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Let's develop a QR Code Generator, part I: basic concepts

Massimo Artizzu on July 08, 2021

Recently I was developing a little puzzle web game, and I thought that it would be cool if people could share the puzzles using something commonly ...
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Karel De Smet

Just bumped into this, the series as a whole looks like a really detailed breakdown. I have been fiddling around myself with several barcode/QR code readers myself and am anxious to learn more so definitely gonna check this series out further. Thanks for sharing!

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Pierre Bouillon

That's really interesting, I'm looking forward to the next part !

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Massimo Artizzu

Thanks! I'll publish the second part in a day or two. I still don't know how many parts will be, but I'll cover the basic cases first, then I'll move to the more complex later.

I think that the first 4 parts will be enough to create a small but working QR code 👍

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Ondřej Tuček

Hold my beer 🍺...
🎉 ✨ github.com/iodevs/qr_code 😏

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Massimo Artizzu

Congrats! 👏 I know by experience that it's no easy feat.

As you've seen, I've looked into thonky.com's tutorial too. It's a very comprehensive source of information on the matter.
And for some things, it's also the only source - and to be honest, I'm a little worried some info will get lost if the site will ever go down for some reason 😰

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Ondřej Tuček

Thanks. Yep it wasn't so easy to build as we thought :-) I totally agree, thonky is one of the best documentation and we developed our library based on it...