Techniki programowania
W kategorii Techniki programowania znajdziecie książki dobrane pod względem merytorycznym zarówno dla amatorów jak i profesjonalistów z dziedziny programowania.
Dowiecie się jak poprawnie napisać i udokumentować własny kod oraz przeczytacie o najskuteczniejszych metodach refaktoryzacji czyli w jaki sposób poprawiać i optymalizować kod napisany przez innych programistów. Poznacie sposoby optymalizacji algorytmów, analizy złożoności, kompresji danych czy elementy algorytmiki grafów. Zaznajomicie się nie tylko z najlepszymi wzorcami w wytwarzaniu oprogramowania ale także nauczycie się rozpoznawać najczęstsze błędy i czyhające na Was pułapki.
Ajay Chankramath, Angelic Gibson
The Platform Engineer’s Handbook equips senior engineers and DevOps professionals to deliver developer-friendly infrastructure with automation, speed, AI acceleration, and intelligence. Starting with a blank slate, you’ll build a complete, modern platform that runs locally on your laptop, learning real-world patterns as you go.In this handbook, you’ll follow a structured, progressive journey, beginning with source control governance and branching strategies, then deploying a Kubernetes-based runtime, embedding observability, and securing platform access. You’ll implement self-service onboarding, CI/CD as a service, and developer portals with Backstage. Later chapters introduce infrastructure blueprints, policy as code, FinOps observability, and AI-augmented platform services such as agent-based onboarding and copilots for pipeline creation.Each chapter combines core concepts, lab-based exercises, and production-ready best practices to provide a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter. By the end, you'll have a working MVP platform and the skills to adapt and scale it for your team or organization.
Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker
The Ultimate Docker Container Book, 3rd edition enables you to leverage Docker containers for streamlined software development. You’ll uncover Docker fundamentals and how containers improve software supply chain efficiency and enhance security.You’ll start by learning practical skills such as setting up Docker environments, handling stateful components, running and testing code within containers, and managing Docker images. You’ll also explore how to adapt legacy applications for containerization and understand distributed application architecture. Next, you’ll delve into Docker's networking model, software-defined networks for secure applications, and Docker compose for managing multi-service applications along with tools for log analysis and metrics. You’ll further deepen your understanding of popular orchestrators like Kubernetes and Docker swarmkit, exploring their key concepts, and deployment strategies for resilient applications. In the final sections, you’ll gain insights into deploying containerized applications on major cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, and GCE and discover techniques for production monitoring and troubleshooting.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to manage and scale containerized applications effectively.
Mark J. Price
.NET is more powerful—and more complex—than ever. As the ecosystem evolves, so do the expectations from developers. Mastering the tools and patterns of professional .NET development can be the difference between simply shipping code and delivering resilient, scalable software. Tools and Skills for .NET 10 is a practical guide to leveling up in today’s .NET world, offering both hard technical skills and career strategies to help you thrive.Inside, you’ll learn how to manage codebases with Git and implement debugging and memory analysis techniques that save hours of guesswork. The book also covers best practices for writing and maintaining documentation for your code, services, and APIs, which is crucial for team collaboration. You’ll explore cryptography for securing data and concurrency for building responsive apps. Further chapters explore dependency injection, testing for performance and reliability, and packaging your apps in Docker containers.By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped not only with technical skills but also with the confidence to apply them in real environments. Whether you're aiming for a promotion, switching jobs, or preparing for technical interviews, you'll have the skills and the language to present yourself as a capable, well-rounded .NET developer ready for anything the industry throws at you.
DAVID WYAND
Torque 3D is a popular game engine that supports you in every step along the way to making your game a reality. Even with all of the power and tools that Torque 3D provides, finishing a high quality 3D game requires time and knowledge.Torque 3D Game Development Cookbook is a practical guide that takes you through each of the major steps on the journey to creating your game, while learning a few tricks along the way.The recipes in this book start off with learning some of the finer points about TorqueScript. The book then moves on to each of Torque 3D's subsystems and ends with a variety of game play recipes.The various topics covered include activating level-specific game code and scheduling game events, dragging and dropping items between windows to work with an in-game inventory system, and covering the seams between objects with well placed decals. Some of the advanced topics include writing custom shaders and postFX, using zones to improve rendering performance, and enhancing your game's ambience through sound.Once you are done with Torque 3D Game Development Cookbook you'll be on your way to creating amazing 3D games and gain expert knowledge of Torque 3D.
