Second week and Pointers!

This week we have gone through some new things that I have never actually done before. The main thing being pointers and memory allocation. Arrays and functions were also brought up, but I already knew the basics around these. Another thing that we learnt was type casting. I have always used the C way of casting, for example (float)variable, but the right way to do it in C++ is to type static_cast(variable); to cast the variable to a float value.
Memory allocation is something […]

The second week of programming, also known as hell.

So going on into the second week I felt very confident, I had picked up all of the required material and I had a good grasp of everything we had gone through during the lectures. I felt like that week was maybe a 5/10 on a difficulty scale, doable but hard.
Now that the second week is done I can confrim that we have now started going with a speed very close to the one of light. This week we went […]

Game Programming III – Second Week

This week I finished my linked list. I used templates for the data given to the nodes, and so all functions for the list are written in the header file. All methods have been completed and tested, now all that’s left for the linked list to be fully completed is some kind of unit testing.

In class we have been creating a UDP Chat, which also helped us to get ready for our second assignment, which is about writing a web […]

Pong!

Second week into the course and the focus has turned to games! For the last couple of days we have been working with building a working version of the classic game Pong, using the library SDL to create a visual window.
Pong is a very old game (Original arcade version released 1972) and also one of the most famous retro games. The game is a simple abstraction of tennis, split with two paddles, controlled by players, on each end of the screen […]

Pong!

Second week into the course and the focus has turned to games! For the last couple of days we have been working with building a working version of the classic game Pong, using the library SDL to create a visual window.
Pong is a very old game (Original arcade version released 1972) and also one of the most famous retro games. The game is a simple abstraction of tennis, split with two paddles, controlled by players, on each end of the screen […]

Game programming I – Week 2

This week we have started to learn about and work with Arrays, Functions, Strings, Pointers and we’ve also discussed Memory and the two types of memory – stack and heap.
Stack memory is the general type of memory which is allocated automatically, heap memory is allocated and deallocated by the programmer. Memory leakage is when the stack memory is not correctly deallocated and is the biggest reason for games and other programs crashing as they are hard to remember and easy to […]

Game programming I – Week 2

This week we have started to learn about and work with Arrays, Functions, Strings, Pointers and we’ve also discussed Memory and the two types of memory – stack and heap.
Stack memory is the general type of memory which is allocated automatically, heap memory is allocated and deallocated by the programmer. Memory leakage is when the stack memory is not correctly deallocated and is the biggest reason for games and other programs crashing as they are hard to remember and easy to […]

Game programming wk.2

I thought that week one was intensive until we started week two. In five days we managed to learn functions, pointers and then jump straight in SDL() and make Pong.
While doing that we got to learn a new data structure called struct, struct is a group of data elements, these elements called members. Using struct increased efficiency when creating similar instances of a class or a struct.

struct Paddle

{

float x,y; //The X and Y coordinates of the paddle

//An array that has […]

Second week of programming, Introduction to SDL.

So the second week of C++ programming has gone by, this has been a lot more difficult with a lot more things to learn. Including dynamic memory and pointers. We have also made a pong game using the SDL library, or well we did not do it from scratch. We followed our teachers instructions.
Here is some examples of what we have learned, that i did not know before.
& is a pointer for a specific variables memory address.
* points at the […]

Second week of programming, Introduction to SDL.

So the second week of C++ programming has gone by, this has been a lot more difficult with a lot more things to learn. Including dynamic memory and pointers. We have also made a pong game using the SDL library, or well we did not do it from scratch. We followed our teachers instructions.
Here is some examples of what we have learned, that i did not know before.
& is a pointer for a specific variables memory address.
* points at the […]

Sorting Arrays

This is the second week of this course and we are still moving in a fast pace. My prior experience with programming in Java (four years ago) helped me to keep up during the first week, but this week’s assignments were a challenge for me.
One of these assignments were to sort an array filled with randomly generated numbers. There are many different ways you can sort an array in C++, each with benefits and disadvantages. The first method I tried […]

Sorting Arrays

This is the second week of this course and we are still moving in a fast pace. My prior experience with programming in Java (four years ago) helped me to keep up during the first week, but this week’s assignments were a challenge for me.
One of these assignments were to sort an array filled with randomly generated numbers. There are many different ways you can sort an array in C++, each with benefits and disadvantages. The first method I tried […]