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Programming uses maths. It’s hard to ignore sometimes, especially when modelling something that is inherently graphical and position based such as a game. I’ve decided to give the models three different position indicators – PositionX, PositionY and PositionZ. This will describe their exact position anywhere on the board – including on a ladder, a walkway …
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So having seen the answers on my own StackOverflow question on TDD Design, I’ve decided to go ahead with the ‘emergent design’ crowd and see what happens. It appears that the refactoring and mid-stream redesigning is an integral part of the TDD process. It’ll all, of course, be described here (the process might be a …
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As you can see, I’ve only done a small amount of Test-Driven Development so far. I notice that for small classes – so far, there’s only a very simple turn tracker – it’s easy to write a test first when there’s only very little code and no interaction with other classes. When things get a …
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Right, so I’ve chosen my project and I’m ready to begin. I’ll skip past the introduction, straight to page 8 of the rulebook. The characteristics section. This is basically a class layout, nothing too heavy, so I’ll start off by creating Model.cs: class Model { public string Name { get; set; } public int WeaponSkill …
I’ve long ago established that I learn best from doing things. Even if those ‘things’ never get anywhere, the journey through real problems helps me get a handle on what they are. My army list program got me through WPF, and then MVC. It’s faltered, since I don’t really have the enthusiasm for it that …
I’ve just found out how to combine .Sum() with a where clause, and all it took was a further step into the murky world of Linq. I got my tip-off from a fellow BlogEngine.NET blog user Gary Kilminster – http://cunningplan.co.uk/post/Extension-Methods.aspx – although it doesn’t look like his blog has been updated for a while. I …