Programming Throwdown

168: Godot

Intro topic: What are expectations on developers that have nothing to do with programmingNews/Links: Pushing for a lower dev estimate is like negotiating weather with a Meteorologisthttps://smartguess.is/blog/your-estimate-is-less-than-that/ Announcing python in excelhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-python-in-excel-combining-the-power-of-python-and-the/ba-p/3893439 7 Habits of Highly Effective Software Engineershttps://makingsmallercircles.com/articles/7-habits-of-highly-effective-software-engineers/ Raspberry pi 5 begins shipping https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-Shipping Book of the Show Patrick:Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Illustrated Editionhttps://amzn.to/3St3L35 Jason: The Pete and Sebastian Showhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pete-and-sebastian-show/id570256898 Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=hTool of the Show Patrick: Obsidianobsidian.md Jason:Ink by Inkle https://github.com/inkle/ink Topic: Godot What is a game engine? Graphics, animation, particle effects Tilemaps Entity component systems Physics Sound I/O Input handling (touchscreen, joystick) GDScript Why use a game engine? Portability Allow for testing individual components of the game Libraries for ads, in-app-purchases Godot Open source Focused on 2-D but now many 3-D features Great development environment AI Hero Started in phaser (development rut) Moved to Godot, rapid prototyping ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

167: Desktop User Interfaces

Intro topic: Jogging MetricsNews/Links:Unholy LLM https://huggingface.co/Undi95/Unholy-v1-12L-13B  The reverse red herring  https://www.blameless.com/blog/the-reverse-red-herring The "ens–tification" of TikTok https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/  Response letter to Godot is not the new Unityhttps://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/ https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef21 Book of the ShowPatrick:Math Games with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin https://amzn.to/48qlg9A Jason: The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates https://amzn.to/3LChBff Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=hTool of the ShowPatrick: Factorio (Desktop Game) Jason:AI Hero (iOS and Android) Topic: Desktop user interfacesWhat is a user interface? Web and Mobile UI toolkits Desktop optionsQtCross platform, custom UI elements Qt creator, code generator WxWidgetsCross platform, uses native UI elements  WxFormDesigner, code generation Can look different on different operating systems ElectronLocal nodejs webserver Html/JavaScript technology Requires interprocess communication to use other languages   Jupyter notebooksMathematica-like notebook  Not for distribution  StreamlitPython to web compiler Game EnginesUnity, Godot, Unreal Tips for building desktop UIUI is slow (startup time, interaction time) Separate the UI from the engine & business logic ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

166: Speedy Database Queries with Lukas Fittl

Links:https://pganalyze.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lfittl/https://www.linkedin.com/company/pganalyze/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

165: Differential Equations

Intro topic: Revisiting the power of SpreadsheetsNews/Links:LK-99 Isn’t a Superconductorhttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7 Normalizing Flowshttps://pyro.ai/examples/normalizing_flows_i.html How is llama.cpp possible?https://finbarr.ca/how-is-llama-cpp-possible/ Chat with open source large language models https://chat.lmsys.org/ Book of the ShowPatrick: Math with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlinhttps://amzn.to/44dsgDz Jason: Overboard! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.InkleLtd.Overboard Nhl=en_US&gl=US  Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=hTool of the ShowPatrick: ffmprovisr https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/ Jason:Pandas read_ods() read_excel() Topic: Differential EquationsWhy should programmers learn about DiffEqLaw of Large Numbers What are differential equations?When you know the rate of change EigenVectors & EigenValues What is Jacobian What is Jacobian? | The right way of thinking derivatives and integrals Special casesPartial Differential Equations Ordinary Differential Equations Why solvers are importantNumerical Stability at larger step sizes Example: https://medium.com/@pukumarathe/eulers-method-and-runge-kutta-4th-order-method-in-python-b4a0068a8ebe  Fun ExamplesPredator-Prey relationships in scipy https://scientific-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks_rst/3_Ordinary_Differential_Equations/02_Examples/Lotka_Volterra_model.html  Physics Engines for games https://youtu.be/52n2qKgwW_Q  PageRank https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08973.pdf  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

164: Choosing a Database For Your Project With Kris Zyp

Things to consider when choosing a database Speed & Latency Consistency, ACID Compliance Scalability Language support & Developer Experience Relational vs. Non-relational (SQL vs. NoSQL) Data types Security Database environmentClient vs Server access Info on Kris & Harper: Website: harperdb.io Twitter: @harperdbio, @kriszyp Github: @HarperDB, @kriszyp ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★