Mastering C++ Game Animation Programming. Enhance your skills with advanced game animation techniques in C++, OpenGL, and Vulkan

Michael Dunsky

With two decades of programming experience across multiple languages and platforms, expert game developer and console porting programmer Michael Dunsky guides you through the intricacies of character animation programming. This book tackles the common challenges developers face in creating sophisticated, efficient, and visually appealing character animations.You’ll learn how to leverage the Open Asset Import Library for easy 3D model loading and optimize your 3D engine by offloading computations from the CPU to the GPU. The book covers visual selection, extended camera handling, and separating your application into edit and simulation modes. You’ll also master configuration storage to progressively build your virtual world piece by piece.As you develop your engine-like application, you’ll implement collision detection, inverse kinematics, and expert techniques to bring your characters to life with realistic visuals and fluid movement. For more advanced animation and character behavior controls, you’ll design truly immersive and responsive NPCs, load real game maps, and use navigation algorithms, enabling the instances to roam freely in complex environments.By the end of this book, you’ll be skilled at designing interactive virtual worlds inhabited by lifelike NPCs that exhibit natural, context-aware behaviors.

Mastering C++ Multithreading. Write robust, concurrent, and parallel applications

Maya Posch

Multithreaded applications execute multiple threads in a single processor environment, allowing developers achieve concurrency. This book will teach you the finer points of multithreading and concurrency concepts and how to apply them efficiently in C++.Divided into three modules, we start with a brief introduction to the fundamentals of multithreading and concurrency concepts. We then take an in-depth look at how these concepts work at the hardware-level as well as how both operating systems and frameworks use these low-level functions. In the next module, you will learn about the native multithreading and concurrency support available in C++ since the 2011 revision, synchronization and communication between threads, debugging concurrent C++ applications, and the best programming practices in C++.In the final module, you will learn about atomic operations before moving on to apply concurrency to distributed and GPGPU-based processing. The comprehensive coverage of essential multithreading concepts means you will be able to efficiently apply multithreading concepts while coding in C++.

Mastering C++ Programming. Modern C++ 17 at your fingertips

Jeganathan Swaminathan

C++ ? ?has ? ?come ? ?a ? ?long ? ?way ? ?and ? ?has ? ?now ? ?been ? ?adopted ? ?in ? ?several ? ?contexts. Its ? ?key ? ?strengths ? ?are ? ?its ? ?software ? ?infrastructure ? ?and ? ?resource-constrained applications. ? ?The ?C++ ? ?17 ? ?release ? ?will ? ?change ? ?the ? ?way ? ?developers ? ?write code, ? ?and ? ?this ? ?book ? ?will ? ?help ?you ? ?master ? ?your ? ?developing ? ?skills ? ?with ? ?C++. With ? ?real-world, ? ?practical ? ?examples ? ?explaining ? ?each ? ?concept, ? ?the ? ?book ? ?will begin ? ?by ? ?introducing ? ?you ? ?to ? ?the ? ?latest ? ?features ? ?in ? ?C++ ? ?17. ? ?It ? ?encourages clean ? ?code ? ?practices ? ?in ? ?C++ ? ?in ? ?general, ? ?and ? ?demonstrates ? ?the ? ?GUI app-development ? ?options ? ?in ? ?C++. ? ?You’ll ? ?get ? ?tips ? ?on ? ?avoiding ? ?memory ? ?leaks using ? ?smart-pointers. ? ?Next, ? ?you’ll ? ?see ? ?how ? ?multi-threaded ?programming can ? ?help ? ?you ? ?achieve ? ?concurrency ? ?in ? ?your ? ?applications. Moving ? ?on, ? ?you’ll ? ?get ? ?an ? ?in-depth ? ?understanding ? ?of ? ?the ? ?C++ ? ?Standard Template ? ?Library. ? ?We ? ?show ? ?you ? ?the ? ?concepts ? ?of ? ?implementing ? ?TDD ? ?and BDD ? ?in ? ?your ? ?C++ ? ?programs, ? ?and ? ?explore ? ?template-based ? ?generic programming, ? ?giving ? ?you ? ?the ? ?expertise ? ?to ? ?build ? ?powerful ? ?applications. Finally, ? ?we’ll ? ?round ? ?up ? ?with ? ?debugging ? ?techniques ? ?and ? ?best ? ?practices.By ? ?the ? ?end ? ?of ? ?the ? ?book, ? ?you’ll ? ?have ? ?an ? ?in-depth ? ?understanding ? ?of ? ?the language ? ?and ? ?its ? ?various ? ?facets.

