What's your favorite guide or article (in any case, book) about programming best practices?

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• Ozkar619 Member

  April 2013

  And since Lua, is not as object-oriented as Java or C#, I'm not using as much objects as i would use on any of those two programming languages, I guess that's one of my main problems (i'm not used to code in so flexible ways, so, in consecuence, my freedom is a double edged sword).

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• OZApps Guru

  April 2013

  @Ozkar619, you need a book on Algorithms and beginning to program with whatever language you are interested in. You can also try my book for Lua it's called Learn Lua for iOS Game Development and the links are in the signature, below.
  
  The beauty of Lua is that it can be used as plain as C or with object oriented as C# or Java. However there are advantages and disadvantages of both methods. Depending on the size and type of project, using a OOP paradigm would be helpful. To give an example, you can have a bullet class, this just creates a new bullet on screen and then moves it, the collision, etc is all set inside of this class which will then raise an event on collision.
  
  Have a look for Atilims sample found only on the forums (not included with Gideros Studio) that is a sample of a shoot-em-up game, it is a very good example to dissect and have a look. It is well written and managed, but if you are a beginner you could face a few issues understanding the code.

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• Ozkar619 Member

  April 2013

  Thanks! @atilim do you have that link? I couldnt find it on the forums , and also i'm gonna take a look at your book @OZApps

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• OZApps Guru

  April 2013

  @Nascode, why u not happy?

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• Nascode Guru

  April 2013

  @OZApps accidental click on -1 oops

  have fun with our games~
  http://www.nightspade.com

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• gorkem Maintainer

  April 2013

  @ozkar619 searching on Google for Atilim shoot-em up game gives the following result:
  
  http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/2318
  
  That was the type of game we played with Atilim like crazy in high school, I think this is why he coded this example

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• Ozkar619 Member

  April 2013 edited April 2013

  @ozkar619 searching on Google for Atilim shoot-em up game gives the following result:
  
  http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/2318
  
  That was the type of game we played with Atilim like crazy in high school, I think this is why he coded this example

  Yeah, google. I forgot that is also a universal web search tool. <.< hahaha i gave up too fast after looking it up on the forum search tool.
  
  Thanks @gorkem i'm gonna give it a look

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• Scouser Guru

  April 2013

  @Ozkar619: Take a look here for a more efficient use of Google to search the forums.

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