I didn't progress much on my game and I definitly didn't work on it full time, but at least I have lots of good reasons for it. First of all I studied quite a lot for the national competition in informatics here, CodeCup took some of my time and so did GetACoder.com.
Anyway let's talk (I mean, I'll write, you'll be reading. Sorry but that's how it works.) about youtube. Wow! How many times have you seen the same type of comments on different videos from different users lately?
"{number of dislikes} people are idiots!"
"{number of dislikes} people are {something bad related to the video, ex. "think the internet is tubes"}"
"{something said 504*10^278 times already} THUMBS UP IF YOU AGREE!"
"Thumbs up if you think this is better than justin bieber!"
"Mum, I'm gonna kill {number of dislikes} people with {number of likes} people" classic act.
What a bunch of uncreative, thumbs-up maniacs. Obviously, the thumbs up system is the root cause of all the copy & pasting in the comments section. I wonder what the people behind this system, the people at Google are thinking. What did they expect from a comment thumbs up system? :O
On the other hand, how much creativness can you expect from a youtube video's comments? And nobody pressures me to read the comments... anyway, maybe I should worry about my own creativity and productivity.
As for the boring subject today, it's a blog. Read by nobody, but still, it's a blog.
Πέμπτη 6 Ιανουαρίου 2011
Σάββατο 25 Δεκεμβρίου 2010
Merry Christmas!
It's Christmas! And even though I'm an atheist, I couldn't think of a better title.
So, Merry Christmas.
I just took a decision. I decided to start making a game. I had the idea for this game for a few months now, about a month ago I started working on it with flash and php only to find out that making a game in flash and php is way more difficult that developing a game in C++. Many weeks later, I still think the game - if ever completed - would be fun. Really fun! So today, 2 days since my holidays started I decided to start working on it again. This time I'll use C++ and SFML. Obviously I'm talking about a 2D game (I still don't feel very comfortable with using OpenGL and I'd hate using anything not cross-platform).
It's a strategy game. No, not a very complicated one (I hope!). It's nothing too ambitious, completing this project seems generally realistic :P. I'll propably do the development on windows, but I'll be testing it on my linux machine every now and then. Platform Independence is very important to me. So, for the next 2 weeks I'll be working on it full time (ok, almost full time).
In my first 2 hours of working on the project, I made a Logging class and generally designed the Object-Oriented code of the game. Basic classes, files etc. Now I have a pretty good idea of how the game and the code will look like. At them moment, the game starts, displays a black window, writes something to the logfile and quits. Not too bad.
Next topic of the day: It's Chrstmas. I told you, didn't I? I could cut & paste this to the beginning of the post, but who cares about organized speech? Organized code is all that matters. Ok almost. ANYWAY, as I said, it's Christmas and I got a really, really, really really really great present. An Iphone 4! Yep! I might even start developing apps for it, one day. The annoying thing is you need a Mac and Objective-C knowledge to write apps for the Iphone, unless you buy expensive 3rd party windows software or spend days trying to find a workaround. Of course I have MacOSX in a virtual machine and I don't need to bother, really :). I downloaded X-code it runs great, only problem is I don't know Objective-C. But one can code only one thing at time, right? So I will dedicate myself into my game.
And I should remind myself to write about my opinion on youtube and especially its comments and rating system. They suck. Wow I just expressed my opinion! I'll expand on it once I am less eager to start coding again.
A short 20 minute break and back to work again. Till next time!
So, Merry Christmas.
I just took a decision. I decided to start making a game. I had the idea for this game for a few months now, about a month ago I started working on it with flash and php only to find out that making a game in flash and php is way more difficult that developing a game in C++. Many weeks later, I still think the game - if ever completed - would be fun. Really fun! So today, 2 days since my holidays started I decided to start working on it again. This time I'll use C++ and SFML. Obviously I'm talking about a 2D game (I still don't feel very comfortable with using OpenGL and I'd hate using anything not cross-platform).
It's a strategy game. No, not a very complicated one (I hope!). It's nothing too ambitious, completing this project seems generally realistic :P. I'll propably do the development on windows, but I'll be testing it on my linux machine every now and then. Platform Independence is very important to me. So, for the next 2 weeks I'll be working on it full time (ok, almost full time).
In my first 2 hours of working on the project, I made a Logging class and generally designed the Object-Oriented code of the game. Basic classes, files etc. Now I have a pretty good idea of how the game and the code will look like. At them moment, the game starts, displays a black window, writes something to the logfile and quits. Not too bad.
Next topic of the day: It's Chrstmas. I told you, didn't I? I could cut & paste this to the beginning of the post, but who cares about organized speech? Organized code is all that matters. Ok almost. ANYWAY, as I said, it's Christmas and I got a really, really, really really really great present. An Iphone 4! Yep! I might even start developing apps for it, one day. The annoying thing is you need a Mac and Objective-C knowledge to write apps for the Iphone, unless you buy expensive 3rd party windows software or spend days trying to find a workaround. Of course I have MacOSX in a virtual machine and I don't need to bother, really :). I downloaded X-code it runs great, only problem is I don't know Objective-C. But one can code only one thing at time, right? So I will dedicate myself into my game.
