primer

Can you recommend a good primer for writing flash games?

I wrote a simple asteroids clone prototype in the PopCap framework, and want to port it to flash. I am not looking for specifics but rather a good primer for writing games in flash. I have searched on google, but the documentation I have found so far has been rather scatter shot. Both in what it covers and who the target audience is. I a...

C# GUI primer tutorial

Coming from Access, I am totally unfamiliar with building a GUI or even a program. For C# application building, can someone point me to a primer or tutorial that will explain to me how to build a GUI, and what frameworks, widgets, Winforms, WPF, and everything else are and how they fit together to result in a usable program? Thank you. ...

Delphi printing primer

I need to add printing capabilities to an app and I have been looking around for information about printing. Logical/physical sizes, dpi, font scaling, etc, lots to digest since I never programmed printing into any app before. Are there any sites that would offer a primer on the topics of page sizes, margins and all the other elements r...

The Community-Driven GDB Primer

I was reading this question and realized it might be helpful for entry- and pro-level developers alike (including myself) to have a common reference for best practices in using gdb. Many questions asked on Stack Overflow could easily be solved by taking some time to step some code in a debugger, and it would be good to have a community-...