Tutorial: Software engineering and computer games

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Software engineering and computer games

Abbreviations Part I: Software Engineering and Computer Games Chapter 1. Projects and games 1.1 Features of a successful program 1.2 Game design 1.3 The Pop Framework 1.4 Your project Review questions Exercises Chapter 2. Basics of software engineering 2.1 The Constraint Triangle 2.2 Requirements and specifications 2.3 The software engineering process 2.4 The software lifecycle 2.5 Managing your project 2.6 Working in teams 2.7 Giving a presentation Review questions Exercises Chapter 3. The Pop Framework 3.1 Object-oriented simulations 3.2 Running and testing the Pop program 3.3 The Pop source code 3.4 The essential Pop classes 3.5 UML class diagrams 3.6 Using the Pop Framework Review questions Exercises Chapter 4. Object-oriented software engineering 4.1 OO is the way 4.2 Object-oriented analysis 4.3 Encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism 4.4 Composition and delegation 4.5 Principles for OO design 4.6 The code interface Review questions Exercises Chapter 5. Software design patterns 5.1 Strategy 5.2 Template Method 5.3 Command 5.4 Composite 5.5 Singleton 5.6 Bridge 5.7 Document-View Review questions Exercises Chapter 6. Animation 6.1 The endless animation loop 6.2 Processor-independent simulation speed 6.3 The animation cascade 6.4 Updating the views Review questions Exercises Chapter 7. Simulating physics 7.1 Parallelism 7.2 The laws of motion 7.3 Force and acceleration 7.4 Implementing forces 7.5 Preserving your physics Review questions Exercises Chapter 8. Critters 8.1 Kinds of critters 8.2 Overview of the critter class fields 8.3 Critter methods 8.4 Critter method overrides 8.5 The full ''cCritter'' prototype Review questions Exercises Chapter 9. Sprites 9.1 Kinds of sprite 9.2 The ''cSprite'' class 9.3 Polygons 9.4 Composite sprites 9.5 The ''cSpriteIcon'' class 9.6 ''cSpriteLoop'' and ''cSpriteDirectional'' Review questions Exercises Chapter 10. Games 10.1 The ''cGame'' class 10.2 The game's timestep cycle 10.3 The virtual methods of ''cGame'' 10.4 Arrays of critters: the ''cBiota'' class Review questions Exercises Chapter 11. Collisions 11.1 The critter ''Collide'' method 11.2 Collision-handling 11.3 Colliding spheres 11.4 Colliding walls Review questions Exercises Chapter 12. Listeners 12.1 How the critters listen to the user input 12.2 The listeners 12.3 Shooting with the listeners 12.4 Viewer listeners 12.5 How a listener initializes its owner critter Review questions Exercises Chapter 13. Shooters and bullets 13.1 High-level design for ''cCritterArmed'' and ''cCritterBullet'' 13.2 The ''cCritterArmed'' 13.3 The ''cCritterBullet'' 13.4 ''damage'' and ''draw'' 13.5 Armed players and armed robots 13.6 The two-way ''cCritterArmed/cCritterBullet'' association Review questions Exercises Chapter 14. 2D shooting games 14.1 The Spacewar game 14.2 The 2D Game Stub 14.3 The Worms game Exercises Chapter 15. 3D shooting games 15.1 The Defender3D specification and design 15.2 The Defender3D code Exercises Chapter 16. Sports games 16.1 The Airhockey game Exercises Chapter 17. Selection games 17.1 PickNPop specification and design 17.2 The PickNPop implementation 17.3 Other selection games Exercises Chapter 18. Interesting worlds The Ballworld side-scroller game 18.2 Games with walls 18.3 Sniffing a trail Exercises Chapter 19. More ideas for games 19.1 Commercial games 19.2 The Pop Framework games hall of fame Part II: Software Engineering and Computer Games Reference Chapter 20. Using Microsoft Visual Studio 20.1 Navigating with Windows Explorer 20.2 Which version? 20.3 The Visual Studio user interface 20.4 The Visual Studio help files 20.5 Correcting compiler and linker errors 20.6 Release and Debug builds 20.7 Use MFC in static library or use MFC in shared DLL? 20.8 Cleanup 20.9 Building blocks of a complete program 20.10 Profiling with Visual Studio, Version 6.0 Exercises Chapter 21. Tools for software engineering 21.1 File names and directory structure 21.2 Using the Visual Studio debugger 21.3 'Windiff' and merging code 21.4 Counting lines of code 21.5 Help files without tears Exercise Chapter 22. Topics in C++ 22.1 Classes, objects and constructors 22.2 Implicit arguments 22.3 Defining a new class 22.4 Destructors 22.5 The ''const'' function declaration 22.6 Pass by reference 22.7 Instance members and reference members 22.8 Parent and child class data 22.9 Parent and child constructors and destructors 22.10 ''Virtual'' methods 22.11 Polymorphism 22.12 Runtime class information 22.13 The scope resolution operator and global functions 22.14 Name-mangling 22.15 Preprocessor directives 22.16 Resizable arrays 22.17 Real numbers 22.18 A randomizer module Exercises Chapter 23. Programming Windows with MFC 23.1 Some Windows data structures 23.2 MFC utility classes 23.3 The MFC application framework 23.4 Naming conventions 23.5 MFC classes are shallow wrappers 23.6 Navigating app, doc, and view 23.7 Levels of Windows 23.8 The MFC program flow 23.9 Adjusting the program appearance 23.10 The multiple document interface layouts 23.11 Splitter views 23.12 Portable classes Exercises Chapter 24. 2D and 3D graphics 24.1 Vectors and matrices 24.2 The graphics pipeline 24.3 Matrices in graphics 24.4 Graphics in the Pop Framework Chapter 25. Windows graphics 25.1 The Windows sandwich 25.2 A ''CDC'' is like a cranky six-legged ant 25.3 Persistent display 25.4 Converting real coordinates to pixel positions 25.5 A memory-based device context Exercises Chapter 26. OpenGL graphics 26.1 Linking to OpenGL 26.2 The OpenGL state machine 26.3 Generic OpenGL code 26.4 OpenGL code in Windows 26.5 OpenGL in the Pop Framework Chapter 27. Menus and toolbars 27.1 Adding menu selections 27.2 Toolbar buttons 27.3 Accelerator keys 27.4 Writing to the status bar Exercises Chapter 28. Mouse, cursors, and keyboard 28.1 Mouse messages 28.2 Cursor tools 28.3 The mouse wheel 28.4 Focus and autofocus 28.5 The keyboard Exercises Chapter 29. Serialization 29.1 Serialization summary 29.2 Serialization in the Pop Framework 29.3 ''Serialize'', ''operator<<'', and ''operator>>'' 29.4 Serializing an array of pointers 29.5 Serializing pointers 29.6 The ''cCritter'' serialize 29.7 Serializing child classes 29.8 Serializing a ''CRuntimeClass'' 29.9 Serializing the view and version Exercise Chapter 30. Sound 30.1 Adding sound to your program 30.2 Adding libraries to your project file 30.3 An application-wide mute variable Exercises