally we take a look at various developer tools to ease your web development process.
Gus Khawaja
Companies all over the world want to hire professionals dedicated to application security. Practical Web Penetration Testing focuses on this very trend, teaching you how to conduct application security testing using real-life scenarios.To start with, you’ll set up an environment to perform web application penetration testing. You will then explore different penetration testing concepts such as threat modeling, intrusion test, infrastructure security threat, and more, in combination with advanced concepts such as Python scripting for automation. Once you are done learning the basics, you will discover end-to-end implementation of tools such as Metasploit, Burp Suite, and Kali Linux. Many companies deliver projects into production by using either Agile or Waterfall methodology. This book shows you how to assist any company with their SDLC approach and helps you on your journey to becoming an application security specialist.By the end of this book, you will have hands-on knowledge of using different tools for penetration testing.
Mads Hartmann, Ruslan Shevchenko
This book teaches you how to build and contribute to Scala programs, recognizing common patterns and techniques used with the language. You’ll learn how to write concise, functional code with Scala. After an introduction to core concepts, syntax, and writing example applications with scalac, you’ll learn about the Scala Collections API and how the language handles type safety via static types out-of-the-box. You’ll then learn about advanced functional programming patterns, and how you can write your own Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). By the end of the book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to successfully build smart, efficient applications in Scala that can be compiled to the JVM.
Scott Domes
For years, the speed and power of web apps has lagged behind native applications. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) aim to solve this by bridging the gap between the web apps and native apps, delivering a host of exciting features. Simultaneously, React is fast becoming the go-to solution for building modern web UIs, combining ease of development with performance and capability. Using React alongside PWA technology will make it easy for you to build a fast, beautiful, and functional web app.After an introduction and brief overview of the goals of PWAs, the book moves on to setting up the application structure. From there, it covers the Webpack build process and the process of creating React components. You'll learn how to set up the backend database and authentication solution to communicate with Firebase and how to work with React Router. Next, you will create and configure your web app manifest, making your PWA installable on mobile devices. Then you'll get introduced to service workers and see how they work as we configure the app to send push notifications using Firebase Cloud Messaging. We'll also explore the App Shell pattern, a key concept in PWAs and look at its advantages regarding efficient performance. Finally, you'll learn how to add of?ine capabilities to the app with caching and confirm your progress by auditing your PWA with Lighthouse. Also, you'll discover helper libraries and shortcuts that will help you save time and understand the future of PWA development.
Projektowanie nawigacji strony WWW. Optymalizacja funkcjonalności witryny
James Kalbach
Sekrety sukcesu witryn WWW W jaki sposób użytkownicy przeglądają witryny WWW? Jak wykorzystać różne typy mechanizmów nawigacyjnych? W jaki sposób dobrać kolorystykę i liternictwo elementów nawigacyjnych? Dynamiczny rozwój internetu i technologii sieciowych sprawił, że korzystanie z sieci stało się równie powszechne jak oglądanie telewizji i czytanie gazet. Poprzez witryny WWW zdobywamy niezbędne informacje, zamawiamy towary, płacimy rachunki i kontaktujemy się z przyjaciółmi. Co sprawia, że wśród setek tysięcy serwisów internetowych posiadających podobne możliwości jedne cieszą się popularnością użytkowników, a inne nie? Na pewno na atrakcyjność strony WWW wpływa grafika i treść, ale przede wszystkim jej funkcjonalność. Natomiast o wygodzie korzystania ze niej decyduje nawigacja, czyli sposób, w jaki uzyskujemy potrzebne informacje, przechodzimy pomiędzy stronami i wybieramy interesujące tematy. Współczesne techniki tworzenia witryn WWW - Flash, AJAX i inne - pozwalają na kreowanie niezwykle atrakcyjnych interfejsów użytkownika, ale kluczem do sukcesu jest właśnie odpowiedni projekt struktury nawigacyjnej. Książka "Projektowanie nawigacji strony WWW. Optymalizacja ergonomii witryny " to podręcznik, który ułatwi poznanie i zastosowanie w praktyce zasad projektowania ergonomicznych i efektownych mechanizmów nawigacyjnych na stronach WWW. Czytając go, dowiesz się, czego oczekują użytkownicy stron WWW, jakie schematy nawigacji stosuje się najczęściej i jak dobrać typ nawigacji do przeznaczenia i treści witryny. Nauczysz się analizować cele witryny, tworzyć prototypy i scenariusze nawigacji, określać ścieżki nawigacji i budować elementy menu. Przeczytasz także o projektowaniu interfejsów użytkownika dla aplikacji sieciowych oraz łączeniu mechanizmów nawigacyjnych z wyszukiwawczymi. Podstawowe cele mechanizmów nawigacji w witrynie WWW Teoretyczne modele wyszukiwania Typy mechanizmów nawigacyjnych Metody analizy i oceny projektu nawigacji Tworzenie prototypów i ścieżek nawigacji Dobór kolorów, czcionek i stylów dla elementów nawigacyjnych Mechanizmy wyszukiwawcze Znakowanie treści w portalach społecznościowych Interfejsy użytkownika w aplikacjach internetowych Twórz przejrzyste i wygodne mechanizmy nawigacyjne.
pytest Quick Start Guide. Write better Python code with simple and maintainable tests
Bruno Oliveira
Python's standard unittest module is based on the xUnit family of frameworks, which has its origins in Smalltalk and Java, and tends to be verbose to use and not easily extensible.The pytest framework on the other hand is very simple to get started, but powerful enough to cover complex testing integration scenarios, being considered by many the true Pythonic approach to testing in Python.In this book, you will learn how to get started right away and get the most out of pytest in your daily work?ow, exploring powerful mechanisms and plugins to facilitate many common testing tasks. You will also see how to use pytest in existing unittest-based test suites and will learn some tricks to make the jump to a pytest-style test suite quickly and easily.