1. Past exam questions Q1 2007

(a) Comment on the pros and cons of Python as a game implementation language. Exclude references to Pygame in your answer.
- 8 marks
(b) What features of Pygame are attractive to 2D game developers?
- 12 marks

2. Past exam questions Q2 2007

(a) Describe the architecture of penguin tower (characteristics of the client, server and protocol).
- 12 marks
(b) What architectural improvements might be made to penguin tower?
- 8 marks

(a) From a technical view, outline the progression of the Quake series from Id software.
- 10 marks
(b) In recent years Id software has released Quake 1, Quake 2 and Quake 3 under the terms of the GNU public license. This has spawned a number of open source projects which have improved the code. From your knowledge of one of these projects outline the improvements made.
- 10 marks

(a) The diagram shows that it is blacks turn to move and a positive score for black indicates a good move: +∞ indicates a win for black, 0 indicates a neutral position and any value <0 indicates a good position for white.
Copy this diagram to your answer book and clearly fill in the scores at all non leaf nodes for which the minimax algorithm will calculate.
- 4 marks
(b) If the AlphaBeta algorithm were used instead of the minimax algorithm which leaf nodes would not need to be considered? Give your reasoning. 6 marks
(c) A critical component of game tree searching is the evaluation function. What features of a chess position are often incorporated into an evaluation function?
- 10 marks

%module example
%{
extern double My_variable;
extern int    my_mod(int n, int m);
%}


extern double My_variable;
extern int    my_mod(int n, int m);

double  My_variable  = 3.0;


/* Compute n mod m */
int my_mod(int n, int m) {
  return(n % m);
}

Copy these file fragments into your answer book and modify the fragments such that a function factorial is implemented in C and is accessible from Python. The factorial function should take one parameter (an integer) and return an integer result.
- 10 marks

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