Ken Fogel
This comprehensive guide will help non-Java developers already using different languages transition from their current language to all things Java. The chapters are designed in a way that re-enforces a developer’s existing knowledge of object-oriented methodologies as they apply to Java.This book has been divided into four sections, with each section touching upon different aspects that’ll enable your effective transition. The first section helps you get to grips with the Java development environment and the Maven build tool for modern Java applications. In the second section, you’ll learn about Java language fundamentals, along with exploring object-oriented programming (OOP) methodologies and functional programming and discovering how to implement software design patterns in Java. The third section shows you how to code in Java on different platforms and helps you get familiar with the challenges faced on these platforms. In the fourth section, you’ll find out how you can manage and package your Java code.By the end of this Java programming book, you’ll have learned the core concepts of Java that’ll help you successfully transition from a different language to Java.
Roger Stringer
Have you ever wanted to integrate phone features into a project you were working on? Maybe you wanted to send SMS messages to your customers about the latest sales? Maybe you want to set up a company directory with voice mail? Or maybe you want to add two factor authentication to your web sites to verify your users? Since Twilio was launched in 2007, developers have had a way to do these tasks. The power of Twilio's API is huge and lets you add any type of phone solution to your web site from 2-factor authentication for verifying your users, to setting up a company directory and a voice mail system. The possibilities are endless.Twilio Cookbook is your Swiss army knife for Twilio development, providing you with a number of clear step-by-step exercises. It helps you take advantage of the real power of the Twilio API, and gives you a good grounding in using it in your websites. This book looks at the Twilio API, and breaks down the mystery and confusion that surrounds adding telephone functionality to your websites. As you go through the recipes, you will learn how to take advantage of the Twilio API quickly and painlessly.You will learn how to build your own IVR system, company directory, and voicemail box, and also how to set up a 2-factor authentication system to verify users, track orders via SMS, send surveys using SMS, allow users to buy phone numbers, set up and delete sub-accounts, and check to see if a human is answering a phone call. We will also combine Twilio with other APIs to build a handy local search system such as a local business search, movie listings search, and web search. If you want to take advantage of using Twilio's API to add telephone functionality to your websites, then this book is for you.Twilio Cookbook' will leave you with a black belt in Twilio development and enable you to integrate the API into your websites.
TypeScript Blueprints. Practical Projects to Put TypeScript into Practice
Ivo Gabe de Wolff
TypeScript is the future of JavaScript. Having been designed for the development of large applications, it is now being widely incorporated in cutting-edge projects such as Angular 2. Adopting TypeScript results in more robust software - software that is more scalable and performant.It's scale and performance that lies at the heart of every project that features in this book. The lessons learned throughout this book will arm you with everything you need to build some truly amazing projects. You'll build a complete single page app with Angular 2, create a neat mobile app using NativeScript, and even build a Pac Man game with TypeScript. As if fun wasn't enough, you'll also find out how to migrate your legacy codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript.This book isn't just for developers who want to learn - it's for developers who want to develop. So dive in and get started on these TypeScript projects.
Vilic Vane
In programming, there are several problems that occur frequently. To solve these problems, there are various repeatable solutions that are known as design patterns. Design patterns are a great way to improve the efficiency of your programs and improve your productivity. This book is a collection of the most important patterns you need to improve your applications’ performance and your productivity. The journey starts by explaining the current challenges when designing and developing an application and how you can solve these challenges by applying the correct design pattern and best practices.Each pattern is accompanied with rich examples that demonstrate the power of patterns for a range of tasks, from building an application to code testing. We’ll introduce low-level programming concepts to help you write TypeScript code, as well as work with software architecture, best practices, and design aspects.
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Remo H. Jansen, Vilic Vane, Ivo Gabe...
