| |  | Dedication |
| | | Acknowledgments |
| | | About the Author |
| | | Letter from the Series Editor |
| | | 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 |
