Tag: object-oriented programming

• March 20, 2022

  That Time I Coded a Video Game

  In my last blog entry, I showed how we can use object-oriented programming (OOP) to set up an analysis of a truss. My journey into OOP all started a few weeks ago when my eleven-year-old had to do a project for school and wanted to learn how to code video games. Simple enough, I thought. A…
• March 6, 2022

  A Crash Course in Object-Oriented Programming

  I’m a big fan of coding, but I get the sense my college education may have failed me. Don’t get me wrong–I’m proud of my degrees from Pitt and Virginia Tech, and my education was more than enough to propel me into an academic career at the University of Michigan. But the state of the…