Mastering OpenCV 3. Get hands-on with practical Computer Vision using OpenCV 3 - Second Edition

Shervin Emami, David Millán Escrivá, Daniel Lelis Baggio, Roy Shilkrot, ...

As we become more capable of handling data in every kind, we are becoming more reliant on visual input and what we can do with those self-driving cars, face recognition, and even augmented reality applications and games. This is all powered by Computer Vision.This book will put you straight to work in creating powerful and unique computer vision applications. Each chapter is structured around a central project and deep dives into an important aspect of OpenCV such as facial recognition, image target tracking, making augmented reality applications, the 3D visualization framework, and machine learning. You’ll learn how to make AI that can remember and use neural networks to help your applications learn.By the end of the book, you will have created various working prototypes with the projects in the book and will be well versed with the new features of OpenCV3.

Mastering Qt 5. Create stunning cross-platform applications using C++ with Qt Widgets and QML with Qt Quick - Second Edition

Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea

Qt 5.11 is an app development framework that provides a great user experience and develops full capability applications with Qt Widgets, QML, and even Qt 3D. Whether you're building GUI prototypes or fully-fledged cross-platform GUI applications with a native look and feel, Mastering Qt 5 is your fastest, easiest, and most powerful solution. This book addresses various challenges and teaches you to successfully develop cross-platform applications using the Qt framework, with the help of well-organized projects.Working through this book, you will gain a better understanding of the Qt framework, as well as the tools required to resolve serious issues, such as linking, debugging, and multithreading. You'll start off your journey by discovering the new Qt 5.11 features, soon followed by exploring different platforms and learning to tame them. In addition to this, you'll interact with a gamepad using Qt Gamepad. Each chapter is a logical step for you to complete in order to master Qt.By the end of this book, you'll have created an application that has been tested and is ready to be shipped.

Mastering Rust. Learn about memory safety, type system, concurrency, and the new features of Rust 2018 edition - Second Edition

Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta

Rust is an empowering language that provides a rare combination of safety, speed, and zero-cost abstractions. Mastering Rust – Second Edition is filled with clear and simple explanations of the language features along with real-world examples, showing you how you can build robust, scalable, and reliable programs. This second edition of the book improves upon the previous one and touches on all aspects that make Rust a great language. We have included the features from latest Rust 2018 edition such as the new module system, the smarter compiler, helpful error messages, and the stable procedural macros. You’ll learn how Rust can be used for systems programming, network programming, and even on the web. You’ll also learn techniques such as writing memory-safe code, building idiomatic Rust libraries, writing efficient asynchronous networking code, and advanced macros. The book contains a mix of theory and hands-on tasks so you acquire the skills as well as the knowledge, and it also provides exercises to hammer the concepts in. After reading this book, you will be able to implement Rust for your enterprise projects, write better tests and documentation, design for performance, and write idiomatic Rust code.

Mastering SFML Game Development. Inject new life and light into your old SFML projects by advancing to the next level

Raimondas Pupius

SFML is a cross-platform software development library written in C++ with bindings available for many programming languages. It provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. This book will help you become an expert of SFML by using all of its features to its full potential. It begins by going over some of the foundational code necessary in order to make our RPG project run. By the end of chapter 3, we will have successfully picked up and deployed a fast and efficient particle system that makes the game look much more ‘alive’. Throughout the next couple of chapters, you will be successfully editing the game maps with ease, all thanks to the custom tools we’re going to be building. From this point on, it’s all about making the game look good. After being introduced to the use of shaders and raw OpenGL, you will be guided through implementing dynamic scene lighting, the use of normal and specular maps, and dynamic soft shadows. However, no project is complete without being optimized first. The very last chapter will wrap up our project by making it lightning fast and efficient.

