A course in MULTIPLE PLAYER video game design using SEPARATE THREADS OF EXECUTION for each player. The course will concentrate on the MULTI-TASKING ASPECTS of video game design rather than the computer graphics aspects, though we shall develop such topics as Animation. Each student will write two complete video games, including a video game to be played between multiple players over a network. The programming language will be Java.
Video game design has driven developments in computing since the late 1960's. Indeed, when Thompson and Ritchie invented UNIX, important parts of the multi-tasking kernel were based on a video game one of them had written.
Networking, multi-tasking, and threads in Java will be developed from the beginning -- no prior knowledge of these topics will be required. Students will need a good working knowledge of Java and Data Structures, such as is provided by the listed prerequisites of CS 151 and CS 152.
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