From: Joe Wiltrout <wiltroutja@...>
Date: 2007-07-16T09:40:20+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

unknown wrote:
> In message <014ac61748b0c3e081129f75c81ab99f@ruby-forum.com>, Joe 
> Wiltrout writes:
>>Ahh. The sour sound of stupid people. The people who responded (with the 
>>exception of Aur, who suggested the Logo language to me) did not listen. 
>>I asked for help on how to start making a very simple game. Not advice 
>>on how to start programming.
> 
> Well, this may seem odd to you, but if I come into a room full of 
> programmers,
> and ask them to tell me how to make a program, I expect them to try to 
> tell
> me how to learn to program.
> 
>>And, unlike most of these programmers, I 
>>only have programming as something I want to do for fun.
> 
> Well, you know, back when I was first learning to program, I was the 
> same
> way.  I'd been writing programs for ten years just for the fun of it 
> before
> it occurred to me that people got paid for that stuff.
> 
>>I know most of 
>>you are getting paid to program or w/e, but I'm not. I really just want 
>>to have fun. And puts('hello world!') over and over again is not fun.
> 
> Right.
> 
> But NO ONE TOLD YOU TO DO THAT.  That's your own imagination, not 
> anything
> people told you.
> 
> -s

Hate to break it to you, but people did tell me to write basic programs 
over and over. I use the term Hello World to symbolize all of the stupid 
little basic commands and words that people want me to do. It occured to 
me that people write programs and get paid too, but one tihng occured to 
me to. I HAVE ENOUGH MONEY AS IT IS. And if your going to quote me on my 
I don't have money to spend on books and the like statement, look at it 
closer. BOOKS AND THE LIKE! I have plenty of money to spend on things I 
want or need. Learning to program games was just one thing I decided to 
start after hitting my head on a low ceiling. Of course at that time my 
game was going to be called Ceiling Killers. Where you were a dude with 
fireworks and shot roman candles at peoples ceilings. Course that didnt 
seem like much fun after my head cleared. Thats what 3 hours knocked out 
will do to ya.


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