[gameprogrammer] Re: [Fwd: [atxgpsig] ACC Programming Courses]

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 14:49 +1300, Jake Briggs wrote:
> 
> Bob Pendleton wrote:
> >
> > There is an old saying in the scientific world that says "sometimes a
> > couple of months in the lab can save you a whole afternoon in the
> > library". 
> 
> But which is more fun? 

Reimplementing is always more fun! It all boils down to whether you are
doing something to get a job done, or you are doing it for the
experience of doing it. 

> Or is that the joke, that sometimes we take the 
> interesting long option vs the short less interesting option, but its 
> obviously absurd since you have all the time in the world after the 
> afternoon to get something interesting done?
> 
> > In software you can learn a lot from reading the libraries you
> > are using.
> >   
> 
> Maybe I should try that some time :)

Yeah, you should. I read Doom once, great read. Actually, there are
couple of games where I had more fun reading the source code than
playing the game. 

> 
> >             Bob Pendleton
> >   
> 
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