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Digital Painting Techniques: Masters Collection: 01 (Digital Art Masters Series)
Discover the tips, tricks and techniques that really work for concept artists, matte painters and animators. Compiled by the team at 3dtotal.com, Digital Painting Techniques, Volume 1 offers digital inspiration with hands-on insight and techniques from professional digital artists. More than just a gallery book – within Digital Painting Techniques each artist has written a breakdown overview, with supporting imagery of how they made their piece of work. Beginner and intermediate digital artists will be inspired by the gallery style collection of the finest examples of digital painting from world renowned digital artists. Start your mentorship into the world of digital painting today with some of the greatest digital artists in the world and delve into professional digital painting techiques, such as speed painting, custom brush creation and matte painting. Develop your digital painting skills beyond the variety of free online digital painting tutorials and apply the most up to date techniques to your digital canvas with Digital Painting Techniques for Animators.Read more
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The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993
A deep dive into the origins of the epic, bestselling video game, in the creator’s own words.The creator of one of the most innovative and bestselling video games of all time gives an unvarnished look into the creative process in this one-of-a-kind compilation.
Before Prince of Persia was a best-selling video game franchise and a Disney movie, it was an Apple II computer game created and programmed by one person: Jordan Mechner. Mechner’s candid and revealing journals from the time capture the journey from his parents’ basement to the forefront of the fast-growing 1980s video game industry—and the creative, technical, and personal struggles that brought the Prince into being and, ultimately, into the homes of millions of people worldwide.
Now, on the 30th anniversary of Prince of Persia’s release, Mechner looks back at the journals he kept from 1985 to 1993, offering new insights into the game that established him as a pioneer of cinematic storytelling in the industry. This beautifully illustrated and annotated collector’s edition includes:
- 300 pages of Mechner’s original journals
- Present-day margin notations by Mechner adding explanation, context, and affectionate cartoons of real-life characters
- Archival visuals illustrating the stages of the game’s creation
- Work-in-progress sketches, rotoscoped animation, screenshots, interface design, memos, and moreA full-color 32-page “Legacy” section in which Mechner and fans share Prince of Persia memories from the past 30 years, including the Ubisoft games and Disney movie
The Making of Prince of Persia is both a tribute to a timeless classic and an indelible look at the creative process that will resonate with retro-gaming fans, game developers, and writers, artists, and creators of all stripes.
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Blender For Dummies
Make your 3D world a reality
Some of the dramatic visual effects you’ve seen in top-grossing movies and heralded television series got their start in Blender. This book helps you get your own start in creating three-dimensional characters, scenes, and animations in the popular free and open-source tool.
Author Jason van Gumster shares his insight as an independent animator and digital artist to help Blender newcomers turn their ideas into three-dimensional drawings. From exporting and sharing scenes to becoming a part of the Blender community, this accessible book covers it all!
- Create 3D characters―no experience required
- Build scenes with texture and real lighting features
- Animate your creations and share them with the world
- Avoid common rookie mistakes
This book is the ideal starting place for newcomers to the world of 3D modeling and animation.
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Arduino Projects For Dummies
Discover all the amazing things you can do with Arduino
Arduino is a programmable circuit board that is being used by everyone from scientists, programmers, and hardware hackers to artists, designers, hobbyists, and engineers in order to add interactivity to objects and projects and experiment with programming and electronics. This easy-to-understand book is an ideal place to start if you are interested in learning more about Arduino’s vast capabilities. Featuring an array of cool projects, this Arduino beginner guide walks you through every step of each of the featured projects so that you can acquire a clear understanding of the different aspects of the Arduino board.
- Introduces Arduino basics to provide you with a solid foundation of understanding before you tackle your first project
- Features a variety of fun projects that show you how to do everything from automating your garden’s watering system to constructing a keypad entry system, installing a tweeting cat flap, building a robot car, and much more
- Provides an easy, hands-on approach to learning more about electronics, programming, and interaction design for Makers of all ages
Arduino Projects For Dummies is your guide to turning everyday electronics and plain old projects into incredible innovations.
Get Connected! To find out more about Brock Craft and his recent Arduino creations, visit www.facebook.com/ArduinoProjectsForDummies
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Excel 2019 All-in-One For Dummies
Make Excel work for you
Excel 2019 All-In-One For Dummies offers eight books in one!! It is completely updated to reflect the major changes Microsoft is making to Office with the 2019 release. From basic Excel functions, such as creating and editing worksheets, to sharing and reviewing worksheets, to editing macros with Visual Basic, it provides you with a broad scope of the most common Excel applications and functions―including formatting worksheets, setting up formulas, protecting worksheets, importing data, charting data, and performing statistical functions.
The book covers importing data, building and editing worksheets, creating formulas, generating pivot tables, and performing financial functions, what-if scenarios, database functions, and Web queries. More advanced topics include worksheet sharing and auditing, performing error trapping, building and running macros, charting data, and using Excel in conjunction with Microsoft Power BI (Business Intelligence) to analyze, model, and visualize vast quantities of data from a variety of local and online sources.- Get familiar with Worksheet design
- Find out how to work with charts and graphics
- Use Excel for data management, analysis, modeling, and visualization
- Make sense of macros and VBA
If you’re a new or inexperienced user looking to spend more time on your projects than trying to figure out how to make Excel work for you, this all-encompassing book makes it easy!
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Windows 11 For Dummies
Need Windows help? Find the latest tips and tricks in this perennial favorite on WindowsWindows 11 promises to be the fastest, most secure, and most flexible version of the Microsoft operating system yet. With a promise like that, of course you want to start using it, as quickly as possible! Windows 11 For Dummies gives you that speed, security, and flexibility by getting you up to date with the latest in Windows. Windows expert and bestselling author Andy Rathbone gives you a helping hand by showing you how to get around the newly updated Windows 11 interface, how to use the new Windows tools like Teams and widgets, and how to use Android apps.
