Pavel Strakhov - Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginners Guide

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Pavel Strakhov is a software architect and developer from Russia. He started working with Qt in 2011 in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where it was used to build scientific image processing software. During 2012-2015, he was highly active in the Qt section of StackOverflow, helping people learn Qt and solve issues. In 2016, he started working on Qt bindings for Rust language.

Witold Wysota is a software architect and developer living in Poland. He started his adventure with Qt in 2004 and, since then, it has become his main area of expertise.

He is an active trainer and consultant in Qt, C++, and related technologies in both commercial and academic environments.

In real life, he is a passionate adept of Seven Star Praying Mantis, a traditional style of Chinese martial arts.

Lorenz Haas, a passionate programmer, started his Qt career with Qt 3. He immersed himself in this framework, became one of the first certified Qt developers and specialists, and turned his love for Qt into his profession.

Lorenz is now working as a lead software architect. He mainly develops machine controls and their user interfaces as well as general solutions for the industry sector.

Years ago, he started contributing to Qt Creator and Qt. He added a couple of refactoring options that you probably rely on regularly if you use Qt Creator. He is also the author of the Beautifier plugin.

Julien Dramond is a software developer living in Paris, France. He started his career developing C++ web services until he entered the embedded world via the Orange set-top boxes in 2012. Specialized in QML, he mainly prototypes and develops user interfaces with designers. Recently, he started contributing to Qt, especially in finding bugs and proposing patches for the QML JS Reformater of Qt Creator. When he is not writing code, he enjoys traveling and drawing.

Simone Angeloni is a software engineer with over 13 years of experience in C++ and a skillset including cross-platform development, embedded systems, multi-threading, user interfaces, network communication, databases, web applications, game development, and visual design.

He is currently a senior software engineer in the R&D dept of Nikon Corporation, and he is developing software/hardware solutions to control robots used in the motion picture industry.

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As a leading cross-platform toolkit for all significant desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms, Qt is becoming more popular by the day. This book will help you learn the nitty-gritty of Qt and will equip you with the necessary toolsets to build apps and games. This book is designed as a beginner's guide to take programmers new to Qt from the basics, such as objects, core classes, widgets, and new features in version 5.9, to a level where they can create a custom application with the best practices of programming with Qt.

From a brief introduction of how to create an application and prepare a working environment for both desktop and mobile platforms, we will dive deeper into the basics of creating graphical interfaces and Qt's core concepts of data processing and display. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn to enrich your games by implementing network connectivity and employing scripting. Delve into Qt Quick, OpenGL, and various other tools to add game logic, design animation, add game physics, handle gamepad input, and build astonishing UIs for games. Toward the end of this book, you'll learn to exploit mobile device features, such as sensors and geolocation services, to build engaging user experiences.