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Long Names Are Long – journal.stuffwithstuff.com edit / delete

Advice on short variable names. (This is basically the same as the Google style guide suggests, which shouldn't be surprising given the author works at Google...)

to ag0700 naming software-engineering ... on 28 August 2016

Character Encodings For Modern Programmers edit / delete

A pretty good overview, with some detail of the complete nightmare that dealing with text is on Windows.

to ag0700 encodings text ... on 19 March 2016

ARMwiki edit / delete

As the title suggests. Has an "early ARM" (i.e. Acorn) focus, but still a useful reference for 32-bit ARM in general.

to ag0700 arm assembler programming ... on 22 January 2016

A successful Git branching model » nvie.com edit / delete

Nothing especially novel about the model, but this is a nice explanation with diagrams.

to ag0700 branching git software-engineering version-control ... on 03 May 2015

The bell has tolled for rand() | Explicit C++ edit / delete

What to use instead of rand().

to ag0700 c++ library rand random ... on 22 March 2015

The real benefit of Agile - Michael Brunton-Spall edit / delete

"Doing agile badly is cheaper than doing waterfall badly". Short and sweet.

to ag0700 agile software-engineering ... on 13 March 2015

Game Programming Patterns edit / delete

A relatively small collection of design patterns for games implementation, including reevaluation of some of the Gang of Four patterns. Good content; students will probably find this an interesting read. (The writing style is a bit cutesy, though!)

to ag0700 design design-patterns games patterns software-engineering ... on 13 March 2015

Inside Spacewar! — A Software Archeological Approach edit / delete

Extremely comprehensive study of the Spacewar code. I might describe this as a software graphological analysis rather than an archeological one, since one of the most interesting parts is the examination of different programmers' styles...

to ag0700 games history mit pdp1 programming retrocomputing source spacewar ... on 05 March 2015

Spacewar! edit / delete

An excellent Javascript emulation of several versions of Spacewar. Very nicely done.

to ag0700 emulation games history javascript pdp1 spacewar ... on 05 March 2015

mGBA edit / delete

Another GBA emulator with debugging facilities -- might be worth looking at as an alternative to VBA for AG0700 students (particularly those not on Windows).

to ag0700 cross-development emulation gba nintendo ... on 06 January 2015