Your tour of Windows 11 starts with the Start menu and ends with how to troubleshoot when things go wrong. In between you find out how to find files on your hard drive, connect with friends and colleagues on Microsoft Teams, transfer photos from your phone to your hard drive, or switch between your desktop and laptop. Additional topics include:
- Navigating the Start menu
- Finding where your files are hiding
- Adding separate user accounts to keep your kids out of your business
- Connecting to a WiFi network
- Customizing your widgets
- Switching to a laptop or tablet
You know what you want to get done. Keep Windows 11 For Dummies by your desktop, laptop, and tablet, and you can open it at any time to find out how to get your Windows computer to do what you need.
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KS2 ICT Study Guide
This bright, friendly book has lots clear notes and pictures to introduce Year 3-6 pupils to ICT. It’s matched to the old National Curriculum for ICT that ended in 2015, and covers topics including Word Processing, Graphics and the Internet. Each page is colourfully presented and has easy-to-read chunks of information to help children get to grips with the subject.Read more
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YouTube Channels For Dummies
Create content and build a YouTube channel like a proWritten by a successful YouTube channel producer, YouTube Channels For Dummies shows you how to create content, establish a channel, build an audience, and successfully monetize video content online. Beginning with the basics, it shows you how to establish a channel, join a partner program, and develop a content plan. Next, you’ll gain insight into how to create content that builds a channel, enhance the viral nature of a video, encourage subscriptions, and earn repeat views. If that weren’t enough, you’ll go on even further to learn how to get the word out about your channel and discover ways to enhance your potential profits. That’s a lot of info—but it’s easily digestible and simple to put into practice when it’s provided in the accessible and trusted For Dummies format.
YouTube is the third most-visited website on the Internet, making it prime real estate for anyone seeking customers, celebrity, or education. If you want to harness this irresistible platform and reach a global platform, YouTube Channels For Dummies makes it easy. In no time, you’ll have the know-how to create a YouTube channel with regular subscribers who watch, re-watch, and share your videos.
- Includes ten easy tips for growing a raptured YouTube audience
- Details how to enhance the viral nature of a video
- Shows you how to create and maintain a YouTube channel that generates views and revenue
- Written by the producer of a leading YouTube channel
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iMac For Dummies
Do it all with your iMac and this bestselling For Dummies guide!You′re still a little giddy from finally scoring your new iMac, and you can′t wait to get started. Even if you′re already in love with your iMac, it helps to have a little guidance to really get the most out of this ultimate all–in–one computer. This updated edition of iMac For Dummies is the ideal way to learn the iMac fundamentals from setting up and personalizing your machine to importing files, making FaceTime video calls, surfing the web, using your favorite programs and apps, and everything in between.
Trusted Mac guru Mark L. Chambers guides you through the latest iMac features and explains how to navigate OS X, work with files and folders, back up your important stuff with iCloud, add apps from the Mac App Store, get creative with iLife and iWork applications, and tons more.
- Shows you how to find your way around the Mac desktop, customize OS X, and use cool tools like Finder, Finder Tabs, Mission Control, and Spaces
- Explains how to set up your e–mail, use Messages, video chat with FaceTime, create iTunes playlists, and integrate your iMac with other iOS devices
- Covers crunching data with Numbers, dressing up your documents with Pages, adding punch to your presentations with Keynote, organize your images with iPhoto, make music with GarageBand, unleash your creative spirit with iMovie, and more
- Includes tips for connecting to a network, creating user profiles, adding accessories, troubleshooting common issues, and expanding your iMac for your needs
Whatever you can dream up, it′s all possible with iMac and a little help from iMac For Dummies, 8th Edition!
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Sage Accounts in easy steps: illustrated using Sage 50cloud
Sage Accounts is the UK’s market-leading accounts software. It lets you manage your day-to-day finances, customers, suppliers and VAT and keeps your finger on the pulse of your business.
Sage Accounts in easy steps uses detailed images and easy-to-follow instructions, showing you how to quickly get to grips with the new features of this leading accounts software. This definitive guide clarifies everything from basic recording keeping to utilising Sage as an information-bank for making crucial business decisions.
Areas covered include:
- Setting up Sage, entering debtors and creditors
- Producing purchase/sales orders and invoices
- Bank account reconciliation
- Stock management, including Bill of Materials
- Important month and year end procedures
- Processing the VAT return and e-Submission
- Generating invaluable management reports
Sage Accounts in easy steps is ideal for non-accountants using Sage for the first time, or just needing to grasp the new key features all in easy steps!
Illustrated using Sage 50cloud
Table of Contents
- Getting Started
- The Customer Ledger
- The Supplier Ledger
- The Nominal Ledger
- The Bank
- Products
- Invoices
- Processing Sales Orders
- Purchase Orders
- Financial Reporting
- Fixed Assets
- The Report Designer
- Opening Balances
- Data Management
- Task Management
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Excel Bible for Beginners: The Essential Step by Step Guide to Learn Excel for Beginners
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“Author Harjit Suman has crafted a truly comprehensive guidebook which is also concise and clear in its explanations, making it a handy guide that you could take with you and utilize anywhere” – Review by K.C. Finn, Readers Favorite ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Are you an Excel beginner? Do you struggle working with Excel? Do you look in envy at your colleagues who know their way around an Excel worksheet but you don’t? People are often frightened to learn Excel because of the vast array of tools and functions it offers and they think it’s too complicated or difficult. You may use Excel on a daily basis but might not get the most out of it. Well fear not as this Excel for dummies 2023 book will teach you everything you need to know about Excel in a clear and concise way so you can use Excel like a pro!
WHAT WILL THIS EXCEL FOR BEGINNERS BOOK TEACH YOU?
This Excel bible is a very comprehensive Excel book where you will learn all the essential tools, features and functions Excel has to offer. You will learn about the history and background of Excel. You will get to know your way around the Excel user interface by using the ribbon. You will learn how to format, manage, sort, filter and edit your worksheets so they are organised, structured and contain no errors. This Excel for dummies 2023 book will teach you how to create a variety of charts and show you how to format them too so users can easily interpret the information. This book will also teach you how to create formulas and how to copy them to other areas of the worksheet. You will also learn all the essential tools to print off your work. This Microsoft Excel for dummies includes easy to follow step by step instructions supported with screenshots so you can follow along very easily.
