Re:How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)
by pschw on Saturday February 20, 2021 @05:16PM
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> Read a book about Lisp games programming
Any recommendations?
Re:How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)
by aspaceman on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:58PM
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https://nostarch.com/lisp.htm
Land of Lisp by Conrad Barski. I picked it up in a humble bundle for a couple of bucks and really enjoyed it. It was unabashedly nerdy and fun, and I really liked being exposed to that again.
Engineers solve problems. We use our expertise to take stressful and difficult problems and reduce them into simpler ones. You cut through bureaucracy and a healthy amount of talky bullshit to solve problems. The better you are at this, the more you're rewarded as an engineer. But this is a taxing process.
Writing code is creative. You find your own problems, and solve the ones you want to solve. If you don't want to solve something, you let it fester - or nurture it - as you wish.
Take a look at Racket. Read a book about Lisp games programming. Find an old C64 and learn some BASIC. Check out PICO-8. Or see Inigo's SDF website and try out some shadertoy. Ignore practicality, or focus only on your individual practicality.
Engineering is a discipline and that makes it tiring over time. You don't always have to be improving something.