Game ProgrammingExams

Nick Prühs

About Me

“Best Bachelor“ Computer ScienceKiel University, 2009

Master GamesHAW Hamburg, 2011

Lead ProgrammerDaedalic Entertainment, 2011-2012

Co-Founderslash games, 2013

Technical DirectorDaedalic Entertainment, 2016

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First Things First

• At npruehs.de/teaching you‘ll find all slides

• Ask your questions – any time!

• Each lecture will close with further reading

• Contact me any time at nick.pruehs@daedalic.com!

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Exams

Create a reusable code

library!

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• Pick a programming language of your choice.

• Solve a problem you always wanted to tackle.

May refer to this class or the one of Boris Tolg

May refer to your current project

• Release the code under the MIT license on GitHub.

• Benchmark is GameMath: https://github.com/npruehs/game-math

• You may work in teams of two.

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• You’ll be judged on code quality

Readability

Code Conventions

Style & Design Principles

Extensibility

Design Patterns

Error Handling

• Plusses

Unit Tests

Static Analysis

Exams

• You’ll be judged on code reusability

Clean public API

Hidden implementation details

Example use case

• Plusses

Second example use case

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• You’ll be judged on documentation

Readme

Code Comments

• Plusses

Public API Documentation (Sandcastle, Doxygen, Javadoc)

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• You’ll be judged on project structure

Source folder contains source code

Vendor folder contains external libraries, if required

Doc folder contains documentation, if required

Git version tag

• Plusses

Project is configured to compile to separate Bin folder

Repository has GitFlow branch setup

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• You’ll not be judged on # lines of code

The biggest library is useless if nobody understands it.

• You’ll not be judged on optimal CPU and memory performance

Except for where optimization is crucial.

If your library is well-designed and documented, optimization is a

minor effort.

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All commits before

August 31, 2017

will be considered.

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Thank you!

http://www.npruehs.de

https://github.com/npruehs

@npruehs

nick.pruehs@daedalic.com