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HTML and XML for Beginners provides Web coding beginners with a concise guide to the world of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and previews even more powerful alternatives such as Extensible Markup Language (XML). Rich in examples, the book walks the Web beginner through basic HTML techniques such as creating and publishing Web pages, formatting text, adding graphics, and creating hyperlinks. It shows how to use tables to organize content, forms to gather input from site visitors, image maps to support point-and-click navigation, and styles, properties, and multimedia to add visual and sonic interest. It clearly demonstrates how to spice up Web pages with interactive elements by using Dynamic HTML (DHTML). The book ends with an extensive discussion ...

Deliver console-rocking sound, music, and video effects to your games with this all-in-one toolkit for C++ game programmers. Load the CDand experience Microsoft's Digital Media developers at play, learning how to use Microsoft DirectX 9 technologies to produce amazing, professional-quality effects. From mixing and moving sounds around a 3-D space to taking video to the third dimension, you get expert insights and performance tips direct from the developers, along with a game-ready arsenal of code, copyright-free audio and video, and ready-to-use effects on CD. It's everything you need to fuel your creativityand take your game players to spectacular new 3-D worlds!Discover how to: Mix mono, stereo, and 3D soundand add special effects Create reverb and...

This modular and self-paced training kit offers comprehensive training for exam 70-016, with hands-on exercises that build and measure competency in deriving the physical design, establishing the development environment, creating the user interface, creating and managing COM components, and more. The 2 CD-ROMS contain lab exercises and sample code and test questions....