Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia

the Only Advanced Book On Squeak, An Important Up-and-coming Programming Language, And Includes An Introductory Chapter To Help Those Who Know Programming But Not Squeak. Squeak Is The Only Tool That Allows Users To Explore Computer Music, Digital Sound, Advanced User Interfaces, 3-d Computer Graphics, Flash Animation, And Virtual Machine Creation (such As For Embedded Systems) Across Windows, Macintosh, And Linux. This Book Is The Best Documentation Of Squeak For Those Purposes.

provides Details On 3-d Computer Graphics, Advanced Ui, Streaming Audio, And Other Multimedia Topics. Provides Detailed Tours Of The Architecture Of A Virtual Machine (including Tradeoffs), Porting It To Multiple Platforms And Extensions Mechanisms. Includes Description Of The Efforts Of An Open Source Community.

appropriate For All Professionals In Advanced Object-oriented Programming, Multimedia Systems And Developments, And Software Engineering Special-topics: Open-source, And Embedded Systems Fields As An Authoritative Guide To The Use Of Squeak As A Multimedia Tool.

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a Collection Of 16 Papers On The Multimedia Capabilities Of The Squeak Open Programming Language, And How To Port And Extend Squeak For Applications And Virtual Machines. Written For Experienced Programmers Familiar With Object-oriented Programming, The Book Covers The Squeak User Interface Environment, Networking, The Mathmorphs Project, Music And Sound Processing, Streaming Audio, And Extreme Programming. The Cd-rom Contains The Squeak Environment And Tutorials. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or