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Build Your Own First-Person Shooter in Unity
Ever fancied creating your own first-person shooter game? Now you can with this 140-page bookazine, brought to you by the Wireframe magazine team with tips from expert video game developers! Making a fast-paced 3D action game needn't be as daunting as it sounds. Build Your Own First-Person Shooter in Unity will take you step-by- step throug...
Re-Inventing Africa's Development
This book analyses the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades. The author argues that Africa's development challenges are not due to a lack of resources but a lack of management, presenting an alternative to the traditional...
Scaling of Differential Equations
The book serves both as a reference for various scaled models with corresponding dimensionless numbers, and as a resource for learning the art of scaling. A special feature of the book is the emphasis on how to create software for scaled models, based on existing software for unscaled models. Scaling (or non-dimensionalization) is a mathematical...
Control Theory Tutorial
This open access brief introduces the basic principles of control theory in a concise self-study guide. It complements the classic texts by emphasizing the simple conceptual unity of the subject. A novice can quickly see how and why the different parts fit together. The concepts build slowly and naturally one after another, until the reader soon ha...
Purpose-driven Organizations
Symbolising the motivations of our actions and efforts, it reflects something much more aspirational and contributes to our global society. This book offers novel solutions to ensure employees support a wider organizational meaning whilst guaranteeing that the company benefits from the employee's individual sense of purpose. Advocating a shift...
Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology
This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing efforts. "Community-oriented policing" is an approach that encourages police to develop and maintain personal relationships with citizens and community organizations. By developing these partnerships, the goal is to...
HoloLens Succinctly
Microsoft's HoloLens applications exist in the ever-expanding realm of mixed reality. In HoloLens Succinctly, author Lars Klint guides readers into the various segments of this augmented world, outlining the architecture of HoloLens apps, exploring code and design issues, and offering step-by-step instruction on inputting data so that users ca...
Introduction to OKRs
There's no question that the goal-setting methodology OKR (Objectives and Key Results) helps companies achieve substantial goals - just ask Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter - but some organizations have struggled to make it work. This O'Reilly report explains how companies use OKRs to create focus, unity, and velocity within their teams, and...