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Leverage the power of NGUI for Unity to create stunning mobile and PC games and user interfaces About This BookGet to grips with NGUI for both PC and mobile devicesCreate fully functional 2D and 3D cross-platform user interfacesA step-by-step guide, full of examples to help you quickly build widgets and user-friendly GUI for your gamesWho This Book Is ForIf you are a Unity 3D developer who wants to create an effective and user-friendly GUI using NGUI for Unity, then this book is for you. Prior knowledge of C# scripting is expected; however, no knowledge of NGUI is required. In Detail NGUI is a robust UI system both powerful and optimized. It is an effective plugin for Unity, which gives you the power to create beautiful and complex user interfaces wh...

Leverage Scala and Machine Learning to construct and study systems that can learn from data About This BookExplore a broad variety of data processing, machine learning, and genetic algorithms through diagrams, mathematical formulation, and source codeLeverage your expertise in Scala programming to create and customize AI applications with your own scalable machine learning algorithmsExperiment with different techniques, and evaluate their benefits and limitations using real-world financial applications, in a tutorial styleWho This Book Is ForAre you curious about AI? All you need is a good understanding of the Scala programming language, a basic knowledge of statistics, a keen interest in Big Data processing, and this book! In Detail The discovery of...

Education reform: We don't need better, we need different Today's students are immersed in the digital age, but can our educational system keep up? Best-selling author Will Richardson's comprehensive collection of posts from his acclaimed blog,weblogg-ed.com, spells out the educational reform we must achieve. The book's entries present a multifaceted vision of the 21st-century classroom and describe how a social media-changed world has created new opportunities for: Project-based learning Student-created media that develops critical thinking Extending learning beyond the classroom and school hours Cooperative and collaborative learning Student empowerment and career readiness...

Apache Spark is emerging as one of the most popular technologies for performing analytics on huge datasets, and this practical guide shows you how to harness Spark';s power for approaching a variety of analytics problems. You';ll learn how to apply common techniques, such as classification, clustering, collaborative filtering, anomaly detection, dimensionality reduction, and Monte Carlo simulation to fields such as genomics, security, and finance.Advanced Analytics with Spark supplies complete implementations that analyze large public datasets, and acts as an introduction to using these techniques and other best practices in Spark programming.Become familiar with the Spark programming model and ecosystemLearn general approaches in data scienceDiscove...