Author: Sean McManus
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 1593278578
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Program a graphical adventure game in this hands-on, beginner-friendly introduction to coding in the Python language. Launch into coding with Mission Python, a space-themed guide to building a complete computer game in Python. You'll learn programming fundamentals like loops, strings, and lists as you build Escape!, an exciting game with a map to explore, items to collect, and tricky logic puzzles to solve. As you work through the book, you'll build exercises and mini-projects, like making a spacewalk simulator and creating an astronaut's safety checklist that will put your new Python skills to the test. You'll learn how to use Pygame Zero, a free resource that lets you add graphics and sound effects to your creations, and you'll get useful game-making tips, such as how to design fun puzzles and intriguing maps. Before you know it, you'll have a working, awesome game to stump your friends with (and some nifty coding skills, too!). You can follow this book using a Raspberry Pi or a Microsoft Windows PC, and the 3D graphics and sound effects you need are provided as a download.
Mission Python
Author: Sean McManus
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 1593278578
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Program a graphical adventure game in this hands-on, beginner-friendly introduction to coding in the Python language. Launch into coding with Mission Python, a space-themed guide to building a complete computer game in Python. You'll learn programming fundamentals like loops, strings, and lists as you build Escape!, an exciting game with a map to explore, items to collect, and tricky logic puzzles to solve. As you work through the book, you'll build exercises and mini-projects, like making a spacewalk simulator and creating an astronaut's safety checklist that will put your new Python skills to the test. You'll learn how to use Pygame Zero, a free resource that lets you add graphics and sound effects to your creations, and you'll get useful game-making tips, such as how to design fun puzzles and intriguing maps. Before you know it, you'll have a working, awesome game to stump your friends with (and some nifty coding skills, too!). You can follow this book using a Raspberry Pi or a Microsoft Windows PC, and the 3D graphics and sound effects you need are provided as a download.
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 1593278578
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Program a graphical adventure game in this hands-on, beginner-friendly introduction to coding in the Python language. Launch into coding with Mission Python, a space-themed guide to building a complete computer game in Python. You'll learn programming fundamentals like loops, strings, and lists as you build Escape!, an exciting game with a map to explore, items to collect, and tricky logic puzzles to solve. As you work through the book, you'll build exercises and mini-projects, like making a spacewalk simulator and creating an astronaut's safety checklist that will put your new Python skills to the test. You'll learn how to use Pygame Zero, a free resource that lets you add graphics and sound effects to your creations, and you'll get useful game-making tips, such as how to design fun puzzles and intriguing maps. Before you know it, you'll have a working, awesome game to stump your friends with (and some nifty coding skills, too!). You can follow this book using a Raspberry Pi or a Microsoft Windows PC, and the 3D graphics and sound effects you need are provided as a download.
Suite Bergamasque for Piano: Urtext
Author:
Publisher: Edition Peters
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Debussy's famous piano suite, which contains the ever-popular 'Clair de lune', presented here in an Urtext edition by Hans Swarsensky.
Publisher: Edition Peters
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Debussy's famous piano suite, which contains the ever-popular 'Clair de lune', presented here in an Urtext edition by Hans Swarsensky.
Cross-media Promotion
Author: Jonathan Hardy
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433101373
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"Cross-media promotion is one of the most salient characteristics in our modern media systems, arising out of a context that involves virtually every level of media studies: media ownership, advertising and funding, technological trends, and regulatory issues--- the latter a specialty of the author of this book. These factors often work together, and Hardy is masterful in interweaving in an insightful but accessible way the complexity of media promotion."---From the Foreword by Matthew. P. McAllister, Penn State University --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433101373
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"Cross-media promotion is one of the most salient characteristics in our modern media systems, arising out of a context that involves virtually every level of media studies: media ownership, advertising and funding, technological trends, and regulatory issues--- the latter a specialty of the author of this book. These factors often work together, and Hardy is masterful in interweaving in an insightful but accessible way the complexity of media promotion."---From the Foreword by Matthew. P. McAllister, Penn State University --Book Jacket.
Arrival of the Fittest
Author: Andreas Wagner
Publisher: Current
ISBN: 1617230219
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"Wagner draws on over fifteen years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take"--Amazon.com.
Publisher: Current
ISBN: 1617230219
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"Wagner draws on over fifteen years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take"--Amazon.com.
The Woman Without a Shadow
Author: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889464261
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889464261
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Fire-Dwellers
Author: Margaret Laurence
Publisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN: 1551993759
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past. The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days. Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone’s soul.
Publisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN: 1551993759
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past. The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days. Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone’s soul.
The Media in Europe
Author: Euromedia Research Group
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761941323
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Covering 23 countries, this volume highlights and explains key issues of debate and current tendencies in media policy and provides basic statistics relating to each case study. The chapters are written by an expert from the country concerned.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761941323
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Covering 23 countries, this volume highlights and explains key issues of debate and current tendencies in media policy and provides basic statistics relating to each case study. The chapters are written by an expert from the country concerned.
Technical Studies (Complete)
Author: Julius Klengel
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 1457470802
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Cellists will enjoy this book of complete technical studies, offering scales, arpeggios, phrasing, tone production, and much more. A must for all advancing students. Kalmus Editions are primarily reprints of Urtext Editions, reasonably priced and readily available. They are a must for students, teachers, and performers.
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 1457470802
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Cellists will enjoy this book of complete technical studies, offering scales, arpeggios, phrasing, tone production, and much more. A must for all advancing students. Kalmus Editions are primarily reprints of Urtext Editions, reasonably priced and readily available. They are a must for students, teachers, and performers.
A Jest of God
Author: Margaret Laurence
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226469522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
For years Rachel Cameron has dreamed of leaving her small town and her manipulative mother; but duty and caution have kept her at home. At thirty-four, she finally confronts passion and death, and realizes that she cannot continue to sacrifice love and freedom, but needs both to survive. Rachel's passage towards self-discovery is one we will reognize - one that is exciting, sad, funny, and true.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226469522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
For years Rachel Cameron has dreamed of leaving her small town and her manipulative mother; but duty and caution have kept her at home. At thirty-four, she finally confronts passion and death, and realizes that she cannot continue to sacrifice love and freedom, but needs both to survive. Rachel's passage towards self-discovery is one we will reognize - one that is exciting, sad, funny, and true.
Milk Stone
Author: Pat Lowther
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description