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NULL mag Issue 05 04 Differences between coders and artists
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| What means to be a coder |
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Lets see, what really means to be a coder, amateur or not and what
really gets to be one...
First of all, you need knowledge! You have to know a programming
language at least. What really means "know a programming language"?
for those who don't know, it means a lot. You have to know how to
code, compile the program, debug it, make packages for the program,
write documentation and more. All these, need many hours of reading
and experience. You may be able to write some code in a few minutes,
but when you get your first bug or want to do more difficult things,
you can't escape it :)
Many times, except the prog.lang. you also need to learn/know stuff
about the OS. So a type of a scripting language like BASH or BATCH
files is also needed at least and of course you have to know things
about the OS, how it works, where it stores temp stuff etc. If you
want your program to be cross compiled then you need to know stuff
about two or more OSes like Windows, Linux, OS/2, MacOS.
And this is just the tip... what if you are coding for a BBS? you also
have to know about the various bbs systems, how they work, perhaps
their scripting language, how and where are the temp directories, how
to access their data files and many-many more things...
Want your program to look cool? How unfortunate for you... now you'll
have to draw stuff. Many people don't get it, but even making a simple
GUI, like a lightbar needs work and most of all, needs from the
programmer to have a sense, that the GUI he is making, is easy for
others to use, not just for himself. Many times, one of the biggest
mistakes, programmers do... is that they design programs like they
want to be and not like how the users want or think it should be!
There is a big chasm between those two. I, as a programmer, may think
that my program is easy to use, but for others may not...
And here comes the biggest and most tremendous thing for a
programmer/coder... complains!!! Because you released a program, a
door, a script... that doesn't mean that you are done! There will be
feedback, criticism, bugs... the coder will have to fix the
errors/bugs, add more features for future releases, tolerate the
complains about anything for his program and perhaps even bad
criticism for it.
Even if you make a "good" program, users will want more stuff to be
added... more features, a new version... and all users, will want
whatever they think is "better" for the program. You as a coder, you
will have to filter all these new requests and apply them in a way YOU
think is best... but... YOUR way... may not me the way the users think
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Programming is not an easy thing... in this article i barely touched
the surface of things. If you aren't a coder, you can't understand the
reality of being one. Its a whole different thing programming for your
self, just as a hobby and complete different to make programs for
others.
Its not weird that in the BBS scene, there are more ansi groups than
coding groups ;) and i fear that we give too much attention to the
ansi scene, but not much in the coding scene which shrunked a lot,
compared with the past.
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