Re:Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What ca...
by startupsfail on Thursday January 18, 2024 @10:23AM
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When I was as 8, I definitely wanted to learn to code.
Five years after that I was on equal footing with a few adult software engineers around me (my parents and their friends).
Playing/hacking/working with professional-grade code (leaked Quake code in particular) really helped me to form a good style. Wish I’ve received more code review hours even on kiddies projects.
Funnily enough some of the code I’ve written at 8-9 (a menu system for a primitive graphics editor) I’ve reused five years later in a project that had users and significant money returns.
Five years after that I was on equal footing with a few adult software engineers around me (my parents and their friends).
Playing/hacking/working with professional-grade code (leaked Quake code in particular) really helped me to form a good style. Wish I’ve received more code review hours even on kiddies projects.
Funnily enough some of the code I’ve written at 8-9 (a menu system for a primitive graphics editor) I’ve reused five years later in a project that had users and significant money returns.