Tag: programming

as I remember it I went wild with installing compilers and interpreters on my computer. I thought I have to know how to write code in as many computer languages as possible.

Never mind that fact that I did not have all the time in the world to learn ever programming language that there was or is.

Oh, and never mind the fact that I had not learned even one programming language. I was fascinated about trying programming languages.

Now looking back on it I think what is the point of learning how to code hello world in as many programming languages as possible. What good is a programming language if you don’t know it good enough to make anything useful.

I needed a project. I needed to program something and make it better. I needed to make a game even a small terrible game just to get the experience of writing my own programs.

I don’t want to spend all my life reading books about programming and never knowing how to make any of my own programs.

Make things. Make things. Make things.

I wanted to learn how to code video games. Before I got a computer I had read a game about visual basic. And I had a book on c++.

When I got a computer I thought now I can learn how to program. I was not sure where to start. I had no idea that I could get a free compiler to write computer programs with.

It was not long after that I spent all night downloading the cygin c/c++ compiler. It got downloaded and installed on my computer. As I remember it I opened the program at least once but, don’t recall compiling any code with it.

I don’t remember the name of the next c/c++ compiler I installed on my computer. But, it did take a lot less time to download and install. I probably compiled a few programs with that compiler.

Thinking about it now the best thing to do would have been to start writing simple games the day I installed my first c/c++ compiler on my computer. That did not happen. And do this day I have not completed a computer game.

If I don’t complete a computer game how am I going to know if I can code a computer game, how am I going to know if I like making video games, and how will I know if I am good at making video game?