Dynamic Flash Charts - FusionCharts style

FusionCharts Suite helps you create stunning charts, gauges, and maps in a jiffy for all your web and enterprise applications. Using it, you can build awesome dashboards, reports, analytics, monitors, surveys that blend aesthetic elegance and actionable insights.

In this artice by Sanket Nadhani, Shamasis Bhattacharya, and Pallav Nadhani, authors of FusionCharts Beginner's Guide, we will look at the features of FusionCharts. We will cover the following topics:

• Learn how to set up FusionCharts
• Build your first chart and configure basic parameters
• Understand the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and JavaScript Object Notation(JSON) data format supported by FusionCharts and different ways to provide it to the chart
• Learn how to build charts with multiple series and axes
• Create advanced charts such as Combination charts

2D game development with Monkey

Monkey is a new programming language that allows you to create apps on multiple platforms very easily. In this article by Michael Hartlef,author of Monkey Game Development Beginner's Guide we will work together through some Monkey game development basics and cover the following topics:

• How to load a script
• About projects and how we can create one
• The basic structure of a simple game
• How to draw circles and rectangles
• How to read keyboard input
• How to print messages to the browser window
• How to export your game to HTML5 and run it inside a browser

At first, we will experiment with Monk a little bit, by creating a project. Then, you will write your first lines of Monkey code, a typical Hello World app. And of course how to save your code and reopen it at a later point.

Of course, you will have to create your first little game, PONGO—a very simple one, but a game in all its glory. You want be a game developer, right? So you've got to do what a game developer has to do. Together, we will recreate one of the first video games in history, Pong. Never heard about it? As always, look at this Wikipedia page to get an idea about Pong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong

As a game developer, you have to start small, and this game is the perfect ground to build up your development skills with Monkey. After we are finished with the development of the little game, you can call yourself a Monkey programmer! You don't think so? Yes you are! You learned to walk, and now we will learn how to run. And as they say, practice makes perfect . The best way to learn is by creating some nice little games. So let's get down to business, shall we?

Gradebook-An Introduction

If you are using Moodle , you are likely to be delivering some form of course content or providing resources to others. This could be for supporting learning, training, or other educational activity. Many online courses, qualifications, or educational resources have a final goal which is likely to include required elements to be completed. The gradebook can be a valuable tool to help the teacher to manage the online course and track the progress of the student through the required elements. This article by Rebecca Barrington, author of Moodle Gradebook will introduce you to the gradebook and the key features it offers. It will outline the benefits of using the gradebook, the activities that can be graded and used within the gradebook, and the types of grades that can be used.