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July 2008 - Posts

Monday, July 28, 2008 2:34 PM

Make your code more maintainable: The evils of the Return statement

What does it mean to make code more maintainable? Certainly obfuscated code is hard to understand, by definition. A big part of maintainability is making it easier for others to read and understand what the code is doing. Your code may have been working
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Monday, July 14, 2008 11:57 AM

Cellular Automata: The Game of Life

I remember my dad getting a copy of Scientific American magazine every month when I was a kid. He kept back issues on a shelf in our living room. I remember being fascinated by the issue (Oct 1970) which described John Conway’s Game of Life . A few decades
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:18 PM

A WPF version of the Typing Tutor game

In my prior post I show a Windows Form version of the typing tutor game. Here is a WPF version. Start Visual Studio 2008. Choose File->New->Project->VB->WPF Application. Dbl-Click the form in the designer to open the code window. Paste in
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