Microsoft DirectX 7 gives you the APIs you need to create cutting-edge Windows 3D games and simulations using C or C++. With helpful tutorials, plenty of illustrations, and a minimum of math, this unique guide shows you how to master these APIs and take your graphics programming to the next level, whether you're an animation beginner or a veteran game developer.

If you are new to programming with Microsoft Access VBA and are looking for a solid introduction, this is the book for you. Developed by computer science professors, books in the for the absolute beginner series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation.

If you know basic high-school math, you can quickly learn and apply the core concepts of computer science with this concise, hands-on book. Led by a team of experts, you’ll quickly understand the difference between computer science and computer programming, and you’ll learn how algorithms help you solve computing problems.

This mathematically oriented introduction to the theory of logic programming presents a systematic exposition of the resolution method for propositional, first-order, and Horn- clause logics, together with an analysis of the semantic aspects of the method. It is through the inference rule of resolution that both proofs and computations can be manipulated on computers, and this book contains elegant versions and proofs of the fundamental theorems and lemmas in the proof theory of logic programming. Advanced topics such as recursive complexity and negation as failure and its semantics are covered, and streamlined setups for SLD- and SLDNF-resolution are described.No other book treats this material in such detail and with such sophistication. Doets provides a novel approach to resolution that is applied to the first-order case and the case of (positive) logic programs. In contrast to the usual approach, the concept of a resolvent is defined nonconstructively, without recourse to the concept of unification, allowing the soundness and completeness proofs to be carried out in a more economic way. Other new material includes computability results dealing with analytical hierarchy, results on infinite derivations and an exposition on general logic programs using 3-valued logic.

Scala - Multiparadigm programming language, designed concise and type-safe for easy and fast creation of component software, combining the capabilities of functional and object-oriented programming.

Enter a New World of Database Programming
C# and ADO.NETfacilitate the development of a new generation of database applications,including remote applications that run on theWeb. Mastering C# Database Programming is the resource you need to thrivein this new world. Assuming no prior experience with database programming, thisbook teaches you every aspect of the craft, from GUI design to server developmentto middle-tier implementation. If you’re familiar with earlier versions ofADO, you’ll master the many new features of ADO.NET all the more quickly.You'll also learn the importance of XML within the new .NET paradigm. Coverageincludes:

This course is the first lesson from the Teaching Kids Programming courseware library. It has been designed especially for the Pluralsight audience. You can use Visual Studio to teach your own kids to program in C#. In this lesson kids will learn about objects, methods, variables & for loops in a fun and creative way.

C is a simple yet powerful multi-purpose programming language that sits at the heart of virtually every computing device imaginable. It offers unparalleled performance and supports the widest breadth of devices and platforms. It is ideally suited to environments with strict, real-time constraints like kernel-mode and in particular to embedded systems programming. Whether you plan on learning C as a foundation for C++ or to prepare yourself for embedded programming, this course will give you a solid foundation and show you that C need not be feared.

Interactive systems and devices, from mobile phones to office copiers, do not fulfill their potential for a wide variety of reasons--not all of them technical. Press On shows that we can design better interactive systems and devices if we draw on sound computer science principles.

These are full 6 to 10 week courses taught by some of the brightest professors in the world on campus at Stanford University. These classes contain the core curriculum on video, with supplemental info such as textbooks, quizzes, and knowledge bases on pdf files.

The Only Official Best-Practice Guide to Qt 4.1 Programming
Using Trolltech's Qt you can build industrial-strength C++ applications that run natively on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and embedded Linux--without making source code changes. With this book Trolltech insiders have written a start-to-finish guide to getting great results with the most powerful version of Qt ever created: Qt 4.1.