Finite State Machines

By Robert Plante in Game Development on

To expand on my post about enumerations [http://www.plantingcode.me/2012/11/02/enumerate-enumerate/earlier] I'm going to look at Finite State Machines in a relatively general sense. Let's start with breaking down what exactly a Finite State Machine is. We can look at the descriptive words to see…

Enumerate! Enumerate!

By Robert Plante in Best Practices on

Fans of Doctor Who will probably shun me for that titling. What are enumerators, or, more specifically, enums? To put it succinctly, enums are words that are actually numbers. What does this mean? It means that when you write your code you can check for words, but when it gets…