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Part I: Software Engineering and Computer Games

The goal of this course is for you to learn some principles of software engineering and to use these techniques to design and build a Windows-based computer game. Part I contains the main text. Part II is a reference section containing a number of secondary topics that you may need to look at from time to time.



    		Abbreviations
    		Part I: Software Engineering and Computer Games
    		Chapter 1. Projects and games
    		Chapter 2. Basics of software engineering
    		Chapter 3. The Pop Framework
    		Chapter 4. Object-oriented software engineering
    		Chapter 5. Software design patterns
    		Chapter 6. Animation
    		Chapter 7. Simulating physics
    		Chapter 8. Critters
    		Chapter 9. Sprites
    		Chapter 10. Games
    		Chapter 11. Collisions
    		Chapter 12. Listeners
    		Chapter 13. Shooters and bullets
    		Chapter 14. 2D shooting games
    		Chapter 15. 3D shooting games
    		Chapter 16. Sports games
    		Chapter 17. Selection games
    		Chapter 18. Interesting worlds
    		Chapter 19. More ideas for games
    		Part II: Software Engineering and Computer Games Reference
    		Appendix A. The Windows keycodes
    		Appendix B. The Pop help file
    		Appendix C. Summary of the controls for Visual Studio