lawrancej/COMP201Project

Final project

Tweak the starter code as necessary to implement your final project.

Go into your repo to receive this starter code:

$ git remote add prof git@github.com:lawrancej/COMP201Project.git

$ git pull prof master
From github.com:lawrancej/COMP201Project
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
 * [new branch]      master     -> prof/master

$ git mergetool

Form small groups of 2-3 people (no more than 4, please) to create some program with a cool demo.

Examples: connect 4, minesweeper, checkers, asteroids, paint program, hangman, simulator, solitaire, side scroller.

Questions to answer

• Who are you working with?

• What on?

  • Bare minimum requirements

  • Ideal requirements

• Who’s going to do what?

  • Artwork

  • Game logic (Model)

    • The underlying data structure (Stucts? Lists? Vectors? Arrays?)

    • E.g., collision detection, is the game over, etc.

  • Handling input events (Controller)

  • Rendering the game to the screen (View)

Milestones

• Informal demo on April 7

• Demo during final exam period

Goal

On final exam day, we’ll all demo our programs that we wrote.

References

• SDL2 API reference

• SDL2 tutorial

• Open Game Art

Git stuff

Books

• A practical git introduction

• Conversational Git

• Git from the bottom up (PDF)

• Git Internals (PDF)

• Git In The Trenches

• Git Magic

• Git Pocket Guide

• Pro Git

Guides/Tutorials

• Git Beginner’s Guide for Dummies

• git - the simple guide

• Git Immersion

• Getting Git Right

• Learn Git Branching

• Ry’s Git Tutorial

• Think like (a) Git

• Try Git

References

• Git Documentation

• Git for Computer Scientists

• Git Reference

• Github Cheat Sheet

• Github Git Cheat Sheet

• Visual Git Cheat Sheet

• A Visual Git Reference

• Visualizing Git Concepts with D3

Troubleshooting

• Common Git Problems

• Git Pretty

• I Broke Git

• Most common git screw-ups

• Paste error messages into Google

• git status

• gitk --all &