Awesome List Updates on Dec 30, 2014

3 awesome lists updated today.

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1. Awesome Talks

Functional Programming

• Don't fear the Monad by Dr. Brian Beckman [1:07:10]

Computer History

• A Brief History of Graphics by Stuart Brown [46:00]

2. Awesome Canvas

Libraries / To draw using canvas

• Processingjs is a data visualization programming language.
  • Overview
  • 91 basic demos

• Visualize (⭐354) is a JQuery plugin who creates charts and graphs from tabular data using the HTML canvas element.

Resources / Talks

• Google I/O 2012 - GRITS: PvP Gaming with HTML, by Colton McAnlis

• Mobile HTML5 Graphics Performance, by Sam Abadir

• The Making of an HTML5 Platform Game, by David Geary

• High Performance Mobile Web Game Development in HTML5, by Sangmin Shim

• HTML5 Canvas Animation with Javascript, by Josh Robertson

Resources / Websites and Tutorials

• Breakout - a fantastic tutorial for any canvas programming wannabes, where he runs through the steps needed to create a Breakout clone. The tutorial consists of 12 very clear and concise steps, where you can view a demo of how your project should look so far.

• Procedural Drawing in Canvas - a tutorial that explains more about how procedural drawing works so that others can also learn the skill and start producing their own patterns.

• Accelerated Game Programming with HTML5 and canvas - this tutorial describes the structure of a typical game class in JavaScript, drawing to the canvas, double buffering, map/tile representation and player movement.

• Physics for Lazy Game Developers - Provides examples of velocity, acceleration, collisions, rotation and particle effects.

3. Awesome Hadoop

Books

• Hadoop in Practice, Second Edition

• Hadoop in Action, Second Edition

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