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The only continuous, step-by-step tutorial on the essentials of this manufacturing software. If you want to get up and running quickly on the industry-leading 3D mechanical design software, Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required is your perfect resource. It quickly teaches the essential skills and demonstrates the software using a continuous, real-world tutorial project. Once you understand the interface and how to use Inventor conventions, you'll begin actually designing and modeling a project from start to finish. Along the way, you'll learn the "why" behind each step.: Learn to use the interface and Inventor conventions; Understand sketching commands and best practices, then move into both regular and sheet metal specific part modeling; Understand how to join parts into assemblies to create a single, digital prototype of a box fan; Create and distribute accruate part and assembly drawings, learn about functional design concepts, and use Inventor's Design Accelerator features; Discover how to work with Inventor weldments and create, render, and distribute compelling visualizations of the final design using Inventor Studio; The companion website provides "before and after" tutorial files, enabling you to jump in at any point and compare your work with the author's results. Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required gives you all the instruction you need to begin using this powerful 3D mechanical design tool. more...

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a Web markup standard that allows Web developers to define styles to apply to items on thousands of Web pages, rather than marking up the formatting of each item individually. This edition offers information about Firefox 2, Internet Explorer, and other browsers with improved CSS support. more...

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jQuery allows you to do more in the world of dynamic web applications, with less code and fewer errors. It reduces the amount of JavaScript programming to only a few lines of code while making your JavaScript more intuitive and attractive to work with. At the same time, jQuery makes it easier to manipulate CSS from JavaScript by allowing you to set style for one or many elements at once. With this unique, project-oriented book, author Richard York teaches even the most novice of JavaScript users how to quickly get started utilizing the JavaScript jQuery Library to decrease the amount of code that needs to be written and tested. A four-color code syntax highlighting system provides a visual reinforcement and allows you to see the nuts and bolts that comprise each line and section of code. With this helpful guide and hands-on exercises, you'll be able to put jQuery to work for you and avoid having to write code from scratch. What you will learn from this book.: How to install and test jQuery;. Techniques to manipulate content and attributes;. Ways to filter and map a selection or an array;. The difference between GET and POST;. How to easily show, hide, slide, and fade elements with smooth animations and transitions;. Good practice for jQuery plugin development;. Methods for making elements draggable;. Ways to customize sortable lists;. How to implement and localize a datepicker. Who this book is for. This book is for web designers eager to do more with their web-based applications, but who do not necessarily have much JavaScript experience. Some basic knowledge of XHTML and CSS is necessary. Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved. more...

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Features expanded coverage of Windows Vista, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, and Windows Communication Foundation.; All code and examples are updated to cover the latest version of VB and the .NET 3.5 Framework.; 62 percent of developers use some form of Visual Basic; this book teaches readers the basics and gets them programming with one of Microsoft's most popular development languages.; Readers quickly learn to write applications for Windows, the Web, and mobile devices.; Also covers object-oriented programming, creating custom controls, working with databases, creating menus, and working with graphics.; Other topics include building class libraries, Web services and .NET remoting, and deploying applications. more...

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Based on "Practical Python," this newly revised book is both an introduction and practical reference for Python-related programming topics, including addressing language internals, database integration, network programming, and Web services. more...

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