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Going Digital: The Practice and Vision of Digital Artists (Digital Process and Print)

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A revolutionary art form is quickly gaining exposure and interest--the creation of digital art. Whether you are painting elaborate two-dimensional art with your mouse or digitally rendering 3D characters on your computer screen, digital art is fast becoming a valued skill in the marketplace, and many colleges, universities, and specialty art schools now offer courses and even degrees in these areas. By using state-of-the-art tools such as Corel Painter, Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop, and Maya, the digital artist's limits are only within their imagination.

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The Gregg Reference Manual

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The Gregg Reference Manual, 10/e by Sabin is intended for anyone who writes, edits, or prepares material for distribution or publication. For nearly fifty years, this manual has been recognized as the best style manual for business professionals and for students who want to master the on-the-job standards of business professionals. GRM provides answers that can?t be found in comparable manuals. That probably explains why GRM has received so many unsolicited 5-star reviews on the Amazon Web site. Those 5-star reviews offer a clear indication of the reputation GRM enjoys in the marketplace.

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PCs For Dummies Quick Reference (For Dummies: Quick Reference (Computers))

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All the PC essentials at your fingertips!

If you like your answers quick and your information up-to-date, look no further. This concise, superbly organized reference walks you through setting up a PC, the new interface and features of Windows Vista, using basic applications, organizing your stuff, getting on the Internet, networking (wired and wireless), burning CDs, upgrading your hardware, revving up your PC for high-speed game playing, and much more!

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Real World Adobe InDesign CS2 (Real World)

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You've mastered page design and can easily work your Quark magic. Now you are ready to take the plunge and switch to Adobe InDesign CS2 and you need to learn and start successfully using the award-winning software, immediately! Real World Adobe InDesign CS2 has all the industrial-strength techniques and time-saving tips you need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS2, without missing a beat or a deadline! You'll find everything you need here to master InDesign's advanced page layout tools, manage color, snippets, use the Bridge effectively, and more. You'll also find complete coverage of InDesign CS2's new features: Object Styles, Photoshop and Adobe PDF layer support, using InCopy, Smarter text handling, flexible XML support, and much more. Written by pros for design pros, this book has all the real-world, industrial-strength InDesign CS2 techniques that will make all the difference in your fast-paced production environment!

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Great Demo!: How To Create And Execute Stunning Software Demonstrations

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Great Demo! provides sales and presales staff with a method to dramatically increase their success in closing business through substantially improved software demonstrations. It draws upon the experiences of thousands of demonstrations, both delivered and received from vendors and customers. The distinctive ?Do the Last Thing First? concept generates a ?Wow!? response from customers.

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Assembly Language and Computer Architecture Using C++ and Java

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The objective of this book is to make it possible (and even easy) for students to master both assembly language and the fundamentals of architecture in a single semester. Integrating coverage of software and hardware throughout, the book uses H1- a simple, horizontally microprogrammed computer- as a unifying theme. Like all simple models, H1 has flaws, but this book puts these flaws to good use. In particular, in addition to showing students how H1 works and what is wrong with it, the book shows students how to fix it (which they then proceed to do). Students learn best by doing, and this book supplies much to do with various examples and projects to facilitate learning. For example, students not only use assemblers and linkers, they also write their own. Students study and use instruction sets to implement their own. The result is a book that is easy to read, engaging, and substantial.

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UML 2 and the Unified Process: Practical Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (2nd Edition) (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

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"This book manages to convey the practical use of UML 2 in clear and understandable terms with many examples and guidelines. Even for people not working with the Unified Process, the book is still of great use. UML 2 and the Unified Process, Second Edition is a must-read for every UML 2 beginner and a helpful guide and reference for the experienced practitioner." --Roland Leibundgut, Technical Director, Zuehlke Engineering Ltd. "This book is a good starting point for organizations and individuals who are adopting UP and need to understand how to provide visualization of the different aspects needed to satisfy it. " --Eric Naiburg, Market Manager, Desktop Products, IBM Rational Software This thoroughly revised edition provides an indispensable and practical guide to the complex process of object-oriented analysis and design using UML 2. It describes how the process of OO analysis and design fits into the software development lifecycle as defined by the Unified Process (UP). UML 2 and the Unified Process contains a wealth of practical, powerful, and useful techniques that you can apply immediately. As you progress through the text, you will learn OO analysis and design techniques, UML syntax and semantics, and the relevant aspects of the UP. The book provides you with an accurate and succinct summary of both UML and UP from the point of view of the OO analyst and designer. This book provides *Chapter roadmaps, detailed diagrams, and margin notes allowing you to focus on your needs*Outline summaries for each chapter, making it ideal for revision, and a comprehensive index that can be used as a reference New to this edition: *Completely revised and updated for UML 2 syntax*Easy to understand explanations of the new UML 2 semantics*More real-world examples*A new section on the Object Constraint Language (OCL)*Introductory material on the OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA) The accompanying website provides *A complete example of a simple e-commerce system*Open source tools for requirements engineering and use case modeling*Industrial-strength UML course materials based on the book

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Java Programming: From the Beginning

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Java Programming: From the Beginning is an introductory textbook aimed at the traditional CSI course. It assumes no previous programming experience. Unlike many Java texts currently on the market, this book avoid trendiness for its own sake, instead focusing on teaching students programming skills on which they can build a career. The emphasis is on learning how to design, implement, and debug programs written in an object-oriented language. Topics are introduced in a spiral fashion, with as little "magic" as possible. Applets are de-emphasized, and there is no attempt to introduce all the features of Java. After using this book in a course, students should be well prepared to move on to C++ or more advanced courses in Java.

