I'm in the middle of revamping the Code Library, and I'm wondering what programming topics are important to you. Once I know that, I'll seive the forums looking for code and projects to add.
Heavily inspired by faq.qbasicnews.com, it currently looks like:
IDEs, GUIs and RAD - Development tools + GUI/RAD application development
Files and Directories - Properties and management of files and directories
Game Development - Game physics, collision detection, path finding, etc
Graphics Programming - OpenGL, DirectX, shaders, etc
Math - Sorting, search and other algorithms, linear algebra, curve fitting, etc
Misc - All things as of yet uncategorized
Sound - Playing, recording, analyzing sound
Web - Web standards, protocols and libraries
Tutorials - Links to tutorials, internal and external
Websites - Websites by community members
But ignore that if you like and tell me your preferences.
Also, you can suggest individual topics like "Loading .X files" or "Linked Lists" and I'll find a way to categorize everything. "Screenshots please" is definitely a good suggestion :)
What would you want in a Code Library?
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anonymous1337
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My Ideas:
- I want a quality standard so we're not posting random gibberish, and so we can avoid worrying about stuff that's border-line one category or another. However,
- Do like Wikipedia and "be bold". It's not the freebasic.net front page. It's cooler. Don't mess up good stuff, but suggest new stuff without fear.
- Text (Anything plaintext)
- User IO (keyboards, mouse, tablets, etc). Not sure where the output would be.
- Low Level Programming? ASM, OS Programming, software-hardware interfaces, etc
- Each page/category can contain both links and code snippets, although I'd like to focus on real implementations over anything else
My Ideas:
- I want a quality standard so we're not posting random gibberish, and so we can avoid worrying about stuff that's border-line one category or another. However,
- Do like Wikipedia and "be bold". It's not the freebasic.net front page. It's cooler. Don't mess up good stuff, but suggest new stuff without fear.
- Text (Anything plaintext)
- User IO (keyboards, mouse, tablets, etc). Not sure where the output would be.
- Low Level Programming? ASM, OS Programming, software-hardware interfaces, etc
- Each page/category can contain both links and code snippets, although I'd like to focus on real implementations over anything else
Re: What would you want in a Code Library?
A good list, but how about a criteria that if does not have documentation then it does not get inanonymous1337 wrote:I'm in the middle of revamping the Code Library, and I'm wondering what programming topics are important to you. Once I know that, I'll seive the forums looking for code and projects to add.
Heavily inspired by faq.qbasicnews.com, it currently looks like:
IDEs, GUIs and RAD - Development tools + GUI/RAD application development
Files and Directories - Properties and management of files and directories
Game Development - Game physics, collision detection, path finding, etc
Graphics Programming - OpenGL, DirectX, shaders, etc
Math - Sorting, search and other algorithms, linear algebra, curve fitting, etc
Misc - All things as of yet uncategorized
Sound - Playing, recording, analyzing sound
Web - Web standards, protocols and libraries
Tutorials - Links to tutorials, internal and external
Websites - Websites by community members
But ignore that if you like and tell me your preferences.
Also, you can suggest individual topics like "Loading .X files" or "Linked Lists" and I'll find a way to categorize everything. "Screenshots please" is definitely a good suggestion :)
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rolliebollocks
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I think this is a really great idea. Upgrading our code library would be good, both for major projects and for code snippets.
@anonymous1337
If you'd like any help collecting snippets here and there I can be of some service. I've been wanting to do this for a long time.
People don't like getting pushed here and there to do things. Documented projects/commented snippets should be strongly preferred but rejecting a piece of code out of hand because it isn't commented is unneccessary I think.A good list, but how about a criteria that if does not have documentation then it does not get in
@anonymous1337
If you'd like any help collecting snippets here and there I can be of some service. I've been wanting to do this for a long time.
Good initiative---
I would like to see a category that covers hardware interfacing-----parallel port, serial port, USB and so on----anything to do with controlling other equipment, or receiving data from other equipment of all types. Video processing, character recognition, movement detection are other examples. Robotics could included, or be a sub category.
I would like to see a category that covers hardware interfacing-----parallel port, serial port, USB and so on----anything to do with controlling other equipment, or receiving data from other equipment of all types. Video processing, character recognition, movement detection are other examples. Robotics could included, or be a sub category.
