Coding 4 Fun: 10 .net Programming Projects for Wiimote, World of Warcraft, YouTube and more
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Author(s): D. Fernandez and Brian Peek
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 9780596520748
Format: softback
506pp
Price: £30.99
Review Date: 20 April 2009
Review: The concept of the book is building software that does fun and interesting things with your computer. There are ten different projects in software development and you will learn in the process. This includes video games that run on your computer, Xbox 360 and Zune, and others that use social networking sites such as YouTube and Twitter. The book is aimed at a variety of computer users and software developers. Ideally you should be familiar with .NET development using C# or Visual Basic though several projects can be done if you not very experience with these. Chapter titles are 1. alien attack, 2. Lego soldier: a 2-D Lego side-scroller popfly game, 3. Feed Reader: an in-game RSS reader for World of Warcraft, 4. InnerTube: download convert and sync YouTube videos, 5. PeerCast: watch videos on your PC anywhere in the world, 6. TwitterVote, 7. WHSMail: an Outlook webmail add-in for Windows home server, 8. Wiimote-controlled car, 9. Wiimote whiteboard, 10 Animated musical holiday lights, Appendix using the R$Style file for WPF projects, Index.