And I should remind myself to write about my opinion on youtube and especially its comments and rating system. They suck. Wow I just expressed my opinion! I'll expand on it once I am less eager to start coding again.
A short 20 minute break and back to work again. Till next time!
Σάββατο 20 Νοεμβρίου 2010
24137 and counting!
As of the moment, I have written 24137 lines of code. All by myself, yes.
And~2500 of them were written in the last week.
Recently (about a week ago) I switched from Debian to ubuntu 10.10, and I can't stop thanking myself.
First of all, I started using linux. I mean *really* using linux. I haven't seen the Windows logo for a whole week, I spend less time on the computer and more time coding. My code productivity increased by 500%, I create more in less time! I have learned more in the last week than in the previous month. And, most important, I enjoy programing like never before.
I know it sounds like an TV advert, but its all true. More specifically:
- First of all, I organized ALL the code I've written in my life under one folder.
- Then I wrote a PHP script to count how many lines of code I've written. The script only counts files with a source file extension, excludes certain files and directories (for example code written by others, like jquey, tinyxml, tinyMCE etc.), calculates some interesting statistics and then writes all that info to an .html file (with nice CSS styling). I did that in 2 hours or so.
- I solved some USACO training problems.
- I participated in COCI 2010 #2.
- I solved a few hellenico problems.
- I started developing a solution for Google AI Challenge.
- I started developing a solution for CodeCup 2011.
- I learned the basics of bash scripting.
- I actually started using, and therefore learning linux.
- I kinda familiarized myself with QT.
Section 2 of my post starts here. Do not look for connections between my posts and paragraphs. Sometimes there isn't any. ;)
Some musical masterpieces every coder should enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3CuMDXaPs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHosLhPEN3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li_qgJGWfp8
We have Digital TV here in Greece now :)!
My list of awesome linux programs:
- Eclipse
- Tasque (might not be the best TODO app out there, but it's simple. I like that.)
- Vuze
- aMSN
- Nexuiz
I don't want to go back to windows.
Δευτέρα 1 Νοεμβρίου 2010
Competitions, competitions
Yay, 23rd National Competition in Infromatics, first phase. I've already thought the first problem's solution, I only need to work on the implementetion.
Yay, National Competition in Mathematics! I participated in the first phase and I did "generally good". I love maths too, haven't I told you?
Yay, National Competition in Astronomy and Astrophysics starts next week. Can't wait!
Yay, National Competition in Latin and Ancient Greek! Just kidding. I HATE ANCIENT GREEK. There's an english saying, "sounds like greek to me". Well, ancient greek is *a lot* worse. AND YET WE ARE LEARNING THAT BULLSHIT AT SCHOOL.
In unrelated news, I discovered pomplamoosemusic's youtube channel, and I especially liked their version of Jackson's Beat It.
Yay, National Competition in Mathematics! I participated in the first phase and I did "generally good". I love maths too, haven't I told you?
Yay, National Competition in Astronomy and Astrophysics starts next week. Can't wait!
Yay, National Competition in Latin and Ancient Greek! Just kidding. I HATE ANCIENT GREEK. There's an english saying, "sounds like greek to me". Well, ancient greek is *a lot* worse. AND YET WE ARE LEARNING THAT BULLSHIT AT SCHOOL.
In unrelated news, I discovered pomplamoosemusic's youtube channel, and I especially liked their version of Jackson's Beat It.
Τρίτη 26 Οκτωβρίου 2010
Global Thermonuclear War
" How about a nice game of chess?"
If you 've seen the movie Wargames (1983) you probably know what I'm talking about. No, the movie is not that great, but the game inspired by the film is:
DEFCON: Everybody Dies
Basicly DEFCON is a Real Time Strategy game inspired by the movie Wargames. "You can't win this game; but you can loose the least". In the game the player takes control of a nation trying to do exactly that: "loose the least" in a nuclear war. Oh, and the game has an API which allows you to create AI bots for the game in lua or C++ (I think other languages are supported too).
Well, DEFCON, Wargames and... Farmerama (:P) gave me a crazy game idea which I am most probably not going to implement. Anyway, now I'm gonna stop writing. Really.
Until next time!
Τρίτη 28 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010
Tears
The summer is way too short for what I want to archieve, I'll post my TODO list here and hope not to drop tears over it after the summer:
- Website design, using the browser as a canvas to display content. Forget the terms header, container and footer. Archieved 50%
- Game development, especially 3D! Archieved 50%
- Assembly! Archieved Archieved 10%
- Algorithms, more algorithms... Archieved 100%
Δευτέρα 27 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010
House MD
Yes I have seen every single House MD episode to day. Many of them twice. And I still find most of House's jokes funny. And yes, Hugh Laurie is an awesome actor. I can't wait for the 7th Season!
Somehow, writting the above lines made me feel like a looser. And that's strange cause I'm not a looser.
Aside from that, I think that every other TV Series sucks. AM I RIGHT OR AM I RIGHT? (See? House is affecting me. And I hate that.)
Somehow, writting the above lines made me feel like a looser. And that's strange cause I'm not a looser.
Aside from that, I think that every other TV Series sucks. AM I RIGHT OR AM I RIGHT? (See? House is affecting me. And I hate that.)
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