Mastering Computer Science – serie

Mastering Unreal Engine: A Beginner’s Guide introduces developers of all ages to the beautiful and valuable world of Unreal Engine in particular and game development in general.

Unreal Engine is a complete development suite for anyone working with real-time technology when it comes to game development. It provides flexibility and power to artists across many sectors to generate cutting-edge entertainment, engaging visualizations, and immersive virtual environments for games and infotainment alike.

Unreal Engine is a prominent game creation engine that is free to use. The majority of people associate Unreal Engine with 3D games. However, it may also be used to create 2D games with ease. It is the de facto standard in the world of game development. That said, it is not hard to be confused when getting started with Unreal Engine because of the wide range of features that it provides.

Mastering Unreal Engine

will teach you exactly where to begin. You will learn how to download Unreal Engine, construct your first game, start your game, receive an introduction to blueprints, and ultimately, develop a workable framework.

Unreal Engine is a robust game development engine that offers a wide range of features for creating 2D and 3D games on various platforms. Unreal Engine technology powers hundreds of games, and thousands of people have created careers and businesses on the skills they learned while working with this engine.

To help you get the most out of this powerful piece of technology, Mastering Unreal Engine begins with simple game ideas and playable projects that you can complete at your own pace. The book starts by covering the foundations of using Unreal Engine to build a simple game level. You will also learn how to add such details to the game as actors, animation, and effects.

Mastering Unreal Engine

is perhaps one of the first beginner-level books in its league that covers topics related to the Behavior Tree and Blackboard with Artificial Intelligence and multiplayer gameplay in Unreal Engine.

Note: This book assumes you have a working knowledge of C++ programming.

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Mastering UI Mockups and Frameworks: A Beginner's Guide sets the standard for studying wireframes, mockups, and different tools along with their unique features. This book comprehensively analyzes the design, portability, and efficiency of these tools. As a beginner’s guide, Mastering UI Mockups and Frameworks addresses various methods to use these types of tools. This book will help you shape your understanding of UI and UX tools regardless of your skill level.

Wireframes and mockups are standard tools used during the design process. A mockup is a visual presentation of a website or an app. Designers always use mockups to highlight their website’s layout and functionality to their prospective clients. Choosing a particular tool at the right stage will help you ensure that the correct level of effort is invested so that you can deliver functionality that solves an actual customer requirement. Mastering UI Mockups and Frameworks helps you accomplish this!

This book explores the design, compactness, and performance of different UX/UI tools by completing various comparative discussions. Mastering UI Mockups and Frameworks has an abundant supply of tested, functional, and documented Wireframe and mockup tools by providing comprehensive, practical, easy-to-grab solutions and paying close attention to both efficiency and portability. This book also discusses the latest updates added to the UX/UI tools. Furthermore, Mastering UI Mockups and Frameworks offers information for students and professionals interested in knowing more about such tools and their outstanding efficacies.

While wireframes and prototypes are low-fidelity formats, mockups are more intuitive. They help clients visualize how the final product will look, feel, and work. Mockups also help remove ambiguity regarding the client’s expectations. Clients can detect gaps on the website by looking at its mockup and suggesting early product revisions. By using mockups for each iteration, designers can create a final product that meets client requirements.

Wireframing is an unavoidable part of the design process. You will have a lot of ideas to brainstorm while working on a mobile app or website project. The Wireframing brainstorm sessions’ main purpose is to make them with minimal effort and to facilitate creativity. Whether or not you are a designer, wireframing is a necessary skill to have in your toolkit. It is conducive for marketers, product managers, or any person with ideas for a mobile app or website. It is an irreplaceable tool for visualizing user experiences, iterating ideas, and sharing ideas. It undoubtedly performs like a design blueprint. Wireframes stipulate a path for conceptual structuring out an application, whether structurally or visually.

