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Space Invaders – 3D Pixel Art

Administrator — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 22:36:46 +0000

In this blog post we will use Glowscript to create a 3D animation of a space invader. 2D Graphics used in retro arcade games consist of pixels. A 2D graphic can be described as a grid of pixels of different…

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Defragmentation Algorithm

Administrator — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:21:27 +0000

File Allocation Table (FAT System) A file allocation table (FAT) is a table that an operating system maintains on a hard disk that provides a map of the clusters (the basic units of logical storage on a hard disk) that…

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Connect4 Challenge

Administrator — Wed, 24 May 2017 13:09:41 +0000

In this blog post you will use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to complete this game of connect 4 for two players. (Rules of the game) You will first need to reverse-engineer the code provided. The code so far is used…

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Cinema Booking Challenge

Administrator — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:59:59 +0000

A cinema has created a booking system for their main theatre which consists of 48 seats, organised in 6 rows of 8 seats. To store information as to whether a seat is booked or available, the program uses a 2-dimensional…

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Battleship Challenge

Administrator — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:11:37 +0000

For this challenge we are not going to recreate a full battleship game. Instead we are going to focus on randomly placing the ships on the grid using an algorithm. The code given below uses Python Turtle to draw the…

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