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http://kotaku.com/minecraft-creator-we-did-not-pay-anyone-to...
Wow, some real schadenfreude going on there. I really don't understand some of the bile that follows Persson around. Are people really that fucking bitter that a guy who by his own admission is a complete klutz (programming and business-wise) can become so successful?
I thought he was charged with murder or something.
Life typically means just that - it's not some shorthand for a term of imprisonment.
> Computer magazines of the day would print strings of code on their back pages, which could be transcribed by the reader to create a playable game, and this code-by-numbers task gave Persson his first experience of what would later become his profession. “My sister would read the lines out to me and I would tap them into the computer,” he says. “After a while, I figured out that if you didn’t type out exactly what t…
Access to this kind of information is easier than ever.
All this doom and gloom is self-pitying bullshit.
> Computer magazines of the day would print strings of code on their back pages, which could be transcribed by the reader to create a playable game, and this code-by-numbers task gave Persson his first experience of what would later become his profession. “My sister would read the lines out to me and I would tap them into the computer,” he says. “After a while, I figured out that if you didn’t type out exactly what t…
To me the weird part is that nobody gets their start sitting at a computer with somebody else. Or at least, if you do get a group of kids around a single computer, they're sooner going to watch YouTube (or play Minecraft) than learn to program.
> Computer magazines of the day would print strings of code on their back pages, which could be transcribed by the reader to create a playable game, and this code-by-numbers task gave Persson his first experience of what would later become his profession. “My sister would read the lines out to me and I would tap them into the computer,” he says. “After a while, I figured out that if you didn’t type out exactly what t…
One of the reasons I recommend Zed Shaw's "Learn Python The Hard Way" to people that want to learn is that it tells you to type out the code in the exercises. It's not quite the same as stumbling into it with the lure of having a game to play, but I think it probably has some of the same intoxicating power. To me the weird part is that nobody gets their start sitting at a computer with somebody else. Or at least, if…
My experience tells me that when you are just a bit beyond hello-world, it's way better to sit alone and maybe even disconnect from the Internet. I was starting with nothing more than a book on Delphi and the help system of Delphi, which included Win2k SDK, and feel that only by this way you could develop good debugging skills. I know some people who are learning software development, and the single skill they need badly is troubleshooting complex problems on their own and not relying on colleagues.
edit: now I see that my point is about sitting together with someone more skilled, but you're talking about kids leaning together, which is totally different.
> Computer magazines of the day would print strings of code on their back pages, which could be transcribed by the reader to create a playable game, and this code-by-numbers task gave Persson his first experience of what would later become his profession. “My sister would read the lines out to me and I would tap them into the computer,” he says. “After a while, I figured out that if you didn’t type out exactly what t…
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One of the reasons I recommend Zed Shaw's "Learn Python The Hard Way" to people that want to learn is that it tells you to type out the code in the exercises. It's not quite the same as stumbling into it with the lure of having a game to play, but I think it probably has some of the same intoxicating power. To me the weird part is that nobody gets their start sitting at a computer with somebody else. Or at least, if…
nobody gets their start sitting at a computer with somebody else My experience tells me that when you are just a bit beyond hello-world, it's way better to sit alone and maybe even disconnect from the Internet. I was starting with nothing more than a book on Delphi and the help system of Delphi, which included Win2k SDK, and feel that only by this way you could develop good debugging skills. I know some people who ar…
> Computer magazines of the day would print strings of code on their back pages, which could be transcribed by the reader to create a playable game, and this code-by-numbers task gave Persson his first experience of what would later become his profession. “My sister would read the lines out to me and I would tap them into the computer,” he says. “After a while, I figured out that if you didn’t type out exactly what t…
http://kotaku.com/minecraft-creator-we-did-not-pay-anyone-to...
Wow, some real schadenfreude going on there. I really don't understand some of the bile that follows Persson around. Are people really that fucking bitter that a guy who by his own admission is a complete klutz (programming and business-wise) can become so successful?