http://www.brighthub.com/search/searchresults.aspx?o=DateDescending&tag=programming&orTags=0Posts matching tag 'programming'en-UShttp://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/2950.aspxFri, 04 Jul 2008 16:34:53 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:2950KatieGattoGet past the hype and find out the facts about Silverlight, a Microsoft product targeted to web based application developers. Silverlight is a new product, made by the folks at Microsoft, and targeted towards developers; more specifically web based application developers, who want to put their rich Internet applications online. That sentence raises...http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/11015.aspxThu, 09 Oct 2008 21:38:24 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:11015MatthewCaspersonIn part 3 of the series we finally got to draw some graphics to the screen. In part 4 we will take this one step further and make the game object interactive. We will also create a background level that the player can fly over. The majority of Flash games tend to be quite simple in nature. They are 5 – 10 minute distractions that are played during ...http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/53919.aspxWed, 28 Oct 2009 15:51:47 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:53919mutley457Why is programming hard? How can it be made easier and at the same time allow for the dynamic changes that occur with the introduction of software which make it more difficult and challenging? The only way is if there is a framework that takes into account these elements. What is Programming and What Problems are associated With it? Pro...http://www.brighthub.com/hubfolio/matthew-casperson/articles/45809.aspxMon, 17 Aug 2009 06:47:07 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:45809MatthewCaspersonIn this article we add a heads up display. The Heads Up Display, or HUD, is used to display information to the player like score, shield strength, current weapon etc. SDL does not have any text handling functionality built in, but there are a number of third party SDL libraries that provide this functionality. We will use one of these libraries, SD...http://www.brighthub.com/hubfolio/matthew-casperson/articles/45803.aspxMon, 17 Aug 2009 03:01:18 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:45803MatthewCaspersonThis tutorial shows you how to add powerups to the game. An essential part of any good shoot’em’up are the powerups. In our game the powerups allow the player to pick up new weapons, either to increase the power of the current type of weapon, or to use a completely new type of weapon. The powerup itself is like a basic enemy in that once it is adde...http://www.brighthub.com/hubfolio/matthew-casperson/articles/42088.aspxTue, 14 Jul 2009 02:19:13 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:42088MatthewCaspersonIn this article we will look at creating some parallax scrolling background layers. In the last article we look at getting a basic SDL application up and running. The ultimate goal of this tutorial series is to create a side scrolling shoot'em'up, so with the basic framework we have already laid down it's not time to start building up the game. In ...http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/43538.aspxTue, 28 Jul 2009 08:10:07 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:43538kivsterThe better the data structures of a programming language, the more concentration you can devote to coding a solution to a problem. Python has a bunch of extremely useful data structures. In this article we take a look at data structures and variables. Text Manipulation #!/bin/python message = "Welcome to the second part of A Guide to Linux Pro...http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/46780.aspxTue, 25 Aug 2009 12:32:49 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:46780kivsterArrays don't need to be a boring list of data. It is possible to create an array where the element can have an array of other values as it's own value, which, could hold other arrays also. You could create two or three-dimensional arrays, or more. This article will show you how! Introduction to Associative Arrays In the last article we ...http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/7691.aspxTue, 16 Sep 2008 08:38:58 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:7691mmcdonoughString datatypes may be among the least complex datatypes used in SQL programming, but there is still a lot of misuse of them in the database world. String Datatypes String datatypes are, by far, the most commonly used datatypes in any type of database. They’re also probably the easiest to understand. As the name suggests, string datatypes are comp...http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/43526.aspxTue, 28 Jul 2009 03:55:18 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:43526ProfacgilliesExcel is the most commonly used spreadsheet package in the world, not least because it comes as part of Microsoft Office. This is a lesson plan for an advanced training course for Excel for Windows 2007 including automating tasks and advanced data management using the new tabbed ribbon interface. Learning Outcomes At end of an intermediate training...