Category Archives: Self improvement

Understanding binary

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! In a kind of follow up to 10 steps to becoming a better programmer, this time I wanted to write about binary and binary operations, because I’ve been rather surprised by the number … Continue reading →

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10 steps to becoming a better programmer

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hi and welcome back to my blog! I wanted to cover 10 of the things I’ve learned over the years being a professional programmer that really helped me improve the quality of my code and my overall productivity. 1. Never … Continue reading →

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How to make games

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Paul Firth

In this article I’m going to be talking about the process behind actually making, testing and publishing a game. It’s aimed at the absolute beginner but there should be something of interest here for the intermediate level reader as well. … Continue reading →

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