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Instant Immersion Spanish Lab provides everything you need to start speaking and understanding Spanish right away, utilizing three intermodal language components: audio recordings, printed study guides, and computer software.The Instant Immersion Spanish Lab is over $100 value, if purchased separately.As an added bonus, store all of your discs in the convenient carrying case included for free with…

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The Interpersonal Communication Book provides a highly interactive presentation of the theory, research, and skills of interpersonal communication with integrated discussions of diversity, ethics, workplace issues, face-to-face and computer-mediated communication and the “dark side” of interpersonal communication. Recognized for its ability to help readers understand the crucial …

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Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems 9e provides the only comprehensive, up-to-date guide to today’s revolutionary management support system technologies, and showcases how they can be used for better decision-making.The 9th edition focuses on Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics for enterprise decision support in a more streamlined book….

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Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games is an essential guide to solving the algorithmic and networking problems of modern commercial computer games, written from the perspective of a computer scientist. Combining algorithmic knowledge and game-related problems, the authors discuss all the common difficulties encountered in game programming. The first part of the book tackles algorithmic problems by presenting how they can be solved practically. As well as “classical” topics such as random numbers, tournaments and game trees, the authors focus on how to find a path in, create the terrain of, and make decisions in the game world. Part two introduces networking related problems in computer games and focuses on three key questions: how to hide the inherent communication delay, how to utilize limited network resources, and how to cope with cheating. Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games provides a comprehensive resource that offers deeper algorithmic insight into game programming and explains game-specific network considerations. Read on for…:; Algorithmic solutions in pseudo code format, which not only emphasizes the idea behind the solution, but also can easily be written into the programming language of your choice.; A section on the Synthetic player, covering decision-making, influence maps, finite-state machines, flocking, fuzzy sets and probabilistic reasoning.; In-depth treatment of network communication including dead reckoning, local perception filters and cheating prevention.; 51 ready-to-use algorithms and 178 illustrative exercises. Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games is a must-read text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students on computer game-related courses, postgraduate researchers in game-related topics, and game developers interested in new approaches and the theoretical background to games.

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Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games

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This volume presents a collection of empirical and theoretical work relating to simulation computer games, exploring the interrelationships between the instructional design and the educational use of these materials. The authors explore the interrelationships between design and use–success in both are critical to achieve the desired ends of facilitating learning–and provide a scholarly treatment of a topics frequently handled in an anecdotal, "pop science" manner. While there is a broad literature in the design of instructional materials and in the implementation or use of those materials, the design and use of educational simulation computer games is significantly different. The overwhelming majority of traditional instructional materials are designed to be used primarily as a teacher guides a learner. However, the vast majority of computer simulation games are designed to be used directly by the learner, without much mediation. A better understanding of these issues is critical for effective game-based learning. Chapters range from different approaches to design and different subject matter to the different types of technology-based environments. This book does not provide a "complete" perspective of any depth within cognitive science and computer science technology, nor does it "unmask the myth" of computer simulation games in education, as other volumes claim to do. Instead, this book provides a breadth of perspectives that move from "what we think" to "what we know" about simulation computer games in education, and gives an up-to-the-moment picture of "where we’re at" in the theory, design and use of simulation computer games. A series of well argued but surprisingly entertainingarticles go far to set the very foundations ofthe field of digital game based learning. This book is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in games and learning and will be for years to come." James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University Learning from serious games generates emotional discussions about the feasibility of games as effective learning devices. It is refreshing that the authors are committed to taking an empirical approach to the study of games and education – one of research and grounded theory, rather than advocacy. This volume in an important step in beginning to move beyond hype to a more firm foundation for the use of serious games. M. David Merrill, Instructional Effectiveness Consultant, Visiting Professor Florida State University This volume shows that serious inquiry into serious games is a real and valid pursuit. The book conveys that what we can gather about how people learn within computer-based games, and using games, contributes to how we go about designing new educational games, and using games in more formal learning environments. It offers a convergence of thoughts, perspectives, and ideals…that may no

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Computer Games and Team and Individual Learning

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Despite the emergence of computer games as a dominant cultural industry (and the accompanying emergence of computer games as the subject of scholarly research), we know little or nothing about the ethics of computer games. Considerations of the morality o

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In 2003, Collectables released Computer Games/Space Race, which contained two complete albums — Computer Games and Space Race (both originally released on Epic in 1980) — by Mi-Sex on one compact disc. ~ Gregory McIntosh, Rovi

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Computer Games I is the first volume in a two-part compendium of papers covering the most important material available on the development of computer strategy games. These selections range from discussions of mathematical analysis of games, to more qualitative concerns of whether a computer game should follow human thought processes rather than a "brute force" approach, to papers which will benefit readers trying to program their own games. Contributions include selections from the major players in the development of computer games: Claude Shannon, whose work still forms the foundation of most contemporary chess programs; Edward O. Thorpe, whose invention of the card counting methods caused Las Vegas casinos to change their blackjack rules; and Hans Berliner, whose work has been fundamental to the development of backgammon and chess games. Included in this volume; Backgammon Chess Checkers Scrabblee Computer Games II, the companion volume, covers the following games: Othello Go Go-Moku Bridge Dominoes Dama Poker Hearts Halma Qubic Push-Over Chemin-De-Fer David Levy, the editor of these volumes, is an International Chess Master. He is chairman of a company in England which specializes in programming strategy games.