Development Notes

Computers have been a hobby of mine since I first started playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? on a Packard 486 growing up.

Today, I'm an autodidact learning web development and computer programming. Specific areas of interest include Drupal CMS and Python. And I would relish the opportunity to work on a computer game project!

I record my programming notes here, tagged with the relevant subjects.

"Accelerated C++" Ch. 5

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This chapter covered iterators, list containers, and new functions for strings, vectors, and lists.

As before, I’m just going to post an unordered list of definitions, jargon, types and functions, etc.

How to Add Twitter to a Drupal Site

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I installed the Twitter module today, and was thoughtful enough to create a photo album of instructions for any Googler that stumbles upon this page. Album captions explain everything.

It is very cool to have posts on Twitter and Pztrick.com automatically syndicating one another.

One tip not noted in the photo album: The default behavior is for all tweets, even those tweets announcing posts on your Drupal site, to be displayed in the Twitter block. This is redundant and perhaps undesirable.

"Accelerated C++" Ch. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4

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Gee, it is a lot of work to transfer my book notes from paper page to digital internet, but it does help me to understand and recall everything better. I won’t be summarizing everything as I had with the Python book(before I returned it to the MSU library at the end of spring, anyway), and everything is much more chaotic.

"Accelerated C++" by Koenig & Moo

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Before the end of spring semester, I purchased this book on learning C++, Accelerated C++. From what the authors have stated, this book teaches C++ using “advanced” library methods from the start, as opposed to teaching the logical progression of operators, built-in functions, and thereby essentially how to write your own library methods.

My Paint Program [wip]

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Screenshot first, writing later.

"Game Programming" Ch. 5 [wip]

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Entering these chapter notes is a huge chore, but I’m confident that it helps my understanding of and my retention to type them out. This chapter introduced drawing lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, fonts, and some other stuff…