Game Programming with Pyton, Lua and Ruby
- 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