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I really love reading recounts like this. Seeing other developers try, fail, and try again to come up with creative solutions for difficult problems, and then f
by barbs 14y ago
I really love reading recounts like this. Seeing other developers try, fail, and try again to come up with creative solutions for difficult problems, and then finally arriving at a solution, is so satisfying. It really demonstrates how creativity is manifested in programming, and is truly inspiring.
A favourite of mine is Jari Komppa's article on his process of porting Death Rally from DOS to Windows: http://sol.gfxile.net/dr_gdm.html http://sol.gfxile.net/dr_gdm.html.
Does anyone have any other articles along the same lines? I'd love to read them!
- anyfoo 14y agoThanks, that was indeed a great read. You might also enjoy this, which is fairly recent: http://fabiensanglard.net/duke3d/index.php http://fabiensanglard.net/duke3d/index.php And the article links to other promising articles at the top, though I haven't checked them out. The general question remains: how would we go about finding similar stuff? Oh, one more thing, if you don't know yet, you will find great gems in Raymond Chen's blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/ Not everything is archeological (a lot is still interesting though), but the articles often link to a whole bunch of other articles, which in turn do the same. I suggest, for example, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/06/29/10325295.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/06/29/10325... . I deliberately chose a later article in the series, since it also links to previous ones.