Some of the key topics covered in this comprehensive Microsoft Excel 2023 guide book for dummies include:
✅ What is Excel?
✅ What is Excel used for?
✅ How to open and save workbooks
✅ How to use the Quick Access Toolbar
✅ How to change font styles
✅ How to wrap and merge text
✅ How to format numbers
✅ How to apply borders
✅ How to apply cell styles
✅ How to use the Format Painter tool
✅ How to insert and delete worksheets tabs
✅ How to insert and delete columns and rows
✅ How to freeze rows and columns
✅ How to hide/unhide columns and rows
✅ How to copy, paste and cut
✅ How to use the Excel Find and Replace tool
✅ How to use the Excel Text to Speech function
✅ How to create charts and format them
✅ How to create formulas
✅ How to print
HOW WILL YOU BENEFIT AFTER READING THIS EXCEL BOOK?
After you have read this Excel bible 2023 book you will know your way around an Excel spreadsheet. You will learn all the main Excel tools and functions to enable you to become efficient in your Excel work. You will be able to perform tasks quicker than you ever did before with minimum effort. If you have never used Excel before then this Excel 2023 book will get you up and running and to a high standard in no time. If you use Excel on a daily basis, then this book will increase your Excel skills to a higher level and you will learn new things you would never have discovered otherwise.
This is the definite book to learn Excel if you are a beginner, want to advance your Excel skills, or you have never used Excel before. Many workplaces around the world employ people who have good Excel skills. By learning Excel from this book, you can add this key skill to your CV and become indispensable in the workplace.
To truly better yourself you need to invest in yourself.
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Pinnacle Studio 24 Revealed
Learn to unleash the full power of Pinnacle Studio by following practical examples. As Studio develops, so does the Revealed series, with all the new features of this popular software covered in detail. Start from scratch, or dip in and out – this book works both as a manual and a series of tutorials. From Basic Principles right through to understanding the latest features, Pinnacle Studio Revealed is packed with tips and examples, using both the sample footage and easily downloaded content.Topics include keeping your movies in sync, troubleshooting, Masking amd Motion tracking, Animating Titles, Multi-Cam, and working with MyDVD as well as legacy disc authoring.Read more
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Alexa For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
Make your every wish Alexa’s command with this in-depth guide to the wildly popular Amazon smart speaker
You might be thinking, “All I have to do is plug in my Echo device and start using it!” And you’d be right. But if you really want to explore what that compact little device can do, then Alexa For Dummies is your go-to resource. This book shows you how to customize your device to respond to your requests and enhance your life.
Alexa For Dummies takes you on a tour of all things Alexa: its capabilities, tools, settings, and skills. Go beyond the basics of playing music, calling friends, reading the news, and checking the weather. You’ll learn how to make Alexa private and secure, connect it to your smart home devices, and even make it sound like Samuel L. Jackson, if you feel like it. You can also extend its capabilities by adding new skills.
- Customize your device to respond to your voice
- Troubleshoot when a light is signaling something’s wrong
- Add skills to play music and audiobooks
- Create routines to turn on lights, adjust the thermostat, set your security alarm, and lock your doors
- Sync your smart devices throughout your home
- Use Alexa to connect to a Zoom meeting or phone call with your friends or family
No matter which device you have―Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, Echo Studio, Echo Flex, Echo Loop, Echo Buds, or Echo Frames―Alexa For Dummies is the perfect companion. Ready to get started? Say “Hey, Alexa, order Alexa For Dummies!”
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Animated Storytelling: Simple Steps for Creating Animation and Motion Graphics
Animation is a limitless medium for telling stories. Artists can create worlds, defy gravity, flip from factual to fantasy, and transport audiences to places they never imagined. The challenge is having the discipline to reel it in and be intentional about your storytelling choices. This book shows you how.
In Animated Storytelling, you’ll learn how to create memorable stories using animation and motion graphics by following 10 simple guidelines that take you through the stages of concept development, pre-production, storyboarding, and design. Award-winning animator Liz Blazer uses clear examples and easy-to-follow exercises to provide you with the instruction, encouragement, and tools you need to get your designs moving.
Whether your goal is to create exciting shorts for film festivals, effective messaging for broadcast or online, or simply to gain a deeper understanding of the medium, Animated Storytelling simplifies the process of creating clear and engaging stories for animation and motion graphics so you can get started easily.
In Animated Storytelling, you’ll learn how to:
- Write a creative brief for your project
- Find and communicate your story’s big idea
- Create a tight story using linear and nonlinear story structures
- Use color to clarify and enrich your story
- Define the rules for your animated world, and commit to them
- Ease into the challenging task of animation
- Make the work you want to be hired to do
- Share your work with the world!
