It was great fun when I started 25 years ago - on a computer with 1k of memory! Writing a big program (with little planning:) is a bit like holding a cathedral in your head. This gets harder as you grow older! And I was 29 when I started...
I wouldn't consider it to be like painting. It's more of a craft than an art. You learn how to do stuff quicker and better over the years, and what you produce is possibly useful, as apposed to being an expression of your emotions or POV. (Though games can be that.)
I'm planning to build a website soon, (which I've already written two programs for, one of which will be used to maintain it, and the other maybe not now), which will keep me busy if I can get started on it. A game I'd like to write is a semi-online one, (meaning not a full-on, multi-player blaster), but that's on hold until I get this website up an running.
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Date: 2006-03-25 09:20 pm (UTC)I wouldn't consider it to be like painting. It's more of a craft than an art. You learn how to do stuff quicker and better over the years, and what you produce is possibly useful, as apposed to being an expression of your emotions or POV. (Though games can be that.)
I'm planning to build a website soon, (which I've already written two programs for, one of which will be used to maintain it, and the other maybe not now), which will keep me busy if I can get started on it. A game I'd like to write is a semi-online one, (meaning not a full-on, multi-player blaster), but that's on hold until I get this website up an running.