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Powerful and highly useful for learning game programming in c++, Programming Non-graphical Games in C++ covers basic algorithms for programming games, using sample games that do not need a fancy…
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C# Programming presents a solid, easy to read and understand entry level course in C# Programming. It assumes a familiarity with C++ OOP techniques and covers the basics rapidly. You…
Windows MFC Programming I begins with the very fundamentals and, in a step by step, gradient manner, develops most all of the basic Windows programming techniques. There are often many…
John Brown, senior music student at the University of Illinois, is bequeathed a strange leather book by his grandfather. He soon discovers that the book is a compendium of magical…
Jon Brown has graduated from the University of Illinois School of Music, a fledgling musician. He has purchased a beautiful old lakeside estate with money from his grandfather. But money…
Jon Brown, a fledgling musician, and his fianc , Alison d'Ambrose, uncover additional clues to the destruction of her family’s castle some twenty-one years ago. They know they must resolve…
A Wonderland fantasy novel adventure. Zed encounters a desperate young woman, Miranda, whose mother has vanished. Miranda seeks his aid in finding and rescuing her, but from what or where…
Someone is out to assassinate young eighteen year old Zoran. After the third attempt, he flees his father’s Castle Dorumova. His father, Baron Kazimir, is the evil Baron, a despot…
Twenty years have passed peacefully for Zoran and Zdenka. However, the other barons made deals with the other dragons on Voss. Now reds, blacks, browns, blues, greys, and greens share…
Located on the outer rim of the galaxy, Tierra or Ashford-5 is a world without many heavy metals, but it has an abundance of psi-crystals, which the Imperium uses for…
This novel covers the years from around 1000, just after the massive explosion, to around 1100. The massive explosion of the alien’s space port knocked the planet off its axis…
Across Tierra, the eleven C rculo de la Torres now had absolute control over the entire continent, via the Brom Compact. Some of the children of Felix Brom play a…
Onboard a space ship, a group of women lived in a self-sustaining world they called Madiera, which they believed was nothing more than a world. Two robots, Alpha and Beta…
Carmen Valen continues her revenge plots, designing more apparel to hobble both women and now men as well. The novel begins around 1207, covering some forty years. A new alien…
The survivors of the Valen coup, namely all of the body-modified close advisors and associates of the late Lord Paco Valen, fled south to Villa del Rey, a small coastal…
The Imperium controls one spiral arm while the Federation of Planets controls the other. Recently, the two skirmished on the outer edges of the spiral arms where each arm was…
During the war years, Neva Burkhardt plied her skills as a telepath, working her way up the power ladder, until she reached two of the six Legates and the President…
Zarita heads off to the Imperium Senate in 1292. However, powerful men began their own personal attempts to gain ultimate power. Legate Emeryk set his sights on eliminating and replacing…
With the Imperium now taking extreme measures to safeguard this terrible bio genetic agent, new methods were found to steal samples. It began with an interception of a delivery from…
Nia Elain Compton was eighteen and a hermaphrodite. Adopted when she was three days’ old by a pair of deep space explorers, she was raised on the Eagle’s Seed, drifting…
The first part of Captain Nia Elain’s voyages of discovery cover the period from early 1378 through late 1381, and serves as a backdrop of events that end the Imperium…
The Imperium crumbled, but the Ataro Empire continued to survive. The Federation of Planets controlled the other spiral arm, and Emperor Bino desperately needed inside information about this group. Allies…
June 1382, the humaniform robots met to decide how to recover from the nuclear attack on Aquila Prime and their millions of nova. After a very long haul, June 1450…
Humaniform robot Minta’s army of Model 10’s were the genetically malformed women from Gundig-B, the weibchen. The person’s brain was entirely surrounded by a complex neural net that translated the…
This is the first novel in the series and begins in relatively primitive times. The world is called Tarra and that portion where she lives is called the Greenway, a…
In this third novel in the Elizabeth Stanton series, stunned by her body’s recent death, she acquires a new body only to find that it is a male body and…
Through the thirteen novels, Elizabeth Stanton and her group discover what is actually happening on their world of Tarra. Namely, the aliens created Tarra as a dumping ground for all…
This is the fifth novel in the Elizabeth Stanton series. For a time, she is running two bodies at the same time! Ket barely recovers while at sea in his…
This series of thirteen books shows the evolution over time of both societies and human aberrations, caused in no small part by the direct control of three different groups of…
The Lindsey Barron Series is the US answer to Harry Potter. A hundred years ago, wizards and witches finally came out, openly working their spells, accepted by those who have…
Undoubtedly, the best beginning book around for the novice, C++ Programming for Computer Science and Engineering is designed for CS1 and other courses covering beginning programming in C++. It is…
Beginning Data Structures in C++ begins with a short analysis of functional abstraction which serves as a review of basic C++ programming operations especially array and structure processing actions. This…
After a complete review of basic class construction with which you should be familiar, Advanced Data Structures in C++ covers more advanced features of classes. Among these are forward references…
The first three chapters of C]+ Object Oriented Programming present the iostreams, structures, reference variables, pointers and the use of dynamic memory allocations. These chapters serve as a complete review…
