In the many years I've been building and flying drones for fun and professionally, I've helped a lot of people get started for different reasons. A drone opens the door to a lot of fun, new kinds of ...

The first lesson in the Getting Started guide is to create a basic game loop which creates a Direct3D device, swap chain, and update/render loop. The basic rendering setup for Direct3D 12 consists of ...

This short tutorial demonstrates a fast method for sketching dynamic poses using basic shapes and gesture lines. Suitable for artists looking to practice quick figure drawing or improve their anatomy ...

Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them. Microsoft Excel offers a plethora of tools for ...

This is a very simple (and NOT a highly optimized and secure) implementation of AES only written to teach you the BASICS of this algorithm. I used a tutorial previously available on progressive-coding ...

PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here’s a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...

Computers as we know them today spew a Niagara Falls torrent of caffeine sweat, bile, and garbage water cascading constantly upon society’s collective head, so it’s often difficult to envision a time ...

It was an interface that launched a thousand hacks. Near trivial to program, enough I/O lines for useful work, and sufficiently fast for a multitude of applications: homebrew logic analyzers, chip ...

Microsoft has up the first three of sixteen video tutorials designed to teach novices the basics of application development with the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions. Lesson 1: Getting Started with ...