On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 09:01:09 +0800, "Deidre L. Calarco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It wasn't the reason I decided not to go into programming, but it may
>be part of the reason I stopped dabbling in it. I changed my major
>from computer science to architecture junior year because I was sick
>of pulling all-nighters in the computer centers and didn't feel like
>I was obsessed enough to be a really good programmer.
This is a lot of the reason I got out of programming too. I found
that it was getting harder and harder for me to get into "the zone"
that I needed to be in in order to really program well.
For me, though, the issue wasn't creativity, it was a need to do
something that "mattered" more than twiddling bits on a computer.
>But you're right - I should start programming again. The thing is,
>what I really want to learn is Mac programming. I want to write
>programs that involve graphics & 3-D modeling. It's kind of
>ambitious and I don't know where to start. It's a lot different than
>the plain Pascal and C I used to use on DOS and MTS.
You might want to look into OpenGL (Mesa) under Linux. I've got this
on my list of things to do (but which I never actually get to, sigh).
Kelly
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