Charles River Media.Charles River Media 10 Downer Ave., Hingham, MA 02043 www.charlesriver.com Charles River's technical, weighty guides are powerful picks. John R. Vacca's Computer Forensics The investigation of a computer system believed to be involved in cybercrime. Forensic software provides a variety of tools for investigating a suspect PC. Such programs may include a function that copies the entire hard drive to another system for inspection, allowing the original to remain unaltered. Another common utility compares file extensions to the data content in order to determine if files have been camouflaged with phony file extensions.: Computer Crime (legal) computer crime - Breaking the criminal law by use of a computer. See also computer ethics, software law. Scene Investigation 2nd Edition (1584503890, $49.95), for example, comes from a computer security official with NASA who packs in over 800 pages of detail on how hackers and criminals use computers as weapons. An updated book/cd package provides an overview of computer forensics, from information security issues to how computer crimes are investigated. Exercises, case studies, and crime examples make Computer Forensics a practical manual. Danny Kodieck's Mathematics And Physics For Programmers (158450-3300, $49.95) uses game development to present math and physics concepts, includes a companion CD-ROM with simulations and even source code Programming statements and instructions that are written by a programmer. Source code is what a programmer writes, but it is not directly executable by the computer. It must be converted into machine language by compilers, assemblers or interpreters. In some cases, source code can be machine generated by conversion programs that convert the source code of one programming language or dialect into the source code of another language or dialect. See lines of code., and uses pseudo-code to illustrate topics. These approaches make Mathematics And Physics For Programmers much more accessible than most, lending practical value and applications-oriented approaches to math formulas and physics. Steve Rabin edits Introduction To Game Development (1584503777, $69.95), a weighty text based Text-Based Screens Text-based computer screens display a fixed set of rows and columns, typically between 25 and 50 rows of 80 or more characters that are also fixed in size. In contrast, graphics-based screens provide a matrix of pixels that are entirely addressable, allowing for any font size or graphic object to be created. on the curriculum guidelines of the IGDA IGDA - Interactive Graphics and Data Analysis IGDA - International Game Developers Association and the first to examine all aspects of the theory and applications of game development and design. It lends to use either as the classroom text or as supplemental college-level reading: a comprehensive overview accompanied by a detailed CD-ROM holding all animations, documents and demos referenced in the text makes for a very detailed presentation packed with tutorials and source code, while almost thirty leading industry game developers and programmers contribute technical chapters. A highly recommended pick, indeed. Herbert H. Thompson and Scott G. Chase's Software Vulnerability Guide (1584503580, $49.95) comes from a security director and a security architect, drawing upon their combined expertise to consider techniques developers need to use to produce secure code in modern software. Developers and testers receive both tools and assessments of tools designed to help recognize and prevent common vulnerabilties in source code. Commentary and code examples pack a guide which includes a CD-ROM with source code and many tools described within. The second edition of M. Tim Jones' AI Application Programming (1584504218, $59.95) also joins the 'Programming Series' of technical guides to cover the latest AI concepts, from neural networks and intelligent agents to search algorithms and rules-based logic systems. The CD-ROM included contains all commented source-code in C, supplementing introductory discussions. |
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