Jitesh’s Comments (group member since Aug 19, 2011)

Jitesh’s comments from the Technical books for review group.

Mahmoud Adly Ezzat wrote: "Seems interesting"

Hi Mahmoud, I'd be glad to send across a copy of the book. Do let me know if you'd be interested in reviewing. Thanks!

Short summary: NumPy 1.5 Beginner's Guide covers every NumPy related concept: installation, functions, matrices, and modules to testing with suitable examples. The book delivers to its readers a strong base in NumPy arrays and universal functions. It also details certain related scientific projects like Matplotlib for plotting mathematical NumPy results, and the SciPy project through examples.

More information about the book can be found here: http://www.packtpub.com/numpy-1-5-usi...

Sample chapter of the book can be downloaded from here: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default...

Short summary: Google SketchUp for Game Design: Beginner's Guide provides its readers with simple steps to model realistic 3D environments, levels and props with SketchUp and Unity 3D. They will learn how to create cars, buildings, terrain, tools and standard level props such as barrels, fencing and wooden pallets. The book acts as an aid in setting up one's own game level in Unity 3D creating a fully functional first person walk-around level.

The book enables designers to create 'game ready' textures from photos, discover tools for game-level and asset creation, and sculpt rough terrains using easy Sandbox tools in SketchUp. This beginner's guide takes the reader through modeling a 3D automobile with advanced tricks and techniques, adding lighting and walk around in their game, and importing one's game art into professional game engines like Unity 3D, Panda3D, Ogre, CryEngine, Unreal Engine and Blender Game Engine.

More information about the book can be found here: http://www.packtpub.com/google-sketch...

Sample chapter of the book can be downloaded from here: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default...

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Short summary: PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner's Guide aims to give its readers a practical grasp on concepts related to web application development using PHP and MongoDB. Following an introduction to the underlying concepts of MongoDB, each chapter brings with it numerous practical examples to teach specific features of the database and solve important problems like real-time analytics, location-aware web apps etc. Readers are guided to use MongoDB alongside MySQL to build a diverse data back-end.

More information about the book can be found here: http://www.packtpub.com/php-and-mongo...

Sample chapter of the book can be downloaded from here: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default...

Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook

Short summary: Categorized into 13 chapters, and encompassing over 80 recipes, Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook sheds light on important topics like implementing shortcuts using core features, creating one's own reusable code base, using test-driven development and many more. Readers will learn how to work with jQuery, JavaScript, and AJAX the Yii way, use hidden core Yii input widgets and write their own widgets, automate error tracking, and a plethora of other Yii features.

More information about the book can be found here: http://www.packtpub.com/yii-1-1-using-php-framework-application-development-cookbook/book

Sample chapter of the book can be downloaded from here.

Play Framework Cookbook

Short summary: Play Framework Cookbook covers more than 60 recipes, effective in leveraging the advanced concepts of the Play Framework. Being completely outlined with working applications, the book takes you through each layer of the technology dealing with objectives like making your application more modular, integrating play applications into your CI environment, leveraging external APIs without letting your applications go down on problems, adding custom monitoring points deep inside your application to simplify bottleneck detection amongst other features. Almost every example is provided with a source code, to provide you with the best learning experience.

More information about the book can be found here: http://www.packtpub.com/play-framewor...

Sample chapter of the book can be downloaded from here: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default...