Mastering UI Mockups and Frameworks

provides you with the uniqueness of two irreplaceable parts of the designing world: mockups and wireframes. This book covers different mockup and wireframe tools, including Adobe XD, Mockplus, Moqups, Mockplus iDOC, Sketch Figma, UXpin, and Axure RP, as well as their functionality and portability. Using some of these mockup tools, you can create interactive mockups that can be exported and run on any device working as a real application. This is a robust way to test your knowledge about your apps. It will also help with detailed instructions for developers, making their job easier and faster.

If you are looking to get started with the world of UI and UX, Mastering UI Mockups and Frameworks is the book to read!

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Python for Web

Python definitely tops the charts when it comes to ease of use and beginner-friendly learning curve in the world of programming languages. At the same time, Python is essential when it comes to writing system scripts, processing big data, performing mathematical computations, creating web applications, and rapid prototyping.

With this Mastering edition, we have focused especially on the usage of Python for Web. This book explores Python programming fundamentals with interactive projects and introduces core coding concepts and the basics of Python-based web development. The reader should be ready to dive deep into the world of Python for web development in no time.

Since Python positions itself in web development as a back-end language, it is usually mixed with another front-end language to build a whole website. At the same time, reasons for using Python in web development are many: it is a flexible, versatile, and highly efficient programming language with dynamic typing capacity. This book helps readers to examine Python’s key back-end/front-end programming techniques and guides them through implementing them when creating professional projects. Furthermore, it also focuses on teaching readers how to solve common problems and developing web services with Python frameworks such as Django and Flask.

Mastering Python for Web

has a goal more ambitious than simply teaching you the ropes – it aims to help you embrace and master problem solving, which could be viewed as the single most crucial skill for a coder. It offers you a focal point on starting as a beginner and growing into an expert by putting your newly acquired knowledge into practice. Programming is a hands-on skill, and this particular book helps you put your skills to test with easy-to-grasp tasks and examples.

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If you want to become an iOS developer, you have made an excellent choice with this book. Swift holds a significant position in the iOS industry because of the long list of features it serves. It is user-friendly, has great community support, and offers a greater extent of customization. As a result, we can observe a sharp increase in the market demand for developing Apple mobile applications, and with that, companies search for smart developers with the right skill set.

Mastering Swift introduces Apple’s excellent Swift standard library style and incorporates usage feedback across multiple Swift projects. However, it should be regarded as a living, changeable document and the basis upon which the programming language is implemented.

Before going further into the details of the Swift programming language, the book briefly explains the basic information about the language. It is a high-level language created to develop multifaceted iOS applications that cater to diverse needs of different social and business domains. It is meant to develop high-end apps with multiple complexities. But since it is very close to Objective C, it is easy to code and understand. This feature also makes it incredibly friendly to beginners. Moreover, it is equally compatible with the iPhone, the iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook, and Apple TV, and it can be applied to develop equally efficient and scalable apps for them.

This book in the Mastering series encircles all the essential aspects of Swift and explores why this programming language is the future for iOS app development. Different from other languages, it requires fewer lines to activate any feature. This paves the way for a shorter development cycle and saves a lot of precious resources. Further, as one of the most reliable iOS programming languages it supports dynamic libraries that indicate executable bits of code that you can link to an application. Because of such support, Swift apps can interoperate with the newest version of the language to make the app irreplaceable.

Swift is a language that was not designed but deliberately made open source so as to invite community input, allowing the product to grow and to mature over the years. This could possibly be the most crucial aspect of Swift. As people become more aware of its potential to be used in servers, web frameworks were more willing to support the demand. Owing to its popularity and significance, its adoption rate in Apple’s rivals remains very high. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced learner, if you are planning for iOS app development through Swift, this book can help with the high-domain expertise and experienced resources.

Without a doubt, the developers that create native apps are not going to abandon Swift anytime soon. However, it seems like something must evolve for it to keep growing constantly. We believe that Swift is indeed the future for iOS app developers. And if you are convinced and want to start learning the programming language right away, then this book is what you’re looking for. Learn more about our other Mastering titles at: https://www.routledge.com/Mastering-Computer-Science/book-series/MCS

When it comes to designing and prototyping for the web, nothing beats Sketch. If you are passionate about designing UI/UX for mobile or web applications, Sketch is the way to go! And to learn Sketch, look no further than Mastering Sketch: A Beginner’s Guide.