TypeScript is an open source and cross-platform typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript that runs in any browser or any host. TypeScript adds optional static types, classes, and modules to JavaScript, to enable great tooling and better structuring of large JavaScript applications. Through this three-module learning path, you’ll learn the ins-and-outs of TypeScript for building more robust software.The first module gets you started with TypeScript and helps you understand the basics of TypeScript and automation tools. Get a detailed description of function, generics, callbacks, and promises, and discover the object-oriented features and memory management functionality of TypeScript.The next module starts by explaining the current challenges when designing and developing an application and how you can solve these challenges by applying the correct design pattern and best practices. You will be introduced to low-level programming concepts to help you write TypeScript code, as well as working with software architecture, best practices, and design aspects.The final module will help you build a complete single page app with Angular 2, create a neat mobile app using NativeScript, and even build a Pac Man game with TypeScript. As if the fun wasn't enough, you'll also find out how to migrate your legacy codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript.By the end of this Learning Path, you will be able to take your skills up a notch and develop full-fledged web applications using the latest features of the TypeScript.This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products:• Learning TypeScript by Remo H. Jansen• TypeScript Design Patterns by Vilic Vane• TypeScript Blueprints by Ivo Gabe de Wolff
TypeScript: Skuteczne programowanie, wyd. II. 83 sposoby ulepszania kodu TypeScript
Dan Vanderkam
TypeScript jest typowanym nadzbiorem języka JavaScript, stanowiącym potencjalne rozwiązanie wielu słynnych bolączek, z którymi borykają się programiści JavaScript. Aby skutecznie programować w TypeScript, musimy poświęcić czas na naukę i praktykę. Niniejsza praktyczna książka, wykorzystująca metody spopularyzowane w książkach Skuteczny nowoczesny C++ (wyd. polskie APN Promise) i Java. Efektywne programowanie (Helion), zawiera omówienie 83 zagadnień wraz z konkretnymi zaleceniami, jak należy korzystać z języka, czego należy unikać, a także jak powinno się go postrzegać. Autor, Dan Vanderkam, prezentuje praktyczne przykłady zastosowania każdej porady. Dzięki tej książce początkujący i średniozaawansowani programiści znający podstawy TypeScript osiągną poziom ekspertów, doskonale posługujących się tym językiem. Uaktualnione do wersji TypeScript 5 drugie wydanie zawiera dwa nowe rozdziały na temat programowania na poziomie typów oraz wiele nowych praktycznych przepisów. - Poznaj praktyczne aspekty systemu typów języka TypeScript - Używaj inferencji typów, aby uzyskać pełne bezpieczeństwo przy minimalnej liczbie oznaczeń typów - Definiuj typy, dzięki którym kod będzie bezpieczniejszy i bardziej zrozumiały - Modeluj złożone API przy użyciu typów generycznych i programowania na poziomie typów - Dowiedz się, jak działa mechanizm rozwiązywania zależności i pliki deklaracji typów w TypeScript - Z powodzeniem przenieś swój kod JavaScript do TypeScript Dan Vanderkam jest niezależnym inżynierem oprogramowania i długotrwałym użytkownikiem, autorem i współtwórcą ekosystemu TypeScript. Pracował jako główny programista w Sidewalk Labs i jako starszy inżynier oprogramowania w Google, gdzie uczestniczył w rozwijaniu funkcji wyszukiwania, wykorzystywanych przez miliardy użytkowników. "TypeScript. Skuteczne programowanie odpowiada na większość najczęstszych pytań, jakie nasuwają się podczas pracy z TypeScript, a także oferuje porady praktyczne, ukierunkowane na wyniki. Niezależnie od poziomu znajomości TypeScript, z pewnością każdy znajdzie w tej książce coś dla siebie". -Ryan Cavanaugh Główny inżynier ds. TypeScript w firmie Microsoft
