Search Results: Computer Science from 100 POCKETS

San Jose, CA: Adobe Systems Inc, 2005. Part Number 90057100 . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Vintage 2005 issue. 109 page guide for designers, photographers and service providers who design & publish content for print, the Web, and mobile devices. Book presents, first, an overview, then proceeds to guide user through 5 projects for familiarization --- in essence, a workflow design guide. Contents are: 1, Getting Started; 2, Overview; 3, Designing a CD Cover; 4, Designing a Magazine; 5, Designing a Website; 6, Designing of Mobile Devices; and 7, Preparing Files for Print.

San Jose, CA: Adobe Systems Inc, 2005. Parts Number 90056847 . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace wear to softcover. Vintage 2005 Adobe Photoshop User Guide. 409 pages/ User Guide to Photoshop CS2 for either Windows or Macintosh. 16 chapters, from installation to printing, and, concluding with helpful appendices on automating tasks and keyboard shortcuts.

New York, NY: Wiley-Interscience/John Wiley, 1989. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. New/Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1989 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed red linen boards/Fine. DJ/Fine w/trace shelfwear. Textbook for researchers, teachers & students. Highly regarded treatment of theory & practice of mathematical modeling for economics, social sciences, biology, computer science disciplines. Focus on system-theoretic concepts such as self-organization, adaptation, reslliance, surprise & uncertainty, and the mathematical structures needed to incorporate these interests into formal systems. 493 pgs in 9 chapters: 1, The Ways of Modeling: Natural Systems & Formal Mathematical Representations; 2, Pattern & the Emergence of Living Forms: Cellular Automata & Discrete Dynamics; 3, The Analytical Engine: A Newtonian View of Brains, Minds & Mechanisms; 4, Catastrophes & Life: The Singularities of Ecological & Natural Resource Systems; 5, Order in… Read More

Ottawa, Canada: Levac Publishing House, 2009. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. 2009, First Edition, 1st Thus. Blogs (noun or verb, is atruncation of "weblog") began as informal, individual posts on the World Wide Web, with "multi-author blogs" (MABs) emerging in the 2010s. The rise of Twitter & other like platforms led to use by the news media as well. This historical 2009 volume, now a historical document, describes philosophical approaches underlying this communication system's inception. 213 pgs of interviews with 40 top early bloggers and how they created high-profile, high-traffic, & high-profit profiles, is followed by an Epilogue.

New York, NY: Barnes & Noble/Harper & Row, 1983. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF. Tape residue to lower corner of front cover verso. An introduction to how computers, how to use the personal computer, how to program in BASIC. Written when WordStar and Visical (sic?) reigned and many wrote their own programs. Fine copy, and still a good introduction to the guts of computers.

Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, 1997. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover//NF w/light shelfwear. NOTE: CD, issued with, is Not Included. A guide for full use of the powers of JavaScript book written for non-professional users. 421 pgs in 14 chapters. 1, Diving into JavaScript; 2, Doing Windows; 3, Controlling Frames; 4, Forms & Functions; 5, Getting in Line with Arrays; 6, Too Many Browers? Not Really; 7, Dynamic Images; 8 Customizing a Site with Cookies; 9, Dynmic HTML; 10, Getting Acquainted with Layers; 11, The Show: Dynamic HTML Apllied; and, 12, Advance Applications, followed by Epilogue and appendices.

Rochelle Park, NJ: Hayden Book Co, 1978. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Vintage 1978 First Edition, 1st Printing. Illustrated pale gray softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear. Principles of Good Programming w/Numerous Examples to Improve Programming Style & Proficieny. Classic text conforming to proposed 1977 definition of standard FORTRAN in technical writing by Henry F. Ledgard (1943-) & Louis J. Chmura (1921-1997). In spirit & approach inspired by William Strunk Jr's Elements of Style, volume emphasizes rigor, conciseness & clarity for programmers to write carefully constructed, readable programs, to escape entanglement in unavoidable complexities. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. 1994 First Edition, 4th Printing. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light shelfwear to edges & corner tips. "Fuzzy logic" is a way to program computers to make decisions more like how humans do, that is, taking into use of imprecise data within complex settings. Intellectual history of the science behind development of now prevalent AI (artificial intelligence). Chronicle of a remarkable new technology masterminded by Iranian-American mathematician, artificial intelligence researcher, & UC Berkeley computer science professor Lofti Zadeh (1921 - 2017). 320 pgs in 14 lucid chapters.

