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I started doing this in QuickBasic when I was 14 (trying to copy Windows 3.1 LOL). That little project taught me more about what I didn't know and it also revea

I started doing this in QuickBasic when I was 14 (trying to copy Windows 3.1 LOL). That little project taught me more about what I didn't know and it also revealed to me plainly, my inexperience with abstractions. Before that I had not really reflected on my own level of understanding about abstractions.

Shared404 5y ago
> Before that I had not really reflected on my own level of understanding about abstractions. This is the main reason I try to do this when I can. When building things for fun I try to do it from the lowest level of abstraction that I can so that I understand more of what the higher levels of abstraction cover up. I guess I just like turning unknown unknowns into known unknowns.