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March 12, 2008

Over all I’m yet to finish my game as I did not have enough time to learn all the coding I required I did how ever manage to produce a working executable which I believe shows off what I was planning to achieve as a finished game, I have learnt a lot about SDL with in the past month including how to create a black window and then put a bitmap or any other image format onto the windows back round, I have then learnt how to place images onto of that bitmap and use clippings with different mouse events to display different pictures, I found the hardest part of this project was working out how to monitor where the mouse was at all times…. This is the reason why the project was not finished, I’m as of yet still not sure how I would store which blocks have been clicked on so that the user can actually complete the picture and there for finish the game, I believe this can be done by storing the information into an array but I will need to research further into SDL to find the answer, I believe that over all I have a better understanding of C++ and its concepts, in the future I believe I will find it easier to complete my programming tasks and my over all understanding of the subject has grown thanks to this project.

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January 29, 2008

Whilst Completing each of the Practical’s in the TL learning Style I have found that C and C++ arrays can be hard to use and I found it difficult to change each number in the array separately (as we had to do in the Piggy Bank Alpha String)I have however found that using C++ has been easier and quicker than using C however I do feel that without the C background it would have been hard to jump straight into C++, I have found that using the syntax helps a lot and it’s no longer as repetitive as C and there is no need to rewrite each command two or three times, I also like the fact that Variables can now be places any where instead of at the top of each program.I believe that the changes made after Christmas where a very god idea, working in the TL learning Lectures has really helped me to progress through my programming and understand each section easily, I think these changes should be kept from now on as each student then has the choice of choosing the style they can learn in best.

 

Keywords: C, C++, Practical, Programming

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September 21, 2007

I though I would post a random Blog saying hi to every one, Ill be starting at Reading on the 30th of Oct studying Computer Science and Cybernetics, Ill also be staying in Whiteknights ^^

Keywords: Computer Science, Cybernetics, Intro2007, Whiteknights

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