Review of Mac Game Programming (Premier Press Game Development Series) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

Since I contributed to this book, I shouldn't rate it. However, I would like to encourage Mac developers to purchase the book to garner further interest from publishers to release more Mac specific programming books. In addition, I would like to inform readers that an error exists in the Project Builder version of the source code that comes with the book. If you load any of the project files on the CD-ROM and try to compile them, the build will fail. This is because the file InfoPlist.strings is not on the CD-ROM with the source code files. Fortunately, the author has a small download to fix the problem. Visit his site for instructions...

Product Description
Are you a Mac programmer looking for a game development book? Then look no further because Mac Game Programming is for you! This book is a comprehensive guide to programming games on the Mac OS X and Mac OS 8/9 platforms. It teaches the fundamentals of graphics and animation and then moves on to advanced topics like artificial intelligence, multi-platform networking, and physics modeling. It covers basic topics such as graphics, scrolling backgrounds, character animation, dirty rectangle animation, playing sounds, and reading user input from joysticks. The CD includes CodeWarrior Lite, game sprockets, Macsbug, ResEdit, Graphic Converter, Sound App, Spotlight demo, Sprite World, Sprite Animation Toolkit, Crystal Space, Quesa, shareware games, and commercial game demos. Mac Game Programming is unique in that it doesn't cover game programming topics in a vacuum, but rather puts everything together so that you can make a complete game.

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Review of Keynote Fast & Easy (Paperback)

Not enough in depth information. I ordered this book as soon as I purchased Keynote, but by the time it came (one week later) I already knew everything the book covered!The section on charts is a joke!It tells you nothing!Very disappointing.

Product Description
Relax. Now you can easily create and deliver impressive presentations using Keynote. Targeting just the skills you need, Keynote Fast & Easy offers step-by-step instructions and plenty of screen shots for creating new presentations, importing data, adding special touches like animation and transition effects, and delivering your final slideshow. With Keynote Fast & Easy you simply look and learn!

From the Publisher
Enables readers to quickly and easily develop their ownKeynote presentations that look like they required hours to create,but really only took a few minutes! Educates Keynote users on how tocreate sophisticated presentations that include an amazing variety ofvideo and audio effects including Keynote's professional themes,advanced 3D transitions, and more. Explains the basics, but alsoincludes many tips and tricks to help readers get the most out ofKeynote. Extensive coverage of Keynote's powerful charts and tablestool enables readers to deliver information in meaningful andinteresting ways.

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