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Tag Archives: games
Puzzle: Zero rows and columns in an array in C#
This puzzle is given as a coding example in the book Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. The puzzle is: Write an algorithm such that if an element in an M x N matrix is 0, its entire … Continue reading
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Tagged arrays, C#, C# programming, coding challenges, example, example program, games, puzzles, Windows Forms programming
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Book Review: Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games
Super Scratch Programming Adventure! Learn to Program By Making Cool Games $24.95, 160 pages, 2012 By the LEAD Project No Starch Press ISBN 13: 978-1593274092 A great, non-threatening introduction to programming This book’s subtitle is, “Learn to program by making … Continue reading
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Make silly eyes that track the mouse without flicker in C#
The example Make silly eyes that track the mouse in C# shows how to make eyes track the mouse position, but if you look closely as that program runs you will see a noticeable flicker. The solution is quite simple: … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, C# programming, example, example program, games, geometry, graphics, mouse position, MousePosition, track mouse, track the mouse, unit vector, Windows Forms programming
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Make silly eyes that track the mouse in C#
This example uses a Timer named tmrTick to track the mouse. Its Tick event handler, which is shown in the following code, updates the eyes. // The previous mouse location. private Point OldMousePos = new Point(-1, -1); // See if … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, C# programming, example, example program, games, geometry, graphics, mouse position, MousePosition, track mouse, track the mouse, unit vector, Windows Forms programming
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Solution: The 40 pound stone puzzle
This is the solution to The 40 pound stone puzzle. If you haven’t read the puzzle yet, click here before you read the solution. This puzzle similar to some of the puzzles in my book Interview Puzzles Dissected. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 40 pound stone, algorithms, books, farmer, forty pound stone, games, interview puzzles, Interview Puzzles Dissected, puzzles
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Puzzle: The 40 pound stone
This is a variation of a puzzle given on Car Talk. It’s similar to some of the puzzles in my book Interview Puzzles Dissected. A farmer uses a double-pan balance and a 40 pound stone to measure 40 pound weights: … Continue reading
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Make a hangman game in C#
Special thanks to Jeff Scarterfield for the skeleton drawing used by the program. This example builds a simple hangman game that uses the dictionary created by the example Use LINQ to select words of certain lengths from a file in … Continue reading
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Tagged algorithms, C#, C# programming, example, example program, files, games, graphics, hangman, hangman game, random, strings, Windows Forms programming
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Make a cannon game in C#
This simple cannon game randomly positions a target house. Then when you click the Shoot button, it gets angle and speed information for the cannon and enables a timer. To keep the graphics and timing simple, the program uses a … Continue reading