How about data structures. I´m talking about implementations of
- stack
- queue (priority queue, circular queue)
- dequeue
- (double) linked list
- hash table (all variations)
- tree (binary, binary search, splay, btree, heap,other)
- arraylist
- bitset
- permutation
etc.... etc...
It's the kind of stuff any programmer sooner or later 'needs' so it would be good to have some examples of how to write such data structures using FreeBASIC.
- stack
- queue (priority queue, circular queue)
- dequeue
- (double) linked list
- hash table (all variations)
- tree (binary, binary search, splay, btree, heap,other)
- arraylist
- bitset
- permutation
etc.... etc...
It's the kind of stuff any programmer sooner or later 'needs' so it would be good to have some examples of how to write such data structures using FreeBASIC.
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anonymous1337
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@j_milton:
Excellent suggestion. All code in the code library should be documented. Although, getting the original authors to do so isn't always easy. We could do it ourselves.
I'm sure with multiple implementations of Linked Lists, physics collision, etc., each code snippet can also receive a brief summary that goes along with it.
@rolliebollocks:
Sure thing. If you can email me at TheAdventMaster [at] gmail [dot] com, I can let you know when the pages are up and ready. Should be within the next couple weeks. I'm busy and am still thinking things through.
@bfuller:
That would belong in low level programming, even if I high level APIs exist. I feel hardware interfacing is inherently low level programming.
@AGS:
Thanks. "Data Structures" is where I thought linked lists, stacks, etc. belonged, but I wasn't sure if there was a more appropriate category.
I mean, all programming is essentially data structures and algorithms, so I thought "data structures" was too broad. I guess "Data Structures" would be a place for "generic" data structures, which are heavily used in all areas of programming.
Excellent suggestion. All code in the code library should be documented. Although, getting the original authors to do so isn't always easy. We could do it ourselves.
I'm sure with multiple implementations of Linked Lists, physics collision, etc., each code snippet can also receive a brief summary that goes along with it.
@rolliebollocks:
Sure thing. If you can email me at TheAdventMaster [at] gmail [dot] com, I can let you know when the pages are up and ready. Should be within the next couple weeks. I'm busy and am still thinking things through.
@bfuller:
That would belong in low level programming, even if I high level APIs exist. I feel hardware interfacing is inherently low level programming.
@AGS:
Thanks. "Data Structures" is where I thought linked lists, stacks, etc. belonged, but I wasn't sure if there was a more appropriate category.
I mean, all programming is essentially data structures and algorithms, so I thought "data structures" was too broad. I guess "Data Structures" would be a place for "generic" data structures, which are heavily used in all areas of programming.
I think
I think Networking and Multimedia tools is a good call
the future is networked
the future is wireless
the future is video
the future will also be smarter & more integrated
the ability to talk all the electronic widgets out there would would attract a wider & more diverse audience.....Mp3 players, IPAD's , MIDI , Robotic's , Mobile phones, WiFi & Bluetooth
for my money
Its the messy stuff like this that's realy hard to do off your own back
and where great tools can inspire you to bridge the gap
the future is networked
the future is wireless
the future is video
the future will also be smarter & more integrated
the ability to talk all the electronic widgets out there would would attract a wider & more diverse audience.....Mp3 players, IPAD's , MIDI , Robotic's , Mobile phones, WiFi & Bluetooth
for my money
Its the messy stuff like this that's realy hard to do off your own back
and where great tools can inspire you to bridge the gap
Re: I think
Personally I hope the future will be more concrete :-)TESLACOIL wrote:I think Networking and Multimedia tools is a good call
the future is networked
the future is wireless
the future is video
the future will also be smarter & more integrated
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Re: I think
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” :-)marcov wrote:Personally I hope the future will be more concrete :-)
- Niels Bohr
Re: I think
Your wish is granted:marcov wrote: Personally I hope the future will be more concrete :-)
Sad to say I think that's the best we can hope for :-{
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Re: I think
Well, I'm completely agreed with you. we always hope that all future tools can easier inspire us to have much more great achievements.TESLACOIL wrote:I think Networking and Multimedia tools is a good call
the future is networked
the future is wireless
the future is video
the future will also be smarter & more integrated
the ability to talk all the electronic widgets out there would would attract a wider & more diverse audience.....Mp3 players, IPAD's , MIDI , Robotic's , Mobile phones, WiFi & Bluetooth
for my money
Its the messy stuff like this that's realy hard to do off your own back
and where great tools can inspire you to bridge the gap
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