Discusses the essential elements in creating a successful game, how playing games and learning are connected, and what makes a game boring or fun.

This book examines and explains a variety of scientific programming models (programming models relevant to scientists) with an emphasis on how programming constructs map to different parts of the computer's architecture.

Covers offensive technologies by grouping and analyzing them at a higher level--from both an offensive and defensive standpoint--helping you design and deploy networks that are immune to offensive exploits, tools, and scripts.

The goal of this concise book is not just to teach you Java, but to help you think like a computer scientist. You’ll learn how to program—a useful skill by itself—but you’ll also discover how to use programming as a means to an end.

A comprehensive undergraduate textbook covering both theory and practical design issues, with an emphasis on object-oriented languages.

Offers a physical explanation of the Coriolis force. This book is useful for studying the hydrodynamics of the ocean and atmosphere. It also presents many aspects of classical mechanics/dynamics physics.

Written by an authority in the field, and one with great practical and teaching experience, this is certain to become the standard and indispensable reference on the subject.

Introduction to Numerical and Analytical Methods with MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists provides the basic concepts of programming in MATLAB for engineering applications.

A valuable introduction to the fundamentals of continuous and discrete time signal processing, this book is intended for the reader with little or no background in this subject.

Presents the author's thesis that consciousness, in its manifestation in the human quality of understanding, is doing something that mere computation cannot; and attempts to understand how such non-computational action might arise within ...