"I first spied Woody Woodhall as he stood in jeans, resilient after a day of operating Allied Post, an audio postproduction company in Santa Monica, CA he co-owns and runs with his wife Wendy Woodhall. He was introducing the night’s roster of speakers at Los Angeles Post Production Group (LAPPG) which they also run."

Read the full review at The Joy of Film Editing.

Check out Woody's recent book from Jones & Bartlett Learning, Audio Production and Postproduction, where he guides readers through a series of exercises to better understand the relationships between the gear and practices required for optimal recordings and mixes.

About Woody Woodhall:

Woody Woodhall, CAS is President of Allied Post Audio in Santa Monica, CA. and is a supervising sound editor, sound-designer and re-recording mixer for independent feature films, documentaries, television programming, and multimedia. A supporter and advocate for independent filmmaking recent projects include “Best Worst Movie” an award winning documentary that is exhibiting across the US in Summer 2010 and “Next Year Country” playing on PBS through Fall 2010. For television he’s VO recorded, sound edited and mixed hundreds of episodes of programming for USA Network, VH-1, E!, Travel Channel, and Comedy Central to name a few. He is currently mixing the hit reality series on Food Network, “Private Chefs of Beverly Hills” as well as the series “Battle of the Wedding Designers” for TLC.

He is a blogger for WoodysSoundAdvice.com and a contributing blogger to BackPackFilmSchool.com on audio matters. A guest lecturer on audio post practices and techniques he has presented for the Producers Guild of America (PGA), Filmmakers Alliance, Loyola Marymount College (LMU), Musicians Institute, and Doculink. He is co-founder and moderator for the Los Angeles Post Production Group (LAPPG), a “non-platform specific” membership group dedicated to expanding knowledge and expertise in the post finishing process. Monthly meetings provide networking and demos sharing knowledge, ideas, tips and techniques. Topics cover the post spectrum from color grading and on-lining to post production workflows for RED or DSLR footage to audio encoding demonstrations presented by companies like manufacturers such as Dolby and Sony to software creators such as Adobe, Gen Arts and digieffects.

Written for producers, translators, development personnel, studio management, publishers, students, and anyone involved directly or indirectly with the production of localized games, this single-reference handbook provides insightful guidelines to all the tasks involved for planning and executing successful localizations.

Key Features:

• Authored by two internationally recognized experts in the field of game  (Heather Maxwell Chandler & Stephanie O'Malley Deming) providing readers with real world perspectives and insight
• Concentrates on software localization specifically for all major platforms in the game industry
• Provides a detailed plan for developing and executing localized game SKUs
• Emphasizes localizations for European and Asian languages where gaming and game development are consistently expanding
• Offers advice from industry professionals on how to achieve localization-friendly development and uses real-world case studies to illustrate

The Foundations of Game Development Series provides coverage of the key concepts and technical instruction students need to complete their game development curriculum as well as provide them with the industry knowledge to be successful professional game developers, programmers, producers, and designers.

About the Authors:

Heather Maxwell Chandler is a veteran game producer with experience at Activision, EA, and Ubisoft. She's also the founder of Media Sunshine, Inc., (www.mediasunshine.com) a company that provides game production contract services to developers, publishers, and vendors. She has contributed to the production of Apocalypse, Civilization: Call to Power, Heavy Gear 2, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, and eight games in the Ghost Recon series. She's the author of The Game Production Handbook, Second Edition and Fundamentals of Game Development, also part of the Foundations of Game Development Series. 

Stephanie O’Malley Deming is a software development producer, consultant and operations executive with more than 15 years of experience in worldwide, award-winning, educational and entertainment products for companies including Activision, EA, LucasArts, Capcom, and 2K Games. She specializes in localizations and has successfully sim-shipped hundreds of language versions of high profile titles including the Guitar Hero™ series, the Call of Duty® series, League of Legends among many others. Stephanie founded XLOC (www.xloc.com), a company that offers web-based applications for easy localization management, and works as a production consultant for interactive game companies.

To learn more about The Game Localization Handbook, Second Edition, including the opportunity to preview content from the book, visit www.jblearning.com.

