This lab goes through the process of creating an ASP.NET Web API project in Visual Studio, and then writing an iOS app using Xamarin to consume the API. With these tools though, you can just as easily write an application that works for iOS, Andriod and Windows Phone. By the end of this lab you…
Students and friends are always asking me, “How do I learn to program?” I learned by reading books and YouTube (seriously) during my commute on the train every day in and out of NYC. Well now you have no excuse for not learning. Here are 24 free eBooks (I actually have a few of these,…
In October, I wrote about how I would get started with programming, knowing what I do today. With this post, I wanted to explain how I got started in game devleopment and programming. This all ties into the latest promotion that Microsoft has for students. I’ve been pushing for the return of Dream.Build.Play, an XNA…
I’ve been working on a shmup for some time now, and just started blogging about it. One issue I came across was writing an inventory system. There are many out there, but they just didn’t work for me. I wanted something simple, and only needed it to work with my weapons and powerups. Since my…
UPDATE, 10/24: PHL Collective, the authors of this article, release ClusterPuck 99 on Xbox One, as of 9/9/15. The fine folks at PHL Collective, a Philadelphia based game development studio put together a brief tutorial on how to connect your Xbox One / 360 gamepad, either wired or wireless (using the receiver), to Unity. …
Last year I started interviewing independent game developers from across the world, in an effort to highlight their work, and the strategy behind how they build their games. I took a hiatus for the summer while I was traveling for work, but I’m happy to announce that the show is back, as of today. This…
I’ve always found Douglas Crockford to be such an interesting person, because of his intimate knowledge of JavaScript. From Wikipedia: …best known for his ongoing involvement in the development of the JavaScript language, for having popularized the data format JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), and for developing various JavaScript related tools such as JSLint and JSMin.[2]…
UPDATE, 9/13/16: This project is no cancelled. Miguel de Icaza outlined why in this post from May: Hello, As you guys have noticed, the experience to setup Mono with Unreal Engine is not very pleasant. It involves compiling code from source, it involves a specific version of Unreal and has a very long and tedious installation…
Today we are launching the v2 SDK and a new adapter that will allow you to use a standalone Xbox One sensor with a PC. That means we’ve got a commercial, go-live license now for the SDK and Kinect-Enabled apps can be ingested into the Windows Store. The adapter ($49.99 USD) will get us into…
Great episode of Planet Money on NPR this week: What was going on in 1984 that made so many women give up on computer science? They illustrate the barriers of entry that many people faced in the 80s. Notably, many men picked up computers because they could be assembled from kits at Radio Shack…