(Old, 2006)

A project for the “Operating Systems” course. This C code will list all the prime numbers it can find within the limit given by the user (from 1 to limit) and using a number of threads also chosen by user (from 1 to 4). This code will run on POSIX systems only as it uses the pthreads library. It can be run inside windows if you use Cygwin to run it, just make sure you have all the libraries you need.

You can see the code HERE.

You can download the code HERE.

Technorati : C, code, linux, multithreads programming, programming, semaphore, threads

(Old, 2006)

A tutorial created for the Game Development Club (GDclub) in KFUPM. I wrote this heavily-commented code/tutorial to show the members of the club how to load an image and move it across the screen. The code just load a .gif file (an animated one) and just move it from left to right until it reach the edge of the window and then stop. Fun to watch :)

You can see the code HERE.

You can download the code HERE.

Technorati : code, game programming, java, programming

(Old, 2006)

Another project for the Multimedia Systems course. We were asked to make a program that can morph one image to another. While many students made a Flash file that just include two images and it gradually change one image to another (so it looks like morphing), I wanted a better deal. I fired up my editor, and coded this.
This code first asks the user to draw on the program’s window using points (that the user select) connected by lines. After the user finish the first drawing and click on the “done” button, he is asked to draw another image on the same panel using the SAME number for points in the first image. After he is done and he hits “Animate”, he will see the first image lines and points start to move to arrange itself into the shape of the second drawing.
I had fun coding this project, and since I gained experience in drawing in java from the first project “The Bezier Curve”, it was much easier to code this. Give it a try :)

You can see the code HERE.

You can download the code HERE.

Technorati : code, java, programming

(Old, 2006)

This is a code I did for a project in my Multimedia Systems course. What is does basically; is to move an image the user select (has to be in the same folder as the code) over a Bezier curve that the program creates from four clicks the user must click on the panel of the program. Due to the short time allocated for the project, a lot of the other planned features (like support for image types other than .gif, choosing the movement speed, low resolution version…. etc) have not been implemented. 

You can see the code HERE. 

You can download the code HERE.

Technorati : code, java, programming

(Old, 2004)

This is a list generator that I wrote to solve a problem I had with downloading images.
You see, one of the sites was hosting old “Andrew Loomis” books in the shape of images, one page per image (The books are over 50 years old, out of print as of 2004 and there is NO WAY a book like “Successful Figure Drawing” with all the nude figures in it will be available in Saudi Arabia, or even ENTER the country!). 

Anyway, each book has the images/pages as 001.jpg, 002.jpg up to 280.jpg. If I were to click every link myself, it would have taken a very long time and I might miss a few pages. So, thinking of a way to download all these images (I didn’t find any good free site grabbers at that time), I found out that Download Accelerator had a feature to upload links from .txt files. What I did was; I code a small program that can generate the list of links in a txt file if I give it the link, the lower limit and the upper limit. Because I had no intention of releasing this program, I just kept the whole thing hard-coded in the file and I compile when ever I need a new list. There is also the option to create the list backward….. I don’t recall why did I add such an option, but anyway, it works fine. I just upload the txt file to the downloader and leave it over night. 

You can see the code HERE. 

You can download the code HERE.

Technorati : code, java, programing

(Old, 2005)

This is a Breakout clone that I wrote during my summer training with Saudi Airlines.
Due to my inexperience at that time: I wrongly named it Pong Clone, while in fact, it’s a Breakout Clone. One puck and a set of tiles to break (I think I started it as a pong clone then it became Breakout somehow :P ).

Now, the game is “playable”. That means that you can start the game, break the first set of tiles, then its just becomes air hokey where you play with yourself, you can keep the ball from hitting the bottom of the screen and the game will keep on going. Miss the ball and its Game Over. One feature in the game is that if you hit one the side of the pick, the ball will slow down or speed up depending on the side you hit. You use 4 to move left, 6 to move right. Not sure if it will run on a mobile thought, as I had an old phone when I did this game and I used the emulator of Java’s wireless toolkit.

You can see the code HERE.

You can download the code HERE.

Technorati : code, game, game programming, j2me, mobile

(Old, 2002)

This is my first ever graphical game and what ignited my passion for game programming.
There is actually a good story behind this one:
In a Java programming course in college (I took it in the summer to speed up), the teacher opened the end of the chapter that we were in, where there were 11 programming assignments. Then, he wrote the numbers from 1 to 11 on pieces of paper and put them on the table. He then divided the class into 3-person teams so there were 11 teams. He asked one of each team to pick a paper. I got up and took a paper. Maybe it was luck, maybe it was fate, but I took the assignment that was a game, a tic-tac-toe game (problem number 11! maybe it was luck :P )!
At first I thought “This is going to be one hell of an assignment”. I agreed with my partners (one was active, the other we didn’t see until the end of the project) that I’ll do the coding for the game (the other guy I gave the interface task to). So, I sat in front of the PC, searched on-line for a similar game, saw how it’s done. BUT, what I saw was very complicated for my level. So, I just listed the main area, closed the browser, and started coding. Lines go here lines go there, a lot of compilations and debugging and in the end…. I DID IT! What a thrill it was to talk about it during the presentation, I know every line, every method and best of all, I wrote it myself! Needless to say that I (and my partner, who did a great job improving the graphical layout) got 100% in the project.

You can see the code HERE.

You can download the code HERE.

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