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Brain Freeze: Rethinking curriculum for beginning programmers

Chapman University has handed me a challenge: Create a first programming class for students who are...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/19/2009

VSTS 2010: Using the Directed Graph Diagram part 1 of however many I do till I get distracted again

  Now that VSTS 2010 is available through the CTP program, MSDNAA, BizSpark and MSDN, you can...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/10/2009

VS 2010 Game Design: For RPG with Deconstruction and Destruction

What’s a game without deconstruction and destruction?  Back in the dark ages when I attended...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/07/2009

UML: Software Engineering Institute, Game Design guidance

Interesting isn’t it that the game design discussion on the Software Engineering Institute site...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/24/2009

UML: OMG and SEI

OMG (really) is the Object Management Group that can be found at https://www.uml.org , fortunate for...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/21/2009

UML: Use Cases, relationships Part 4

I have received a few comments about what happened with the DLL discussion I was having on this...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/18/2009

UML: Use Case Part 3

The Use Case is simply a way for you to take your high level requirements and put them into an image...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/15/2009

UML: Use Case Models part 1

What are Use Case Models? First of all: They are simple visual specification of user goals at a high...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/08/2009

UML IS BACK IN VISUAL STUDIO 2010

No more clunky interop with Visio like in VS 2005 and VS 2008.  UML is back in the Visual...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/06/2009

Have a happy 4th of July! Be Safe!

Fireworks were initially invented by the Chinese, and likely the medical protocol for missing hands...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/04/2009

XNA: Using Fonts in XNA 3.1

XNA 3.1 No difference in how to use Fonts in XNA 3.1 over XNA 2.0.  If you already know how to...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/19/2009

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...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/18/2009

Halo 3 blamed for killing of parents in 2007

Agenda: Ranting Research Articles Conclusion Ranting The defense attorneys and the prosecutors both...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/17/2009

Links for Game Dev, VS 2010, Win7 Dev & Win7 Administration, with a touch of Workflow

Here are some helpful links for your development as a developer and software architect A good blog...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/16/2009

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...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/12/2009

DLLs: Create an Abstract Class the Derive a Class

We aren’t quite at the point where we can use DLLs, but we need to take a look at the concept of the...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/10/2009

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...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/08/2009

Building Mobile Games: Building a garage (DLL) for your stuff (classes)

Now that is a great title: Some more stuff.  Well that is what the blog is about: Stuff. ...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/03/2009

Graphics programming on the Windows Mobile 6.0

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/18/2009

Using cultural forces to illustrate physics: the new Star Trek Movie, the XNA Racing Game and a equation of a spring

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/10/2009

New Game on the Creators Site! Zune game, with music!

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/09/2009

The physics of Avatars

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/06/2009

The physics of the motorized barstool

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/01/2009

Interesting console game: Motorized Barstool

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/31/2009

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

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/27/2009

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

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/26/2009

Back to the finite state discussion

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/25/2009

San Diego State University: 5 minute pong demo

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/24/2009

Building a Game: The Model, View, Controllers approach

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/20/2009

WOW: Creating a finite state machine in BASIC and Lua

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/19/2009

WOW: Artificial Intelligence, state machines

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/18/2009

WOW: Lua, World of Warcraft and AI

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/10/2009

WOW: Comparing WOW AddOn creation tools

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/26/2009

WOW: WOW AddonStudio

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/26/2009

WOW: Developing WOW applications using Visual Studio Shell

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/24/2009

What is good subject material? Courts have made the decision

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/21/2009

Game Idea: Galileo’s Conspiracy

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/13/2009

Game ideas

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/09/2009

Kodu is coming soon!

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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/06/2009

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...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/30/2008

So you got an XBox for Christmas and you want to build games for it!

Or maybe you were looking at this blog thinking: "Why didn't Sam finish up on how to build...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/29/2008

Jobs in computer science or information science appear to be solid!

Your homework today is to open the platformer template A slight change in course from building free...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/08/2008

Build cool Yuletide Gifts for your Friends, Family and others: Learning how to move things around Part 2

In the previous blog entry I talked about moving your sprite using the D-Key on the Gamepad or the...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/20/2008

Build fun games for gifts for your friends and family!

Build a Yuletide Game for your family and friends!  It's that time of year for many cultures...

Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/11/2008

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