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You know what's even better than playing games? Programming your own! Make your own online games, even if you're an absolute beginner. Let your imagination come to 3D life as you learn real-world programming skills with the JavaScript programming language - the language used everywhere on the web. This new edition is completely revised, and takes advantage of new programming features to make game programming even easier to learn. Plus, new effects make your games even cooler. When you're done, you're going to be amazed at what you can create. Jump right in! Start programming cool stuff on page 1. Keep building new and different things until the very last page. This book wants you to play. Not just play games, but play with code. Play with programming. Because the best way to learn something is to have fun with it! This second edition is updated from start to finish to make it even easier to get started programming in JavaScript. Every example has been updated to make it easier, with new example games to explore and new 3D effects that make your games even more fun! Want a red donut? You can make hundreds of them, spinning around like mad. Want to create a star field? Make a hundred or a thousand stars. Make them red, green, or blue. Explosions? Fireworks? Planets? It's up to you. And, using a code editor created especially for this book, you'll program right in your web browser. You'll see the results of your work and imagination right away - right next to the code that you just typed! Along the way, you'll pick up a ton of programming knowledge, and dive in even deeper with some more advanced chapters. Whatever you want to do, this book has your back. Best of all, you get to create awesome games and say, "I made this!" What You Need: You need the latest version of the Google Chrome Web browser, available for free from https://chrome.google.com. You also need an Internet connection to access the ICE Code Editor the first time. ICE Code Editor will be loaded onto your computer, so you won't need Internet access for later projects.

Psst! You're not stuck with JavaScript anymore. Google's Dart language makes programming for the Web simpler, faster, and more powerful. With version 1.0 in 2013 and an ECMA standard in 2014, Dart is ready to radically change web development for the better. And Dart 1 for Everyone has got you covered. Completely updated for Dart 1 and the ECMA standard, with new sections on new Dart features like method cascades, event streams, and class constructor syntax, this book wastes no time in immersing you in the finer points of this powerful and surprisingly beautiful language. Dart has changed significantly since the first printing of this book and Dart 1 for Everyone has kept up. Every chapter has been revised and some chapters have been almost completely rewritten since the first printing. The MVC project chapters dumped the old JavaScript-like event handlers for the sleek new streams interface, and the chapter on testing reflects the extensive changes in testing now available in Dart. Brand-new sections explore some of Dart's beautiful new features, such as: * Method cascades: Improve code readability dramatically. * Event streams: Simplified event handling, consistent with virtually every other asynchronous interaction in Dart. * Library parts: Yet another way Dart promotes code organization. * New class constructor syntax: Dart supports a nice variety of surprisingly expressive and concise ways to declare constructors. * Building your own packages: Quickly share your work with the world. You'll start writing Dart code on page 1, and throughout the book, you'll refactor that code to explore Dart's features: OOP, real libraries and packages, testing, and more. You'll learn how to write beautiful, maintainable application code that just works in all modern browsers. Caution: after reading you may develop an intense attachment to structured code and skinny jeans. What You Need: You will need the Dart SDK, which is freely available from https://dartlang.org. Most of the book works with Dartium, a preview release of Chrome that is included in the SDK and has the Dart VM built-in. Some of the examples use either the dart2js tool or the Dart Editor to compile Dart down into JavaScript - both are part of the SDK.

Programmierenlernen ist wirklich nicht schwer. Du wirst erstaunt sein, wie einfach es ist, interaktive Welten und lustige Spiele zu entwickeln. Und du wirst garantiert viel Spaß dabei haben! Du lädst dir schnell den ICE Code Editor als Browsererweiterung herunter, mit dem du auch offline arbeiten kannst, und los geht's. Alles was du programmierst, siehst du direkt im Code Editor: animierte Figuren, deinen eigenen Avatar, der Radschlagen kann, oder dein eigenes Spiel mit Obstmonstern, Höhlenpuzzlen und Floßfahrten. Wenn du wissen willst, was es mit dem ganzen Code so auf sich hat, wird dir das ganz genau erklärt. Wenn du dich aber lieber auf die Praxis konzentrieren willst, kannst du die Theorie außen vor lassen. Warum 3D-Spiele? Weil das Programmierenlernen damit besonders großen Spaß macht, denn, Hand aufs Herz, wer spielt nicht gern Computerspiele? Und so macht das Lernen nicht nur riesigen Spaß, wir programmieren dabei auch jede Menge tolle Sachen: Du stellst coole Spielfiguren her und Welten, in denen du spielen kannst, du programmierst deinen eigenen Avatar, bastelst lila Monster und erzeugst Weltraumsimulationen. Warum mit JavaScript? JavaScript ist die Sprache des World Wide Web und die einzige Programmiersprache, die alle Webbrowser ohne zusätzliche Software verstehen. Wenn du gelernt hast, in JavaScript zu programmieren, kannst du nicht nur solche Spiele programmieren, wie du in diesem Buch kennenlernen wirst. Du kannst auch alle möglichen Websites programmieren. Außerdem zeigen wir dir, wie du anschließend deine Spiele mit deinen Freunden teilen und sie auf deiner eigenen Website einbinden kannst. Und dann erzählst du all deinen Freunden: "Das hab' ich gemacht!" An wen richtet sich dieses Buch? Obwohl für Kinder geschrieben, können auch Erwachsene hiermit das Programmieren erlernen. Es richtet sich an Programmieranfänger von 11 bis 99.

Dart 1.1 has arrived and Dart for Hipsters has you covered! Every chapter has been painstakingly reviewed and updated to work with the latest version of this exciting new language. The unabashed goal of Dart is to make programming for the Web simpler, faster, and more powerful. Dart for Hipsters teaches you the fastest way possible: with real code and real projects starting on page 1. You'll explore the ins and outs of Dart by writing a simple application that grows in complexity from modest beginnings to a separate library that fully leverages the power of Dart. Caution: after reading you may develop an intense attachment to structured code and skinny jeans.In Dart for Hipsters, you follow project-based chapters demonstrating real-world problems solved with Dart. Each project serves as the foundation for deeper discussion of defining features of Dart, such as its support for functional programming. As you reinforce your understanding of Dart, you'll move on to more complex projects which, in turn, spur more complex discussions, such as how to maintain Dart and JavaScript side-by-side. By the end of this book, not only will you have a thorough introduction to the language, but you'll also have built an entire MVC library from scratch.You'll jump right in by writing an Ajax-powered application, followed by a more detailed discussion of Dart's basic types. Along the way, Dart for Hipsters shows you how to compile Dart into JavaScript, how to use Dart's simple object-oriented programming approach, and how to build well-factored, easily used and maintained libraries. You'll see dynamic features of the language in action, such as injecting different data syncing behaviors for an entire framework with one line of code. Best of all, you'll learn how Dart makes working with HTML5 and similar technologies a breeze. What You Need: You will need Dartium, a preview release of Chrome with the Dart VM built-in. For some of the examples, you need either the dart2js tool or the Dart Editor to compile Dart down into JavaScript.