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OpenGL ES 3.0 Programming Guide (2nd Edition)
OpenGL® ES™ is the industry’s leading software interface and graphics library for rendering sophisticated 3D graphics on handheld and embedded devices. The newest version, OpenGL ES 3.0, makes it possible to create stunning visuals for new games and apps, without compromising device performance or battery life. In the OpenGL ® ES ™ 3.0 Programming Guide, Second Edition, the authors cover the entire API and Shading Language. They carefully introduce OpenGL ES 3.0 features such as shadow mapping, instancing, multiple render targets, uniform buffer objects, texture compression, program binaries, and transform feedback. Through detailed, downloadable C-based code examples, you’ll learn how to set up and program every aspect of the graphics pipeline. Step by step, you’ll move from introductory techniques all the way to advanced per-pixel lighting and particle systems. Throughout, you’ll find cutting-edge tips for optimizing performance, maximizing efficiency with both the API and hardware, and fully leveraging OpenGL ES 3.0 in a wide spectrum of applications. All code has been built and tested on iOS 7, Android 4.3, Windows (OpenGL ES 3.0 Emulation), and Ubuntu Linux, and the authors demonstrate how to build OpenGL ES code for each platform. Coverage includes EGL API: communicating with the native windowing system, choosing configurations, and creating rendering contexts and surfaces Shaders: creating and attaching shader objects; compiling shaders; checking for compile errors; creating, linking, and querying program objects; and using source shaders and program binaries OpenGL ES Shading Language: variables, types, constructors, structures, arrays, attributes, uniform blocks, I/O variables, precision qualifiers, and invariance Geometry, vertices, and primitives: inputting geometry into the pipeline, and assembling it into primitives 2D/3D, Cubemap, Array texturing: creation, loading, and rendering; texture wrap modes, filtering, and formats; compressed textures, sampler objects, immutable textures, pixel unpack buffer objects, and mipmapping Fragment shaders: multitexturing, fog, alpha test, and user clip planes Fragment operations: scissor, stencil, and depth tests; multisampling, blending, and dithering Framebuffer objects: rendering to offscreen surfaces for advanced effects Advanced rendering: per-pixel lighting, environment mapping, particle systems, image post-processing, procedural textures, shadow mapping, terrain, and projective texturing Sync objects and fences: synchronizing within host application and GPU execution This edition of the book includes a color insert of the OpenGL ES 3.0 API and OpenGL ES Shading Language 3.0 Reference Cards created by Khronos. The reference cards contain a complete list of all of the functions in OpenGL ES 3.0 along with all of the types, operators, qualifiers, built-ins, and functions in the OpenGL ES Shading Language.Read more
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Tackling A Level Projects in Computer Science for OCR H446 – Step-by-step Essential Coursework A-Level Computing Project Guide NEA Non-exam Assessment A Level Computer Science…
Subject level: A Level Computer Science
Exam board: OCR
A clear, concise, step-by-step guide to your A Level Computer Science NEA project
Completing an A Level project is a huge undertaking for any student regardless of their competence in programming. The key to success and increasing results is to plan and write a strong report, evidencing what has been carried out.
This guide to Tackling A Level Projects in Computer Science is designed to give you clear and focused advice to help you maximise your mark potential when completing your OCR Computing coursework project.
Tailored for OCR, it will take you through all aspects of the project, from document setup, to each stage of the process. This guide will give you essential tips, examples and checklists to complete every stage before handing in a top project with pride and confidence.
This guide is suitable for use with any language or project idea being undertaken.
PG Online are multi-award-winning specialists in Computer Science with decades of teaching, examining and programming experience.
Features:
- Full breakdown and ‘how-to’ of everything you need to complete in the specification
- Checklist for each section of the project to ensure you’ve got everything in order
- Worked examples of sample project steps and solutions
- Examiners’ tips on what to do and what to avoid
- Clear layout with full-colour examples
- Comprehensive index
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Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach
This book integrates the foundations of quantum computing with a hands-on coding approach to this emerging field; it is the first to bring these elements together in an updated manner. This work is suitable for both academic coursework and corporate technical training.
The second edition includes extensive updates and revisions, both to textual content and to the code. Sections have been added on quantum machine learning, quantum error correction, Dirac notation and more. This new edition benefits from the input of the many faculty, students, corporate engineering teams, and independent readers who have used the first edition.
This volume comprises three books under one cover: Part I outlines the necessary foundations of quantum computing and quantum circuits. Part II walks through the canon of quantum computing algorithms and provides code on a range of quantum computing methods in current use. Part III covers the mathematical toolkit required to master quantum computing. Additional resources include a table of operators and circuit elements and a companion GitHub site providing code and updates.
Jack D. Hidary is a research scientist in quantum computing and in AI at Alphabet X, formerly Google X.
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Game Anim: Video Game Animation Explained
Game Anim teaches the technical and artistic fundamentals of video game animation and goes further to provide practical advice and industry insights to help you become a rounded and successful game animator.
Covering every stage of game production from the animator’s perspective, it is packed with the lessons learned from working on a variety of game types in both in-game and cinematic roles in animator, lead, and director positions. These have been successful across multiple studios regardless of team, size and culture.
The 2nd edition includes a new chapter on 2D and Pixel Art Animation, an enhanced mocap chapter covering the latest developments in Motion Matching, and even more interviews with top professionals in the field.
Game Anim provides essential guidance to those looking to break into the industry and successful animators wishing to take the next step in their career.
Key Features
• 20 Years of Insight: Accumulated knowledge from 2 decades of experience in all areas of game animation.
• The 5 Fundamentals: Reinterprets the classic 12 animation principles and sets out 5 new fundamentals for great game animation.
• Animator Interviews: Notable game animators offer behind-the-scenes stories, tips, and advice.
• Free Animation Rig: Free “AZRI” maya rig, tutorials and other resources on the accompanying website: www.gameanim.com/book
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Introducing Microsoft Quantum Computing for Developers: Using the Quantum Development Kit and Q#
Dive in with this hands-on introduction to quantum computing with the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit and Q# for software developers.
You may have heard about quantum computing, but what does it mean to you as a software developer? With many new developments, a resurgence in interest, and investment by some of the largest tech companies in the world to be the first to market with quantum programming (QP) hardware and platforms, it is no longer a tool in the distant future. Developers are at the forefront, now able to create applications that take advantage of QP through simulations. While the skill is of interest, for many developers, quantum computing and its implications still remains a mystery.
In this book, you will get up to speed exploring important quantum concepts and apply them in practice through writing actual quantum algorithms, using the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit. Theoretical knowledge about quantum physics, such as superposition and entanglement, will be used to explain quantum computing topics, including quantum gates, quantum circuits, and quantum algorithms. Finally, take a tour of the new Azure Quantum.
Use Q#, Microsoft’s new programming language, to target quantum hardware. You will select your supporting language of choice, either C# or Python, to begin writing your quantum applications. Combined with just enough theoretical preparation, you will learn how to get your computer ready to simulate basic quantum programs using Microsoft Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code and Q#.
