computer programming

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The Computer Science Wizard Book

This is the legendary “Wizard Book”. It is dedicated to the spirit which lives inside the computer. This book covers the fundamentals of computer programming using Scheme which is a dialect of Lisp. One of the coolest things about this book is that there are lectures online you can watch that follow the book. The […]

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Design Interesting

Deconstructing the 8-bit Arcade Font

Last week, I explained to my son how 8-bit graphics worked. I can’t tell you how many sheets of graph paper I went through designing sprites back in the day. Although it was possible, I never made my own on Font on the Commodore 64. In his book Arcade Game Typography, type designer Toshi Omagari […]

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Game Developer Teaches an AI to Play the Game He Made

Dani, a game developer, recently made a game and decided to train an AI to play it. A couple of weeks ago I made a video “Making a Game in ONE Day (12 Hours)”, and today I’m trying to teach an A.I to play my game! Basically I’m gonna use Neural Networks to make the […]

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