BigglesB

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by BigglesB 4y ago
Not exactly coding but if electronics would interest them, I wonder if Spintronics might be suitable due to its very tactile nature? I guess the printed instructions & illustrations probably aren’t super accessible unless they have some
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by BigglesB 4y ago
As a counter-anecdote, I have an early September birthday, but the 1st Sept cut-off was advisory rather than strictly enforced. So I was a “year ahead” of where I should have been for my exact age up until I was 13. At which point I repeate
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by BigglesB 4y ago
It may seem silly, but I try to use different IDEs, editors or at least different colour schemes for different languages. Currently that generally means XCode for C++, VSCode for javascript (current main two) & Sublime Text for everythi
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by BigglesB 4y ago
Don’t want to “diagnose at a distance”, but it’s difficult to read this and not see a lot of the guy’s quirks as being quite typical of someone incredibly smart who also has ADHD. Also don’t want to diminish his quite remarkable achievement
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by BigglesB 5y ago
As someone with ADHD who has done what I consider to be quite a lot of creative work, the equation seems to be the exact opposite for me. Execution is dull and predictable, plus my brain just doesn’t care about the good/bad consequence
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by BigglesB 6y ago
I do a fair bit of UE4 coding in both Blueprint & C++. Each has benefits and drawbacks, many of which have been mentioned already. The biggest unmentioned one from a learning perspective though, is that with node-based editors, while yo