When I was 14, I walked uphill to school at 4 AM, in the snow, both ways, while carrying an IBM mainframe in my backpack!
Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
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Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#62When I was 14, I didn't have $99 to give to Apple. So I made games that no one ever knew about.
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because he's 14 and super stoked about accomplishing something that many people twice his age couldn't do, so he's showing off a bit. Sometimes I'm baffled by how hard it is for seemingly intelligent people to grasp very simple human behavior. Spend an afternoon with a kid once. I promise you they'll let you know when they think they've done something cool.
Your first paragraph explains it perfectly, but the tone in your second one is too harsh. Being polite and remaining calm is more appealing than attacking someone like that.
I'm feeling kinda harsh tonight. Guess an apology is in order.
Sorry.
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#64I was writing/learning HTML with FrontPage 2003 and Flash 5 (6? 7? I thankfully don't remember anymore) when I was 14 - while knowing almost no English (thus, not understanding even what the menu items and controls mean!) and without a manual or teacher and just clicking around and seeing what happens to the code :-( Hard, hard times it was. But I enjoyed it nevertheless. But still, I'm jealous of you. If you were to…
I learned Pascal and Visual Basic when I was 9. Didn't lead to cool things like this game. Congrats OP. :)
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#65cheese! and ObjC! and app store!
rock on!
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#66Impressive, keep it coming ;)
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#67Does it use Cocos2d or another game engine from makegameswithus.com ?
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#68Great job!
I was busy with homework and tests when I was 14. Kids in China are not as lucky :-(
I did play a bit with Visual Basic 6.0 at 11. It was a lot of fun for me. I also got a VC 6.0 on my family computer but never managed more than running an MFC window that does nothing. But it turns out not to be important anyway.
Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
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Re: Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
#70Great job, keep it up! At 14 I didn't even have a computer yet.