Uczenie maszynowe z użyciem Scikit-Learn i TensorFlow
Aurélien Géron
Pojęcia, techniki i narzędzia służące do tworzenia systemów inteligentnych W ciągu ostatnich lat uczenie maszynowe stało się sercem wielu nowoczesnych produktów, takich jak zaawansowane techniki wyszukiwania w przeglądarkach, rozpoznawanie mowy w smartfonach czy proponowanie treści w zależności od indywidualnych preferencji użytkownika. Być może niedługo taki system inteligentny zastąpi Cię za kierownicą samochodu. Uczenie głębokie wprowadziło nową jakość do uczenia maszynowego. Daje niesamowite możliwości, jednak wymaga olbrzymiej mocy obliczeniowej i potężnych ilości danych. Programiści implementujący takie rozwiązania są poszukiwanymi specjalistami i mogą liczyć na ekscytujące oferty! Ta książka jest praktycznym podręcznikiem tworzenia systemów inteligentnych. Przedstawiono tu najważniejsze zagadnienia teoretyczne dotyczące uczenia maszynowego i sieci neuronowych. W zrozumiały sposób zaprezentowano koncepcje i narzędzia służące do tworzenia systemów inteligentnych. Opisano Scikit-Learn i TensorFlow - środowiska produkcyjne języka Python - i pokazano krok po kroku, w jaki sposób wykorzystuje się je do implementacji sieci neuronowych. Liczne praktyczne przykłady i ćwiczenia pozwolą na pogłębienie i utrwalenie zdobytej wiedzy. Jeśli tylko potrafisz posługiwać się Pythonem, dzięki tej przystępnie napisanej książce szybko zaczniesz implementować systemy inteligentne. W tej książce między innymi: podstawowe koncepcje uczenia maszynowego, uczenia głębokiego i sieci neuronowych przygotowywanie zbiorów danych i zarządzanie nimi algorytmy uczenia maszynowego rodzaje architektury sieci neuronowych uczenie głębokich sieci neuronowych olbrzymie zbiory danych i uczenie poprzez wzmacnianie Już dziś zacznij tworzyć systemy inteligentne!
Uczenie maszynowe z użyciem Scikit-Learn i TensorFlow. Wydanie II
Aurélien Géron
W 2006 roku świat nauki zafascynował się głębokimi sieciami neuronowymi. Wbrew wcześniejszym przekonaniom okazało się, że ich uczenie jest możliwe. Technika ta została nazwana uczeniem głębokim. Wymagała zapewnienia olbrzymiej mocy obliczeniowej i potężnych ilości danych, jednak potencjał wytrenowanych sieci głębokich był niesamowity. Kolejne lata przyniosły bujny rozwój tej technologii w wielu obszarach, co pozwoliło na tworzenie przeróżnych zaawansowanych produktów. Prace nad nowymi zastosowaniami sieci głębokich trwają. Wszystko wskazuje na to, że już wkrótce zdominują one większość dziedzin naszego życia. To drugie wydanie bestsellerowego przewodnika po technikach uczenia maszynowego. Wystarczą minimalne umiejętności programistyczne, aby dzięki tej książce nauczyć się budowania i trenowania głębokiej sieci neuronowej. Zawarto tu minimum teorii, a proces nauki jest ułatwiony przez liczne przykłady i ćwiczenia. Wykorzystano gotowe rozwiązania i przedstawiono zasady pracy ze specjalistycznymi narzędziami, w tym z TensorFlow 2, najnowszą odsłoną modułu. W efekcie niepostrzeżenie przyswoisz niezbędny zasób pojęć i narzędzi służących do tworzenia systemów inteligentnych. Poznasz różnorodne techniki i zaczniesz samodzielnie ich używać. Po lekturze będziesz biegle posługiwać się najnowszymi technologiami sztucznej inteligencji! W tej książce między innymi: podstawy uczenia maszynowego i rozpoczęcie pracy z TensorFlow techniki wykrywania obiektów, segmentacji semantycznej i mechanizmy uwagi interfejs Keras, narzędzia TF Transform i TF Serving wdrażanie modeli TensorFlow techniki uczenia nienadzorowanego, wykrywanie anomalii oraz biblioteka TF Agents TensorFlow 2: źródło magii zaawansowanych technologii!
