Author: Matthew J. Salganik Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691196109 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 448
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This essential guide to doing social research in this fast-evolving digital age explains how the digital revolution is transforming the way social scientists observe behavior, ask questions, run experiments, and engage in mass collaborations.
Author: Andrew Ervin Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465096581 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 248
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An acclaimed critic argues that video games are the most vital art form of our time Video games have seemingly taken over our lives. Whereas gamers once constituted a small and largely male subculture, today 67 percent of American households play video games. The average gamer is now thirty-four years old and spends eight hours each week playing -- and there is a 40 percent chance this person is a woman. In Bit by Bit, Andrew Ervin sets out to understand the explosive popularity of video games. He travels to government laboratories, junk shops, and arcades. He interviews scientists and game designers, both old and young. In charting the material and technological history of video games, from the 1950s to the present, he suggests that their appeal starts and ends with the sense of creativity they instill in gamers. As Ervin argues, games are art because they are beautiful, moving, and even political -- and because they turn players into artists themselves.
Author: Noel Kalicharan Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030739368 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 289
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The main goal of this book is to teach fundamental programming principles to beginners using Julia, one of the fastest growing programming languages today. Julia can be classified as a "modern" language, possessing many features not available in more popular languages like C and Java. The book is organized in 10 chapters. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the programming process. It shows how to write a first Julia program and introduces some of the basic building blocks needed to write programs. Chapter 2 is all about numbers—integers, floating-point, operators, expressions—how to work with them and how to print them. Chapter 3 shows how to write programs which can make decisions. It explains how to use if and if...else statements. Chapter 4 explains the notion of ‘looping’, implemented using for and while statements. It also explains how to read data from a file and write results to a file. Chapter 5 formally treats with functions, enabling a (large) program to be broken up into smaller manageable units which work together to solve a given problem. Chapter 6 is devoted to characters and strings. In Julia, we can work with them as seamlessly as we do with numbers. Chapter 7 tackles array processing, which is significantly easier in Julia than other languages. Chapter 8 is about sorting and searching techniques. Sorting puts data in an order that can be searched more quickly/easily, and makes it more palatable for human consumption. Chapter 9 introduces structures, enabling us to group data in a form that can be manipulated more easily as a unit. Chapter 10 deals with two useful data structures—dictionaries and sets. These enable us to solve certain kinds of problems more easily and conveniently than we can without them. This book is intended for anyone who is learning programming for the first time. The presentation is based on the fact that many students (though not all) have difficulties in learning programming. To overcome this, the book uses an approach which provides clear examples, detailed explanations of very basic concepts and numerous interesting problems (not just artificial exercises whose only purpose is to illustrate some language feature).
Author: Steve Sanfield Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9780613193412 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Zundel loved his warm winter coat so much, he wore it and wore it and wore it until bit by bit he w-o-r-e it out. With the remaining cloth, Zundel makes a jacket, then a vest, then a cap, a pocket, and a button until there is no fabric left. But that's not the end of story, as you can tell from the cover of the book.
Author: Deborah Hopkinson Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers ISBN: 039925241X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 39
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When his father leaves to fight in World War I, Mikey joins the Central Park Knitting Bee to help knit clothing for soldiers overseas.
Author: Dani Bryant Publisher: Union Square + ORM ISBN: 1454933895 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 117
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Learn to develop your spiritual energy with every swing of a pendulum in accessible introduction to this ancient practice. This easy-to-follow guide will help you get the most out of your pendulum and seek the answers that exist within. Author and green witch Dani Bryant covers everything you need to know about choosing and using a pendulum: how pendulums work, different ways to use them, meditation and divination, connecting with your spirit guides, and even how to make your own pendulum. This volume includes rituals for clearing negativity, balancing chakras, making contact with the spirit world, meditation, generating accurate answers to your questions, and much more. It also includes fifteen circle charts that you can use to ask your pendulum simple questions.
Author: Ann Tompert Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780395778760 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 38
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For use in schools and libraries only. When Mouse and Elephant decide to go on the seesaw, Mouse needs a lot of help from other animals before they can go up and down.
Author: Chicoro Publisher: ISBN: 9780982068922 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 126
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Written for the consumer who wants to choose hair care products based on knowledge, this volume explains how to select the best products for his or her individual needs.
Author: Chris Atkins Publisher: Atlantic Books ISBN: 1838950168 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 342
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'Shocking, scathing, entertaining.' Guardian 'Incredibly compelling.' The Times 'Heart-breaking.' Sunday Times Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow? Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service. Like most people, documentary-maker Chris Atkins didn't spend much time thinking about prisons. But after becoming embroiled in a dodgy scheme to fund his latest film, he was sent down for five years. His new home would be HMP Wandsworth, one of the largest and most dysfunctional prisons in Europe. With a cast of characters ranging from wily drug dealers to senior officials bent on endless reform, this powerful memoir uncovers the horrifying reality behind the locked gates. Filled with dark humour and shocking stories, A Bit of a Stretch reveals why our creaking prison system is sorely costing us all - and why you should care.
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