PP4S: General Index

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background: background colour using crt; single background image using SDL; tiled background images using wingraph; tiled background images using SDL; randomly generated terrain
battleships: game by Lewis Wright
BCNF (Boyce-Codd Normal Form: planning a database
binary: binary search; binary search tree; binary input in assembler
bit: left and right shifts; flags and assembler; bit button (button with image)
bitmap: bitmap graphics; introduction; changing colours; moving objects; hiding messages; experimenting
black box testing: introduction to testing
blit: blitting
BNF (Backus-Naur Form): top-down design of compiler; see also most pages of the same tutorial
Boolean: Boolean variables; Boolean operators; translating Boolean expressions
bottom-up design: bottom-up design of a compiler
branch: branch to label
break: translating a break statement
Breakout: simple version of arcade game for you to complete
breakpoint: setting breakpoints
browser: using a web browser in Delphi
bubble sort: introduction
button: button on form
byte: program Functions; overflow; file of byte

game development: introduction; artillery game tutorial; preliminary knowledge; pointers; blitting; parameters; flags; casting types; integer types; coding for speed; getting started with SDL; subroutines; setup; loading images; blitting; events; freeing resources; help; web; documentation; demonstration; advice; source files
Game of Life: implementation by James Hall
GASP: Graphical Assembler Simulator Program by Peter Hearnshaw
global variable: variable parameters
grammar: compilers
graphics: most student programs e.g. PascalPokemon (using crt), Knowledge and GASP (using wingraph) and MrSnugglekins (using SDL); introduction; vector graphics; introduction; crt unit; drawing demonstration; Mandelbrot fractal demonstration; experimenting; bitmap graphics; introduction; changing colours; moving objects; hiding messages; experimenting; motion graphics; moving a letter; fly-in; rebounding; bouncing; experimenting; Delphi graphics (for console applications); introduction; using crt; using wingraph; demonstrations
guest tutorial: Artillery Game Tutorial by Jason McMillen; Let's Build a Compiler by Jack Crenshaw

hash: hashing
help: providing help; demonstration using Delphi 7; demonstration using Lazarus
host: program AlphaHost by James Hall
HTML: showing help pages with the TWebBrowser component in Delphi 7; showing help pages with the TIpHtmlPanel component in Lazarus; syntax highlighting

idea: ideas for programs; some of Peter Hearnshaw's ideas
if: if statements; translating an if statement
image: see graphics
immediate addressing: in-line assembler
indent: indenting blocks of code: frequently asked questions
index: indexed addressing
indirect: indirect addressing
infix: converting infix to RPN
infrared: program that predicts infrared spectra of molecules
inheritance: introduction
in-line assembler: introduction, see also assembler
input: input and output; input from file; experimenting with I/O; see also keyboard, mouse, joystick
insertion: insertion sort
instance: object-oriented pascal
integer: integer variables
Intel: Intel and AT&T syntax
intermediate language: compiler basics
Invader: invading bug game by Steven
iteration: introduction; iteration in assembler

MAR (Memory Address Register): contents of registers during fetch-execute cycle
MASM: how to use the MASM assembler; integration of TINY translator with MASM
MDR (Memory Data Register): contents of registers during fetch-execute cycle
memo: using a memo
menu: menu in a console program: Functions; commonly used menu items for form-based applications in Lazarus; commonly used menu items for form-based applications in Delphi
message: message dialogue
MMX: vector processing; encryption using MMX; encryption using MMX via in-line assembler
mnemonic: assembly language; MOVQ
MOD operator: mathematical operators; Trains
molecule: MolyMaker by Peter Hearnshaw
Morse code: translator
motion graphics: moving a letter; fly-in; rebounding; bouncing; experimenting; see student games using crt, wincrt, wingraph and winmouse or SDL
mouse: program MultiDraw, demonstrating the winmouse unit; mouse events in SDL: CowGame, Invader, the input unit of program A_star and MrSnugglekins
MrSnugglekins: The Curious Case of Mr Snugglekins and the Giant Sack of Catnip
music: frequently asked questions; example of music using windows.beep: Mazer; SDL games with music: SpaceShooter, Invader, MrSnugglekins; music unit (SDL)

parameter: introduction; variable parameters; experimenting; array parameters; actual and formal parameters
PascalPokemon: Pokemon clone by Max Foster (using only the crt unit)
pass-by-reference: comparison with pass-by-value; translating procedures with parameters passed by reference
pass-by-value: translating procedures with parameters passed by value
PC (Program Counter): contents of registers during fetch-execute cycle
pointer: how to use pointers; record pointers
precedence: operators; translation and many other references in the same tutorial
primary key: planning a database
print: printing; creating and printing a report
procedure: introduction; experimenting; parameters; variable parameters; experimenting; translating procedures; translating a declaration; translating a call; stored procedures (in a database)
program: student programs; see also console program and form-based application
property: properties