I am finding it hard to fully grasp the "Bit Manipulation" topic. If you could help me with some resources on it for problem solving. Thanks.
This is a good resource that helped me learn bit manipulation Basics of Bit Manipulation
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I've been playing around with "Gloss" for a day now but I feel like my possibilities are very limited.
Can you recommend a more powerful library?
If there is a simple 3D library, I'd like to use it but if it gets significantly more complex then I'm also fine with staying at 2D for the moment. I can't exactly tell you what I expect from the new library but it should be more flexible and provide more (advanced) features.
PS: I'm on Windows 7 64bit if that matters
I think the question may be a little vague and "more powerful" is certainly subjective. But since you mentioned that you were on Windows 7-x64 then I can only guess to point you towards HGamer3D as a possible solution. I've heard some good things about it, but I've never used it myself. In any case there looks to be plenty to chew on there.
OpenGL.
An introductory tutorial, by Mikael Vejdemo Johansson,
loosely based on the tutorial by Sven Eric Panitz.
I'm learning Haskell and I'd like to write some multithreaded programs now to see the performance gains from that in a functional language. I can find some references to it on the internet but never a proper introduction to it. Can anyone point me to a guide which is understandable for someone who knows the syntax fairly well, but is not a wizard in Haskell?
I gave a 3 hour course on this topic at DEFUN 2009. The slides and code are online: Multicore Haskell Now!
Have you read Real Word Haskell?
http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/concurrent-and-multicore-programming.html
I think the paper "A Tutorial on Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell" is the perfect starting point for you. You can find it here:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/parallel/index.htm
Just Curious. I'm currently foraying into the world of Java coding, and, was wondering weather Geometry can come useful in the kind of programming a Beginner to Intermediate Skill level Java coder has.
Depends on what you will code. Java is just a language laden with tons of useful apis. But knowing a bit of geometry can never hurt. If you are gonna code a lot of layouts you might find knowledge of shapes and forms can come pretty handy.
Even without real application needs, some exercises on geometry or other forms of maths can only help you design/code better.
It can be useful if the problems you need to solve require an application of geometry to do so. Other than that, I think that the only benefit geometry would provide would be the added benefit of thinking critically.
Depends what you mean by "basic". In these days of graphical user interfaces, nearly everyone needs Pythagoras sooner or later...
You can learn Java without knowing a single point of geometry.
That being said, I can't think of many situations where knowing geometry would be a bad thing.
I'm wanting to play around with creating an LR parser generators. Does anyone know of a good (free) resource describing how to create a state machine table from a grammar?
For a free resource, consider the Python source code for PLY - a full implementation of Lex and Yacc in Python.
I would recommend a book, however, and you can hardly do better than get The Dragon Book.
The best resource I have come across is:
Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide
The obvious answer is the standard compiler text by Aho/Ullman/Ravi, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
It has complete chapters on parsing. It isn't free, but it is worth every last penny, and if you are going to build parsers or other compiler-like tools, you are simply crazy if you don't have this book.
Maybe you find Grammatica useful. It's a free Parser generator for .NET. I have some experience with it and it was good. You can try it and study its code.
http://grammatica.percederberg.net/
I was browsing this thread, which has good recommendation but a bit too general for me.
So, if anyone has a collection of nice game programming feeds,please share them. :)
(both general and specific topics are welcome)
Here are two I've used
DirectX forum feed and Summary of interesting resources
I used http://www.gamedev.net/ in college a lot, especially the NeHe Tutorials
AIGameDev.com: http://feeds.aigamedev.com/AiGameDev
GameDevKicks.com might become interesting over time - if used more:
http://www.gamedevkicks.com/