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Structs, classes, and the secret life of references In this chapter, we’ll dive into a topic that can be tricky to explain, but is usually straightforward in day-to-day coding. I’ll…

Let’s talk about properties Some of the syntactical shortcuts we learned in the previous chapter are already quite advanced. But you will encounter them frequently in other people’s code, so…

A few more things you should know about C# After this rather intense dive into computational geometry, let’s explore some key aspects of C#, you should know. While I advocate…

Computational geometry (Part 8) Since we started our journey diving deep into computational geometry, we have always explicitly described the shape of an object. We placed lattice nodes, we set…

Computational geometry (Part 6) Over the last chapters, we learned a lot about building meshes. In this chapter, we will wrap it up by abstracting many of the concepts we…

Computational geometry (Part 5) Let’s do a quick recap. For the last two chapters, we have been talking about building meshes. Things quickly became more complex. We had to deal…

Computational geometry (Part 4) We now know how to build simple mesh-based geometry. But most of the objects we will want to create are more complex than simple cubes and…

Computational geometry (Part 3) Today we will talk about one of the oldest ways of creating geometry for computers: triangle meshes. Basically everything you see in 3D on a computer…

Computational geometry (Part 2) In the last chapter, we looked at modeling simple pipe-like geometry using Lattice primitives as foundational blocks. I emphasized that modeling the actual inside of a…

Computational geometry (Part 1) Until now, I have not focused too much on actual geometry generation. While the fixture maker had plenty of it, most of our focus for the…

Let’s build a computational fixture maker (Part 4) Let’s wrap up our fixture maker this week by looking at a feature I recently introduced into EtherGK 1.7.5. When you work…

Let’s build a computational fixture maker (Part 3) So, we have a nice app already, and it implements significant functionality. In the last chapter, we restructured a lot, to make…

Let’s build a computational fixture maker (Part 2) Now, that was a lot of stuff in one chapter. And we are not done yet. Let’s review quickly what we did.…

Let’s build a computational fixture maker (Part 1) In this chapter, we will learn about a few more geometry representations that you can use in EtherGK. But instead of playing…

    Until now, we have talked about programming in general and have understood how to fundamentally structure code. In the last chapter, I gave a very high-level overview, on…

Back in 2021, at my last company, Hyperganic, I asked the team in my Singapore office to gather around. “Let’s design a jet plane this afternoon!” My team stared at…

We have covered a lot of ground by now. Time for a recap. We started with the general concepts of computing, instructions and data. The introduction of object oriented programming…

By now, we should be comfortable with the fundamental building blocks we use to create functionality in C#. We have to identify the logical elements that make up our App.…

Let’s revisit the concept of classes we introduced in the first part of our series. Here’s our final class definition from before. public class TeslaRoadster { public TeslaRoadster( string strName…

The first computers were very bare bones — but they worked on the same principles as they do today. Computers run instructions (implemented in the hardware of the Central Processing…

Fundamentals In this chapter we will go on a whirlwind tour from the general concept of a computer to the paradigm of object oriented programming. We will cover a lot…

There are many programming courses out there, including for C#. So why another one? People have asked me many times which course I would recommend, and I really haven’t found…