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Game Programming with Pyton, Lua and Ruby

ISBN: N/A
EAN: N/A

Year: 2005
Pages: 133

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• Main page
• Table of contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Letter from the Series Editor
• Introduction
• What s in This Book?
• Why Learn Another Language?
• What s on the CD-ROM?
• Part ONE: Introducing High-Level Languages
• Chapter 1. High-Level Language Overview
• High-Level Language Roots
• How Programming Languages Work
• Low-Level Languages
• Today s High-Level Languages
• The Pros of High-Level Languages
• Cons of High-Level Languages
• A Brief History of Structured Programming
• Introducing Python
• Introducing Lua
• Introducing Ruby
• Summary
• Questions and Answers
• Exercises
• Chapter 2. Python, Lua, and Ruby Language Features
• Syntactical Similarities of Python, Lua, and Ruby
• Hello World Samples
• Summary
• Questions and Answers
• Exercises
• Part TWO: Programming with Python
• Chapter 3. Getting Started with Python
• Python Executables
• Python Debuggers
• Python Language Structure
• Creating a Simple User Interface in Python
• A Simple GUI with Tkinter
• Memory, Performance, and Speed
• Summary
• Questions and Answers
• Exercises
• Chapter 4. Getting Specific with Python Games
• The Pygame Library
• Python Graphics
• Sound in Python
• Networking in Python
• Putting It All Together
• Summary
• Questions and Answers
• Exercises
• Chapter 5. The Python Game Community
• Engines
• Graphics
• Commercial Games
• Beyond Python
• Summary
• Question and Answer
• Exercises
• Part THREE: Programming with Lua
• Chapter 6. Programming with Lua
• Lua Executables and Debuggers
• Language Structure
• Memory, Performance, and Speed
• Summary
• Questions and Answers
• Exercises
• Chapter 7. Getting Specific with Games in Lua
• LuaSDL
• Gravity: A Lua SDL Game
• The Lua C API
• Summary
• Questions and Answers
• Exercises
• Chapter 8. The Lua Game Community
• Game Engines
• Graphics
• The Games Themselves
• Beyond Lua
• Summary
• Exercises
• Part FOUR: Programming with Ruby
• Chapter 9. Getting Started with Ruby
• Debuggers
• Language Structure
• Memory, Performance, and Speed
• Summary
• Questions and Answers
• Exercises
• Chapter 10. Getting Started with Ruby Games
• FXRuby
• Ruby and OpenGL
• Ruby and SDL
• Summary
• Questions and Answers
• Exercises
• Chapter 11. The Ruby Game Community
• Ruby and Game Engines
• Ruby and Graphics
• Ruby and Games
• Beyond Ruby
• Summary
• Questions and Answers
• Exercises
• Part FIVE: The Wrap Up
• Chapter 12. Using Python, Ruby and Lua in Development
• High-Level Languages in the Development Cycle
• Extending Python, Lua, and Ruby
• Python versus Lua Versus Ruby
• Summary
• Exercises
• Appendix A. History of Computer Programming
• Appendix B. Meet the Family
• ABC
• Ada
• AFNOR
• C
• C
• Cobol
• Eiffel
• FORTRAN
• GNU Octave
• Java
• Icon
• Modula
• Pascal
• Perl
• PHP
• Prolog
• PureBasic
• Smalltalk
• Squeak