Bøker av John Sharp

How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation. Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practice. As game designers, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have grappled with crises of creativity, false starts, and bad outcomes. Their tool for coping with the many varieties of failure: iteration, the cyclical process of conceptualizing, prototyping, testing, and evaluating. Sharp and Macklin have found that failure--often hidden, covered up, a source of embarrassment--is the secret ingredient of iterative creative process. In Iterate, they explain how to fail better. After laying out the four components of creative practice--intention, outcome, process, and evaluation--Sharp and Macklin describe iterative methods from a wide variety of fields. They show, for example, how Radiolab cohosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich experiment with radio as a storytelling medium; how professional skateboarder Amelia Bródka develops skateboarding tricks through trial and error; and how artistic polymath Miranda July explores human frailty through a variety of media and techniques. Whimsical illustrations tell parallel stories of iteration, as hard-working cartoon figures bake cupcakes, experiment with levitating office chairs, and think outside the box in toothbrush design ("let's add propellers!"). All, in their various ways, use iteration to transform failure into creative outcomes. With Iterate, Sharp and Macklin offer useful lessons for anyone interested in the creative process. Case Studies: Allison Tauziet, winemaker; Matthew Maloney, animator; Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab cohosts; Wylie Dufresne, chef; Nathalie Pozzi, architect, and Eric Zimmerman, game designer; Andy Milne, jazz musician; Amelia Bródka, skateboarder; Baratunde Thurston, comedian; Cas Holman, toy designer; Miranda July, writer and filmmaker

As the boundary lines of the digital world continue to extend, the evolving realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a new set of challenges for cybersecurity. 'Cybersecurity in the Age of AI: Staying Safe in the Digital World', a Special Report by John Sharp, delves into this potent intersection of technologies and how it reshapes our understanding of digital safety.This report takes a humble, user-friendly approach to the multi-layered topic, simplifying highly technical information into relatable insights. Aimed at general readers, it provides an in-depth investigation into AI's role in the ongoing battle to secure our data and digital footprints from increasing threats.Key sections include: 'Understanding Cybersecurity Basics''Unravelling the Concept of Artificial Intelligence''The Intersection of AI and Cybersecurity''AI-Driven Cybersecurity Solutions''Both the Risks and Opportunities in the Future of Cybersecurity with AI'A noted veteran with a love for bringing difficult tech concepts to life, John Sharp offers a unique mix of practical knowledge, real-world data security experience, and thoughtful insights on AI's rising role in cybersecurity. His special report invites readers of all backgrounds to understand, engage with and-most importantly-protect themselves in this rapidly changing digital landscape.Whether you're a professional seeking to expand your knowledge, or a concerned internet user wanting to understand this new digital frontier, this essential guide delivers the insights you need. Equip yourself today for the challenges of tomorrow with 'Cybersecurity in the Age of AI: Staying Safe in the Digital World'.

In the 2020s, the rights and responsibilities of American citizens have been contested as never before. Amid fraught elections, Black Lives Matter protests, and a global pandemic, our nation has become roiled in debate over what America is and who has access to the rights its people proclaim. Evolving interpretations of the Constitution both reflect and escalate tensions in a rapidly changing world, affecting everything from the fabric of American society to our survival as individuals and even as a species.  Shall Make, Shall Be is a curatorial project in which ten artists and eleven legal scholars explore the meaning and impact of the Bill of Rights. Developed with production support from the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Shall Make, Shall Be shares ten artworks and essays that provide a space to consider identity and life inside the American experiment and their foundations in these ten amendments. Throughout this catalog for the exhibition, readers can explore the games and interactive artwork with up close images and illuminating text from the artists and scholars involved.   Shall Make, Shall Be demonstrates how our laws and cultural norms don’t always lead to the outcomes we hope for. The thought-provoking works and essays within help us see new paths forward to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  Artists: arts.codes (Melissa F. Clarke and Margaret Schedel), Peter Bradley, Danielle Isadora Butler, Arnab Chakravarty, Moaw!, and Ian McNeely, Cherisse Santa Cruz Datu and Latoya Peterson, Ryan Kuo, Andy Malone, Shawn Pierre, Vi Trinh, Lexa Walsh  Scholars: Deborah Archer, Monica C. Bell, Jennifer Carlson, Erwin Chemerinsky, Jessica M. Eaglin, Keramet Reiter, Sharon E. Rush, Michael Shammas, Nabiha Syed, Suja A. Thomas, Alexander Zhang  Project Team: R. Luke DuBois, Laine Nooney, John Sharp

Your hands-on guide to Visual C# fundamentals with Visual Studio 2022Expand your expertiseand teach yourself the fundamentals of programming the latest version of Visual C# with Visual Studio 2022. This book provides software developers all the guidance, exercises, and code needed to start building responsive, scalable, cloud-connected applications that can run almost anywhere.Discover how to:Quickly start creating Visual C# code and projects with Visual StudioWork with variables, operators, expressions, methods, and program flowBuild more robust apps with error, exception, and resource managementSpot problems fast with the integrated Visual Studio 2022 debuggerMaster new default interface methods, static local functions, async disposable types, and other enhancementsMake the most of the C# object model, and create functional data structuresLeverage advanced properties, indexers, generics, and collection classesCreate Windows 11 apps that share data, collaborate, and use cloud servicesUse lightweight records to build immutable reference types more easilyPerform complex queries over object collections with LINQImprove application throughput and response time with asynchronous methodsUse delegates and decoupling to construct highly extensible systemsCustomize C# operator behavior over your own classes and structuresImplement the powerful Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) patternBuild UWP applications that retrieve complex data and present it intuitively

The mathematics of surfaces is a fascinating subject - lying as it does at the heart of much architecture, art and maths, engineering and science. John Sharp's innovative use of sliceforms to explore the properties of surfaces is here produced in a systematic way, providing the reader the tools to build surfaces from paper to explore their mathematical properties. The extensive commentary explains the mathematics behind particular surfaces. Chapters on using computers to generate slices and sample templates complete the book. An invaluable exercise in practical geometry that will stimulate ideas for the student, professionals involved in modelling surfaces and the enthusiast. Contents:· Introduction and Basic Techniques· Contours and profiles· Properties and Types of Surfaces· Surfaces of Revolution· Ruled Surfaces· Surfaces from Equations: Algebraic surfaces· Polyhedra· Variations and explorations· Using the Computer· Templates and further resources

The essential teaching theory and practice text for primary science. Covering the skills of planning, monitoring, assessment and class management, it relates these specifically to primary science. With full coverage of the theory and practice required for effective and creative science teaching, this text is an essential guide for all trainees working towards QTS. Throughout, practical guidance and features support trainees to translate this learning to the classroom, embed ICT in their lessons and to understand the wider context of their teaching. This 7th edition has been updated in line with the new National Curriculum.

A new edition of this key text on research methods for all undergraduate education students.