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Digital Media Primer

Yue-Ling Wong

Information

  • Publisher
  • ISBN
  • ePub ISBN
  • Pearson UK
  • 9780273774358
  • 9780273774341
  • Published at
  • Pressing
  • 2013
  • 2

About this book

Revised to include programming concepts covered in a full introduction to programming course. Addition of 2-3 object oriented programming chapters: The additional programming chapters provide coverage for a full-semester introduction to computer programming course taught in the context of game programming. The multimedia authoring portion of the book features game programming. New chapters on HTML5 basics and HTML5 animation with canvas. The new HTML5 is a hot and current topic, and it supports media rich content, making it an attractive topic to instructors and students. Students will learn the structure, syntax, and semantics of HTML5, and graphics and animation with HTML5 canvas. The students will be able to construct a basic HTML5 document, embed video and audio on a Web page using HTML5 tags, and create graphics and animation using canvas. A new chapter and overview of mobile game development. Students will learn what is involved in mobile game development. Specifically, this chapter discusses how to create Flash games for iPhone and Androids using Flash packagers. For the HTML5, example code is provided to show the detection of the device. The chapter discusses what is involved (such as hardware, software, and programming languages) and what game engines are available for iPhone game development. Example games illustrate the usage of game engines. For classes that cover the Flash chapters of the book, students also will be able to create an iPhone Flash project and run their Flash games using the iPhone simulator in Flash. Updated screenshots of software applications (such as Flash and Photoshop) to use the latest version.

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