Mastering the C++17 STL. Make full use of the standard library components in C++17

Arthur O'Dwyer

Modern C++ has come a long way since 2011. The latest update, C++17, has just been ratified and several implementations are on the way.This book is your guide to the C++ standard library, including the very latest C++17 features. The book starts by exploring the C++ Standard Template Library in depth. You will learn the key differences between classical polymorphism and generic programming, the foundation of the STL. You will also learn how to use the various algorithms and containers in the STL to suit your programming needs. The next module delves into the tools of modern C++. Here you will learn about algebraic types such as std::optional, vocabulary types such as std::function, smart pointers, and synchronization primitives such as std::atomic and std::mutex. In the final module, you will learn about C++'s support for regular expressions and file I/O. By the end of the book you will be proficient in using the C++17 standard library to implement real programs, and you'll have gained a solid understanding of the library's own internals.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2012. Praktyczne przykłady

Mariusz Owczarek

Microsoft Visual C++ 2012? To nic trudnego! Poznaj składnię języka C++ i nowości wprowadzane przez standard C++11 Naucz się wykorzystywać typy i konstrukcje programistyczne Dowiedz się, jak tworzyć aplikacje oparte na Windows API i .NET Framework Dostępne od niedawna środowisko Visual C++ 2012 oferuje użytkownikom szereg zupełnie nowych możliwości. Dzięki wprowadzeniu obsługi standardu C++11 i zwiększeniu przejrzystości oraz uniwersalności kodu źródłowego rozwiązanie ugruntowało swoją renomę nowoczesnego i nieustannie rozwijanego narzędzia programistycznego do wszechstronnych zastosowań. Ulepszone i dostosowane do nowych wymagań z powodzeniem może konkurować z innymi środowiskami obecnymi na rynku. Potwierdzają to również takie posunięcia producenta, jak zapewnienie wsparcia dla twórców programów działających w systemie Windows 8 i aplikacji mobilnych uruchamianych na platformie Windows Phone. "Microsoft Visual C++ 2012. Praktyczne przykłady" to doskonały przewodnik dla osób chcących poznać język C++ i zacząć pisać programy w środowisku Visual C++. Książka zawiera dokładny opis składni standardowego języka C++, a także praktyczne wskazówki dotyczące tworzenia aplikacji wykorzystujących Windows API oraz .NET Framework. Podręcznik prezentuje nie tylko podstawowe konstrukcje języka i sposoby ich stosowania, lecz także wprowadza czytelnika w bardziej zaawansowane zagadnienia związane z tworzeniem aplikacji działających w systemach operacyjnych Windows. Każdy omawiany tutaj temat został zilustrowany przykładem umożliwiającym praktyczne utrwalenie poznanych wiadomości teoretycznych. Instalacja i obsługa środowiska Microsoft Visual C++ Struktura programów C++ i konstrukcje języka Przegląd instrukcji i typów wbudowanych Podstawy techniki obiektowej Korzystanie z Windows API Tworzenie aplikacji wyposażonych w GUI Obsługa operacji na plikach Programowanie wielowątkowe Używanie komponentów .NET Framework Chcesz nauczyć się szybko działać w nowym Visual C++? Jesteś na dobrej drodze!

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. Programowanie w C i C++

Radosław Sokół

Dołącz do najlepszych, zacznij programować w C i C++! Poznaj środowisko Microsoft Visual Studio 2012! Odkryj uniwersalne narzędzia programistyczne! Naucz się programować w językach C i C++! Informatyka w obecnym kształcie nie mogłaby istnieć bez języków C i C++. Oba miały ogromne znaczenie dla powstania współczesnych systemów operacyjnych i oprogramowania użytkowego. Od systemu UNIX, poprzez Linuksa, aż po różne wersje systemu Windows — wszystkie środowiska w mniejszym lub większym stopniu zostały zbudowane za pomocą C lub C++. Prosta składnia tych języków, ich wysoka wydajność i ogromne możliwości zapewniły im wierną rzeszę profesjonalnych użytkowników, wielką popularność w instytucjach naukowych oraz liczne „potomstwo” w postaci języków programowania wykorzystujących mechanizmy i konstrukcje wprowadzone po raz pierwszy właśnie w C i C++. Jeśli chcesz poznać podstawy programowania przy użyciu najpopularniejszego narzędzia do tworzenia aplikacji dla Windows, nie mogłeś lepiej trafić! Książka Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. Programowanie w C i C++ wprowadzi Cię w świat programowania proceduralnego w C i zorientowanego obiektowo w C++. Dowiesz się, jak zainstalować i wykorzystywać środowisko Visual Studio 2012, poznasz techniki stosowane przez programistów oraz nauczysz się samodzielnie budować programy. Uważna lektura pozwoli Ci opanować języki C i C++ w takim stopniu, aby dalsza nauka nie stanowiła najmniejszego problemu. Przeczytaj i poznaj: metody instalacji i konfiguracji środowiska Visual Studio 2012 sposoby kompilacji, budowania, poprawiania i uruchamiania programów strukturę kodu programów i konstrukcje programistyczne w językach C i C++ instrukcje warunkowe, operatory i funkcje operacje wejścia-wyjścia, strumienie oraz działania na zbiorach danych podstawy programowania zorientowanego obiektowo dziedziczenie i polimorfizm, szablony i iteratory oraz obsługę sytuacji wyjątkowych Programowanie to nic trudnego, przekonaj się o tym jeszcze dziś!

Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development. Leverage the modern features of C++ to overcome difficulties in various stages of application development

Richard Grimes, Marius Bancila

C++ is one of the most widely used programming languages. It is fast, flexible, and used to solve many programming problems.This Learning Path gives you an in-depth and hands-on experience of working with C++, using the latest recipes and understanding most recent developments. You will explore C++ programming constructs by learning about language structures, functions, and classes, which will help you identify the execution flow through code. You will also understand the importance of the C++ standard library as well as memory allocation for writing better and faster programs.Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development deals with the challenges faced with advanced C++ programming. You will work through advanced topics such as multithreading, networking, concurrency, lambda expressions, and many more recipes.By the end of this Learning Path, you will have all the skills to become a master C++ programmer.This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:• Beginning C++ Programming by Richard Grimes• Modern C++ Programming Cookbook by Marius Bancila• The Modern C++ Challenge by Marius Bancila

Modern C++ Programming Cookbook. Master C++ core language and standard library features, with over 100 recipes, updated to C++20 - Second Edition

Marius Bancila

C++ has come a long way to be one of the most widely used general-purpose languages that is fast, efficient, and high-performance at its core.The updated second edition of Modern C++ Programming Cookbook addresses the latest features of C++20, such as modules, concepts, coroutines, and the many additions to the standard library, including ranges and text formatting. The book is organized in the form of practical recipes covering a wide range of problems faced by modern developers.The book also delves into the details of all the core concepts in modern C++ programming, such as functions and classes, iterators and algorithms, streams and the file system, threading and concurrency, smart pointers and move semantics, and many others. It goes into the performance aspects of programming in depth, teaching developers how to write fast and lean code with the help of best practices.Furthermore, the book explores useful patterns and delves into the implementation of many idioms, including pimpl, named parameter, and attorney-client, teaching techniques such as avoiding repetition with the factory pattern. There is also a chapter dedicated to unit testing, where you are introduced to three of the most widely used libraries for C++: Boost.Test, Google Test, and Catch2.By the end of the book, you will be able to effectively leverage the features and techniques of C++11/14/17/20 programming to enhance the performance, scalability, and efficiency of your applications.

Modern C++ Programming Cookbook. Recipes to explore data structure, multithreading, and networking in C++17

Marius Bancila

C++ is one of the most widely used programming languages. Fast, efficient, and flexible, it is used to solve many problems. The latest versions of C++ have seen programmers change the way they code, giving up on the old-fashioned C-style programming and adopting modern C++ instead.Beginning with the modern language features, each recipe addresses a specific problem, with a discussion that explains the solution and offers insight into how it works. You will learn major concepts about the core programming language as well as common tasks faced while building a wide variety of software. You will learn about concepts such as concurrency, performance, meta-programming, lambda expressions, regular expressions, testing, and many more in the form of recipes. These recipes will ensure you can make your applications robust and fast.By the end of the book, you will understand the newer aspects of C++11/14/17 and will be able to overcome tasks that are time-consuming or would break your stride while developing.

Modern CMake for C++. Discover a better approach to building, testing, and packaging your software

Rafał Świdziński

Creating top-notch software is an extremely difficult undertaking. Developers researching the subject have difficulty determining which advice is up to date and which approaches have already been replaced by easier, better practices. At the same time, most online resources offer limited explanation, while also lacking the proper context and structure.This book offers a simpler, more comprehensive, experience as it treats the subject of building C++ solutions holistically. Modern CMake for C++ is an end-to-end guide to the automatization of complex tasks, including building, testing, and packaging. You'll not only learn how to use the CMake language in CMake projects, but also discover what makes them maintainable, elegant, and clean. The book also focuses on the structure of source directories, building targets, and packages. As you progress, you’ll learn how to compile and link executables and libraries, how those processes work, and how to optimize builds in CMake for the best results. You'll understand how to use external dependencies in your project – third-party libraries, testing frameworks, program analysis tools, and documentation generators. Finally, you'll get to grips with exporting, installing, and packaging for internal and external purposes.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use CMake confidently on a professional level.

