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Discover essential computer books and computer science books at our online bookstore, with top titles for software developers. Find must-read and best-selling books to enhance your knowledge and skills in the field.
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How to Design Programs, Second Edition: An Introduction to Programming and ComputingA completely revised edition, offering new design recipes for interactive programs and support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming.This introduction to programming places computer science at the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike other introductory books, it...
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Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AIUntil the mid-1980s, AI researchers assumed that an intelligent system doing high-level reasoning was necessary for the coupling of perception and action. In this traditional model, cognition mediates between perception and plans of action. Realizing that this core AI, as it was known, was...
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IBM's 360 and Early 370 SystemsIBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems describes the creation of this remarkable system and the developments it spawned, including its successor, System/370.No new product offering has had greater impact on the computer industry than the IBM System/360. IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems describes...
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Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual WorldsThe odyssey of a group of "refugees" from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds. Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games...
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Inventing the InternetJanet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use.Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental...
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Turtle GeometryTurtle Geometry presents an innovative program of mathematical discovery that demonstrates how the effective use of personal computers can profoundly change the nature of a student's contact with mathematics. Using this book and a few simple computer programs, students can explore the properties of...
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Rules of Play: Game Design FundamentalsAn impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date.As pop culture, games are as important as film or television--but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of...
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Introduction to Natural Language ProcessingA survey of computational methods for understanding, generating, and manipulating human language, which offers a synthesis of classical representations and algorithms with contemporary machine learning techniques.This textbook provides a technical perspective on natural language processing--methods for building computer software that understands, generates, and manipulates...
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Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning AlgorithmsA concise and self-contained introduction to causal inference, increasingly important in data science and machine learning.The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduction to...
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Critical Theory and Interaction DesignClassic texts by thinkers from Althusser to Zizek alongside essays by leaders in interaction design and HCI show the relevance of critical theory to interaction design.Why should interaction designers read critical theory? Critical theory is proving unexpectedly relevant to media and technology studies. The...
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Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building StoriesEditor's note: there has been an issue with the book's companion site. Focal Press is fixing the issue. In the meanwhile, please visit http: //www.routledge.com/cw/sullivan-978024081872/ for all the material promised in the book. From demo reel creation to festival shorts, students and professionals alike...
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Elemental Magic, Volume I: The Art of Special Effects AnimationCreate amazing animated effects such as fiery blazes, rippling water, and magical transformations. Animation guru Joseph Gilland breaks down the world of special effects animation with clear step-by-step diagrams and explanations on how to create the amazing and compelling images you see on the...
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The Visual Effects Arsenal: Vfx Solutions for the Independent Filmmaker [With DVD ROM]Build your VFX arsenal with quick-access, step-by-step instruction on how to create today's hottest digital VFX shots. This essential toolkit provides techniques for creating effects seen in movies such as 300, Spiderman 3, Predator and others, with lessons on how-to: * splatter blood or...
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Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun Is Changing RealityVirtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each week to massively multiplayer virtual reality environments (like World of Warcraft and Second Life),...
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The Python Bible Volume 4: Machine Learning (Neural Networks, Tensorflow, Sklearn, SVM)Become A Machine Learning Expert With Python Machine Learning is probably the most important and fastest-growing industry in today's world. It's a much hyped term and nowadays it can be found almost everywhere. In robots, video games, the stock market, home appliances and even...
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Effective Tcl/TK Programming: Writing Better Programs with TCL and TKBased on the author's experience building and deploying mission-critical Tcl software and teaching others to do the same, this book offers information on how to exploit the full potential of this programming environment. It explains Tcl features that have no counterpart in conventional programming...
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Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from WrongComputers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as...
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Complete Computer Science for Cambridge Igcserg & O Level Print & Online Student Book PackBuild confidence for the latest Cambridge syllabus with the practical, skills-based approach of Complete Computer Science. Ensure understanding and strengthen achievement with extensive programming support and practical activities.Author: Alison Page, David WatersPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 10/27/2016Pages: 280Binding Type: PaperbackSize: 8.60h x 10.90w x...
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Computer Arithmetic: Algorithms and Hardware DesignsIdeal for graduate and senior undergraduate courses in computer arithmetic and advanced digital design, Computer Arithmetic: Algorithms and Hardware Designs, Second Edition, provides a balanced, comprehensive treatment of computer arithmetic. It covers topics in arithmetic unit design and circuit implementation that complement the architectural...
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Clear and to the Point: 8 Psychological Principles for Compelling PowerPoint PresentationsTrue or False? Most PowerPoint presentations are: -compelling -illuminating -informative -clear and to the point Answer: False Make a change following the principles of Stephen Kosslyn: -a world authority on the visual brain -a clear and engaging writer Making PowerPoint presentations that are clear,...
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