What You Will Learn
- Get up to speed on the platform-independent quantum tool set using the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit simulator and Visual Studio Code or Microsoft Visual Studio
Know the basics of quantum mechanics required to start working on quantum computing
- Understand mathematical concepts such as complex numbers, trigonometry, and linear algebra
- Install the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit on a Windows or Linux PC with Visual Studio Code or Microsoft Visual Studio
Write quantum algorithms with the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit and Q#, supported by C# or Python
- Discover insights on important existing quantum algorithms such as Deutch, Deutch-Jozsa, and the fun CHSH-game
- Get introduced to quantum as a service using the Microsoft Azure Quantum preview cloud offering
Who This Book Is For
Developers who are interested in quantum computing, specifically those software developers who are planning on using quantum computers in the future. Basic imperative programming knowledge is useful to understand the syntax and structure found in the Q# programming language. Knowledge of Microsoft C# or Python is not required since these languages are only used to support the simulation of Q# on a classical computer.Read more
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Microsoft Azure For Dummies
The must-have reference for Azure newcomers
As Microsoft’s Azure platform takes a larger stake in the cloud computing world, more tech pros need to know the ins-and-outs of this fast-growing platform. Microsoft Azure For Dummies is the essential guide for users who are new to the platform. Take your first steps into the world of Azure as you learn all about the core services―straight from a Microsoft expert. This book covers the Azure essentials you need to know, including building a virtual network on Azure, launching and scaling applications, migrating existing services, and keeping everything secure. In classic Dummies style, you’ll learn the fundamentals of Azure’s core services and―when you’re ready―how to move into more advanced services.
- Discover the basics of cloud computing with Microsoft Azure and learn what services you can access with Azure
- Build your cloud network with Azure and migrate an existing network to the platform
- Scale applications seamlessly and make sure your security is air-tight
Updated to included expanded information on data resources, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and collaboration, Microsoft Azure For Dummies, 2nd Edition answers the call for an entry-level, comprehensive guide that provides a simple-to-understand primer on core Azure services. It’s an invaluable resource for IT managers and others arriving at the platform for the first time.
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How to Start a YouTube Channel: How You Can Go from Making Videos to Uploading and Getting Subscribers to Making Money
Discover how you can start your own YouTube channel, grow it, and make money!Have you ever surfed through YouTube and wondered just what it would be like to have your own videos on there?
Do you watch YouTubers and believe you can do the same thing, if not better?
Are you a camera lover who can create great works of art you’d like to showcase to the world?
Then this is the book for you!
In this book, you will:
- Learn step-by-step instructions on how to design your YouTube channel and create amazing videos
- Discover hundreds of tips on how to make videos that get views and subscribers
- Master ways to brand yourself on YouTube, from logos and color schemes to thumbnails and graphics
- Learn how to make money on YouTube
- Discover what viewers are looking for and how to use ads to market to a much bigger audience
- Learn how to create entertaining content that people want to watch and share
- Learn the steps you should take before posting your first video
- Master the art of video editing
- Discover how to develop a YouTube channel strategy, even if you’re brand new
- Master ways to gain subscribers by setting yourself apart from the competition
How to Start a YouTube Channel is the ultimate guide every YouTube content creator needs. Whether you’ve always wanted to start a YouTube channel, or you already have one and want to take it to the next level, you’ve come to the right place.
Click the “add to cart” button and be part of an incredible online community that allows you to help others and make money on the side!
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Learning Blender
Master the Newest Blender Techniques for Creating Amazing 3D Characters: From Design and Modeling to Video CompositingNow fully updated for Blender 2.83 LTS (Long-Term Support) and beyond, Learning Blender, Third Edition, walks you through every step of creating an outstanding 3D animated character with Blender, and then compositing it in a real video using a professional workflow. This edition covers the extensive interface changes of the software, as well as many improvements and some almost fully rewritten chapters to showcase more modern workflows.
Still the only Blender tutorial to take you from preproduction to final result, this guide is perfect for both novices and those moving from other software to Blender (open source and free software). Author Oliver Villar provides full-color, hands-on chapters that cover every aspect of character creation: design, modeling, unwrapping, texturing, shading, rigging, animation, and rendering. He also walks you through integrating your animated character into a real-world video, using professional camera tracking, lighting, and compositing techniques.
The rich companion website ( blendtuts.com/learning-blender-files) will help you quickly master even the most complex techniques with bonus contents like video tutorials. By the time you’re done, you’ll be ready to create outstanding characters for all media — and you’ll have up-to-date skills for any 3D project, whether it involves characters or not.
- Learn Blender’s updated user interface and navigation
- Create your first scene with Blender and the Blender Render and Cycles render engines
- Organize an efficient, step-by-step pipeline to streamline workflow in any project
- Master modeling, unwrapping, and texturing
- Bring your character to life with materials and shading in both Cycles and EEVEE (the new real-time render engine included in Blender)
- Create your character’s skeleton and make it walk
- Use Camera Tracking to mix 3D objects into a real-world video
- Transform a raw rendered scene into the final result using Blender’s compositing nodes
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How to code in Python: GCSE, iGCSE, National 4/5 and Higher
Ensure every student can become fluent in Python with this highly practical guide that will help them understand the theory and logic behind coding.
Written for 14-16-year olds by a leading Python specialist and teacher, and aligned to curriculum requirements, this essential Student Book provides numerous practice questions and coding problems that can be completed as homework or during class – plus answers can be found online at www.hoddereducation.co.uk/pythonextras
How to Code in Python will:
> Provide hundreds of coding examples, puzzles and problem-solving tasks to strengthen computational thinking skills required for GCSE, iGCSE and National 4 / 5 success
> Help students become proficient in computational thinking and problem-solving using Python
> Provide easy-to-follow explanations of concepts and terminology
> Feature plenty of opportunities for self-assessment with solutions to coding problems available onlineThis unique book can be broken down into three key features:
> Code theory and explanations (worked examples) in a fun and accessible way
> Computational thinking puzzles for the reader to solve; this will greatly improve students’ ability to read code and predict its effect and output when run
> Programming problems where the reader has to write a program to solve given scenariosGreg Reid is a very experienced Computer Science teacher in Scotland, who has written How to Pass Higher Computer Science and Higher Computing Science Practice Papers for Hodder Gibson.
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WebGL Programming Guide: Interactive 3D Graphics Programming with WebGL (OpenGL)
Using WebGL®, you can create sophisticated interactive 3D graphics inside web browsers, without plug-ins. WebGL makes it possible to build a new generation of 3D web games, user interfaces, and information visualization solutions that will run on any standard web browser, and on PCs, smartphones, tablets, game consoles, or other devices. WebGL Programming Guide will help you get started quickly with interactive WebGL 3D programming, even if you have no prior knowledge of HTML5, JavaScript, 3D graphics, mathematics, or OpenGL.
