Learn To Program A Text Adventure Game

Looking for the perfect Christmas present for the programmer who “has everything”?  May I suggest my newest book, The Little Book Of Adventure Game Programming.

The Little Book Of Adventure Game Programming provides a step-by-step guide to creating a game in C#, which is one of the most important languages on Windows and is also available on macOS and Linux. The programming principles and techniques explained in the book can also be used to write adventure games in other languages such as Java, Ruby or Object Pascal. Short examples (source code also available for download) are provided in those languages. As well as teaching adventure games specifically, this book can also be used as a tutorial to writing C# programs. It covers all the most important features of the C# language.

This book explains...

• How to write Interactive Fiction (IF) games
• Creating class hierarchies
• How to create a map of linked 'rooms'
• Moving the player around the map
• Adding treasures to rooms
• How to take and drop treasures
• Putting objects into containers (sacks, treasure chests etc.)
• Using lists and dictionaries
• Overridden methods
• Overloaded methods
• How to save and load games
• Designing a game with a user interface
• Designing a command-line game to run at the system prompt
• ...and much more

Available in paperback or for Kindle from Amazon (US):  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1913132080 and (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1913132080

Customize the Colours of the Visual Studio Code Terminal

I love Microsoft's free multi-language programming editor but I've never found the perfect colour scheme because I'm a traditionalist and like the Terminal to have a black background with green text. In fact, you can change the Terminal to use any colours you like - as I show in this video.

Learn to Program Ruby FREE

I'm starting a new Ruby programming series on YouTube. The first video went online today. More to follow soon. Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel to get notification of new lessons.

Arrays, Addresses and Pointers in C Programming

What's the difference between this:

char s[] = "Hello";

and this...?

char *s = "Hello";

Aren't they just two ways of doing the same thing? That is, of assigning the string "Hello" to the string variable s? Well, no. In fact, these two assignments are very different things. If you have moved to C from another language such as Java, Python, C# or Ruby, making sense of arrays, strings, pointers and addresses is likely to be one of the biggest challenges you'll face. Here's a video I made that should help out.

For a more in depth guide to C programming, see my book, The Little Book Of C:
Amazon (US): https://amzn.to/2RXwA6a
Amazon (UK): https://amzn.to/2JhlwOA

For a full explanation of pointers, see The Little Book Of Pointers:
Amazon (US): https://amzn.to/2LF2aVb
Amazon (UK): https://amzn.to/2FViSvS

Use the Delphi TreeView to Program a Collapsible Outliner

Here is the latest lesson on creating an outlining tool with Object Pascal and Delphi:

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