Now Loading… Loading Bar anti-pattern

A school year has ended, programming projects have been submitted, so it’s time for me to reflect on a common element I keep on seeing in high school quality games – loading bar animations. Some are alright, some are quite artistic, all of them are coded somewhat as follows:

for i: 0 .. 100
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Ruby – best introductory programming language

I am often asked – “what is the best computer programming language to learn?” And for years the reflex response was Ruby. Ruby is elegant, Ruby is easy to understand, it’s creative, it’s expressive, it’s powerful, flexible, and robust. Ruby is enjoyable to work with, and is applicable both as a first programming language to [...]

Educational flaws: Programming with the Waterfall Model

The waterfall development method is by far the most widely known approach to creating software. As a popular section, included in introductory programming courses throughout the educational system, many would at least recall hearing about the approach. I remember first learning about the waterfall methodology steps back in high school. What was failed to be [...]