Hi everyone ✋ In the previous post we got Godot installed, created a project, and ran our very first script using EditorScript. One file, one keystroke, one line in the Output panel. Today we are going to throw that away 😱 Not because it was wrong ─ it was the fastest possible route to seeing […]
Hi everyone ✋ We are starting a brand new series today ─ GDScript, the language of the Godot game engine 🎮 I want to be upfront about something before we begin. This series is written for people who already know how to program. If we are comfortable in C++, C#, Java, Kotlin, Swift, or anything
Hi everyone ✋ Welcome back to the Array & Hashing stop on our DSA Deep Dive roadmap 🗺️. Last time we laid down arrays ─ fast to index, but painfully slow (O(n)) to search when the data isn’t sorted. Today we meet the idea that fixes exactly that weakness, and unlocks a huge family of
Hi everyone ✋ Welcome to the very first stop on our DSA Deep Dive roadmap 🗺️ ─ Array & Hashing. This is the foundation the entire tree grows from, so we’re going to take our time and cover it properly across a few posts. And there’s no better place to begin than with the humble
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Hi everyone ✋ Welcome to a brand-new series ─ problem solving 🧩! This is where C++ stops being about syntax and starts being about thinking. We’re going to learn data structures and algorithms the way they’re actually used ─ by solving real problems. And we won’t wander through them randomly; we’ll follow a proper roadmap,
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Hi everyone ✋ Well ─ here we are. This is the final post in our long journey through C++ pointers 🏁. Over this series we’ve gone from “what even is an address?” all the way to polymorphism, smart pointers, and the deep machinery of the language. In the previous post we watched base pointers bring
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Hi everyone ✋ We’ve spent this whole series getting to know pointers from every angle. In the previous post we finished mastering smart pointers ─ cycles, weak_ptr, custom deleters, and ownership. Today we reach what is, for many people, the single most powerful thing pointers do in C++ ─ they make polymorphism possible 🎭. If
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Hi everyone ✋ In the previous post we stared down the dark side of pointers ─ wild and dangling pointers ─ and saw that the cleanest cure for most of them is to let smart pointers own our memory. We first met smart pointers back in the smart pointers post, where unique_ptr and shared_ptr did
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Hi everyone ✋ Over this whole series we’ve learned to love pointers ─ how they hold addresses, walk arrays, reach into objects, manage memory, and even name members in the abstract. Today we turn the lamp on the dark side 🌑. Every scary story you’ve heard about C++ ─ mysterious crashes, corrupted data, “it worked
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Hi everyone ✋ In the previous post we met the this pointer ─ the hidden pointer that lets an object refer to itself. We pushed our house picture nicely along: an object is a house, and this is the card by the door holding its own address. Today we take that one curious step further
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