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Learning Qlik Sense: The Official Guide

Learning Qlik Sense: The Official Guide

By : Christopher Ilacqua, Henric Cronström, James Richardson
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Learning Qlik Sense: The Official Guide

Learning Qlik Sense: The Official Guide

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By: Christopher Ilacqua, Henric Cronström, James Richardson
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Overview of this book

Learning Qlik® Sense is for anyone seeking to understand and utilize the revolutionary new approach to business intelligence offered by Qlik Sense. Familiarity with the basics of business intelligence will be helpful when picking up this book, but not essential.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What is a game engine anyway?
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What will using UE4 cost me?
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Why don't I just program my own engine and save the 5 percent?
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A game's overview – the Play-Reward-Growth loop
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Coding with C++
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1. Coding with C++
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Setting up our project
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Creating your first C++ program
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What is building and compiling?
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Summary
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2. Variables and Memory
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2. Variables and Memory
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Variables
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3. If, Else, and Switch
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3. If, Else, and Switch
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Branching
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Controlling the flow of your program
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Using logical operators
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Our first example with Unreal Engine
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Summary
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4. Looping
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4. Looping
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The while loop
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The do/while loop
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The for loop
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Looping with Unreal Engine
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5. Functions and Macros
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Functions
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An example of a <cmath> library function – sqrt()
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Writing our own functions
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Functions with arguments
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Functions that return values
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Variables, revisited
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Macros
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Macros with arguments
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6. Objects, Classes, and Inheritance
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6. Objects, Classes, and Inheritance
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struct objects
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class versus struct
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Getters and setters
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Constructors and destructors
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Class inheritance
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Multiple inheritance
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Putting your classes into headers
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7. Dynamic Memory Allocation
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7. Dynamic Memory Allocation
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Dynamic memory allocation
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Regular arrays
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C++ style dynamic size arrays (new[] and delete[])
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Dynamic C-style arrays
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8. Actors and Pawns
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8. Actors and Pawns
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Actors versus pawns
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Creating a world to put your actors in
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The UE4 editor
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Starting from scratch
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Adding an actor to the scene
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Creating a player entity
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Writing C++ code that controls the game's character
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Creating non-player character entities
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Displaying a quote from each NPC dialog box
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9. Templates and Commonly Used Containers
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9. Templates and Commonly Used Containers
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Debugging the output in UE4
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UE4's TArray<T>
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TSet<T>
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TMap<T, S>
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C++ STL versions of commonly used containers
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10. Inventory System and Pickup Items
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10. Inventory System and Pickup Items
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Declaring the backpack
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Base class PickupItem
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Drawing the player inventory
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11. Monsters
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11. Monsters
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Landscape
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Monsters
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Monster attacks on the player
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12. Spell Book
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12. Spell Book
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The particle systems
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Spell class actor
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Attaching right mouse click to cast spell
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Creating other spells
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Index
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Index

Overview of an application's life cycle

As we begin our overview of a Qlik Sense application life cycle, it is best to start at the center of a Qlik Sense community collaboration, which is called the hub. The hub is made up of a number of streams that contain applications that are published by authors as well as users who can extend these applications by adding personal sheets and data stories. The Qlik Sense Management Console (QMC) governs this publishing through streams that have security rules. This approach provides the highly governed system that IT needs, while granting users the ability to explore information and share and collaborate on their findings.

Let's dig a bit deeper in each of these areas.

Overview of the Qlik Sense hub

Starting application authoring

The need for a Qlik Sense application often starts with simple questions, such as these: why are sales down in my region? What products are not selling well? Are there opportunities to sell additional products to existing customers...

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