Appendix E: Links and references

Every external link used across the book, grouped, plus credits.

Odin (official)

• Home: https://odin-lang.org/
• Install guide: https://odin-lang.org/docs/install/
• Language overview: https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/
• FAQ: https://odin-lang.org/docs/faq/
• Package/core-library docs: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/
• core:fmt: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/fmt/
• core:os: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/os/
• core:bufio: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/bufio/
• core:strings: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/strings/
• core:strconv: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/strconv/
• core:math/rand: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/math/rand/
• core:slice: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/slice/
• core:unicode/utf8: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/unicode/utf8/
• core:sys/windows: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/sys/windows/
• base:runtime (part of the overview and package docs above)
• or_return and multiple return values: https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#or_return
• when conditional compilation: https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#when-statement
• Dynamic arrays: https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#dynamic-arrays
• Maps: https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#maps
• GitHub: https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin
• ols language server: https://github.com/DanielGavin/ols

Terminal and text references

• ANSI escape code (Wikipedia, credited; no single official source exists for the de facto VT100/ANSI subset terminals implement): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
• Unicode box-drawing character block (Wikipedia, credited): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character

Going deeper on Odin

• Understanding the Odin Programming Language by Karl Zylinski: https://odinbook.com/, the book to read next for the whole language, well past my deliberately gentle scope here.

Sibling volumes

• Yo Odin: https://nofuss.co.za/yo_odin/, the same house style, building a WebAssembly arcade game from scratch down to the browser boundary.
• Odin't Know That: https://nofuss.co.za/odint_know_that/, the same house style, building a native desktop game with vendor:raylib.

Both are the natural next step once you've finished this book and want to add graphics, sound and a real-time loop to what you now know.

Credits

Thanks to Ginger Bill and the Odin community for the language I wrote this book about.