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The only way to get good at programming is to practice. So, I have a tradition of always trying to make something which is well-defined (most likely because it exist in some form which is readily examined, at least superficially) and personally useful.

Often time, though, I end up throwing away the platform with the project.

For example, although I still know C and C++, I don't write code in them unless the benefits outweigh the downsides. Python is a much more agile language and, had I had access to Pygame when I first got a PC, I probably might not have bothered to learn C (that isn't true, for systems programming, C still has an edge due to its legacy, and almost always will).

Throw-away Projects:

This page is a more boring documentation of my throw-away projects, than my pseudo-rap sheet is, but it might be more compelte..

KC2-007: Happy-ness Edition

A wip screenshot of my workstation.

KC3

A preview screenshot of a work-in-progress "Supercheckers" implementation is all that's available for now.

BYOND

I happened across a project called "Build Your Own Net Dream", BYOND, a while back. Over two days or so in Feb. 2006, while I was sick with the flu, I decided to work thru some tutorials and see what could be done with it. I was pleasantly surprised by now easy it is to put together a simple game, but it seems I got busy and didn't even remember it until recently when I found a screenshot of it.

• Screenshot of when I was first learning how to use the "BYOND" platform ( link ).
• Benefits: all-in-one editor, nice scripting language which is OO like C++ but a lot easier to work with, tutorials to get you started, servers and community to share and distribute games
• Downsides: grid is square based (not hex, doesn't seem to be any support for that), no recent activity (stagnant since 2002 or so), no commercial potential, lag is not dealt with well even in local games (synchronisation stack and lite model for iterative revisions doesn't seem to be on the map of the designers)

Empty

I'm learning Simple DirectMedia Layer, which is... well, I talked about it a lot on [ this page over there ]. However, the short version is that I'm doing cool stuff... none of which is yet available for download, but you can instead check out:

• Screenshot of SED / inital frame-lock [ yeah, 40 fps. Lame, huh? Well, film is 24 fps so I though I was good... ]
• Screenshot of Empty1  / initial state [ ss-empty1.GIF ]
• Screenshot of Empty1 after moving around a bit [ ss-empty1-dn.GIF ]
• Screenshot of KM1 ( the first inklings of a Full Screen Editor / Integrated Development Environment )

Scan

A program I wrote for the Commodore 64, circa May 2006. A tiny utility thingy. I gave it its own webpage, and am now (25 July, 2006) releasing it to the public... enjoy.

Command-Line based stuff: SCR4+ , et al

I did some non-graphical work, based on the boring command line / textual interface,  and gave those projects their own page, over there.

Long Passages of Text

• There's a project I did in secondary school (but is not school-related, really): the K3E. Surprisingly, people actually liked this page.
• A short something, "The Rebirth"
• A long and incoherent rambling, "History".

Stuff I should burn

• Stuff which I wrote while going thru burnout, but besides that its obvious that it was not thought thru clearly, is in a directory called dlo ... mostly worthy of: deletion.
• And more stuff is just old.

Ex-tro-duct-ion

From you perspective, this page should never appear to be under construction; all construction is done offline and uploaded in one fell swoop... also, web pages that say "under construction" are poor, and I am not poor. I am rich... just, not financially, yet.

I am re-splendid.

Once again, this page will never be under construction.

Also, there used to be a half-decent website here, circa 1995-1998. So, purely by accident, and despite my total apparent incompetance[sic] [1], there is still some content here.

... and, here are some footnotes:

Little Numbers[2]

1. I intentionally spelt "incompetence" incorrectly. It is a joke. Laugh! ... or not.
2. The [2] is an example of a "little number". They are sometimes called references, but this isn't really a research paper and these don't necessarily refer to anything, except my specially aligned mind.
3. The "middle secret" isn't as high as top secret, but is higher than a bottom secret (i.e. commonly available knowledge), in terms of... secrecy. i.e. the Top Secret Labs have secret projects too secret to be revealed, and the Bottom Secret Labs have projects too trite to be revealed.

That's all for now!

The rest may appear after some contemplation, development, and liberation of time..