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OpenGL Graphics Through Applications is a practical introduction to Computer Graphics with an emphasis on understanding through practice. Throughout the book, theory is followed by implementation using C / C++ and complete programs are provided on the Springer website. A procedural approach has been taken to algorithmic development while taking an object oriented approach when building artefacts from simple objects. The book covers a range of topics including: (1) image processing, (2) artefact construction, (3) introductory animation, (4) texturing, (5) curves surfaces and patterns. Robert Whitrow has taught computing courses from first year undergraduate to postgraduate MSc at a range of different institutions....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, LATA 2014, held in Madrid, Spain in March 2014.The 45 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: algebraic language theory; algorithms on automata and words; automata and logic; automata for system analysis and program verification; automata, concurrency and Petri nets; automatic structures; combinatorics on words; computability; computational complexity; descriptional complexity; DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing; foundations of finite state technology; foundations of XML; grammars (Chomsky hi...

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is recognized as one of the most powerful programming techniques to come along in many years. Its power lies in the ability it gives the designer to manage the complex, rapidly changing applications that have become the watchword of modern software. Smalltalk is the most extensively used OOP environment. Now Practical Smalltalk helps you to focus on those aspects of the language that you need to know to be a successful programmer. You'll learn all about the important classes to master, the essential theories to grasp, and then put these ideas to work in constructing everything from a simple counter object all the way through a data graphing application and the core of a functional outliner. The book culmi- nates with...

This book is intended as an introduction to object-orientation for 2nd, 3rd and 4th year computer science and software engineering students or those actively involved in the software industry. John Hunt adopts a 'hands on' approach providing a thorough introduction to O-O as well as to the language itself - unlike other Smalltalk books currently available which tend to focus primarily on the language. Issues such as Smalltalk style, typical Smalltalk bugs and the way to develop a Smalltalk program are comprehensively covered, as is the testing of O-O systems. A number of chapters are devoted to design, including chapters on the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Object Modeling Technique (using the UML) and the recent Patterns work. The inclusion of su...

There have been significant developments in the design and application of algorithms for both one-dimensional signal processing and multidimensional signal processing, namely image and video processing, with the recent focus changing from a step-by-step procedure of designing the algorithm first and following up with in-depth analysis and performance improvement to instead applying heuristic-based methods to solve signal-processing problems.In this book the contributing authors demonstrate both general-purpose algorithms and those aimed at solving specialized application problems, with a special emphasis on heuristic iterative optimization methods employing modern evolutionary and swarm intelligence based techniques. The applications considered are i...