Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Learning is fun!

One of the things that's really fun about developing SDL is the incredible breadth of things that you learn in the process.
  • A couple weeks ago I went from knowing nothing about Android development to being very comfortable with activity life cycles and JNI.
  • Last week I dove into the dragon infested waters of atomic operations and lock free programming, and in the process was humbled and gained a healthy respect for people who do that for a living.  
  • This morning I knew that CSS was used to affect the look and feel of web pages.  By the end of the day I had practical lessons on how it works and affects the style and behavior of a site.
I wonder what I'm going to learn tomorrow .... ? :)
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6 comments:

  1. Robin van EeJanuary 19, 2011 at 9:56 AM

    Today I learned how to compile C++ on Linux, it was my SDL game engine(in early development) that I now have succesfully running on OS-X, Windows and Linux!

    Screenshot:
    http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/8aadd0b170ed69cb59281cdd71c3c994

    The fun thing is that I barely have 2 months of C++ experience and have already written a large part of a working game engine, with only a little help.

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  2. sloukenJanuary 19, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    Nice, congratulations! :)

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  3. Nate FriesJanuary 19, 2011 at 12:36 PM

    That last one you didn't learn from SDL! :P

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  4. qubodupJanuary 19, 2011 at 10:15 PM

    Hello,

    do you think this blog would fit into http://planetdev.freegamedev.net/ ? Or do you plan to cover non-open source/non-gamedev stuff en mass? :)

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  5. sloukenJanuary 19, 2011 at 10:28 PM

    I think it's probably a good fit for planetdev. SDL is both commercial and open source, and I plan to be talking about things I'm learning while developing it, so sure!

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  6. qubodupJanuary 20, 2011 at 12:31 AM

    added! :)

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