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Re: Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer

#43

Post by icey »

mcgraw wrote: post #36
paulitex wrote: post #30

He really did that all without a search engine or looking at any API docs?? Maybe it's just cause I'm not a games programmer, but that's insane. How does he know what he's programming to?

Experience. Code with an API long enough and you're pretty aware of the tools at your disposal. At this point you're not learning new stuff. Finally, this likely pales in comparison to what he is typically used to doing.

Eclipse has autocomplete and documentation built in as well, right?

Re: Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer

#44

Post by sprout »

Tichy wrote: post #37
MartinCron wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was impressed by that too, although I did see a quick twitter check in there at least once. I'm sure I would do my best to appear attentive when working on something like this, limiting my twitter/facebook/hn browsing to my iPhone/iPod/laptop.

Or maybe he has Twitter on another screen :-)

I don't think I would undertake a 48h programming contest with a single screen.

Re: Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer

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Post by mcgraw »

icey wrote: post #43
mcgraw wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Experience. Code with an API long enough and you're pretty aware of the tools at your disposal. At this point you're not learning new stuff. Finally, this likely pales in comparison to what he is typically used to doing.

Eclipse has autocomplete and documentation built in as well, right?

Autocomplete is there. Also you have the ability to create your own micros that you can use to build skeletons (like a function, or a loop). I'm not sure about itegrated docs. You'll probably get a brief pop-up (hit-or-miss), but nothing like XCode's inline docs.

Re: Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer

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Post by rev087 »

carussell wrote: post #35
MartinCron wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was impressed by that too, although I did see a quick twitter check in there at least once. I'm sure I would do my best to appear attentive when working on something like this, limiting my twitter/facebook/hn browsing to my iPhone/iPod/laptop.

I did see a quick twitter check in there He posted about development progress.

He also posted a screenshot in a Wordpress blog.

Re: Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer

#50

Post by sciolistse »

sprout wrote: post #44
Tichy wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or maybe he has Twitter on another screen :-)

I don't think I would undertake a 48h programming contest with a single screen.

Yeah, he has 3 monitors and a Cintiq.. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/08/21/getting-started-he...
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