Marks of a true programmer

[azurelunatic]

My father taught me about reusing code when I was very small. The trick to learning things, he told me, is to take something that you like, and twiddle with it until it does what you want it to, and you understand it. Then you can use it for stuff. And then maybe someone else will use it for stuff too.

That's how you do it. You take little pieces of code, and tweak them until they work right, and hopefully you come to an understanding of it.

That's how it worked before there were classes. But that's still a great way to approach life.

Comments

classes, schmasses

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

it still works that way. classes are simply an easy way to package up the code that works, and make it easy to use for other things.

hell, that's the whole point of classes, i think.

Re: classes, schmasses

[azurelunatic]

Silly geek.

"classes" of the kind with a room, an instructor, students, and a lesson plan. ;-P