Coding Corner is a weekly segment of our meetings where our resident 'Programming Ninja' Luke Wagner shares some of his knowledge about OO design and game programming. Be sure to head over to the forum if you have any questions regarding the info discussed. The topics covered so far are:

• Using destructors for great justice! [PDF 1.6MB] (2005-09-06) (forum thread)
• Order of Construction for class variables [PPT 0.2MB] (2005-09-19) (forum thread)
• Hungarian notation history [PPT 0.2MB] (2005-09-26) (forum thread)
• The basics of using the Debugger [PPT 0.6MB] (2005-10-10) (forum thread)
• Basic networking theory and example [PPT 0.3MB] (2005-10-24)
• The mysterious reverse iterator [PPT 0.1MB] (2005-10-30)
• Intro to multi-threaded game programming [PPT 0.2MB] (2005-11-07)
• A simple explanation of the linker [PPT 0.2MB] (2006-10-09)
• An introduction to smart pointers [PPT 0.6MB] (2007-09-20)

Most meetings we try to cover a tutorial or topic that is relevant to game development. The topics covered so far are:

• A* Pathfinding [ZIP 1.2MB] (2005-09-26) (forum thread)
• Particle/Polygon collision and simulation [ZIP 0.3MB] (2005-09-19)
• An introduction to programming on the GBA [PPT 1.5MB] (2005-10-04) (Sample Files)
• Intro on using Subversion [PPT 2.7MB] (2006-09-26)
• Guide on setting up a VS2005 project w/ multiple projects and library dependencies [PPT 4.8MB] (2006-09-26)

To help members get up to speed on using DirectX Danny Dyer is presenting weekly tutorials covering how to setup and make a basic app using DirectX. The topics covered so far are:

• Application Flow, Camera, and Box rendering [PPT 0.4MB] (2005-09-26)
• Loading meshes and basic lighting [PPT 0.5MB] (2005-10-04) (Example Project)
• A more detailed description of setting up the SDK [PPT 0.9MB] (2005-10-05)
• Basics of texturing [PPT 0.7MB] (2005-10-10)
• Putting the previous tutorials together [PPT 0.3MB] (2005-10-24)