Uczenie maszynowe z użyciem Scikit-Learn, Keras i TensorFlow. Wydanie III
Aurélien Géron
Pojęcia, techniki i narzędzia służące do tworzenia systemów inteligentnych Głębokie sieci neuronowe mają niesamowity potencjał. Osiągnięcia ostatnich lat nadały procesom uczenia głębokiego zupełnie nową jakość. Obecnie nawet programiści niezaznajomieni z tą technologią mogą korzystać z prostych i niezwykle skutecznych narzędzi, pozwalających na sprawne implementowanie programów uczących się z danych. Znajdziesz tu rozsądne, intuicyjne objaśnienia, a także mnóstwo praktycznych porad! Francois Chollet, twórca interfejsu Keras To trzecie wydanie bestsellerowego przewodnika po uczeniu maszynowym. Książka jest adresowana do osób, które chcą wejść w świat uczenia maszynowego ― przy czym wystarczą do tego minimalne umiejętności programistyczne. Zawarto tu minimum teorii, a proces nauki ułatwiają liczne przykłady i ćwiczenia. Dzięki temu przyswoisz niezbędne pojęcia i nauczysz się korzystać z gotowych platform produkcyjnych Pythona: Scikit-Learn, Keras i TensorFlow. W tym wydaniu pokazano różnorodne techniki, od prostej regresji liniowej aż po głębokie sieci neuronowe. Szybko nauczysz się tworzyć działające systemy inteligentne! W książce między innymi: korzystanie ze Scikit-Learn, z TensorFlow i Keras modele: maszyny wektorów nośnych, drzewa decyzyjne, lasy losowe i metody zespołowe uczenie nienadzorowane: redukcja wymiarowości, analiza skupień, wykrywanie anomalii sieci neuronowe: sieci splotowe, rekurencyjne, modele dyfuzyjne i transformatory trenowanie i implementacje sieci neuronowych To znakomite wprowadzenie do teoretycznych i praktycznych rozważań na temat rozwiązywania problemów za pomocą sieci neuronowych! Pete Warden, mobile lead projektu Tensor Flow Twórz i trenuj nowoczesne sieci neuronowe!
John P. Doran
Unity is a well-established player in the mobile game development sphere, and its new release, Unity 2022, is packed with new, exciting features. In Unity 2022 Mobile Game Development, Third Edition, you'll get to grips with the Unity game engine by building a mobile game and publishing it on the most popular mobile app stores as well as exploring the all-new features.This book provides a comprehensive and practical approach to mobile game development, helping you build an endless runner game. Starting with setting up a simple Unity project for mobile development, you’ll delve into various essential aspects needed to successfully create and publish your game. You’ll acquire a range of skills, such as incorporating touch gestures, monetizing your game with Unity Ads and in-app purchases, designing an intuitive UI, and seamlessly integrating social media functionalities. Additionally, you’ll gain valuable insights into player preferences and behavior using Unity's analytics tools. You’ll also explore features of augmented reality in Unity 2022, enhancing your game's appeal.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to reap the power of Unity 2022 to build, optimize, and publish robust cross-platform mobile games with C#, as well as widening your skill set and enhancing your credentials as a game developer.
Francesco Sapio, Abdelrahman Elsayegh
Flexible, powerful, and full of rich features, Unity 5 is the engine of choice for AAA 2D and 3D game development. With comprehensive support for over 20 different platforms, Unity boasts a host of great new functions for making 2D games. Learn how to leveragethese new options into awesome 2D games by building three complete game projects with the Unity game tutorials in this hands-on book.Get started with a quick overview of the principle concepts and techniques needed for making 2D games with Unity, then dive straight in to practical development.Build your own version of Super Mario Brothers as you learn how to animate sprites, work with physics, and construct brilliant UIs in order to create a platformer game. Go on a quest to create a RPG game discovering NPC design, event triggers, and AI programming.Finally, put your skills to the test against a real challenge - designing and constructing a complex strategy game that will draw on and develop all your previously learned skills.
Unity 5.x By Example. An example-based practical guide to get you up and running with Unity 5.x
Alan Thorn
Unity is an exciting and popular engine in the game industry. Throughout this book, you’ll learn how to use Unity by making four fun game projects, from shooters and platformers to exploration and adventure games.Unity 5 By Example is an easy-to-follow guide for quickly learning how to use Unity in practical context, step by step, by making real-world game projects. Even if you have no previous experience of Unity, this book will help you understand the toolset in depth. You'll learn how to create a time-critical collection game, a twin-stick space shooter, a platformer, and an action-fest game with intelligent enemies. In clear and accessible prose, this book will present you with step-by-step tutorials for making four interesting games in Unity 5 and explain all the fundamental concepts along the way. Starting from the ground up and moving toward an intermediate level, this book will help you establish a strong foundation in making games with Unity 5.