Modern CMake for C++. Effortlessly build cutting-edge C++ code and deliver high-quality solutions - Second Edition

Rafał Świdziński, Alexander Kushnir

Modern CMake for C++ isn't just another reference book, or a repackaging of the documentation, but a blueprint to bridging the gap between learning C++ and being able to use it in a professional setting. It's an end-to-end guide to the automation of complex tasks, including building, testing, and packaging software.This second edition is significantly rewritten, restructured and refreshed with latest additions to CMake, such as support of C++20 Modules.In this book, you'll not only learn how to use the CMake language in CMake projects but also discover how to make those projects maintainable, elegant, and clean. As you progress, you'll dive into the structure of source directories, building targets, and packages, all while learning how to compile and link executables and libraries. You'll also gain a deeper understanding of how those processes work and how to optimize builds in CMake for the best results. You'll discover how to use external dependencies in your project – third-party libraries, testing frameworks, program analysis tools, and documentation generators. Finally, you'll gain profi ciency in exporting, installing, and packaging for internal and external purposes.By the end of this book, you'll be able to use CMake confi dently at a professional level.

Nowoczesne aplikacje internetowe. MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js

Jeff Dickey

Poznaj nowe podejście do aplikacji internetowych! Tradycyjne aplikacje internetowe składały się z dwóch elementów — ciężkiego back-endu odpowiadającego za przetwarzanie danych, ich walidację i przechowywanie oraz z klienta, którego zadaniem była prosta komunikacja z użytkownikiem. To rozwiązanie rodziło liczne kłopoty — przede wszystkim ze skalowaniem. Od nowoczesnych aplikacji użytkownicy wymagają najwyższej wydajności, niezawodności, możliwości działania w trybie offline oraz wygody użytkowania. Tradycyjne podejście do tworzenia aplikacji już się nie sprawdza. Potrzebujesz czegoś nowego! Na ratunek przychodzi drużyna — MongoDB, Express, AngularJS oraz Node.js. Dzięki temu zestawowi narzędzi będziesz w stanie stworzyć zaawansowaną aplikację z wygodnym interfejsem użytkownika oraz szerokimi możliwościami skalowania. Wystarczy, że sięgniesz po tę książkę i przyswoisz sobie zawartą w niej wiedzę. W publikacji znajdziesz odpowiedź na wiele pytań: Dlaczego warto wybrać AngularJS? Czym się charakteryzują bazy NoSQL? W jakich sytuacjach bazy NoSQL są lepsze od tradycyjnych baz relacyjnych? Dlaczego Node.js jest tak szybki? Ponadto nauczysz się budować wydajne API, integrować Node.js z AngularJS, automatyzować zadania za pomocą pakietu Gulp oraz korzystać z zaawansowanych mechanizmów autoryzacji. Na sam koniec zaznajomisz się z dobrymi praktykami — testami API, klienta oraz uruchomisz przygotowaną aplikację na serwerze produkcyjnym. Ta książka jest doskonałą lekturą, która zaprezentuje Ci każdy z elementów nowoczesnej aplikacji internetowej. Dzięki tej książce: Poznasz możliwości AngularJS oraz Node.js Przekonasz się, dlaczego warto wybrać MongoDB Przygotujesz praktyczne API w Node.js Poznasz narzędzie Gulp Wykorzystasz JSON Web Token do uwierzytelniania Przetestujesz aplikację Nauczysz się tworzyć nowoczesne aplikacje internetowe! Aplikacje internetowe już nigdy nie będą takie same! Jeff Dickey — wszechstronny programista sieciowy. Doświadczenie zdobywał przy pracy z licznymi start-upami z okolic San Francisco i Los Angeles. Obecnie prowadzi zespoły programistów i opracowuje projekty. Unika biurokracji, jest zaangażowany w serię spotkań Code for America Brigade w Los Angeles.