Sketch app lets you collaborate on the entire design process in real time and allows you to see everyone’s best ideas in one place. It helps you make playable Prototypes, preview, and share designs. Launched in 2010, the app won the Apple Design Award and now has more than one million customers. Sketch is trusted by companies worldwide, including Facebook, Google, XBOX, and Stripe. It has an intuitive interface, thoughtful features, and all powers of the native macOS app. Designers across the world find this app powerful and enjoyable.

Moreover, with its powerful ecosystem of plugins, assistants, and extensions, Sketch can be extended and integrated with a wide variety of use cases.

Mastering Sketch teaches you everything you need to know about Sketch app in a simple and lucid manner.

Mastering Sketch is written for the absolute beginner who has no prior expertise with the Sketch app. This book teaches the concepts from scratch and takes you from zero to advanced level in no time. It builds upon the fundamentals and core expertise which will make your career as a UI/UX designer successful.

More importantly, Mastering Sketch starts from the absolute basics, talking about the installation process and system requirements, and then moves on to the interface. This ensures that even newbie designers can follow the process with ease and at their own pace. Subsequent chapters are dedicated to topics such as vector editing, image and prototype management, as well as UX design.

Mastering Sketch also talks about the concept of real-time collaborative editing in Sketch and offers detailed guides to inviting others to work with you on your workspace.

Lastly, this book also covers at length the diverse Sketch extensions’ ecosystem, with special attention to both official and community plugins, assistants, and integrations. It offers a brief overview of every single plugin or integration to Sketch released to date!

We are confident Mastering Sketch is a worthy companion for any aspiring UI/UX designer looking to add Sketch to their arsenal.

Learn more about our other Mastering titles at:

https://www.routledge.com/Mastering-Computer-Science/book-series/MCS

When it comes to designing and prototyping for the web, nothing beats Sketch. If you are passionate about designing UI/UX for mobile or web applications, Sketch is the way to go! And to learn Sketch, look no further than Mastering Sketch: A Beginner’s Guide.

Sketch app lets you collaborate on the entire design process in real time and allows you to see everyone’s best ideas in one place. It helps you make playable Prototypes, preview, and share designs. Launched in 2010, the app won the Apple Design Award and now has more than one million customers. Sketch is trusted by companies worldwide, including Facebook, Google, XBOX, and Stripe. It has an intuitive interface, thoughtful features, and all powers of the native macOS app. Designers across the world find this app powerful and enjoyable.

Moreover, with its powerful ecosystem of plugins, assistants, and extensions, Sketch can be extended and integrated with a wide variety of use cases.

Mastering Sketch

teaches you everything you need to know about Sketch app in a simple and lucid manner.

Mastering Sketch

is written for the absolute beginner who has no prior expertise with the Sketch app. This book teaches the concepts from scratch and takes you from zero to advanced level in no time. It builds upon the fundamentals and core expertise which will make your career as a UI/UX designer successful.

More importantly, Mastering Sketch starts from the absolute basics, talking about the installation process and system requirements, and then moves on to the interface. This ensures that even newbie designers can follow the process with ease and at their own pace. Subsequent chapters are dedicated to topics such as vector editing, image and prototype management, as well as UX design.

Mastering Sketch

also talks about the concept of real-time collaborative editing in Sketch and offers detailed guides to inviting others to work with you on your workspace.

Lastly, this book also covers at length the diverse Sketch extensions’ ecosystem, with special attention to both official and community plugins, assistants, and integrations. It offers a brief overview of every single plugin or integration to Sketch released to date!

We are confident Mastering Sketch is a worthy companion for any aspiring UI/UX designer looking to add Sketch to their arsenal.

Learn more about our other Mastering titles at:

https://www.routledge.com/Mastering-Computer-Science/book-series/MCS