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When I was a kid, I found out that serious game programmers used C. So I convinced my dad to buy me a book on C and managed to get a C compiler for the family M
by lph 5y ago
When I was a kid, I found out that serious game programmers used C. So I convinced my dad to buy me a book on C and managed to get a C compiler for the family Mac 512k. But the book only covered the C language, and it didn't give me any example of using libraries! It taught me how to print "Hello, world" on a console (an alien concept on the Mac), but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to create graphics or a UI with it, so I gave up. It wasn't until the arrival of the internet to my life that I discovered libraries. (and also "computer class" in high school was about word processing)
- tluyben2 5y ago> When I was a kid, I found out that serious game programmers used C Ha, when I was a kid, my father tried to teach me C and I found out that the serious game programmers used asm! C was wasteful; a few years later it was what everyone used but not on systems I liked; starting with the MSX and then moving to then Amiga, I was writing games on both and even for the latter, C was a very dirty word in the time I worked on it. Even if it was 'C', it was chock-full of inline asm. When I moved to PC software, indeed it became C and then C++.