Software Engineering and Computer Games

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作者：Rudy Rucker
出版日期：December 17, 2002
出版社：Addison Wesley
页数：544
ISBN：0-201-76791-0
文件格式：CHM

“This book should be a requirement of anyone that wants to write games-period”-Andre Lamothe, author and CEO of Xtreme Games

Software Engineering and Computer Games was written with four broad goals:

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  To teach a lively style of object-oriented software engineering.
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  To show how to bring a complete program to the level of a commercial release.
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  To provide a “game engine” framework of linked classes for game development.
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  To help students create computer games that are interactive, rapidly executing, and visually beautiful.
  

It uses an object-oriented (OO) approach throughout,incorporating UML for OO analysis and design and discussing softwarepatterns and how to make use of them in the design process.The bookcovers nine topics:

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  Basic software engineering principles and techniques
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  How to organize and complete a substantial software project.
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  Practical examples of object-oriented design and programming.
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  The design of computer games.
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  Simulating physics inside our computer-generated worlds.
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  Artificial life, or how to simulate live creatures inside a computer program.
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  How to use two and three-dimensional computer graphics.
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  Windows programming with the Microsoft Foundation Classes, or MFC.
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  How to develop a project using Microsoft Visual Studio (Either Version 6.0 or .NET)