You’ll learn step-by-step, through realistic examples, building your skills as you move from simple to complex solutions for building visually appealing web pages and 3D applications with WebGL. Media, 3D graphics, and WebGL pioneers Dr. Kouichi Matsuda and Dr. Rodger Lea offer easy-to-understand tutorials on key aspects of WebGL, plus 100 downloadable sample programs, each demonstrating a specific WebGL topic.
You’ll move from basic techniques such as rendering, animating, and texturing triangles, all the way to advanced techniques such as fogging, shadowing, shader switching, and displaying 3D models generated by Blender or other authoring tools. This book won’t just teach you WebGL best practices, it will give you a library of code to jumpstart your own projects.
Coverage includes:
• WebGL’s origin, core concepts, features, advantages, and integration with other web standards
• How and basic WebGL functions work together to deliver 3D graphics
• Shader development with OpenGL ES Shading Language (GLSL ES)
• 3D scene drawing: representing user views, controlling space volume, clipping, object creation, and perspective
• Achieving greater realism through lighting and hierarchical objects
• Advanced techniques: object manipulation, heads-up displays, alpha blending, shader switching, and more
• Valuable reference appendixes covering key issues ranging from coordinate systems to matrices and shader loading to web browser settingsThis is the newest text in the OpenGL Technical Library, Addison-Wesley’s definitive collection of programming guides an reference manuals for OpenGL and its related technologies. The Library enables programmers to gain a practical understanding of OpenGL and the other Khronos application-programming libraries including OpenGL ES and OpenCL. All of the technologies in the OpenGL Technical Library evolve under the auspices of the Khronos Group, the industry consortium guiding the evolution of modern, open-standards media APIs.
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Microsoft Office 365 For Beginners: The 1# Crash Course From Beginners To Advanced. Easy Way to Master The Whole Suite in no Time | Excel, Word, PowerPoint, … Teams & Access…
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Interactive Storytelling for Video Games: A Player-Centered Approach to Creating Memorable Characters and Stories
What really makes a video game story interactive?
What’s the best way to create an interactive story?
How much control should players be given?
Do they really want that control in the first place?
Do they even know what they want-or are their stated desires at odds with the unconscious preferences?All of these questions and more are examined in this definitive book on interactive storytelling for video games. You’ll get detailed descriptions of all major types of interactive stories, case studies of popular games (including Bioshock, Fallout 3, Final Fantasy XIII, Heavy Rain, and Metal Gear Solid), and how players interact with them, and an in-depth analysis of the results of a national survey on player storytelling preferences in games. You’ll get the expert advice you need to generate compelling and original game concepts and narratives.With Interactive Storytelling for Video Games, you’ll:
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Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture’s many aspects. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural characteristics, architectural patterns, component determination, diagramming and presenting architecture, evolutionary architecture, and many other topics.
Mark Richards and Neal Ford-hands-on practitioners who have taught software architecture classes professionally for years-focus on architecture principles that apply across all technology stacks. You’ll explore software architecture in a modern light, taking into account all the innovations of the past decade.
This book examines:
- Architecture patterns: The technical basis for many architectural decisions
- Components: Identification, coupling, cohesion, partitioning, and granularity
- Soft skills: Effective team management, meetings, negotiation, presentations, and more
- Modernity: Engineering practices and operational approaches that have changed radically in the past few years
- Architecture as an engineering discipline: Repeatable results, metrics, and concrete valuations that add rigor to software architecture
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R For Dummies 2e
Mastering R has never been easierPicking up R can be tough, even for seasoned statisticians and data analysts. R For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides a quick and painless way to master all the R you’ll ever need. Requiring no prior programming experience and packed with tons of practical examples, step-by-step exercises, and sample code, this friendly and accessible guide shows you how to know your way around lists, data frames, and other R data structures, while learning to interact with other programs, such as Microsoft Excel. You’ll learn how to reshape and manipulate data, merge data sets, split and combine data, perform calculations on vectors and arrays, and so much more.
R is an open source statistical environment and programming language that has become very popular in varied fields for the management and analysis of data. R provides a wide array of statistical and graphical techniques, and has become the standard among statisticians for software development and data analysis. R For Dummies, 2nd Edition takes the intimidation out of working with R and arms you with the knowledge and know-how to master the programming language of choice among statisticians and data analysts worldwide.
- Covers downloading, installing, and configuring R
- Includes tips for getting data in and out of R
- Offers advice on fitting regression models and ANOVA
- Provides helpful hints for working with graphics
R For Dummies, 2nd Edition is an ideal introduction to R for complete beginners, as well as an excellent technical reference for experienced R programmers.
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YouTube Planning Book for Kids: BUMPER EDITION: a bumper edition of our popular notebook for budding Youtubers
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This is a bumper edition of our original bestselling Youtube planning notebook with more pages for more ideas!
Get kids off their screens 24/7 and help them hone their writing, planning, organising, editing, marketing and business skills through a hobby they love – and make better videos because of it!
Includes hints and tips on how to make good videos, how to stay safe when publishing online, and a review section to keep thinking about what you do and how to make it better each time.
30 double-spread planning pages to get you started on your YouTube journey, plus idea brainstorming and video inventory pages to get organised. Peace out
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OpenGL Superbible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference
OpenGL® SuperBible, Seventh Edition, is the definitive programmer’s guide, tutorial, and reference for OpenGL 4.5, the world’s leading 3D API for real-time computer graphics. The best introduction for any developer, it clearly explains OpenGL’s newest APIs; key extensions; shaders; and essential, related concepts. You’ll find up-to-date, hands-on guidance for all facets of modern OpenGL development―both desktop and mobile.
The authors explain what OpenGL does, how it connects to the graphics pipeline, and how it manages huge datasets to deliver compelling experiences. Step by step, they present increasingly sophisticated techniques, illuminating key concepts with worked examples. They introduce OpenGL on several popular platforms, and offer up-to-date best practices and performance advice.
