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Knuckling down

Posted by Chief Experimenter in Journal at 1:22 pm on December 10, 2006.

In my (limited) spare time this week, I’ve been doing a lot of scribbling down of near-C-code on paper.

This is my normal M.O., and has been since 1985 when I’d scribble stuff down on the back pages of school exercise books during dull moments in class, then go home and implement the idea on the computer. If I had enough time I would even write the entire program out, longhand, ready to be typed in later.

In this case, I’ve been working on routines for initializing and moving around the play area, and a handful of related utility functions.

I’d forgotten how much I enjoy doing this, at least when it’s on my terms, or terms I can live with. My day job now is great as far as creation-from-scratch and quick results go, but most corporate programming jobs, including my previous 7 or so years of process-driven, delayed results “coding”, just suck the fun and creativity out of being a programmer.

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