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Learning to code can be pretty scary at times, as well as just plain hard. So how do you start? Well, looked back over 20 years of learning programming and has some tips to share. This is the guide he wishes he'd had when learning to code.
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Metroid Prime Dev Stories #9: Central Dynamo’s Power Bomb Maze. When I first started programming and learning BASIC one of the first programs I wrote was a maze generation algorithm when I was 13. It could generate a maze of any size with a single solution. 1/5
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Metroid Prime Dev Stories #8: Why are there elevators between worlds in Metroid Prime? As a mainstay of the Metroid games there were also three primary technical reasons: world maps could only be up to a certain size, sound banks needed changed and memory fragmentation. 1/5
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If we used a low resolution texture (64x64) to save memory the “static” would be blurry and not crisp. One engineer on the team came up with a great idea: what if we just use the memory holding the Metroid Prime code itself! We quickly tried it out and it looked amazing.
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I spent so much time working on doors. In Metroid Prime, you may have noticed that doors can sometimes take a long time to open--that’s because the room behind the door is still loading! There is at most two “rooms” loaded at once--the one you’re in and the one you’re going to.
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☝️If you want to expand your #programming horizons, we recommend starting by reading the #guide with a 14-step roadmap for #developers.⬇️ freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-le
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🤔How long does it take to learn the basics of #programming? According to Career Karma, it takes about 3 to 6 months if you train 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.😱Of course, this depends on many factors. Do you think #studying for 8 hours every day is realistic? Let`s discuss it.😉
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“git rebase --update-refs” has been a critical feature for me since applying it to my local build of Git. I hope you enjoy it, too.
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The open-source Git project just released Git 2.38! Take a look at some of our highlights from the latest release. github.blog/2022-10-03-hig
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