Main features:
* Early coverage of objects
* "Spiral" approach--introducing new material gradually, as needed
* More than 700 review questions, exercises, and programming projects
* In-depth case studies, to help students develop problem-solving skills
* Ample reference material, including detailed coverage of the major API classes

Suitable for the classroom or for self-study, Java Programming from the Beginning puts basic Java development and object-oriented design into the hands of any computer-literate reader. Assuming no knowledge of computers--except, of course, an aptitude for programming and a willingness to learn--this textbook is one of the more accessible and well-presented introductions to Java available today.

The author is an experienced college teacher, and the book's effective presentation style is arguably its major strength. Early chapters rely on simple mathematical examples (such as converting temperatures from Fahrenheit to Celsius, or averaging grades). Other examples look at parsing social security numbers or storing entries from a telephone book. Java Programming does a good job of presenting the basics of object-oriented design in terms of both designing custom classes and taking advantage of existing Java classes, such as String, StringBuffer, and Vector objects. Of course, along the way, the basics of Java syntax are covered, including many of its keywords, operators, and data types.

Although it's suitable for a college classroom, this textbook is never academic or dull. The colloquial and friendly writing style presents the essentials of Java without ever getting bogged down in theory. Besides command-line programs, you'll learn also how to do basic graphics in Java, and even play simple games (like blackjack). The custom classes that are presented in this book make it simpler to work with Java, even for beginners. Every chapter provides extensive review summaries of the important points that are demonstrated in each section, as well as a handful of exercises that'll let you try out material on your own.

Now that Java is used routinely as a first programming language in many colleges, Java Programming from the Beginning fills a useful niche. It's also an excellent home-study choice for the reader who appreciates a patient and thorough teaching style. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

1. Basics of computer hardware and software
2. Graphical user interfaces vs. text-based interfaces
3. General introduction to programming languages
4. Basic Java language features and syntax
5. Calculations
6. Constants
7. Methods
8. Console I/O
9. Computing averages
10. Syntax errors and debugging
11. Introduction to object-oriented design: classes, objects, and instance methods
12. Working with the Java String and StringBuffer classes
13. Basic control structures
14. Comparison
15. Relational and equality operators
16. Operator precedence
17. Loops and counting variables
18. Decoding social security numbers
19. Using Java arrays and the Vector class
20. Using arrays for a database
21. Arrays of objects
22. Sample case study for a telephone directory
23. Drawing basic shapes, colors, and text
24. A message window example
    
25. Class variables and methods
26. Passing arguments to methods
27. Helper methods
28. Principles for designing methods in Java
29. Exception-handling basics
30. The switch statement
31. Using the Java primitive types
32. Writing custom classes
33. The this keyword
34. Constructors
35. Code reuse
36. Sample code for blackjack
37. Inheritance and subclasses
38. Polymorphism
39. Abstract classes
40. The final classes
41. Introduction to the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT)
42. Frames and event handlers
43. Layout managers
44. Data structures, sorting, and searching
45. Using sets (and bit sets)
46. File I/O in Java (opening, reading, and writing files)
47. Installing the Sun JDK
48. Custom classes for simplified introductory Java programming

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Special Edition Using WordPerfect Office X3 (Special Edition Using)

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Special Edition Using WordPerfect Office X3 is crammed full of tips, tricks, and practical examples that you won?t find anywhere else! Covering all of the applications within WordPerfect Office Standard including WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and Presentations, this is an all-inclusive reference for every user. Whether you are just looking to learn the new features of the latest version or need to know how to use the entire feature set more effectively, this book will answer all the questions you have along the way. 

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Professional Apache Tomcat 6 (WROX Professional Guides)

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• Tomcat is the official reference implementation of Sun's servlet and JSP specifications, and Java developers must test all Web applications on Tomcat to ensure they work as designed
• Boasting more than 40 percent new and updated material, this book covers all the major new features affecting server administration and management
• Explores the additional built-in tools of Tomcat, which help Java developers program more efficiently, and looks at how Apache's other open source servlet/JSP technologies are designed to work with Tomcat
• Features full coverage of Release 6, which supports the latest JSP and servlet specifications: JSP 2.1 and Servlets 2.5
• Addresses solving real-world problems encountered during all phases of server administration, including managing class loaders and connectors, security, shared hosting and clustering, and system testing

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