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This is just a quick demonstation on how you can use the windows API to print colored text in your basic console application.
This is just a quick demonstation on how you can use the windows API to print colored text in your basic console application.
This is just a quick demonstation on how you can use the windows API to print colored text in your basic console application.
Poor Man's Paintshop, or MiniDraw, as it was called in school was a project that I did for my CS108 class freshman year. MiniDraw is a Java MDI vector graphics creation program that allows the loading of saving of images in XML and exports pictures to PGN format. As a drawing program, it's one of the most typical inheritence projects to do for a programming course. And as far as pathetic little Java draw programs go, this one is on the top of the heap. For more information on this specific project, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/minidraw. For more programming information and free source code, both Java and otherwise, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/coding
This program will allow you to play a regular game of tetris on any platform with a Java VM, pretty sweet, no? Maybe it's not. Tetris is a quintessential programming project and every hack out there has written his own copy. The difference between those programs and this one is that my tetris game will play itself - it's got built-in, and potentially extensible, AI that will play tetris. For tetris buffs, it also has "Malice Mode" and "Happy Mode" that, when enabled, will either try to screw you up by giving you the worst possible blocks at the worst time, or will toss you a bone every now and then when you need it. Give it a whirl. For more information about this specific project, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/tetris. For more programming information and free source, both Java and otherwise, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/coding
This is just a quick demonstation on how you can use the windows API to print colored text in your basic console application.
I'm currently tinkering around with the idea of making a massively multiplayer space warfare/trading game. In the past, I've used sprites and DirectDraw to do all my 2D game projects, but DirectDraw is being phased out and was rather inconvienent (if you wanted a rotating sprite, you'd have to get lots of pictures of the same object and flip them). What a pain. Recently I've started messing around with OpenGL (IMHO a much nicer API than DirectX) and I wrote this demo to explore the orthographic projection, which can be used to do 2D graphics at 3D speed (ironically, this is often much faster). Not that all the game objects have to be 2D, as the big rotating planet in the background demonstrates. For more code visit my site at http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/coding
Professional programmers in the industry use serious project management software tools to coordinate development efforts. This is not one of those tools. Of course, it won't put you back several thousand dollars either. The main value to be had here is that Project Notebook is an excellent demonstration of data-binding in C# (something I was unable to find elsewhere). DataGrids, DataSets, Listboxes, Combo Boxes, Edit controls are all wired up together with very little explicitely-written code. Data is persisted as XML using a schema built in the .NET GUI. While all this database-related stuff is kind of dull - this is exactly the kind of thing that you would want to know about if you were writting any editting tools for game development.
This is just a quick demonstation on how you can use the windows API to print colored text in your basic console application.
I'm currently tinkering around with the idea of making a massively multiplayer space warfare/trading game. In the past, I've used sprites and DirectDraw to do all my 2D game projects, but DirectDraw is being phased out and was rather inconvienent (if you wanted a rotating sprite, you'd have to get lots of pictures of the same object and flip them). What a pain. Recently I've started messing around with OpenGL (IMHO a much nicer API than DirectX) and I wrote this demo to explore the orthographic projection, which can be used to do 2D graphics at 3D speed (ironically, this is often much faster). Not that all the game objects have to be 2D, as the big rotating planet in the background demonstrates. For more code visit my site at http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/coding
Poor Man's Paintshop, or MiniDraw, as it was called in school was a project that I did for my CS108 class freshman year. MiniDraw is a Java MDI vector graphics creation program that allows the loading of saving of images in XML and exports pictures to PGN format. As a drawing program, it's one of the most typical inheritence projects to do for a programming course. And as far as pathetic little Java draw programs go, this one is on the top of the heap. For more information on this specific project, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/minidraw. For more programming information and free source code, both Java and otherwise, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/coding
This program will allow you to play a regular game of tetris on any platform with a Java VM, pretty sweet, no? Maybe it's not. Tetris is a quintessential programming project and every hack out there has written his own copy. The difference between those programs and this one is that my tetris game will play itself - it's got built-in, and potentially extensible, AI that will play tetris. For tetris buffs, it also has "Malice Mode" and "Happy Mode" that, when enabled, will either try to screw you up by giving you the worst possible blocks at the worst time, or will toss you a bone every now and then when you need it. Give it a whirl. For more information about this specific project, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/tetris. For more programming information and free source, both Java and otherwise, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/coding
Professional programmers in the industry use serious project management software tools to coordinate development efforts. This is not one of those tools. Of course, it won't put you back several thousand dollars either. The main value to be had here is that Project Notebook is an excellent demonstration of data-binding in C# (something I was unable to find elsewhere). DataGrids, DataSets, Listboxes, Combo Boxes, Edit controls are all wired up together with very little explicitely-written code. Data is persisted as XML using a schema built in the .NET GUI. While all this database-related stuff is kind of dull - this is exactly the kind of thing that you would want to know about if you were writting any editting tools for game development.
