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