Noah11012 articles - 38 total
Using SDL2: Events
Games by definition need the quality of being interactive in order to be considered one. A video game...
String Internalization
Many modern interpreted programming languages like Python and Lua have a builti...
C++ References
C++ is backward compatible with C so it inherited pointers. A quick recap if yo...
Socket Programming in C: Communication Styles
Being there are multiple different types of sockets available for our use, we w...
Small Patterns and Idioms in C
Patterns are constructs that programmers use to solve a general recurring probl...
Socket Programming in C: What is a Socket?
This is the post that marks the beginning of this series. A journey, when arriv...
Socket Programming in C: Introduction
Today I am announcing a new series that is underway. The series will teach sock...
Reading and Writing Files in C: Part 5
Just as I promised, we will write and subsequently read back a C structure! One...
Reading and Writing Files in C: Part 4
For the last three posts, we have only handled text and nothing more. But now w...
Function Pointers in C
My last article was about a topic that most beginners found challenging when fi...
Double Pointers in C/C++
One source of confusion among new C programmers is pointers. At first glance, t...
Reading and Writing Files in C: Part 3
In the last section of the previous article, I promised that we would discuss s...
Reading and Writing Files in C: Part 2
The last article in this series dealt with characters and using loops with fget...
Reading and Writing Files in C
If you've ever used a higher level language's file I/O capabilities like that o...
Using SDL2: Viewports
When rendering a scene or world not everything will be inside the boundaries of the window. Only a pa...
Start using asserts!
I've seen people code the way they do because they didn't know an important det...
Using SDL2: Drawing Rectangles
Along with the new 2D hardware accelerated API in SDL2, we can draw primitive shapes like rectangles....
Using SDL2: Update for Pong
Sorry for not updating sooner. I was busy with several things including building my own PC, installin...
Headers for Structs in C
What do I mean by "headers" in structures? It's the same notation in other prog...
Arrays vs. Linked List
One of the first things you learn how to do in a programming language is how to...
CLibs: A Package Manager for C
Many modern-day languages like Python and Rust have their own standard package ...
Using SDL: Pong 4
Our game is almost done. We have our Ball on the screen and it moves. But, the motion of the ball is...
Bitwise Operations in C/C++
Maybe you've stumbled across a perplexing and scary looking line of code: (...
Using SDL2: Pong 3
For this post, we'll get the ball on the screen. First thing I did was to create a ball class called,...
Iterators in C
Consider this article a companion piece to my article on containers: https://de...
Using SDL2: Pong 2
Continuing from where we left off, the Paddle class was created to handle several aspects of a paddle...
What I would like to see in containers for C
Unlike C++ which has a rich assortment of containers for basic and more demandi...
SDL2 Update
Where have I been? It makes me glad when people enjoy my articles and it makes me frustrat...
Using SDL2: Pong
We're going to jump straight in and make a Pong clone in SDL2 and C++. I've already created three fil...
Using SDL2: 2D Accelerated Renderering
Psst! Do you want to know a way to get your SDL2 applications running faster? Sweet! Sounds awesome....