Take Up Code

Take Up Code: build your own computer games, apps, and robotics with podcasts and live classes•www.takeupcode.com

Take Up Code is a podcast that explains computer programming topics through fun and engaging examples that you can relate to. The guided format allows you to gain valuable understanding of topics that will reinforce your studies, allow you to train new skills that you can apply on your job, and change your thinking about what it takes to become a professional programmer. The episodes are as short as possible so you can squeeze them into your daily routine.

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Episodes

229: Filesystem: What Can They Do? Part 3.

Access control lists provide more security options.

Apr 02, 2018•13 min

228: Filesystem: What Can They Do? Part 2.

Security is a big part of filesystems.

Mar 26, 2018•10 min

227: Filesystem: What Can They Do? Part 1.

There are many different types of filesystems with different capabilities. Once you understand these capabilities, you’ll not only be able to select the proper filesystem for your needs but will understand, for example, how your computer knows when you download applications from the internet so it can warn you when you try to run them. […]

Mar 19, 2018•14 min

226: Filesystem: CHS vs. LBA Modes.

Cylinder, Head, Sector or CHS vs. Logical Block Addressing or LBA give you two ways to find data on a disk.

Mar 12, 2018•12 min

225: Filesystem: Partitions Allow You To Divide Your Disks.

Dividing your disks into partitions allows you to use each partition for separate tasks.

Mar 05, 2018•9 min

224: Filesystem: Drive Letters, Mounting, And Paths. Part 2.

How are filesystem organized with multiple drives?

Feb 26, 2018•9 min

223: Filesystem: Drive Letters, Mounting, And Paths. Part 1.

How are filesystem organized with multiple drives?

Feb 19, 2018•11 min

222: Filesystem: Why Should You Learn To Use It?

Understanding how to use the filesystem will allow you to add common and expected features to your apps.

Feb 12, 2018•11 min

221: Be Careful Of Changes In Code Abstraction.

The code you write should follow a similar level of detail.

Feb 05, 2018•6 min

220: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others.

Finding differences will help you make sense of your code.

Jan 29, 2018•6 min

219: C++ RAII Sounds Complicated But Simplifies Your Code.

Resource allocation is initialization or RAII for short may be hard to pronounce but will help you write better and simpler code.

Jan 22, 2018•8 min

218: C++ Used To Program Video Games.

Why is C++ such a good choice for writing games?

Jan 15, 2018•9 min

217: How To Start Building a Video Game. Part 7.

Work on the toughest problems first. And if you cannot solve them, then find a way around.

Jan 08, 2018•8 min

216: How To Start Building a Video Game. Part 6.

How is a video game different than any other application?

Jan 01, 2018•11 min

215: How To Start Building a Video Game. Part 5.

We all want to think big. But to get there, we need to think small.

Dec 25, 2017•7 min

214: How To Start Building a Video Game. Part 4.

You can take advantage of libraries and frameworks.

Dec 18, 2017•8 min

213: How To Start Building a Video Game. Part 3.

What role will data play in your game?

Dec 11, 2017•10 min

212: How To Start Building a Video Game. Part 2.

How do you make your idea more specific?

Dec 04, 2017•10 min

211: How To Start Building a Video Game. Part 1.

You have a vague idea for a new video game. Where do you begin?

Nov 27, 2017•12 min

210: Shiny Projects And Distractions.

When is it okay to switch to a different project?

Nov 20, 2017•10 min

209: CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial. Part 2.

Cascading Style Sheets let you manage how your HTML looks so you can keep your HTML focused on the content.

Nov 13, 2017•11 min

208: CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial. Part 1.

Cascading Style Sheets let you manage how your HTML looks so you can keep your HTML focused on the content.

Nov 06, 2017•8 min

207: Trees: AST: Abstract Syntax Tree. A Simple Example.

An abstract syntax tree can help your code make sense of what a user provides.

Oct 30, 2017•17 min

206: Collections: Stack.

You can use a stack when you need to remember something and only ever need the last thing.

Oct 23, 2017•6 min

205: Trees: What Can You Do With Them?

What other things can trees help you to solve?

Oct 16, 2017•14 min

204: This Is Terrible, You Gotta Start Anyway.

Have you ever created something and then thought about how bad it was? What did you do?

Oct 09, 2017•10 min

203: Trees: Why Use Them?

Why should you consider using trees?

Oct 02, 2017•8 min

202: Graphs vs. Trees vs. Hierarchies: Compared.

Before exploring HTML and CSS further, you are going to need to understand graphs, trees, and hierarchies.

Sep 25, 2017•12 min

201: HTML: Caching Generated Output For Speed.

Now that you can generate HTML, why would you ever want to go back to the old way of unchanging HTML?

Sep 18, 2017•10 min

200: HTML: Can Be Generated By A Web Server.

A modern website is more than just a collection of some HTML pages.

Sep 11, 2017•8 min

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