New York, NY: Watson-Guptill, 1988. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/faint creasing to lower front corner. A Xerox Press Book, 4th Printing of 1990. Communication design. Jan V. White, former art director at Time-Life, is eminent in the use of visual techniques in publishing. This volume, with elucidating illustrations, centers on the basics of typography and design. Contents are: 1, Using Type; 2, Type Options: Practical Pointers; 3, Type Facts; 4, Page Ingredients; and, 5, Constructing Publications, followed by appendices addressing paper, envelopes, binding, etc.

Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 2000. 4th Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. First Edition, 1st Printing. Softcover/NF w/a whisper of shelfwear. Reference & resource for creating Web Sites for Internet use for beginners & those of intermediate proficiency keen on refinement. Topics review creation of Web Pages, Formatting Text, Creating & Using Images, Page Layouts, etc to a flawless rendition. 384 pgs. 21 chapters followed by 4 appendices. Lucid path to mastering HTML.

Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Assoc, 1994. 3rd Edition, Printing of 1994 . Paperback. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright), Softcover/Fine. Guide to the UNIX operating system. First published 1986; this is the updated 1993, 3rd Edition with minor corrections of June 1994. Several UNIX versions exist (AT&T, Xenix, POSIX, SunOS, BSD4.4, etc), this handbook is usable regardless which type of system is in use. 92 pgs. 7 chapters following Preface: 1, Getting Started; 2, Using Windows Systems; 3, Your UNIX Account; 4, File Management; 5, Redirecting I/O; 6, Multi-tasking; and 7, Where to Go From Here, followed by appendices A, Reading List, and B, Reference.

San Rafael, CA: IMSI, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG w/faint surfaces creasings to front & back, and light discoloration to upper front. 358-page catalogue of images located on IMSI CD9. 68 chapters in the following categories & subcategories: Animals; Food; Holispoc (holidays & special occasions); People; Plants; Religion; Scenics; Structs (structures); Teched (technical & educational); Trans (transportation); and Bkgndobj (background objects)

San Rafael, CA: IMSI, 1996. Volume I, 1996 . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Near New. Softcover/VG w/trace edge wear, and faint creasings parallel to spine & to corner tips. Catalogue of images available through MasterClips MediaPaq Browser utility. Text in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish & Japanese. 11 expansive categories: 1, Animals & Birds; 2, Borders,; 3, Miscellaneous; 4, Objects; 5, People; 6, Recreation; 7, Regional; 8, Seasonal; 9, Symbols; 10, Transportation; and 11, Fonts.

San Rafael, CA: IMSI, 1996. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW. Softcover/NF; trace wear to edges & corner tips. Rich compendium of selected graphics from the Dover Pictorial Archive and the Dover Clip Art series.The designs and illustrations featured in this volume are free, and may be used without special permission. 23 chapters comprising some 101,000 images.

New York, NY: Lark Books/Sterling Publishing, 2006. First Edition, First Pinting . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. 2006 First Edition, First Thus. Revolutionary, multimedia skills in photography. In essence, photography is painting & writing with light. Volume dedicated to full usage of the powerful lighting tools of Adobe Photoshop --- such as adding shadows, fog, smoke or even fire. 7 illustrated chapters: 1, The Basics; 2, Shadows & Projection; 3, Reflections; 4, Quality of Light; 5, Special Effects with Light; and 6, Lighting & Weather, followed by Glossay and Keyboard Shortcuts.

New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW w/trace wrinkling to lower text edges (water splash?). First 1984 First Edition, 1st Printing. Brick-red linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/light edge wear. 358 pgs + xxii (22) pgs of prefatory matter. Practical, lucid guide w/concerted effort to avoid technical language, in 10 chapters: 1, Introduction; 2, Bugs in Perspective; 3, Overview of Test Techniques; 4, Unit Testing, Element Testing, & Quality Assurance; 5, Integration; 6, System Testing; 7, Configuration, Recovery, & Security Testing; 9, Quantitative Methods; and, 10, Achieving Quality Software, followed by References. Strong copy.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2007. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright w/illustrated endpapers & a black ribbon bookmark. 2007, First Edition, 1st Printing. Bright green linen boards w/paste-down illustrations to both front & back/NF; w nips (publisher's flaw?) to upper edge of front cover & spine, and, trace surfacewear. Cover Art: stars Buzz Lightyear of Toy Story (1995, 1st of some 20 Pixar creations) fame. DJ/None as Issued. Frontispiece: Buzz & Woody. 303 pgs, color illustrations in 14 chapters. This 20th anniversary commemoration of Pixar Animation Studios from Karen Paik from its founding through 2007, enriched by co-author Leslie Iwerks' in depth research & interviews with Pixar directors, producers, animators, voice talent, industry insiders, as well as concept art, storyboards, and photographs. 303 pgs, color photo illustrations, in 14 chapters. Now owned by Disney. Pixar of Emeryville, CA was… Read More