Recap - Week of December 30 to January 6

January 6, 2019

Recap - Week of December 30 to January 6

Terminology from Tactics Tutorials

Physics Constraints

Write Up on Physics Constraints by Hubert Eichner

A nice description of equality constraints, impulse and force based constraints, and other physics constraints used in games.

Priority Queue

Youtube – Priority Queue Introduction

Quick video by WilliamFiset on concept of Priority Queues and Heaps.

Heaps

Youtube – Heap Explanation

Quick video on concept of data structure of heaps, which was a follow up to the priority queue information above.

Subscriber Pattern (Observer Pattern?)

Wikipedia – Observer Pattern

Searching for subscriber pattern resulted in a lot of information on observer patterns, which may be another term for the same thing described in the tutorials. This will require further investigation.

Dictionary

C# Corner – Using Dictionary in C#

Nice, simple write up on basic functionalities of the dictionary type in C#. “A dictionary type represents a collection of keys and values pair of data.”

Youtube – Create a Dictionary Using Collections in C#

This is a basic video tutorial for setting up dictionaries and using them in C#.

Stacks

Tutorials Teacher - Stacks

Tutorial on setting up stacks in C# and some of their functionalities.

Microsoft Documentation - Stacks

This is the Microsoft documentation on everything about the stack class in C# with examples.

Queues

Microsoft Documentation - Queues

This is the Microsoft documentation on everything about the Queue class in C# with examples.

Youtube – How to Work with C# Queues

Simple tutorial initially from Lynda.com about using queues.