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Write Code Every Day
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> what are your self-publishing plans (if you don't mind discussing them)? The book will remain freely available in web form in its entirety. When I put up the last chapter, that will include a nice redesign that should hopefully make it pleasant to read across most devices. Soon after, I'm going to start working on an eBook and print version. I'm not sure how I'll do the eBook yet, but I'll do some investigation. Th…
> The book is written in markdown, so it should be fairly straightforward to eBook-ify it. I put my "toolchain" to do this up on GitHub, which really is just a Makefile that feeds things to Pandoc: https://github.com/steveklabnik/words
Thank you! I'll take a look at this when I start digging into the mechanics of the conversion.
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#143I am a total convert to the "don't break the chain" idea. I started writing a book on game programming[1] about four years ago. At the time, I was working at EA, miserable, and highly motivated to have the book done so it could help pad my resume. I got a book deal (O'Reilly) then, when that fell through, another (Apress). I had a real writing schedule, and a very supportive wife, and I would work on it for hours at…
Hey, I just wanted to sign-in and comment to say that at some point in the past, I found myself reading your book website. I do recall back then it had way less chapters, and I remember hoping that it'd find its way to completion eventually. I see a lot of new chapters. Great work! Very good resource, too.
Thank you!
Sometimes I look at the table of contents and see how all of the chapter links are filled in and working and it surprises me too.
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#144I am a total convert to the "don't break the chain" idea. I started writing a book on game programming[1] about four years ago. At the time, I was working at EA, miserable, and highly motivated to have the book done so it could help pad my resume. I got a book deal (O'Reilly) then, when that fell through, another (Apress). I had a real writing schedule, and a very supportive wife, and I would work on it for hours at…
Are you still in the game dev field? Great job on the book by the way. Edit: Oh, are you the one whom Herb Sutter used his benchmark in the Build conference talk about C++ a few days ago?
> Are you still in the game dev field?
No, I left EA about four years ago. I was hoping to stay in the game industry but somehow snuck into Google instead. I'm working on Dart now and couldn't be happier.
> Oh, are you the one whom Herb Sutter used his benchmark in the Build conference talk about C++ a few days ago?
Yup!
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#145That post was awesome... slow and steady wins the race. Inspiring!
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you still in the game dev field? Great job on the book by the way. Edit: Oh, are you the one whom Herb Sutter used his benchmark in the Build conference talk about C++ a few days ago?
He works on Dart for Google. I also find him an excellent critic (inclusive of dart) in forums. Some of his insights have cleared up things for me that are expressed vaguely elsewhere in comparison. I would like to see him do something more expansive on the tradeoffs between objects and ADTs (hint hint). Maybe he has done but I can't find it.
> I would like to see him do something more expansive on the tradeoffs between objects and ADTs (hint hint).
I'm probably not the best person to answer that. My knowledge of real academic theory isn't as strong as I'd like, especially around type systems.
I assume you've read William Cook's paper on the same topic ("Object-Oriented Programming Versus Abstract Data Types")? I skimmed it a while back and felt like it clicked for a while but it's sadly unclicked since then. It's on my (interminably long) list of paper to try to grok better.
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#147I am a total convert to the "don't break the chain" idea. I started writing a book on game programming[1] about four years ago. At the time, I was working at EA, miserable, and highly motivated to have the book done so it could help pad my resume. I got a book deal (O'Reilly) then, when that fell through, another (Apress). I had a real writing schedule, and a very supportive wife, and I would work on it for hours at…
Sounds like a great book, congrats man! I'll for sure buy it when it comes out :)
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[HabitRPG]( http://habitrpg.com ) is totally awesome for this, a great motivator. You can setup "Dailies" so that when you're done writing your daily 500 words, you just check it off. Or set it up as a habit and give yourself a "+" whenever you get a new chapter done. I use it all the time for just these purposes.
This is brilliant. Thanks! Are there any other similar apps out there?
For Android, I like Habit Streak Pro [1]. You give a list of things you want to maintain a daily streak on, and then it asks you at the same time every day how you did.
My longest recent streak was a 5+ month one on sticking to a restricted diet. The power of that was amazing; any time I considered straying I'd feel like I would be throwing away months of work. (I finally broke the chain on day 3 of the flu; I was miserable and wanted comfort food.)
My tips: Have it ask you the daily questions first thing in the morning, so you start your day with a reminder of your streak. And try to keep the number of goals very low, 1-3. More than that and I find it too hard to build good habits.
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.amimetic.ha...
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#149This "don't break the chain" approach has worked extremely well for me, particularly during busy periods of high stress. I first learned about it in my college writing classes, where you're supposed to write something, anything, meaningless jibberish even, every single morning. Recently I read about Seinfeld using this approach to great successs. Every day he works on material, and puts a big, fat, "X" on the calenda…
Does "dont break the chain" work equally well if you split your goals out by week as by day? For my personal situation I can't guarantee I would get time to do coding every evening but 2 session a week seems feasible.
Works for me for jogging, but I don't run every day.
I run every two days. The chain is still a chain, but it's just a slight more distributed one.
I printed a calendar and stuck it on my wall. Then I just mark it off with a big circle when I finish a run, or a cross when I fail.
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Congratulations! This is a thing of great beauty. I would like to write an iOS-centric game development book; this is truly inspiring. Just curious... what are your self-publishing plans (if you don't mind discussing them)? What software do you use for writing?
> what are your self-publishing plans (if you don't mind discussing them)? The book will remain freely available in web form in its entirety. When I put up the last chapter, that will include a nice redesign that should hopefully make it pleasant to read across most devices. Soon after, I'm going to start working on an eBook and print version. I'm not sure how I'll do the eBook yet, but I'll do some investigation. Th…
I'd recommend Leanpub[0]. They accept markdown and their workflow is pretty easy and non-exclusive.
For my book[1] I just used pandoc and Makefiles, but once the school year ends and I turn my attention back to the book getting it up on Leanpub is a priority.