I started this blog having written about 10 small programs in Python and getting most of them to work - 90 pages into my first python book.
I started to code in BASIC on a BBC Micro emulator (mostly making sprites. And I started building a boxing game, then turned it into the beginnings of a pong game with the faces for balls. A little bit of sound and mathematical psychedelic animated patterns.) on my family Acorn Archimedes. Which helped me get the high score in high school algebra - 98%. Many years later and after moving away from maths into creative fields, I failed at C# then I did a few days with C++ and Javascript and liked them but then I found python and fell in love, but Javascript seems faster - I have achieved proficiency in Javascript (tested on pluralsight) - but I'm still a beginner at it. So I've been doing python for about 8 months (not every day or even every week, but my plan was to do an hour of coding every day. My plan now is to do 1hrs/day for 6-7days/wk in LibertyBASIC for prototyping and either GoDot engine or Javascript.) and got as far as 84pgs into my first python book including assignments (I went back to the beginning after a break to refresh.)
My goal is to use game engines and BASIC to build prototypes, game demos and finished games and software; to build my own indie video games based on my art, writing and design. and hire my javascript programming, 2d animation and artist friends to help with my video game art projects.
I started out in Python - it is a language I still love, however: now I'm studying Javascript.
I'll talk about things I did wrong and what I learned. Both in game dev/software dev and business concepts. Hopefully I can chart my progression on this blog.
For more of my stuff check out my website: http://polydina.com
I've been away from coding for a year and a half.
As is my way I've forgotten the specifics of just about everything.
But my mind has retained the understanding and the general gist of what I learned.
Which is not enough to really build anything, though I have been working on websites in that time, mo…
I found this code for "raw html" in wordpress to create a drop-down card with image and text when you hover over the button.
Trying to figure out how to change this code so that the card drops down when you click the button instead of hover?
here's my suggested code:<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
&…
Incongruity
The relevant use of this term in business is something that just doesn’t make sense.
1. Economics
I feel we’re pretty lucky in New Zealand, that though the world economy is fraught with problems, many of our economical institutions and constructs seem to work. Which poses a dilhemma for me…
Capitalising on:
1. Unexpected Success
2. Unexpected Failure
3. Unexpected Outside Events
So my big idea is to find a solution to my design problem. I have a design idea but it has no form. The design is a 36-page document describing a narrative for an interactive house.
1. I have recently tested my kno…
The assignment was to adapt the guessing game to reverse the process,
by allowing the player to choose the number and let the computer try to guess it,
then to write this game as pseudocode.
Let me know how well you think I did?
declare variables
import random
def s…
So I used python 3 for ios on my ipad to do part one of this assignment.
Part One: create a guess my number game:
numSpecial = 0 time = 0 guesses = 0 g = 0 i = 0 import random numSpecial= random.randint(1,9) print ("guess my nmber, biatch! between 1 and 10") …
Q: assignment that flips a coin 100 times and gives you the total amount of heads and tails.
A: I started by making it flip a coin 5 times so I could easily watch it working and fix bugs.
I don't think it actually flips the coin exactly 100 times, can you spot the error?
It took me a…
tip15 = 0
tip20 = 0
price = input ("how much did your meal cost?")
tip15 = int (price) * .15
tip20 = int (price) * .2
print ("A 20% tip would be ",tip20," and a 15% tip would be",tip15)
input ()
I wrote a tipper program for an exercise.
It's a simple program and it took 20mins to writ…
So it took one day to write and bug fix.
Then another day to go through guesswork and figuring it out - to get the program to work.
I haven't got up to while loops in the book, so it took a while - a few errors before I got it working.
And I certainly haven't got as far as def method…