This revised and updated edition introduces many new OpenGL 4.5 features, including important ARB and KHR extensions that are now part of the standard. It thoroughly covers the latest Approaching Zero Driver Overhead (AZDO) performance features, and demonstrates key enhancements with new example applications.
Coverage includes
- A practical introduction to real-time 3D graphics, including foundational math
- Core techniques for rendering, transformations, and texturing
- Shaders and the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) in depth
- Vertex processing, drawing commands, primitives, fragments, and framebuffers
- Compute shaders: harnessing graphics cards for more than graphics
- Pipeline monitoring and control
- Managing, loading, and arbitrating access to data
- Building larger applications and deploying them across platforms
- Advanced rendering: light simulation, artistic and non-photorealistic effects, and more
- Reducing CPU overhead and analyzing GPU behavior
- Supercharging performance with persistent maps, bindless textures, and fine-grained synchronization
- Preventing and debugging errors
- New applications: texture compression, text drawing, font rendering with distance fields, high-quality texture filtering, and OpenMP
Bonus material and sample code are available at openglsuperbible.com.
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Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies
Quiet on set! Time to start your moviemaking adventure — here’s what you need to know about capturing, editing, and publishing your videos
If you’re an amateur filmmaker shooting documentaries or a hobbyist putting together a family video, Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies is the book for you. From setting up a production studio and shooting good footage, to editing clips, adding effects, and working with audio, this user-friendly and comprehensive guide written in plain English can help you create your next video masterpiece and share the finished product.
This handy guide starts with the basics, getting you familiar with the Adobe Premiere Pro software and its interface and helping you set up your dream studio. From there, you’ll dive into capturing footage for your videos, learn how to manage multiple movie projects, and edit movies to your liking. You’ll learn to:
- Capture audio and video from your camcorder or video deck (if your computer has the right hardware)
- Pick and choose scenes to include in a movie, moving frame by frame through video to precisely place edits
- Add and edit (up to 99) audio soundtracks to your program
- Create titles and add still graphics to your movie projects
- Animate titles and graphics
- Apply one of 73 different transitions to video
- Modify your movie with 94 video and 22 audio effects
- Improve and adjust color using an advanced Color Corrector, new to this version of the software
- Use powerful new audio tools to mix audio, whether it’s mono, stereo, or 5.1 channel surround
- Work with multiple, nestable timelines
- Preview edits immediately in real time
Once you’re finalized your movie project, you can export it, save it to DVD, or publish it online. But that’s not all! With this helpful guide, you’ll learn pro movie-making tips, third-party software add-ons, and additional tools for your production studio. Pick up your copy and start shooting your film today.
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Xero For Dummies, 5th Edition
Your comprehensive guide to using Xero
Keeping your business running smoothly has never been easier with Xero. You’re in good hands with Xero For Dummies, the only book endorsed by Xero. With the tips and tricks included in this helpful guide, you can easily tackle tasks like accounts payable, invoices, and estimates. It’s packed with easy to follow explanations and instructions on how to use this popular accounting software. It’s like having a personal accountant at your fingertips!
The latest update to this useful reference shows how you can use Xero for more than a simple spreadsheet. It includes how to set up your account from scratch, convert your business from another accounting software to Xero, and use Xero to its full potential. It includes these essential topics:
- Customize the Xero set-up for your business
- Manage your daily activities with contacts, accounts, sales, and payables
- Organize suppliers and customers
- Automate your weekly and monthly reporting routines
- Track inventory and monitor your business
- Sync seamlessly across other business platforms
Filled with real-world scenarios that shows how you can use Xero every day in your business, Xero For Dummies can help you get your paperwork done quickly, so you can spend your valuable time running your business. Pick up your copy of Xero For Dummies to make that your reality.
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Software Project Management For Dummies
- The increase in project outsourcing has forced traditional programmers to take on the role of project managers and quickly learn how to manage software projects
- The author discusses all of the essentials in widely accepted project management methodology, from managing programmers to assessing and eliminating risk
- The book covers the iterative development model, using Microsoft Project 2003, as well as a variety of methodologies including eXtreme, open source, SQA testing, software life cycle management, and more
- The companion Web site contains tools, case studies and other resources to help even novices get up and running
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Office 2021 All-in-One For Dummies
Say hello to Office productivity with this one-stop referenceWith Office 2021 All-in-One For Dummies, you can get up and running with Microsoft’s legendary software suite. This update covers all the tweaks you can find in the latest version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. You’ll also learn how to make these apps work harder for you, because we dig deep into the tips and features that casual Office users might not know about. This edition also offers expanded coverage of Teams and other collaborative tools, so you can nail working from home, or just get a few of those meetings out of the way without having to leave your desk.
How can you quickly give documents the same format in Word? What was that one useful Excel function, again? And how does setting up a meeting on Teams work? Office 2021 All-in-One For Dummies serves up quick and simple answers to these questions, along with hundreds of other answers you’re expected to know when you work in Office.
- Learn how Microsoft Office works and get the most out of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams
- Make amazing charts and graphs that you can plug into your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
- Get better at working collaboratively with file sharing options and other neat features
- Do more, faster with expert tips and guidance on the full suite of Office software for 2021
Whether you’re new to Office or just need a refresher for the newest updates, the nine mini-books inside are your keys to getting stuff done.
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Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing
Learn to integrate programming with good documentation. This book teaches you the craft of documentation for each step in the software development lifecycle, from understanding your users’ needs to publishing, measuring, and maintaining useful developer documentation.
Well-documented projects save time for both developers on the project and users of the software. Projects without adequate documentation suffer from poor developer productivity, project scalability, user adoption, and accessibility. In short: bad documentation kills projects.
Docs for Developers demystifies the process of creating great developer documentation, following a team of software developers as they work to launch a new product. At each step along the way, you learn through examples, templates, and principles how to create, measure, and maintain documentation―tools you can adapt to the needs of your own organization.
