Saturday, 26 March 2011

Thoughts on "Programing The Bigger Picture"

I found the tutorial very useful by communicating different aspects of programming in an engaging and easy to understand way. Simple but interesting things that I learnt were discovering that there are many different programing languages, however, they are all very similar but have different uses. Also it seems obvious now that you can't take aspects of other people's code and alter it slightly for your own use, without referencing the original source.
I knew before reading the tutorial that programing was best suited to making more repeated elements than realistic images, but I did not know that set animation was better done not using code.
It is definitely reassuring to know that even professional programers have issues, but most importantly understanding that you do not need to be great at maths to code because the computer does the maths for you, the main thing to know is how to understand the language.
Still programing feels a bit over my head, but tutorials like these help me understand how to write more refined and effective designs.

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