1.3. The Pop Framework

There are a zillion different projects that people can dream of. In Software Engineering and Computer Games, we’re only going to help you do a few specific kinds of projects. The book describes a framework called the Pop Framework which will make it easy for you to build programs suitable for computer games or for other kinds of simulations.

If you want to get a quick idea of what the Pop Framework can do, download the Pop program from the book website, start up the Pop program and look at some of the different game modes you can choose with the Game menu. A recent version of the Pop help file is printed out as Appendix B, should you wish to spend some time with it right now.

It turns out that the code for the Pop demo ...

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