• Create and design games for iPhone and iPad using SpriteKit
• Learn all of the fundamentals of SpriteKit game development and mix and match techniques to customize your game
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This concise book is a quick start-up primer on the Gradle build and release tool. You'll learn about Gradle and how to set it up to use. You'll learn about the Gradle life cycle and how to effectively leverage and use it. Also, you'll learn the basics of using site plugins and generating Javadocs, test coverage/FindBugs reports,...

• Understand the complexity of your business requirements to develop more productive applications
• Combine modern development techniques with traditional methods and create new...

What do Brazil's top beauty brand, America's second-fastest-growing restaurant chain, and the world's third bestselling car have in common? They are shattering the myth that acting sustainably and building a billion-dollar business are mutually exclusive. Green Giants examines nine companies that are merging social responsibility...

• Model your data as a graph using Neo4j to design databases with minimum hassle
• Discover new patterns using graphs and solve problems that are difficult to solve using any other database
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Practical Graph Analytics with Apache Giraph helps you build data mining and machine learning applications using the Apache Foundation’s Giraph framework for graph processing. This is the same framework as used by Facebook, Google, and other social media analytics operations to derive business value from vast amounts of...

This one of a kind short book walks any Android developer through the process of creating mobile games using the new Android Studio IDE. Android Studio offers a myriad of tools for developers such as enhanced intellisense and device emulation. This book provides a quick and easy to read format; introduces the reader to these key tools and...

Nanobioelectrochemistry covers the modern aspects of bioelectrochemistry, nanoscience and materials science. The combination of nanostructured materials and biological molecules enables the development of biodevices capable to detect specific substances. Furthermore, by using the bioelectrochemistry approach, the interaction between...

Machine learning, at its core, is concerned...

“Developing a hapi Edge” shows you how to build enterprise-quality web applications using the hapi service and application framework. By walking through the creation of a real web application, hapi-plugins.com, you will learn how to configure and start hapi, build out APIs, perform authentication, validation, caching, and so much...