Originally posted on technologyreview. Thousands worldwide, from San Francisco to Slovenia, are counting down to Christmas with a puzzle-a-day programming challenge called Advent of Code. By midnight on December 1, 2015, when Eric Wastl first launched his annual Santa-themed puzzle-a-day programming challenge Advent of Code, 81 people had signed up. That pretty much matched his capacity...
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Top 9 python frameworks for game development
Originally posted on analyticsindiamag. Popular video games like Battlefield 2, Pirates of the Caribbean, among others use Python programming for a number of its functionalities and add-ons. With the advancement in the gaming industry, Python language has proved to be an exceptional choice by the developers for rapid prototyping of video games. In this article, we curated a list...
Mindustry: A sandbox tower defense game
A sandbox tower defense game written in Java. Trello Board Wiki Contributing See CONTRIBUTING. Building Bleeding-edge live builds are generated automatically for every commit. You can see them here. Old builds might still be on jenkins. If you’d rather compile on your own, follow these instructions. First, make sure you have Java 8 and JDK 8 installed. Open a terminal in the...
AlphaZero: Shedding new light on the grand games of chess, shogi and Go
In late 2017 we introduced AlphaZero, a single system that taught itself from scratch how to master the games of chess, shogi (Japanese chess), and Go, beating a world-champion program in each case. We were excited by the preliminary results and thrilled to see the response from members of the chess community, who saw in AlphaZero’s games a ground-breaking,...
Top 8 Best Coding Games for Beginners to Develop Coding Skills
Learning how to code has turned into significantly less demanding, these days there are numerous ways to learn coding, truly outstanding and most pleasant ways are coding games, these will enable you to figure out how to code and understand computer programming. You will have the capacity to expand on this foundation of learning and...
NodeJS: Clean Architecture Design
NodeJS is one of the technologies that is dominating the software development market. But as almost every technology available out there, the most critical part is not about the technology itself but how we use it to accomplish our goals. Therefore, this post tries to gather all the experience gained working with NodeJS to define a...
Build your first basic Android game in just 7 minutes (with Unity)
Making a fully working game for Android is much easier than you might think. The key to successful Android development— or any kind of development— is to know what you want to achieve and find the necessary tools and skills to do it. Take the path of least resistance and have a clear goal in...
The Best Kits for Teaching Kids How to Code
Who says learning code has to be boring? Whether you’re an experienced programmer or have never even touched a line of code, a kit designed to introduce basic coding skills can make a great gift for kids. These kits can teach everything from problem-solving skills to real programming languages that only grow in difficulty....
Code Cards: A game to learn How to Code
Code, in other words Coding is a term that we rarely use on ABDZ. Maybe because most of us are designers and designers shouldn’t right? We beg to differ but we’ll leave it for another article. How about a game that teaches you how to? Yay! It’s an interesting concept and giving a perspective of...