The C syntax is introduced in the creation of a shape drawing program using SwinGame. This introduces functions and procedures, enumerations, structures, pointers, and arrays. Additional material can be found on SwinBrain at http://tinyurl.com/nthbfe.

This podcast shows the process of analysing, designing, and implementing a Graphical User Interface library that uses SwinGame as its drawing engine. The notes taken and code created is available on blackboard for those interested. (note: this is video only - other than the start sequence)

This podcast examines the structure and dynamics of the SwinTrek adventure game. This will give you an overview of the main aspects of this solution, and highlight the use of class and UML diagrams in communicating a solutions structure.

Often it is best to create your diagrams by hand on paper or a whiteboard. Sometimes you need to create more professional looking diagram of the structure of your solution. In this podcast you will see how to use UMLet to create class diagrams.

This podcast examines the design of a text based adventure game. This highlights some of the key abstractions within the solution and examines how these collaborate in order to achieve some of the more complex aspects of the game.

Managing "to-many" relationships in code and be tiresome and repetitive. This podcast focuses on collections in C# and Java and how they can be used to manage this relationship for you. The benefits of generic collections is also discussed.

Unit testing in C# can be performed with either the nUnit framework or the newly built in unit testing features of Visual Studio 2008. In this podcast you will see how to create unit tests for C# code using both of these tools.

JUnit is a unit testing framework for Java. In this podcast you will learn to use jUnit to create and run unit tests for Java programs. You will see how to perform this within an Ant script, and how to use Eclipse to run the tests.

Inheritance allows you to create a family of related classes that can interacted with via a common class, the base class. In this podcast you will see how interfaces allow you to share functionality across a range of unrelated classes.

In this podcast on exceptions you will get a quick introduction to

what exceptions are and how they can be used for error handling in C# and Java. Exceptions are widely used in the libraries of these languages, and are an important tool to master.