Hi all, I used to be a game programmer. But two years ago life forced me to walk its hard way. My pc was blasted, I was poor as fuck and I had to work for money. So I quit programming.

Two years has passed, I have enough money to get a decent laptop. In fact I just bought one. Yesterday I turned on my laptop, got myself a cup of coffee, relaxed my hands on the keyboard. I fired up VS2010. Ready to rock. But then I just stared blank at the LED screen. I felt so weird. I seemed to have forgotten all my coding skills. I just couldn't get in touch anymore with the beautiful IDE. What's wrong with me?

Anyone ever felt the same? what should I do to get my game programming skill back? all my reference was hardcopies. And they've rotten in the warehouse :(

If you've really lost how to develop, perhaps a refresher of the basics.

Implement a linked list container. Implement a generic sorting algorithm. Implement the FogBuzz problem. Etc.

These are simple problems that should get your brain back into a programming mentality.

Um... did you try to do something without an idea what to make? (WHAT and not HOW)

thx for all the suggestions, seems I just need to warm up again with some simple projects. I kinda get the hang of this now. Btw what is the up to date library that people use for handling input, windowing, setting up opengl? I used sdl back then. I heard its development was stopped in some way.

SDL 1.2 is dead, SDL 2.0 is in fully active development. Beware that it isn't compatible, though, so if you check tutorials and such make sure to check for which version are they. Nowhere near as big of a change as was with Allegro however...

If you've really lost how to develop, perhaps a refresher of the basics.

Implement a linked list container. Implement a generic sorting algorithm. Implement the FogBuzz problem. Etc.

These are simple problems that should get your brain back into a programming mentality.

What's FogBuzz?

If you've really lost how to develop, perhaps a refresher of the basics.

Implement a linked list container. Implement a generic sorting algorithm. Implement the FogBuzz problem. Etc.

These are simple problems that should get your brain back into a programming mentality.

What's FogBuzz?

Sorry, I had two things on my brain at the time I typed it up. FogBugz is a software company started by Joel Spolsky, who ran a regular column of things that included programmer tests and notes on being a great programmer, finding good companies, etc. It was called "Joel On Software", and was a great column.

The problem is actually FizzBuzz:

Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz".

For those who are tempted to write the solution and post it, please don't post your solutions.

Some people can write out a correct solution in 5-10 lines of code. Other people struggle with this problem for hours. It is a good exercise.

Due to the unreadability i don't think this will spoil it to anyone who can't write it :

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Enumerable.Range(1,99).Select(i=> (i%3 == 0 || i%5 == 0) ? ((i%3 == 0 && i%5 == 0 ) ? "fogbuzz" : ((i%3 == 0) ? "fog" : "buzz")) : i.ToString()).Dump()

For those who are tempted to write the solution and post it, please don't post your solutions.

Due to the unreadability i don't think this will spoil it to anyone who can't write it :

<3 LINQPad

Enumerable.Range(1,99).Select(i=> (i%3 == 0 || i%5 == 0) ? ((i%3 == 0 && i%5 == 0 ) ? "fogbuzz" : ((i%3 == 0) ? "fog" : "buzz")) : i.ToString()).Dump()

Lol.

If you've really lost how to develop, perhaps a refresher of the basics.

Implement a linked list container. Implement a generic sorting algorithm. Implement the FogBuzz problem. Etc.

These are simple problems that should get your brain back into a programming mentality.

What's FogBuzz?

Sorry, I had two things on my brain at the time I typed it up. FogBugz is a software company started by Joel Spolsky, who ran a regular column of things that included programmer tests and notes on being a great programmer, finding good companies, etc. It was called "Joel On Software", and was a great column.

The problem is actually FizzBuzz:

Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz".

For those who are tempted to write the solution and post it, please don't post your solutions.

Some people can write out a correct solution in 5-10 lines of code. Other people struggle with this problem for hours. It is a good exercise.

Cool, thanks. Sounds like a fun assignment for me to solve in Lisp :) .