Poor Man's Paintshop, or MiniDraw, as it was called in school was a project that I did for my CS108 class freshman year. MiniDraw is a Java MDI vector graphics creation program that allows the loading of saving of images in XML and exports pictures to PGN format. As a drawing program, it's one of the most typical inheritence projects to do for a programming course. And as far as pathetic little Java draw programs go, this one is on the top of the heap. For more information on this specific project, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/minidraw. For more programming information and free source code, both Java and otherwise, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/coding
This program will allow you to play a regular game of tetris on any platform with a Java VM, pretty sweet, no? Maybe it's not. Tetris is a quintessential programming project and every hack out there has written his own copy. The difference between those programs and this one is that my tetris game will play itself - it's got built-in, and potentially extensible, AI that will play tetris. For tetris buffs, it also has "Malice Mode" and "Happy Mode" that, when enabled, will either try to screw you up by giving you the worst possible blocks at the worst time, or will toss you a bone every now and then when you need it. Give it a whirl. For more information about this specific project, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/tetris. For more programming information and free source, both Java and otherwise, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/coding
This is just a quick demonstation on how you can use the windows API to print colored text in your basic console application.
I'm currently tinkering around with the idea of making a massively multiplayer space warfare/trading game. In the past, I've used sprites and DirectDraw to do all my 2D game projects, but DirectDraw is being phased out and was rather inconvienent (if you wanted a rotating sprite, you'd have to get lots of pictures of the same object and flip them). What a pain. Recently I've started messing around with OpenGL (IMHO a much nicer API than DirectX) and I wrote this demo to explore the orthographic projection, which can be used to do 2D graphics at 3D speed (ironically, this is often much faster). Not that all the game objects have to be 2D, as the big rotating planet in the background demonstrates. For more code visit my site at http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/coding
Professional programmers in the industry use serious project management software tools to coordinate development efforts. This is not one of those tools. Of course, it won't put you back several thousand dollars either. The main value to be had here is that Project Notebook is an excellent demonstration of data-binding in C# (something I was unable to find elsewhere). DataGrids, DataSets, Listboxes, Combo Boxes, Edit controls are all wired up together with very little explicitely-written code. Data is persisted as XML using a schema built in the .NET GUI. While all this database-related stuff is kind of dull - this is exactly the kind of thing that you would want to know about if you were writting any editting tools for game development.
Poor Man's Paintshop, or MiniDraw, as it was called in school was a project that I did for my CS108 class freshman year. MiniDraw is a Java MDI vector graphics creation program that allows the loading of saving of images in XML and exports pictures to PGN format. As a drawing program, it's one of the most typical inheritence projects to do for a programming course. And as far as pathetic little Java draw programs go, this one is on the top of the heap. For more information on this specific project, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/minidraw. For more programming information and free source code, both Java and otherwise, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/coding
This program will allow you to play a regular game of tetris on any platform with a Java VM, pretty sweet, no? Maybe it's not. Tetris is a quintessential programming project and every hack out there has written his own copy. The difference between those programs and this one is that my tetris game will play itself - it's got built-in, and potentially extensible, AI that will play tetris. For tetris buffs, it also has "Malice Mode" and "Happy Mode" that, when enabled, will either try to screw you up by giving you the worst possible blocks at the worst time, or will toss you a bone every now and then when you need it. Give it a whirl. For more information about this specific project, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/tetris. For more programming information and free source, both Java and otherwise, visit http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/coding