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I'm Gustavo Pezzi 🇧🇷. I am a university lecturer in London & the founder of pikuma.com, where I teach low-level #CS & #Math.
At pikuma.com, everything is taught from first principles. Zero ego; zero gimmicks.
Come take a course with us!
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Took some friends to the in Cambridge today.
Great stuff! Lots of well preserved computers, consoles, CRTs (😍), and much more. It was nice to touch and smell some of the UK-exclusive tech I did not know.
PS: I also found out my friend's dad worked at Acorn. 😵
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Here we go! 🥁🥁🥁
I consulted with the Gods of "true random atmospheric noise", and the winners are:
Simply drop me a message with your email and it shall be done. 🙂
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If you like what I teach and you're serious about programming, *please* take this course! It's really well made and the content is extremely valuable.
I'm gifting 5 monthly subscriptions to @cmuratori's series by tomorrow.
If you want to join the pot, simply share this post. twitter.com/cmuratori/stat…
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If you ever want to be a scientist, be prepared to be wrong.
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Computer: "Wait you can multiply number together?"
Math: "Yeah...?"
Computer: "But what if number big?"
Math: "How big?"
Computer: "Like huge!"
Math: "Well there are some theories on infinity and..."
Computer: "No, like 2 billion."
Math: "Excuse me?"
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If you like what I teach and you're serious about programming, *please* take this course! It's really well made and the content is extremely valuable.
I'm gifting 5 monthly subscriptions to 's series by tomorrow.
If you want to join the pot, simply share this post.
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For those taking my Performance-Aware Programming course, the next post is now available. How many instructions does Python take to do one instruction?
computerenhance.com/p/waste
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minimal d3d11 sprite renderer: basic sprite rendering reference code with example sprite sheet animation logic. as usual: complete, runnable single-function app. no modern c++ / oop / obscuring cruft
gist.github.com/d7samurai/8f91
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My new #MacBookPro #M2 just arrived.
Looking forward to reducing the time I spend creating and editing videos. 😬
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A nice blog post. It's close to being unreadable due to all the banners and ads appearing from nowhere.
Anyway...
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A Game Boy test cartridge used internally at Nintendo to diagnose problems with the hardware contains a graphics test that consists of ten Raccoon Marios marching around a monolith in a manner resembling a ceremony or ritual.
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Finally got time to went through this fantastic tutorial▶️youtube.com/watch?v=bQBY9B by .
Instead of C and DOS-like framework, I went down the C++ and SDL path, but the gist of the algorithm is the same.
🔗github.com/marianpekar/vo
#programming #gamedev #voxel #cpp #sdl
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Cries in 40 to 768 kilobytes NES games twitter.com/Namatnieks/sta…
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Check it out!
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In response to the many requests I have received for introductory performance-programming materials, I will be posting a serialized course on Substack starting February 1st:
computerenhance.com/p/performance-
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When did folks get 200k followers if all they do is ask open-ended questions about JavaScript?
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Do not translate and rotate!
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I remember the first time I saw a picture of "The Mouse Yoke." I thought it was pretty clever.
Did anyone here ever played it? Was it any good?
#flightsim #gamedev #flight #joystick #game #retrogaming #flightsimulator
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Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics
A great read for all our students!
Blog Post by : zserge.com/posts/fenster/
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The hardest part about teaching people what you know is remembering what it's like to not know what you today know. Most teachers fail this simple test.
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Most of my personal projects are made using C99 on linux and I love the fact that I can type “man strlen” or whatever and I don’t have to go to the toxic internet.
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