This volume is accessible to mainstream computer science students who have a background in college algebra and discrete structures. To support their approach, the authors present mathematical concepts using standard English and a simpler notation than is found in most texts. A review of essential mathematical concepts is presented in three appendices. The authors also reinforce the explanations with numerous concrete examples to help students grasp theoretical concepts.

To help students better understand complex algorithms, the authors use C++ and Java pseudocode, as students are familiar with these languages from their intro programming and data structures courses.  Furthermore, students are not required to have a calculus background.  College algebra and discrete structures are the prerequisites for the text.  The authors, both professors at Northeastern Illinois University, have included a chapter on numerical algorithms with a review of basic number theory, Euclid's Algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor, a review of modular arithmetic, an algorithm for solving modular linear equations, an algorithm for computing modular powers, and the new polynomial-time algorithm for determining whether a number is prime.

To save you time preparing materials for your course, this text is accompanied by numerous resources, including:

• Instructor Resource Manual containing for each chapter:
  • an overview
  • lecture notes
  • discussion topics for the classroom
  • suggested assigned exercises from the text
  • list of keywords
  • relevant web links
• Solutions Manual
• Microsoft PowerPoint Slides

Visit Jones & Bartlett Learning to learn more about this title or to request your complimentary review copy for course adoption consideration.
 

Jones & Bartlett Learning is excited to offer Custom CodeLab with the recently published Third Editions of the best-selling text Java Illuminated.  Furthermore, access to this outstanding learning tool is free with new copies of the text!

CodeLab is a web-based interactive programming exercise service that has been customized to accompany each text. It provides over 300 short exercises, each focused on a particular programming idea or language construct. The student types in code and the system immediately judges its correctness, offering hints when the submission is incorrect. Through this process, the student gains mastery over the semantics, syntax and common usage of the language elements.

Give Your Students a hands-on learning experience with CodeLab!

CodeLab is a learning tool for the student:

• Provides over 300 exercises customized to match the organization of the text.
• The exercises are graduated to reinforce the concepts learned in previous exercises.
• Provides instant feedback and hints on each submission, including compiler errors and logical errors, to help your students overcome any learning obstacle.
• Students' work is automatically saved for later reference.

Save classroom time teaching the basics of java programming!

 CodeLab is customizable to fit your needs for your course:

• Customize the submission preferences to fit your course, including date/time exercise is due, number of submissions accepted, time student spends on each exercise, etc.
• Change the names of the exercises, make new exercises, and create new topics, to fit your course and your schedule.
• Track your students' success with the roster feature.  This helps you see as a whole, where your students need further instruction.
• Send your CodeLab roster of student submissions straight to your gradebook!

Preview a Demo of CodeLab Today!
See CodeLab in action with Java Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, Third Edition (also available in a Brief Edition).  A Jones & Bartlett demonstration site is available at jblearning.turingscraft.com.

Custom CodeLab is also available (free access with new copy of course!) with An Introduction to Programming Using Java, by Anthony J. Dos Reis.

We would especially like to extend a special Thank You to our authors who attended our booth Reception and enjoyed a drink and conversation with the other attendees.  Thank you Nell Dale, J. Stanley Warford, Catherine Ricardo, Chip Weems, Dan Joyce, John McCormick, Sang Suh, and Duncan Buell (Professor Buell's book is forthcoming).

We look forward to seeing everyone again next year in Raleigh, NC for SIGCSE 2012!  Until then, enjoy these pictures from SIGCSE 2011.

     Welcome to the Jones & Bartlett Learning booth!     Sr. Acquisitions Editor, Tim Anderson and Assoc. Marketing Manager, Lindsay White anxiously await for the Author Reception to begin.           

   Busy, busy, busy! Here we are managing our full booth during the Author Reception. 

We proudly displayed our recently published titles! 

New and key features of the updated Second Edition:

• Covers the new features of the current versions of popular database management systems, including Oracle 11, Access 2010, and InterSystems Cache.
• Incorporates the new curriculum recommendations in ACM Computer Science Curriculum 2008 and ACM/AIS IS2010 Curriculum Guidelines for IS2010.2, Data and Information Management, including more attention to security, concurrency, and net-centric computing. The chapter on computer ethics has been updated to take into account new regulations and practices.
• Contains more material on recent and relevant topics, such as Web access, JDBC, web programming, XML, data warehousing, data mining, and other emerging database technologies and applications.
• Includes the extensive object-relational features of the current release of Oracle, with downloadable code for students to implement.
• Object-oriented databases are implemented using InterSystems Cache, with downloadable code included on the website.

