Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 28th Jul 2004 17:23 UTC
Most of us that work in the IT industry have been around for a long time. We started out in our parents basement writing code in some BASIC environment, ussually Commodore BASIC or QBASIC. Do you remember how thrilling it was? Your first program and it was something extremely basic but the point was it worked. Some of us got hooked right away and kept trying to solve problems and added more and more pushing the capabilities of whatever language we used. As we got older the environments progressed and the programming tools progressed and got more complicated.
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I first started programming back in the 286 days with basic and Turbo Pascal. I'm now learing C.
I tried using modern IDEs, but they are very complex and confusing, and you need to learn loads about X or GTK just to draw a single pixel on the screen.
So, I simplified the whole lot. Pico is my editor, and SVGAlib gets stuff on the screen.
It's very simple to get graphics working with svgalib, and pico does not generate trillions of files and headers, all I see is the few lines of code I'm working on.
Modern programmers will probably laugh at this, but it really is much simpler, instant, and more fun for a beginner than jumping straight into a big IDE.