I’ve spent a fair deal of time hemming and hawing about writing a blog. As a “member of Generation X,” the idea of blogging is an awkward one. On the other hand, since the average blog has 2.3 readers, I can safely assume that both my brother and mother will forgive me if this blog fails to amuse them (they’ve forgiven so much already).
So here goes. What the heck is this blog about anyway?
I’ve always really enjoyed programming, in spite of the fact that I do an awful lot of it as a professional. A friend and I were talking about writing good code and he mentioned that if I “included good code” in a blog, that people would actually read it. Of course I was intrigued by this incredibly naive sounding idea and had to try it out.
If it turns out to be wrong, all 3.3 of us can have a good laugh and collectively blame Allen.
February 19, 2008 at 12:33 am
The open source community always needs coders. I’m still new to coding, so I cannot help much. I can probably help n00bs, although I’m not an expert, but, hey, isn’t that the purpose of open source community? Helping other people also helps ourselves, because we learn from it. So, your idea of writing a good code is a cool one. I would like to write a good code too, but for now, I’ll just plan on the kind of problem that I want to solve, then I can start designing the code. Anyway, best of luck!
February 19, 2008 at 6:44 am
Thanks for the well wishing abutua! Figuring out a good problem to solve is the best way to learn to program, so your on the right track. Just figure out something that really interests you (for me it was computer graphics animation).