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This book follows a cookbook style approach that puts orthogonal and non-redundant recipes in your hands. Rather than rehashing the user manual, the explanations expose the underlying logic behind Matplotlib.If you are an engineer or scientist who wants to create great visualizations with Python, rather than yet another specialized language, this is the book for you. While there are several very competent plotting packages, Matplotlib is just a Python module. Thus, if you know some Python already, you will feel at home from the first steps on. In case you are an application writer, you won't be left out since the integration of Matplolib is covered....

No need for engines like Unity: with Sprite Kit you can create 2D animated games directly for the iOS platform. Best of all, with this book you can learn the fun, involving way - by creating your own game from scratch. Overview Pen your own endless runner game using Apple's new Sprite Kit framework Enhance your user experience with easy-to-use animations and particle effects using Xcode 5 Utilize particle systems and create custom particle effects In Detail Sprite Kit, a new framework introduced in iOS7, has been designed as a built-in animation workflow for keyframing 2D animation without the need of engines such as Unity to serve as an intermediate. Sprite Kit enables the easy and fast development cycle, leaving more time to work on gameplay and ...

Building on your basic JavaScript knowledge, this book takes you into the world of Google Apps Script and shows you how to develop and customize your own apps. The step-by-step approach provides all the necessary skills. Overview Quickly develop exciting Google scripts using JavaScript Effortlessly manage your web applications and user interfaces Build your own applications progressively with the help of real world examples and scenarios In Detail Google Apps Script is a JavaScript-based programming language that works on the cloud and is 100% free to use. It provides all the tools necessary for Google services to work. Users can easily transfer any data from one service to another, save their important e-mails as files, save and share files with a...

Get up to date with Scratch 2.0 and build brilliant games without having to code. Including 10 exciting projects that cover most game genres, you'll quickly learn the sophisticated possibilities of Scratch. Have fun! Overview Discover how to make the most of the new Scratch 2.0 interface Understand how video games work under the hood Make your projects come to life, using practical programming principles Learn how to plan and build your own interactive projects In Detail Playing video games is fun, however, it's even more fun to make your own! Scratch 2.0 makes that challenge a lot easier. Instead of diving into abstract and confusing code, you can build games using easy to understand logic blocks. Within minutes you can have your first game up and...