O'Reilly Books.O'Reilly Books 1005 Gravenstein Hwy N., Sebastapol, CA 95472 www.oreilly.com O'Reilly's computer books See how to find a good computer book. are most often recommended for intermediate and advanced level programmers and web administrators, offering practical real-world applications, combined with troubleshooting Troubleshooting is a form of problem solving. It is the systematic search for the source of a problem so that it can be solved. Troubleshooting is often a process of elimination - eliminating potential causes of a problem. advice, as well as fundamental introductions filled with the meat of viable applications and scenarios. David Bourg bourg n. 1. A market town. 2. A medieval village, especially one situated near a castle. [French, from Old French, from Late Latin burgus, fortress, and Glenn Seemann's AI For Game Developers (0596005555, $39.95), for example, explores the world of advanced artificial intelligence (AD) game techniques for programmers. While the book is supposed to be of interest to beginners too, it's the advanced game programmer A game programmer is a programmer who primarily develops video games or related software (such as game development tools). Game programming has many specialized disciplines; practitioners of any may regard themselves as "game programmers". who will find AI For Game Developers to be especially essential in creating solutions to common gaming problems. Scott Oaks and Henry Wong's Java Threads (0596007825, $39.95) appears in its third updated edition to cover the 'threads' essential to Java programming. Java programmers will already know about these threads--but will they know how to use them most effectively? This new edition shows how to take advantage of Java's threading facilities, providing a review of the changes in Java 2 Standard Edition See Java 2. Version 5.0, and using a step-by-step approach to threads programming. David Pogue's Ilife 04 (0596006-942, $29.95) is a very specialized Macintosh guide to the iLife package bundling its basic software packages iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, iDVD and GarageBand into one collection. Ilife 04 covers all five programs, from organizing a music collection in iTunes to distributing movies and photos at a higher quality than tape or QuickTime movies using iDVD. Speaking of GarageBand, if it's an in-depth manual you seek, David Pogue David Pogue (born March 9 1963) is a technology writer, journalist and commentator. He is a personal technology columnist for the New York Times, an Emmy-winning tech correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, and tech guest reporter for NPR's Morning Edition. also produces a stand-alone guide to Version 1.1 in Garageband: The Missing Manual (0596006-950, $19.95). One of the 'magic five of the Mac package, GarageBand deserves its own book, which author Pogue has recognized: chapters cover all the fundamentals on song building, orchestration orchestration Art of choosing which instruments to use for a given piece of music. The sections of the orchestra historically were separate ensembles: the stringed instruments for indoors, the woodwind instruments for outdoors, the horns for hunting, and trumpets and drums , and GarageBand's plug-in programs. From locating new loops and making a single to exporting to iTunes and burning cds, Garageband is the rference of choice. |
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