Chapter zero of the lecture Game Programming taught at HAW Hamburg. Description of the course exams.

1. Game Programming
Exams
Nick Prühs

2. About Me
“Best Bachelor“ Computer Science
Kiel University, 2009
Master Games
HAW Hamburg, 2011
Lead Programmer
Daedalic Entertainment, 2011-2012
Co-Founder
slash games, 2013
Technical Director
Daedalic Entertainment, 2016
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3. First Things First
• At npruehs.de/teaching you‘ll find all slides
• Ask your questions – any time!
• Each lecture will close with further reading
• Contact me any time at nick.pruehs@daedalic.com!
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4. Exams
Create a reusable code
library!
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5. Exams
• Pick a programming language of your choice.
• Solve a problem you always wanted to tackle.
 May refer to this class or the one of Boris Tolg
 May refer to your current project
• Release the code under the MIT license on GitHub.
• Benchmark is GameMath: https://github.com/npruehs/game-math
• You may work in teams of two.
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6. Exams
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• You’ll be judged on code quality
 Readability
 Code Conventions
 Style & Design Principles
 Extensibility
 Design Patterns
 Error Handling
• Plusses
 Unit Tests
 Static Analysis

7. Exams
• You’ll be judged on code reusability
 Clean public API
 Hidden implementation details
 Example use case
• Plusses
 Second example use case
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8. Exams
• You’ll be judged on documentation
 Readme
 Code Comments
• Plusses
 Public API Documentation (Sandcastle, Doxygen, Javadoc)
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9. Exams
• You’ll be judged on project structure
 Source folder contains source code
 Vendor folder contains external libraries, if required
 Doc folder contains documentation, if required
 Git version tag
• Plusses
 Project is configured to compile to separate Bin folder
 Repository has GitFlow branch setup
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10. Exams
• You’ll not be judged on # lines of code
 The biggest library is useless if nobody understands it.
• You’ll not be judged on optimal CPU and memory performance
 Except for where optimization is crucial.
 If your library is well-designed and documented, optimization is a
minor effort.
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11. Exams
All commits before
August 31, 2017
will be considered.
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12. Thank you!
http://www.npruehs.de
https://github.com/npruehs
@npruehs
nick.pruehs@daedalic.com