> > >Derek - We asked for volunteers who felt able to program the rudiments of a > >simple graphics game in three hours. > > Wow, that's a lot of work in a short time. But then programmers > always have unrealistic options of their own ability. So you should > end up with a real programmers ;-)
Hehe! Well they were a self selecting group, and they were hard to come by! We set them a sheepdog game to do - just block graphics. The player must control the 'sheepdog' with the mouse - the dog must scare the 'sheep' into a pen. All were able to produce code that did something tangible within the time, which is all we asked for. They worked hard and fast that's for sure! I don't believe in 'real' programmers as such. I think maybe there are different kinds good at different tasks. I am particularly interested in sole authors - they have to conceive the product, design it and code it on their own. Obviously, their programming style and working habits are going to be a lot different from the team player, or system programmers. I myself am a software author, somewhat lax in style, but I am eternally grateful for those dedicated and disciplined programming teams that produce marvellous environmental plugin tools for my applications to plug into! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List ([email protected]) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
