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I have updated the #ImGui chapters of our "C++ 2D Game Engine" module to reflect the changes of how ImGui now implements an SDL backend. Enjoy! 🧉😉

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When I was a kid we had special classes to learn how to use Word & Excel. I remember once my mom asking me why the VCR was not working. When I told her I did not know how to fix it, she replied: "then what's the point of you taking those computer classes?" Good times.

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The fastest way of having a major library/dependency update is to publish a course that uses the current version.

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Everyone sharing those 500 links of book PDFs and other educational content in a single thread should first pass a test to prove they have completed the content of those resources themselves.

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When you're not sure if you're browser is breaking Unicode or if the symbols are legit:

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Boooo computers! 😠👎

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When things go from 3D to 4D in the graphics pipeline:

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Oh wow! That's so great!!! 😊

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10-year-old me growing up in Brazil and reading the boot message "Loading HIMEM.SYS":

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Going back and revisiting a lecture from 5 years ago is a humbling experience. 😅

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Remember the final scenes of old 90s movies where the hacker exposes a confession video of a dirty politician in all the screens of Times Square and that caused people to rise & rebel? Growing up is realizing that confessions like that are now broadcasted every day and nobody cares. 😅

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That's it! I'm just going to create a cypher wheel printed in anti-xerox paper and send it to my students via mail. 😅

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My son pointed at my laptop sticker and yelled "Pingu." ...I have work to do.

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"Rune Skovbo Johansen has a really sweet Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering technique, and some people have asked whether this would be a good technique for Playdate's 1-bit color display." 🔗 aras-p.info/blog/2025/02...

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After a week off, back on the wagon with moving control surfaces! Remember to do a wipe as part of the pre-flight #indiegame #indiedev #solodev #flightsim #retrogaming

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If you want to dive in deeper and learn how games like Wipeout were coded, we cover exactly that in our PS1 Programming module. 🙂 Come learn with us!

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My grandparents (92 & 90) just celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. All of that while being moody during the entire day and annoying everyone around. Good for them! 😅

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Quake II was backported to MS-DOS: 🔗 dk.toastednet.org/Q2DOS/ PS: the project website took me back to 1997

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Some months ago, I completed the 2D Physics Engine in C++ course by @pikuma.com (video below!) Now, it's time to start the 2D Game Engine in C++ course! I'm excited to learn some game engine architecture and build a little project meanwhile 🤓

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Me, after I ask if I should teach Vulkan API or Glide API, and someone says that Vulkan would be the logical choice:

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Finally, a linear algebra book for Direct3D programmers.

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If flying your IBM® PC got any more realistic, you'd need a license. (Source.)

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Nothing like pressing the "record" button on OBS to make all the Chinook choppers in the UK start flying over your house.

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Today is 30 years since Delphi was launched, in February 14th of 1995.

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After working strictly with HP-UX and Solaris, SUSE was the first Linux distribution I used professionally. PS: Abort Retry Fail is a great read and it's worth the subscription. 🔗 www.abortretry.fail/p/the-histor...

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I just finished listening to the "Serious Machines" audiobook by @amirhusain.bsky.social I was (mostly) aware of the history of these workstations but I definitely ended up learning something new along the way. I'm also glad the author provided companion images with the audiobook. 🙂

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Learning how to disassemble binaries used to take huge books of tables, often error-ridden, and careful reading of near-identical bytes to reverse to something approaching human readable.

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I'm really happy to see people completing the Compilers module and several testimonials arriving almost every day. ❤️ pikuma.com/reviews/crea...

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