“What is the best programming language to learn” is generally not a good question. A language should bind to a purpose, developing environment. Set it aside, popular languages often come with trending jobs. Here is the list of top 7 programming languages to consider in 2020 and 2021. 1. Python python trademark The programming language continues to be one of the best programming...
Redesign A boring game to an extreme
Boring or fun is quite subjective while talking about gaming. However, by applying proper design principles, we can put most players in an intended experience even for a very simple game. This article will demonstrate some tricks to achieve that. Video tutorial is at the end of the post. What is the game 🤔 It is the number guessing game (guessing genre). Its mechanic is simple. A player will keep...
Should we go for swiftui? – ios dev
After Apple unveiled the new UI framework this June earlier 2019, all apple community became thrilled to see it in action and to try SwiftUI app development. Let’s take a closer look at a brand-new framework. From imperative to declarative UI. What is SwiftUI SwiftUI is a new Swift-based advanced toolkit that is reshaping the way to design and build apps for every device in the Apple...
A really Cool data visualization: 3d globe in 2d space
While generating data in 3d space for manifold learning, I went across a problem of distributing points evenly on a sphere. It is a non-trivial problem but found a good enough solution for such placement. Interestingly, it ends up with a really cool animation effect when I decided to implement it on a mobile app. Figure 1: First animation effect: Rotation The algorithm There are two qualitatively...
Smooth nature snake – game redev with Kotlin (part 3)
In part 2, I introduced how to make the serpentine movement. We continue this article by covering the turning mechanism for the snake. Challenges in turning animation Fig 2: Classic snake game design with blocks and grids As we want our snake looks as smooth as possible, the two challenges are: Firstly, the head should slowly change to the target direction rather than a sudden turn. As the head...