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Graphics for Beginners (Using SDL)

Posted by timothy on from the how-things-should-be dept.

Jari Komppa writes "Looking at how learning programming these days is much harder than when I was starting, I decided to write a tutorial on how to make graphics at pixel level. The aim for the tutorial is to show that programming can actually be fun."

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  1. Back in my day... by Phatboy · · Score: 4, Funny
    We had to walk 500 miles uphill to get water than another 500 uphill back. We had to grind the flour with our hands, while it snowed. And it was proper snow then - so thick that you could hide cars in it most days, and that was in Summer. Now take programming, we had to write 500 lines of code to add two numbers together. And we liked it.

    And now you tell me programming was easier in my day? You, with your fancy SDL and OpenGL? I'd like to see you code once you've ploughed 300 fields in one day with your bare hands.

  2. Re:Programming... harder?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I once wrote a program to "draw" pictures on punchcards by punching out holes.
    I wrote it in FORTRAN, though, not assembly.
    A friend of mine enhanced it to do flip-card animation, but the animation was pretty bad, due to the fact that (IBM) punch-card holes are pretty spaced out.