Published in The New Dev’s Guide·Jan 21Member-onlyBest Resources for Learning Unity in 2023Free and paid course recommendations for ways to learn Unity Game development — As a programming instructor I often get asked by students and graduates what the best resources are for learning to write games with C# and Unity. This article is my current best recommendations for learning game development with Unity. Learning Philosophy Everything I mention below is something I have tried myself and…Unity5 min readUnity5 min read
Published in The New Dev’s Guide·Jan 19Member-onlyUnity Basics: Camera Controls & Simple PrototypingWorking with the Scene View, creating 3D Primitives, and controlling the camera — Let’s walk through the basics of working with the Unity editor to build a small environment. We’ll cover the scene view, controlling the user interface, positioning cameras in your game world, and creating some simple 3D objects for prototyping. This article’s content is also available via a YouTube video: …Unity9 min readUnity9 min read
Published in AccessibleAI·Jan 11Member-onlyHow to Generate Text with OpenAI, GPT-3, and PythonUsing large language model transformers to create generative text responses — In this article we’ll take a look at how you can use the Generalized Pre-trained Transformers v3 API (GPT-3) from OpenAI to generate text content from a string prompt using Python code. If you’re familiar with ChatGPT, the GPT-3 API works in a similar manner as that application: you give…Python8 min readPython8 min read
Published in The New Dev’s Guide·Jan 7Member-onlyHow to Start a New Unity Game Project in 2023Exploring Unity Hub, Unity Versions, Templates, 2d vs 3d, and URP vs HDRP — Let’s talk about all the little decisions you need to make — and the things you need to install — to get started developing games with the Unity game engine. In this article we’ll cover: Unity Hub Choosing a Unity version Picking a starter template 2D vs 3D Various rendering…Game Development7 min readGame Development7 min read
Published in AccessibleAI·Dec 30, 2022Member-only🎵 Do you want to build a Chatbot? 🎵Exploring the history of chatbots, conversational AI on Azure, and how ChatGPT changes everything — This article is part of Festive Tech Calendar 2022 and was originally intended to be a high-level overview of the conversational AI capabilities in Azure. However, in late November of 2022 ChatGPT released and completely changed our expectations of conversational AI. Instead, we’ll keep the festive theme and look at…Conversational Ai14 min readConversational Ai14 min read
Published in AccessibleAI·Dec 29, 2022Member-onlyMachine Learning in .NET with F# and ML.NET 2.0Using F#, ML.NET, and Polyglot Notebooks to Train, Save, Load, and Evaluate Regression Models — Machine learning is awesome, and ML.NET is a fantastic open-source library that lets us write dotnet code to perform machine learning tasks in our production applications. …Machine Learning15 min readMachine Learning15 min read
Published in The New Dev’s Guide·Dec 19, 2022Member-onlyWhat Does ChatGPT Mean for New Software Developers?Answering common questions from those entering the software development industry — I spend my days teaching new developers how to code at Tech Elevator’s fantastic programming bootcamp. My evenings and weekends, however, belong to my study of data science, artificial intelligence, and conversational AI. Recently I’ve watched these two worlds crash together with the sudden revelation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and…Chatgpt7 min readChatgpt7 min read
Published in AccessibleAI·Dec 19, 2022Member-onlyThe Ethics & Impact of AI ArtExamining the impact of AI Art on artists, creators, and society — Let’s talk artificial intelligence (AI) generated artwork and who is affected by it and the ethical questions this raises. What is AI Art? With the advent of transformer-based art generation systems like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, and others, it is now possible for non-artistically-talented people like me to generate interesting and even beautiful pieces…Artificial Intelligence9 min readArtificial Intelligence9 min read
Published in The New Dev’s Guide·Dec 15, 2022Member-onlyInteractive C# with Polyglot NotebooksBringing the data science notebook experience to dotnet development — Have you ever wanted to do a simple demonstration of a class, method, or line of C# code without needing a full instance of Visual Studio or a console application? Polyglot Notebooks can help with that by bringing an interactive C# development experience in the form of an interactive notebook. …Csharp10 min readCsharp10 min read
Published in AccessibleAI·Dec 10, 2022Member-onlyText Classification in C# with ML.NET 2.0Using NAS-BERT transformers to classify Text to Labels in C# — Recently ML.NET 2.0 was released, giving us a bevy of new features for the open-source machine learning library for dotnet applications. The release improved ML.NET’s text processing capabilities and improved some aspects of the already fantastic automated machine learning capabilities it had. Moreover, the release seemed to reaffirm ML.NET’s …Csharp12 min readCsharp12 min read
