Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

The tech world is growing rapidly, demanding more skilled programmers. Yet, coding is still an intimidating mountain to climb for many, with its complex jargon and seemingly impenetrable logic.

High-Order Fun has a helpful guide to programming 2D platformers that walks through how to calculate basic movement, slopes, ladders, stairs, one-way platforms, moving platforms, jumping, and ...

Part 1 introduces the basic principles of writing C code for a DSP processor. It also explains how to profile and optimize code. Part 2 shows how to optimize DSP “kernels,” i.e., inner loops. It also ...