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Nt1310 Unit 1 Reflection Paper 1

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I love programming. Nothing beats being on vacation and thinking of an interesting program make with my computer. And then devoting the rest of my free-time to making it with my (limited) programming skills. Now one Christmas break in 9th grade, I went for the gold and decided to make a Galaga clone. Galaga was an arcade space shooter where a white ship tries to defeat an endless array of space monsters. Even though the game is very simple and runs on old machines, it is a very challenging project especially for beginners. See what makes it so challenging is that you need to handle everything that goes on in that game window. If you want to display simple text you need to tell the library what font, coordinates, and dimensions the text needs nevermind an animated ship traveling through the universe. …show more content…

Despite this, my ambition to create my own video game with music and levels kept me going. The first hurdle that I had to overcome was the physics engine that allowed the player and enemies to interact. Which meant that I had to program what the program does when the player accelerates, changes direction, fires a bullet, or touches an enemy. Luckily for me, MIT videotaped their introductory physics lectures and uploaded them online for

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