Let's talk about the last year!

I guess the biggest change from the perspective of this blog is that I started actually posting here again. I got inspired by RPGs--as is often the case, I admit--and started my Dungeons & Design series, and I think it was mostly the fact of posting those that got me into the habit of posting about other subjects. ( Read more... )

Well, that's finished, then. You can play my final project in the form I submitted it here--click the arrow in the upper left to start the game ( Read more... )

a.k.a.: Lasers, pew pew!

This week and next week are the same project. We're doing an implementation of the old classic asteroids, though our version has sounds and actual sprite-based graphics because the professors programmed a GUI capable of handling such things ( Read more... )

This week was all about classes and objects and object-oriented programming.

Hmm. It's a good thing this class doesn't cover hardware or I'd be writing about master/slave systemsAnyway, this week we programmed a graphical implementation of Blackjack. To my surprise, the graphical part was really easy--it was the logic of getting the cards to work ( Read more... )

This week was programming an implementation of Memory (the card game) and a big lesson on lists and dictionaries. There was also a lecture that was mostly devoted to the concept of iterative improvement and how important it is to programming ( Read more... )

I don't have as much to report this week. We learned how to use lists and tuples (etymology if, like me, you had no idea what that was), and programmed Pong ( Read more... )

There was a forum thread (link provided even though it might be inaccessible) where one of the people in the class mentioned that a lot of the code they were reading was pretty inelegant and clunky, specifically citing the example of using a boolean global variable instead of using the timer.is_running() function to determine whether to award ( Read more... )

I'm growing increasingly concerned that the processes I'm learning in this class aren't necessarily transferable, though I suppose that's also true of people who spend a long time with one company and have to work with their proprietary systems. See, the class is about learning to program through making games, and to facilitate this, the teachers ( Read more... )

Wherein I learn not to blindly trust advice from people who are supposed to be my betters ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure this is the week that a lot of people flee in terror when they realize that programming is just math with more words. And not only that, the words are things like "random.randrange()" and "print" and "def" and "if/elif/else" and not actual sentences ( Read more... )