Instructor Resources:
• Instructor's manual
• PowerPoint lecture slides
• Solutions to the exercises and projects in the text

Student Resources:
FREE companion website featuring:
• downloadable code
• additional projects with step-by-step guidance to ensure students fully understand each step before progressing to the next.
• hands-on lab exercises that allow your students to apply the concepts learned from the text.
• additional information not found in the text for further study.

The integrated modern approach to databases, combined with strong  pedagogical features, accessible writing, and a full package of value-added student and instructor resources, makes this new Second Edition the perfect textbook for courses in this exciting field!

Nell Dale, Daniel Joyce, and Chip Weems have updated and revised the popular Object-Oriented Data Structures Using Java, to provide your CS2 students with a clear introduction to key concepts in data structures.

It presents traditional data structures and object-oriented topics with an emphasis on problem solving, theory, and software engineering principles. Beginning early and continuing throughout the text, the authors introduce and expand upon the use of many Java features including packages, interfaces, abstract classes, inheritance, and exceptions. Numerous case studies provide readers with real-world examples and demonstrate possible solutions to interesting problems.  The authors' lucid writing style guides readers through the rigor of standard data structures and presents essential concepts from logical, applications, and implementation levels.  Key concepts throughout the Third Edition have been clarified to increase student comprehension and retention, and end-of-chapter exercises have been updated and modified.

See What's New to the Third Edition of Object-Oriented Data Structures Using Java:

• Includes the use of generics throughout the text, providing the dual benefits of allowing for a type-safe use of data structures plus exposing students to modern approaches.
• This text is among the first data structures textbooks to address the topic of concurrency and synchonization, which are growing in the importance as computer systems move to using more cores and threads to obtain additional performance with each new generation.  Concurrency and synchonization are introduced in the new Section 5.7, where it begins with the basics of Java threads.
• Provides numerous case studies and examples of the problem solving process.  Each case study includes a problem description, an analysis of the problem input and required output, and a discussion of the appropriate data structures to use.
• Expanded chapter exercises allow you as the instructor to reinforce topics for your students using both theoretical and practical questions.

Learn more about Object-Oriented Data Structures Using Java, Third Edition, and see the full detailed Table of Contents.

Peter Linz, Professor Emeritus, University of California, designed this text to familiarize students with the foundations and principles of computer science, and to strengthen their ability to carry out formal and rigorous mathematical arguments.  In this updated Fifth Edition, Peter Linz continues to offer a straightforward, uncomplicated treatment of formal languages and automata, and furthers the accessibility and comprehension of the text with new illustrative examples and exercises throughout.

Professor Linz has also added great hands-on value to this new edition, including written content within the text and experiential exercises and examples using JFLAP on an accompanying CD-ROM. 

New value-added content to the Fifth Edition of An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata:

• Includes a new chapter within the Appendices on finite-state transducers, including basic results on Mealy and Moore machines. Instructors can use this chapter to prepare students for further related study.
• Provides an introduction to JFLAP, also located within the Appendices. Many of the exercises in the text require creating structures that are complicated and have to be tested for correctness. JFLAP can greatly reduce students' time spent on testing as well as help them visualize abstract concepts.
  
• The accompanying CD-ROM (with new copies of the text) contains the following:
  • A summary description of JFLAP
  • numerous new exercises that illustrate the value and efficiency of JFLAP
  • JFLAP implementations of most of the examples in the text that allow you and your students to experiment dynamically with these hands-on examples

Visit jblearning.com to learn more about this new title.  Qualified instructors are invited to request a complimentary review copy for course adoption consideration.

 
Stop by the (ISC)2 booth at the RSA Conference on Tuesday, February 15th from 11am to 6pm to meet David Kim, who is available to field questions and autography copies of his Jones and Bartlett Learning published Fundamentals of Information Systems Security. This must-have resource for those entering the field of Information Systems Security, features the seven domains of the SSCP® certification by (ISC)2.