A Game Development Curriculum
Along with every other hacker on the planet, I got into programming because I wanted to write games. It wasn’t long at all, though, before I learned that the greatest…
Letter to a Young Developer
I’ve been getting some emails from young developers wanting to “level up” as programmers. I’m definitely not the first to write about this topic, so I’m not sure how much…
YAGNI: Answers to some common objections to dropping out
As a follow-up to this post, here are some common objections to the argument that a young software developer is better off dropping out. (For the uninitiated, YAGNI is short…
Turn on, tune in, drop out
Seth Godin: Why do colleges send millions (!) of undifferentiated pieces of junk mail to high school students […]? Biggest reason: So the schools can reject more applicants. The more…