From reading some of these comments, it seems like a few people have missed the point the author was trying to make. The point was not to write better code or

From reading some of these comments, it seems like a few people have missed the point the author was trying to make. The point was not to write better code or to write code fast, it was that a 'good' programmer is focused on writing better code, not on what the user ends up seeing/experiencing (which at the end of the day is the important part). In the author's case, he focused on the wrong thing and ended up with a comparatively boring looking animation, despite having superior code.