Mathematics and Physics for Programmers
Danny Kodicek
Reviewed by: Ben Gomez Farrell
Wow, lotsa math here! Seriously, I think all programmers should buy this book....well, maybe theres another one where the examples were't written in Macromedia Director, but other than that, it's great. I actually am a long time user of Macromedia Director, but haven't used it for a while in favor of Flash. I found myself too lazy to read along with the coding examples, whereas I think if they were written in Javascript syntax I'd be fine. This book covers some very important topics from algebra, to trigonometry, to the physics of motion. It gets you all caught up with the stuff you forgot from high school, and then explains how to use these concepts in multimedia programming. Chapters in the book include collision testing, artificial intelligence in your games, and the basics of 3D graphics. Its a great book to browse through once, and then have it on your bookshelf when all of a sudden you need to brush up on your math, or need an idea on how to create that maze game.
6:30 pm Thursday November 15, 2007
Presentation Strategies Inc. 4021 Stirrup Creek Drive Suite 220
Our November RDAUG meeting will feature Phil Molaro presenting what happened at MAX this year. There are tons of Adobe initiatives right now, and Adobe announced heaps of stuff at MAX. So Phil will give his presentation, and we'll talk cool new Adobe stuff.
Also I'd like do a couple of mini-demos for you all. The first such thing is to show off Buzzword - which is Adobe's newly acquired online word processor. I definitely encourage anybody experienced with other online word processors to come so we can compare and contrast!
The second mini-demo will be a small Photoshop CS3 tutorial on using auto-align and auto-blend. These two new features sound pretty boring in name, but are excellent for creating panoramas and removing unwanted elements from your photos.
This is officially the last meeting at PStrat before we move to TEK Systems in Raleigh!
Oh, and I do have Adobe schwag to give away, as well as Pizza from Tomato Jakes!