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First comment: What made me faster? Practice, practice, and a healthy dose of more practice. What made me faster? Copy, paste, and a healthy repository of stu
by edw519 16y ago
First comment: What made me faster? Practice, practice, and a healthy dose of more practice.
What made me faster? Copy, paste, and a healthy repository of stuff to copy and paste.
- Nessuss 16y agoReuse of old code, familiarity with API's (other's old code).
- yesimahuman 16y agoPractice, but also starting to look at problems in a more realistic way. For example, I used to marvel at how one might make a simple 2D game. Now, I realize it's a lot of illusion and design based off of some pretty simple ideas. I think a lot of young developers are fearful of problems because the output seems magical.
- Tiomaidh 16y agoWriting a 2D platformer this year was one of my more enlightening programming experiences. It absolutely made me draw the line between "Things that are theoretically correct (and impossible to implement)" and "Things that can be implemented easily and are `close enough'".
- foresterh 16y agoAnd learning from what you're copy and pasting.
- timdorr 16y agoBasically, his brain is a giant L2/L3 cache.
- mynameishere 16y agoI thought 25 minutes was pretty mediocre for the bubble game, and re-did it without any copypaste etc (not that I had any bubble game libraries available) and was surprised it took me about 35 minutes. It was really a typing test more than anything though. Amazing that even bad students would need 20 hours for that.