- Help Pieman7373 have confidence!
- 25 Aug 2017 08:28:15 pm
- Last edited by Sam on 25 Aug 2017 08:36:27 pm; edited 1 time in total
Lately, our good buddy Pieman7373 has had doubts about his programming ability not being nearly as refined as his peers. So here's me proving him quite wrong, and explaining why Cemetech is a madhouse of brilliant minds all around, including Pieman's. If you too feeling illegitimate in the programming plane, let me clear some things up.
So if you're reading this post, an of you, you're probably good.
Pieman's achievements: Just take a look here plus being the 1st place winner of Cemetech Contest 18. And that's not to mention his vigorous involvement on the Cemetech forum and on HCWP, as we can tell from a whopping 246 karma.
Calculator Programming It's kind of hard to explain to those who've never tried any coding, but low level languages like literally all calculator languages are really hard! Not having access to very high level functions, and only a limited supply of variables and memory calls for ingenuity and intelligence not found in very many other places. Where an Android developer can write a few lines to draw a nice, simple 3D textured object, we would have to write hundreds. So if you look around and think you aren't nearly as good as the other Cemetech greats, think about not only the skills required to be active in this community, but the relatively minuscule size of this community. Some would say it's just a strange hobby, but I think it might be some of something else. You've got to be good. When you think about it, If you're a Cemetechian, you're likely among the top 10,000 or so calculator developers in the world. It's obscure, yes, but a bit selective. Again, you've got to be good. You have to be able to design new ways to work around the obstacles that coding a slow, small, restricted platform presents. You've got to be good.
So if you're reading this post, an of you, you're probably good.