Build Your Own PC Game in Seven Easy Steps teaches you the skills youneed to start programming good PC games for Windows(TM). Step by step, you'llsee how to pull a game together. The first step is deciding what type of game to program (adventure, arcade, orthe ubiquitous other), and move on to planning your game, prototyping it, andproviding for interactivity with the player. Then you'll learn to incorporategraphics, use animation and 3D effects, and add music and sound. The final stepis getting your game ready to market. Throughout the book, specific coding examples in Visual Basic(TM) will show youhow to implement concepts. Relatively easy to use, Visual Basic is a good wayto learn game programming basics. You'll discover tips and techniques formaking the most of this popular programming environment in building your games.

Build Your Own PC Game in Seven Easy Steps: Using Visual Basic

Computers & Technology

Palmer, Scott

Games & Strategy Guides

Addison-Wesley Professional

Light (Readings in Theatre Practice)

How has light influenced the staging of theatre throughout history? What does light contribute to performance? How does it make meaning? This collection explores the creative potential of light in the theatre. Through a wide range of extracts from historical accounts, new research and rare documents, some presented for the first time in English, Scott Palmer provides new ways of thinking about lighting as a creative performance practice. Focusing on elements such as: • the emergence of lighting design in the theatre • equipment and techniques • the dramaturgy of light • its impact on actor, audience and playhouse • the semiotics and phenomenology of light in performance the book reveals why light has such a profound effect on the audience's experience of a theatrical event.

Light (Readings in Theatre Practice, 9)

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Red Globe Press

An introduction to the professional theatre production process, concentrating on lighting and sound and stage management. The book explains each area in terms of roles and responsibilities within the team, essential technical and equipment knowledge, and the contribution to production and design.

Essential Guide to Stage Management, Lighting And Sound (Essential Guides for Performing Arts)

Hodder Murray

Maybe you got Access as part of Microsoft Office and wonder what it can do for you and your household; maybe you're a small business manager and don't have a techie on staff to train the office in Microsoft Access. Regardless, you want to quickly get your feet wet--but not get in over your head--and Access 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual is the book to make it happen.
Far more than a skimpy introduction but much less daunting than a weighty tech book, Access 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual demystifies databases and explains how to design and create them with ease. It delivers everything you need--and nothing you don't--to use Access right away. It's your expert guide to the Access features that are most vital and most useful, and it's your trusted advisor on the more in-depth features that are best saved for developers and programmers.
Access is sophisticated and powerful enough for professional developers but easy and practical enough for everyday users like you. This Missing Manual explains all the major features of Access 2003, including designing and creating databases, organizing and filtering information, and generating effective forms and reports.
Bestselling authors, database designers, and programmers Scott Palmer, Ph.D., and Kate Chase are your guides for putting the world's most popular desktop data management program to work. Their clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, plenty of illustrations, and timesaving advice help you get up to speed quickly and painlessly.
Whether you're just starting out or you know you've been avoiding aspects of the program and missing out on much of what it can do, this friendly, witty book will gently immerse you in Microsoft Access. Keep it handy, as you'll undoubtedly refer to it again and again.

Access 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual

Chase, Kate J.

Networking & Cloud Computing

O'Reilly Media

This comprehensive introduction to Microsoft's new programming product teaches programmers how to make the transition from C to C++++, master both structure and object-oriented programming techniques, and more.

Programming w/Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5

Software

Random House Information Group

Complete and up-to-date coverage of all films, both for cinema and for TV, made from the works of Dame Agatha Christie. Each entry contains a cast list, synopsis, plot, character analyses, reviews and other comments, making this the ultimate film reference book for every Christie fan. The films are dealt with chronologically from the very first film of an Agatha Christie story, "Die Abenteuer GMBH", in 1928, through all the favourites such as "Ten Little Indians", "Murder on the Orient Express", "Death on the Nile" and "A Caribbean Mystery", right up to the latest in the series starring David Suchet as Poirot, "The Mirror Cracked From Side to Side".

The Films of Agatha Christie

Humor & Entertainment

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

Conflicts about money are often the key source of arguments between couples. That's because most of the time, spouses look at financial matters very differently. One might be a "saver" while the other is a "spender." But neither type is necessarily "right" in the way they choose to handle family funds. This is a guidebook to help married and engaged couples build (or rebuild) their relationship by working together on financial issues. With God's principles at work, there is hope for arriving at financial balance! Couples learn to understand and respect each other, and by communicating more effectively, can begin the journey to financial harmony—and joy!

Cents & Sensibility: How Couples Can Agree About Money

Religion & Spirituality

Palmer, Bethany

Christian Books & Bibles

Life Journey

The newest addition to the popular Quick-Reference Guide collection, The Quick-Reference Guide to Counseling on Money, Finances, and Relationships focuses on the ever-growing need for sound counsel on financial issues. It is an A-Z guide for assisting people-helpers--pastors, professional counselors, and everyday believers--to easily access a full array of information to aid them in formal and informal counseling situations. Each of the forty topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies (1) typical symptoms and patterns, (2) definitions and key thoughts, (3) questions to ask, (4) directions for the conversation, (5) action steps, (6) biblical insights, (7) prayer starters, and (8) recommended resources.

Quick-Reference Guide to Counseling on Money, Finances & Relationships, The

Parenting & Relationships

Clinton, Dr. Tim

Aging Parents

Baker Books

1981. Impressive, 561-page hardcover account of British film actors, famous and forgotten.

A Who's Who of British Film Actors

Scarecrow Pr

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