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 […]

Start of the 2D course

Last week, the 2D course started here at Campus Gotland – oh the joy! We started off by spending a couple of days life drawing, and reading about how to catch the “essence of a pose”. I’ve been doing some life drawing before I started here, but this is the first time I understood that the most important thing is not to “copy” the model in front of you, but to draw the feeling, the esesnce, of the pose. Starting […]

Andra veckan med progg

Denna vecka gick vi igenom arrays, pointers och minnen.
VI fick reda på olika typer av arrays och hur pointers och minnen fungerade.
Under torsdagen och fredagen hade vi våra första föreläsningar om hur man gör ett spel med ”grafik”. Spelet var pong ett av de enklare spelen. Det kan även nämnas att bara för att mekaniken är enkel så kan koden bakom det bli lite komplicerat. Det är objekt som ska interagera med varandra och kolidera.
Vi gick igenom koden för att […]

GAME PROGRAMMING I: WEEK TWO

This week we went over the following:

Functions
Arrays
String
Memory
Pointers
Dynamic Memory

We are still covering material that I had previously learned from my earier educations, but it is nice to get a reminder of how it all works and a refresher of how to use them.
We also made a version of Pong, our first game of the course. Pong, for those that do not know, is a game played by two people who each control a paddle on either side of the screen. The object […]