I wanted a mechanical keyboard with Windows keys. I have an IBM Model M keyboard, but its lack of Windows keys makes using Windows 10 more annoying than it should be. I don’t hunt and peck around the start menu, I’ve learnt to press the Windows key and just start typing the program I want to open.
I turned a Raspberry Pi 400 into a C devkit for the RC2014.
How I wrote a game in a week using just my web browser.
Let’s draw a lit 3D scene without defining any 3D objects. Yeah no it confused me too.
Today I figured out how to draw a line, and then make it wiggle using some basic maths.
Let’s spend this week learning about GLSL and making fancy images from code. The first one, a nice computationally intensive fractal.
Today’s lesson in curing headaches by banging your head on the wall until they stop involves joysticks and mice. This is a bit technical, so ensure your seat back and tray table are in the upright and locked position. Please keep all arms inside the ride at all times.
Drawing sprites on the Spectrum Next, using C. Or – how to learn the dark art of figuring out things you don’t understand. <!-more–>
Learning to program is an endurance game full of random side quests, dead ends and frustration. Rather than learning “how to do X”, which is specific, it’s much more useful learning “how to figure out how to do anything at all”.
Go look on StackOverflow at all the questions that come down to “I don’t understand what I’m trying to do in the first place, can you write my code for me?”. Here’s how to not be one of those people.
What better way to wait out the apocalypse than trying to learn a new system. Read how I dug out my ZX Spectrum Next and set about writing C code on it…
How to read and write JSON files using Python so that they can be used in your Python programs.
