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Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:12 PM

Brain Freeze: Thinking about beginning programming classes

So far in my previous blog posts, I talked about the following items: Use of C, which is a requirement for the class Write and test your first program for security issues (Intro to C#) Use media in your programs (Designing Applications)    
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:19 PM

Back to building DLLs: Determining if a class is abstract or public

  In the world of VS 2008 and VS 2010, as well as all of the older development tools from Microsoft, the creation of DLLs is fully supported .  But just how do we utilize the DLLs?  First for the concept of DLLs to make sense, we need to
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Friday, June 12, 2009 10:04 AM

DLL: Creating Objects or Concrete Classes

First off tip of the hat to Tamer Maher: Tamer Maher in Egypt suggested that I include links to the many game programming sites that I like, these will be included in the next posting of this blog. Thank you Tamer for your input! See his blog at http://TamerMaher.spaces.live.com
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Monday, June 08, 2009 8:46 AM

DLLs: Important stuff, and questions about Angelina Jolie’s use of DLLs

Original title for this blog:   OMG: I appeared to have made a commitment to show how to build a dll in a previous blog and Angelina Jolie tells her story about DLLs I am sorry, I made the statement: “In this blog, we will create a simple DLL that
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:53 AM

The physics of the motorized barstool

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Friday, March 27, 2009 3:33 PM

Programming languages: C# versus F#, building AI and Physics

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Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:59 PM

FUN: Use UML to map your great game idea design processes

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Friday, February 13, 2009 2:57 PM

Game Idea: Galileo’s Conspiracy

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 4:08 AM

Building a Breakout game and Steve Jobs

Taking a slight diversion, the rumors about Steve Job's health do not seem to be confirmed, and let's hope this innovator is healthy. I hope that he is just sick of MacWorld and is hanging around with his wife and four children, working on the next new
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:01 PM

Why start game design by using Popfly to do your design?

You have basically two choices in getting started with your game: 1. Pull out the crayons and start drawing game levels, if you are wanting to get started quickly, you will need to make it a side scroller like the template game: Platformer, which shows
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:43 AM

Creating a web presence, part 2

Creating Videos are an important in improving your web presence. Google YouTube is a popular way to go, but you are limited in the size and length of your video to around 10 minutes. To get around that limitations, one of the easy ways to get more time
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Friday, August 29, 2008 5:53 PM

Creating a web presence

As Dan Waters points on his excellent blog post about working in the game industry , you have to be known to be hired. If you are playing games on line, make sure to go for the badges and protect your gamertags. You need to blog, and you need to blog
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:37 AM

What you need to get to start on Web and Video/Console Game Design

Here are the items you will need to have to follow along with this blog, for college students attending an accredited college in the US, all of the following are free, except for the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), if you attend a school that has MSDNAA
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:50 AM

New Zune Review: Create games on the Zune

Wow, with the new CTP release of the XNA Game Studio 3.0 you can create games that work on the Zune. Since we only talk about things you can do using the Express products on this blog, you will need to download VC# 2008 Express. However, if you have access
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Sunday, February 03, 2008 7:33 PM

Pong in 5 Minutes and a careful analysis of Point

Investigating the Point concept in XNA and Pong What is the Point in XNA? Take a look at this video, and use the code snippets below to follow along, the simple graphic is included. ";" mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/devschool/WindowsLiveWriter/cec3fdfd5651_EBBF/video23e853588e26.jpg"
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