PostScript Language Reference - third edition
THE POSTSCRIPT® LANGUAGE is a simple interpretive programming language with powerful graphics capabilities. Its primary application is to describe the appearance of text, graphical shapes, and sampled images on printed or displayed pages, according to the Adobe imaging model. A program in this language can communicate a description of a document from a composition system to a printing system or control the appearance of text and graphics on a display. The description is high-level and device-independent.
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Sound Programming in the Apple iPhone OS Environment
Over the last years an increasing number of music applications and games have been released. The iPhone platform has good variety in this field. However, most often the audio quality is not a prioritised feature, having bad impact on the perceived product quality.
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About Objects - Introduction to iPhone Programming
Mobile Platform
Resource constrained environment
- Memory
- CPU
- Graphics
- Battery
Smaller API footprint
Requires extra attention to details like memory management, etc.
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Your First iPhone Application
This tutorial shows how to create a simple iPhone application. It is not intended to give complete coverage of all the features available, but rather to introduce some of the technologies and give you a grounding in the fundamentals of the development process. You should read this document if you are just starting development with iPhone using Cocoa Touch. You should already have some familiarity with the basics of computer programming in general and the Objective-C language in particular. If you haven”t used Objective-C before, read through at least Learning Objective-C: A Primer.
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An Excel/Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Programming Primer
In the past, even mildly complicated engineering calculations have not mixed well with spreadsheets because of the very strong tendency to wind up with nearly-impossible-to-debug “spaghetti code”. While most students seem to enjoy using spreadsheets, instructors recognize that other than by finding the “correct” answer printed somewhere, it is next to impossible to grade assignments or to help the occasional student debug them. However, by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in conjunction with the Excel spreadsheet, the user has the convenience of a spreadsheet for neatly-formatted input/output and for graphical display of results, i.e., to function as a graphical user interface (GUI).
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