What You’ll Learn
- Create friction logs and perform user research to understand your users’ frustrations
- Research, draft, and write different kinds of documentation, including READMEs, API documentation, tutorials, conceptual content, and release notes
- Publish and maintain documentation alongside regular code releases
- Measure the success of the content you create through analytics and user feedback
- Organize larger sets of documentation to help users find the right information at the right time
Who This Book Is For
Ideal for software developers who need to create documentation alongside code, or for technical writers, developer advocates, product managers, and other technical roles that create and contribute to documentation for their products and services.
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Windows 11 For Seniors For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
Don’t call your tech guru for help―get this book and help yourself!What do you want to do with your Windows computer? Sign up for Facebook to keep up with your friends? Watch a video taken during the latest family trip? Find your latest email messages with a single click of the mouse? Look no further than Windows 11 For Seniors For Dummies to discover how to do these tasks and others that you depend on a daily basis. With this guide to the popular operating system, you find the clear and easy instructions to checking tech tasks off your to-do list.
This book focuses on giving you the steps―with plenty of helpful illustrations―you need to complete the essential tasks that you perform throughout your day, like connecting with friends on social media, customizing your Windows 11 desktop with personal photos, and emailing the family about weekend plans. You also find out how to navigate Windows 11 and enhance it with the apps and widgets that you use. Other topics include:
- Adding shortcuts to favorite apps
- Personalizing your desktop
- Creating your private Windows account
- Setting up the email app
- Having news delivered to your desktop
- Chasing down lost files
- Tweaking your digital photos
- Setting your security and forgetting about it
Reach for Windows 11 For Seniors For Dummies whether you need a basic introduction to Windows, want a refresher on Windows 11, or have a question you want answered right away. You can then spend less time looking for help on how your computer works and more time enjoying the fun parts of life.
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MacBook For Dummies, 9th Edition
Learn how to drive the coolest laptop on the planet
You took the plunge, paid extra, and―even though it looks and feels like perfection―have that fleeting doubt: is my MacBook really worth the investment? You’ll be pleased to know that the answer is totally yes, and MacBook For Dummies is the ultimate way to learn the thousand and one reasons why the MacBook Pro or Air you now own is a modern masterpiece―as well as the ten thousand and one (and counting) things you can do with it. With its super-smooth performance, top-shelf LED screen, rugged reliability, and powerful, trouble-free operating system, you’re going to have a lot of fun.
Keeping jargon to a minimum, Mark L. Chambers―prolific tech author and all-round Mac whiz―gives you a friendly, step-by-step welcome to everything MacBook, from reviewing the hardware and powering up for the first time to getting familiar with files, security settings, launching apps, and entering the digital netherworld of iCloud. Then, with the basics reassuringly in place, you can begin your journey to power-user mastery in whatever areas of MacBook-ing you’re most interested in, from doing the accounts in Numbers to perfecting that soon-to-be-released cinematic classic (with original score) using iMovie and GarageBand.
- Get familiar with the latest macOS, Big Sur
- Communicate with Messages and FaceTime
- Stream music, movies, and TV shows
- Manage and edit photos and video clips
Whether you’re a PC convert, Mac veteran, or completely new to the astonishing potential of the MacBook world, you’ll find everything you need to get the most out of the technical marvel that’s now at your command.
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OpenCL Programming Guide (OpenGL)
Using the new OpenCL (Open Computing Language) standard, you can write applications that access all available programming resources: CPUs, GPUs, and other processors such as DSPs and the Cell/B.E. processor. Already implemented by Apple, AMD, Intel, IBM, NVIDIA, and other leaders, OpenCL has outstanding potential for PCs, servers, handheld/embedded devices, high performance computing, and even cloud systems. This is the first comprehensive, authoritative, and practical guide to OpenCL 1.1 specifically for working developers and software architects.Written by five leading OpenCL authorities, OpenCL Programming Guide covers the entire specification. It reviews key use cases, shows how OpenCL can express a wide range of parallel algorithms, and offers complete reference material on both the API and OpenCL C programming language.
Through complete case studies and downloadable code examples, the authors show how to write complex parallel programs that decompose workloads across many different devices. They also present all the essentials of OpenCL software performance optimization, including probing and adapting to hardware. Coverage includes
- Understanding OpenCL’s architecture, concepts, terminology, goals, and rationale
- Programming with OpenCL C and the runtime API
- Using buffers, sub-buffers, images, samplers, and events
- Sharing and synchronizing data with OpenGL and Microsoft’s Direct3D
- Simplifying development with the C++ Wrapper API
- Using OpenCL Embedded Profiles to support devices ranging from cellphones to supercomputer nodes
- Case studies dealing with physics simulation; image and signal processing, such as image histograms, edge detection filters, Fast Fourier Transforms, and optical flow; math libraries, such as matrix multiplication and high-performance sparse matrix multiplication; and more
- Source code for this book is available at https://code.google.com/p/opencl-book-samples/
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Excel 2023: The Must-Have Guide to Master Microsoft Excel | From Beginner to Pro in less than 7 Days | Step-by-step Formulas and Functions with Tutorials and Illustration
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From BEGINNER TO PRO Thanks to Step-by-Step Tutorials and Illustrations.Using Excel is a skill you need to have in today’s digital society. It’s a great tool, knowing how to use it will give you enormous professional and private advantages.
It has become more than just a program for “creating tables.” It can solve problems, organize and merge data, and automate working formulas at the touch of a button for any field or use.With its simple steps and many practical examples, you will discover:
- How to make the most of Excel’s features
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From spreadsheet basics to advanced features, this book will guide you through all aspects of Excel, enabling you to become a true expert in no time, thanks to a 7-DAY METHOD TO BECOME A PRO.
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DNS For Dummies
Install, configure, and troubleshoot DNS with this straightforward guide!This is a unique, entry-level guide to Domain Name System (DNS), which translates Internet host names into IP addresses and is used with all Internet servers.
DNS For Dummies will:- Show you how to install, configure, and troubleshoot DNS on both Windows and UNIX servers
- Help you seek technology certifications
- Become comfortable with DNS theory, terminology, and architecture – a requirement in several popular exams!
DNS For Dummies includes real-world examples based on the author’s daily experience with both large and small networks.
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