Unity 5.x Cookbook. More than 100 solutions to build amazing 2D and 3D games with Unity
Matt Smith, Chico Queiroz
Unity 5 is a flexible and intuitive multiplatform game engine that is becoming the industry's de facto standard. Learn to craft your own 2D and 3D computer games by working through core concepts such as animation, audio, shaders, GUI, lights, cameras, and scripting to create your own games with one of the most important and popular engines in the industry.Completely re-written to cover the new features of Unity 5, this book is a great resource for all Unity game developers, from those who have recently started using Unity right up to game development experts.The first half of the book focuses on core concepts of 2D game design while the second half focuses on developing 3D game development skills. In the first half, you will discover the new GUI system, the new Audio Mixer, external files, and animating 2D characters in 2D game development. As you progress further, you will familiarize yourself with the new Standard Shaders, the Mecanim system, Cameras, and the new Lighting features to hone your skills towards building 3D games to perfection. Finally, you will learn non-player character control and explore Unity 5's extra features to enhance your 3D game development skills.
Thomas James Finnegan
Powerful and continuing to grow, the mobile market has never been bigger and more demanding of great games. Android continues to prove itself as a strong contender in this challenging market. With Unity 3D, great games can be made for Android quickly and easily. With its great deployment system, the Android platform is now only one click away.Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide dives straight into making real, fully-functional games, with hands-on examples and step-by-step instructions to give you a firm grounding in Unity 3D and Android. Everything necessary for creating a complete gaming experience is covered and detailed throughout the course of this book.Using clear and practical examples that progressively build upon each other, this book guides you through the process of creating games in Unity for Android.Start by learning about all the great features that Unity and Android have to offer. Next, create a Tic-Tac-Toe game while learning all about interfaces. After that, learn about meshes, materials, and animations with the creation of a tank battle game. You will then learn how to expand your game's environment with the addition of shadows and a skybox. Adding on this, you will also learn how to expand the tank battle by creating enemies and using path finding to chase the player. Next, explore touch and tilt controls with the creation of a space fighter game. Then, learn about physics while recreating the most popular mobile game on the market. You will then expand the space fighter game with the addition of all the special effects that make a game great. Finally, complete your experience by learning the optimization techniques required to keep your games running smoothly.While Unity is available for both Mac and Windows, the book is presented working from a Windows environment. Programming in Unity is possible in C#, JavaScript, and Boo. This book will be working in C# and the final projects will be provided in C# and JavaScript.From nothing to a fully-featured mobile game, Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide takes you through everything it takes to create your next game for the Android platform.
Jonathan Linowes
What is consumer “virtual reality�? Wearing a head-mounted display you view stereoscopic 3D scenes. You can look around by moving your head, and walk around using hand controls or motion sensors. You are engaged in a fully immersive experience. On the other hand, Unity is a powerful game development engine that provides a rich set of features such as visual lighting, materials, physics, audio, special effects, and animation for creating 2D and 3D games. Unity 5 has become the leading platform for building virtual reality games, applications and experiences for this new generation of consumer VR devices.Using a practical and project-based approach, this book will educate you about the specifics of virtual reality development in Unity.You will learn how to use Unity to develop VR applications which can be experienced with devices such as the Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard. We will then learn how to engage with virtual worlds from a third person and first person character point of view. Furthermore, you will explore the technical considerations especially important and possibly unique to VR. The projects in the book will demonstrate how to build a variety of VR experiences. You will be diving into the Unity 3D game engine via the interactive Unity Editor as well as C-Sharp programming.By the end of the book, you will be equipped to develop rich, interactive virtual reality experiences using Unity.So, let's get to it!
