Tag: programming
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Does calling sqrtf always result in a single asm instruction?
I was recently running some performance benchmarks across different platforms to understand the cost of some simple mathematic functions such as sqrtf and quickly noticed, under certain circumstances compilers such as MSVC, Clang and GCC by default will not generate a single x86-64 sqrtss instruction, there is a little more to it… I think discovering…
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COMMAND THAT TANK – 3D XNA GAME (C#, PHP, HLSL)
‘COMMAND THAT TANK’ is a game which puts your tank commanding skills to the test to see whether you are not only the best tank commander in your country, but the entire world. With Command That Tank you tank control of either a powerful APC (Armoured Personnel Carrier) or a ferocious WW2 Tiger Tank in…
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Getting to grips with Unity (C#)
After finishing my course at Bournemouth University, I wanted to invest my free time into improving my programming and game development skills. I decided that since majority of my course at University had focused on the Unreal Development Kit, it would be cool to try out Unity properly and see how it compares. I’ve done…
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First Android Development (Eclipse, Java, XML)
In order to broaden my skill base and allow my applications to reach a larger audience, I decided to finally begin development on the Android platform. After years of solely developing for Windows Phone it was a brand new experience to being developing for an entirely different platform. While there are features which are amazingly…
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Visual Basic.NET
I first started learning the Visual Basic.NET programming at the beginning of my A Levels. Visual Basic.NET opened the world of programming to me and taught me all the fundamentals I needed to know. We started off learning console programming and basic loops and ended up creating full, form based programmes using Object Oriented Programming…