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How do you learn to program form first principles?
by tsingy 4y ago
How do you learn to program form first principles?
- hsn915 4y agoIn my humble opinion, Mike Acton's talks are the best introduction, although he doesn't use the term "first principles", and they seem - at the surface - to be about game engines, but they are generalizable to everything. Data Oriented Design (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc Solving the Right Problems (2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B00hV3wmMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B00hV3wmMY
- esailija 4y ago"waste" a lot of time reinventing wheels (the lower level the better, ultimate example would be writing your own OS) and other stuff that has no practical outcome for your immediate problems.