Today's Progress: Working on the project space and structure. Decided brushing up on CMake, so I am preparing build script.
Thoughts: I am not really sure if preparing the project counts toward "coding", but it is an important part of any software project so I will act like it is.
Today's Progress: Added logging ability using spdlog library
Thoughts: It was a long day and I am quite tired. I will sto for today, as the code is running circles in front of my eyes.
Today's Progress: Created a wrapper for spdlog for uniform use throughout the project. Testing the OpenGL initialization. Created a window. Wrapped it into a class.
Thoughts: Refactoring might be tedious sometimes, but it pays off.
Today's Progress: Started working on a data model. First step is the location object.
Thoughts: To better understand the both square-based and hexagon-based models in a 3D space, I need to list pros and cons (some paper-modeling will take place). Decided to go with point-based objects that define a location within the proximity of a point, as it seems more natural. This will eventually result in some form of conversion later, if I ever introduce a board-style model.
Today's progress: Starting working on the ncurses implementation for simple presentation (console). Created some interfaces for presentation purposes.
Thoughts: The console approach is completely different than GL, so I expect a lot of refactoring in the IPresentation interface before devising a more or less agnostic approach to this.
Today's progress: Introduced namespaces into the presentation model. Added basic unit tests. Started Window class.
Thoughts: Creating the Window class implies some other classes as well (Point, Size, Rectangle, etc.) Those classes must be covered with unit tests as they will serve as a base for multiple functionalities. Is there a way to unit test the visible screen result (research)?
Today's progress: I have been unregular with the updates here. Today I did just a bit of a project cleanup and started drafting the design of flexible text comparator for the sorting algorithm.
Thoughts: There is much more than just a comparison in this kind of code. One should think about various orders within different alphabets, numbers and their notations, multiplicators, prefixes, suffixes... I want to start simple, building a base for the flexibility, using the configurable alphabets.