Jeff Hendrickson, Travis Wissink
UX analytics is a field that recognizes the significance of understanding human behavior and emotions in designing user experiences. It goes beyond mere metrics and embraces a people-centric approach. With the help of this comprehensive guide, you’ll acquire essential skills, knowledge, and techniques to establish a top-notch UX analytics practice.Unleashing the Power of UX Analytics will equip you with the strategies and tactics necessary to effectively collect, analyze, and interpret data, empowering you to make informed decisions that enhance the overall user experience. It emphasizes the importance of empathy in comprehending user needs and desires, enabling you to create meaningful and impactful design solutions. As you advance, this book walks you through the entire UX analytics process, from setting goals and defining key performance indicators (KPIs) to implementing various research methods and tools. You'll gain insights into user interview best practices, usability testing, and techniques for gathering qualitative and quantitative data.Armed with the knowledge of data analysis and interpretation, you'll be able to uncover patterns, trends, and user preferences to make data-driven decisions.
Satheesh P.V, Satheesh PV
Unreal Engine 4 is a complete suite of game development tools that gives you power to develop your game and seamlessly deploy it to iOS and Android devices. It can be used for the development of simple 2D games or even stunning high-end visuals. Unreal Engine features a high degree of portability and is a tool used by many game developers today.This book will introduce you to the most popular game development tool called Unreal Engine 4 with hands-on instructions for building stunning video games. You will begin by creating a new project or prototype by learning the essentials of Unreal Engine by getting familiar with the UI and Content Browser. Next, we'll import a sample asset from Autodesk 3ds max and learn more about Material Editor. After that we will learn more about Post Process. From there we will continue to learn more about Blueprints, Lights, UMG, C++ and more.
Stephen Whittle, William Sherif
Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is a complete suite of game development tools made by game developers, for game developers. With more than 100 practical recipes, this book is a guide showcasing techniques to use the power of C++ scripting while developing games with UE4. It will start with adding and editing C++ classes from within the Unreal Editor. It will delve into one of Unreal's primary strengths, the ability for designers to customize programmer-developed actors and components. It will help you understand the benefits of when and how to use C++ as the scripting tool. With a blend of task-oriented recipes, this book will provide actionable information about scripting games with UE4, and manipulating the game and the development environment using C++. Towards the end of the book, you will be empowered to become a top-notch developer with Unreal Engine 4 using C++ as the scripting language.
Benjamin Carnall
With Unreal Engine 4 being made free to use, for any keen game developer it is quickly becoming the most popular game engine in today’s development industry. The engine offers a rich feature set that can be customized and built upon through the use of C++. This book will cover how to work with Unreal Engine’s tool set all the way from the basics of the editor and the visual scripting system blueprint to the in-depth low-level creation of content using C++.This book will provide you with the skills you need to create feature-rich, captivating, and refined game titles with Unreal Engine 4. This book will take you through the creation of four unique game projects, designed so that you will be ready to apply the engine’s rich development capabilities. You will learn not only to take advantage of the visual tools of the engine, but also the vast and powerful programming feature set of Unreal Engine 4.
Nicola Valcasara
With the arrival of Unreal Engine 4, a new wonderful tool was born: Blueprint. This visual scripting tool allows even non-programmers to develop the logic for their games, allowing almost anyone to create entire games without the need to write a single line of code. The range of features you can access with Blueprint script is pretty extensive, making it one of the foremost choices for many game developers.Unreal Engine Game Development Blueprints helps you unleash the real power of Unreal by helping you to create engaging and spectacular games. It will explain all the aspects of developing a game, focusing on visual scripting, and giving you all the information you need to create your own games.We start with an introductory chapter to help you move fluidly inside the Blueprint user interface, recognize its different components, and understand any already written Blueprint script. Following this, you will learn how to modify generated Blueprint classes to produce a single player tic-tac-toe game and personalize it. Next, you will learn how to create simple user interfaces, and how to extend Blueprints through code. This will help you make an informed decision between choosing Blueprint or code. You will then see the real power of Unreal unleashed as you create a beautiful scene with moving, AI controlled objects, particles, and lights. Then, you will learn how to create AI using a behavior tree and a global level Blueprint, how to modify the camera, and how to shoot custom bullets. Finally, you will create a complex game using Blueprintable components complete with a menu, power-up, dangerous objects, and different weapons.