Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
— Douglas Adams
We are starting a new, probably more or less regular, thing today: answering viewer questions.
In the first of the Q&A episodes, I am talking about timers: How to arrange something to happen after a specific time delay. This principle is generally useful for many games and simulations. We also get bit more practice with int variables.
Concepts discussed: time delay, variables, counting
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
— Oscar Wilde
Today a long, and quite full episode. We encounter various very important concepts for the first time: local variables, class types and object interaction.
If you have questions left after watching this – don’t worry. We will look at all of this again in more detail in future episodes. And you can use the comments below to ask your questions (or make any other comments).
By the way, I just noticed I made a mistake. (Yes, that does happen!) There is a bug in the program that I’m writing in this episode. Can you spot it?
Concepts discussed: variable, field, local variable, assignment, class type, object interaction, external method call
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
— Thomas Jefferson
Let’s move on to another important concept: variables.
There’s a lot to say about variables, so we start with oner example: An int variable as a counter.
Concepts discussed: variable, field, int, ++