
The Alpha Book Program
Want to get an early look at our titles? Try an Alpha Book! An Alpha Book is a pre-release, still-in-development version of an Apress title. When you purchase an Alpha Book, you get the opportunity to review its content as it advances through the production process. Alpha Book files are updated on a regular basis in your account as new material is completed, all the way through final publication. Following is our current roster of Alpha Books:
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Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4
Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4 introduces key game production concepts in an artist-friendly manner, removes the hurdles to understanding scripting. It enables independent game artists to learn how to produce casual games for mobile, desktop, and console platforms.
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Visual Studio Lightswitch 2012
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012 shows users how to get the most from this innovative product by going beyond the "one-click-and-you're-done" mind set. Author Tim Leung discusses how this breakthrough product is maturing and provides invaluable tips and advice for regular and power users alike.
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Pro Windows Phone App Development
Pro Windows Phone App Development, Third Edition helps you unlock the potential of Microsoft's newest mobile platform including updates to develop visually rich, highly functional applications for the Windows Phone Marketplace. -
Theres never been a better time to learn how to use ASP.NETMVC 4. The technology will speed your development times, reduce theverbosity of your code and simplify your application designs all at once. Takethe first step towards ASP.NET MVC mastery with Beginning ASP.NET MVC 4.
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Pro Hibernate and MongoDB shows you how to use and integrate Hibernate and MongoDB together as a complete out of the box persistence and database application solution. More specifically, this book guides you through bootstrap, queries and mappings for an enterprise application and then migrating to the Cloud.
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In Beginning Arduino, Second Edition, you will learn all about the popular Arduino microcontroller by working your way through an amazing set of 50 cool projects.
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WordPress for Web Developers is a complete guide for web designers and developers who want to begin building sites with WordPress. You'll learn how to publish content, add media, manage users, and keep your site secure. Developers with a little PHP experience can learn to create custom themes and plugins.
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Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Game Development
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Game Development gives you everything you need to maximize your creativity and produce fantastic games that will run on any Windows 8 device.
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In Plan Your Financial Future, financial planner and educator Keith Fevurly describes a novel way of analyzing and putting into place the personal financial planning process by teaching readers how to protect themselves, their family and their property; accumulate wealth; defend their accumulated wealth; and distribute their accumulated wealth.
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The author says it best, "I hope to move you, a little at a time, from understanding C to the point where C++ becomes your mindset". This remarkable book is designed to streamline the process of learning C++ in a way that discusses programming problems, why they exist, and the approach C++ has taken to solve such problems.
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Pro SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence Solutions
Manpreet Singh, Sha Kanjoor Anandan, Sahil Malik, Srini Sistla, Steve Wright
Pro SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence Solutions is a complete guide to successfully building and delivering BI applications using SharePoint 2013. -
Learn OpenGL ES 3 gets you started quickly with the primary skills of the new OpenGL ES 3.0. It gets you quickly into game app development, without having to go to class on intense Object Oriented Programming techniques.






