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Is Assembly the best programming language?

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Oh God my eyes
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Oh God my brain
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I perform unholy incantations to keep Assembly at bay
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Real men write binaries by hand
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btw Kirby, you mentioned that you use openGL in this topic/somewhere else, so do you use it for 3d stuff or just 2d stuff? Because the only time I ever used openGL it was for 3d stuff but I would never want to do that again :V
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Haha I use it for 3d stuff. Although I really would prefer not to. I have a better grasp on Direct X than I do on openGL to begin with.
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gotcha. I've never really used DirectX, I was gonna for a games special topic course I was gonna take one time but there were schedule conflicts.

Though DirectX probably wouldn't be much better because one of my main issues was just getting the camera to play nicely :I
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Haha as it is the camera never works correctly in most cases unless you have a decent grasp of what all the cases are. Even AAA titles have difficulty getting the camera to listen correctly. Or their camera bugs out as they do things. Although this next semester I'm taking graphics 2 which might involve getting a correctly working camera, although week 1 seems to be creating shaders.......
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well I don't mean in the case of the camera being behind objects or anything involving special cases like that, more in the sense of doing the right set of transformations so that it follows your position correctly and does mouselook well and all that and doesn't end up flipping upside-down or rotating around the origin or something :P

only thing I've done with shaders would be a raytracer, but that's not exactly the same vein as realtime stuff.
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Akonyl wrote: BS/BoS are a level of degree, not the major

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Ah, IC. We call that Informatik (Inf), so I assumed you would call it Informatics as well :P
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Akonyl wrote: far as I know, ranger's the only non-CS person here, although Kirby's major is probably called something different because he's doin game-oriented stuff.
I've worked with OpenGL once, and yeah that shit sucks ass.  There's a class offered here thats called interactive computer graphics that works with it, I sat in a couple times, it feels like its far too math dependent with like vectors and 2-d and 3-d transformations, rather than theory of CS.  Meh.  The endgame was sweet though, they made a flight simulator.

Also Kirby, why didn't you go from CS then to your gaming major, rather than the other way around? 
Akonyl wrote: far as I know, ranger's the only non-CS person here, although Kirby's major is probably called something different because he's doin game-oriented stuff.
lol if you want to be technical about it yeah..but im pretty much already half cs.
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I went this way because going into game design was what I wanted first off. I just figured it would be easier to get a job in the gaming industry if I also had a CS degree. In retrospect it probably would have been better but oh well. I'm two semesters away from graduation and its not like I can change it now haha.
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way to quote the same thing twice ranger :P

and yeah, a flight sim would be pretty coo, but a ton more camerawork than what I had to end up doing for my project. My project was basically just using an L-system grammar to generate a string, use that to generate a "city" (red blocks for buildings and flat black rectangles for roads :I) and be able to walk around in it. If I had to do 3d camera work I woulda been much less enthused :V
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my bad yo,

I just finished a little extra cred project for one of my classes so my resume looks epick, minimization of DFAs.  Shit was hard yo.  5 AM in the library.
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Akonyl wrote: far as I know, ranger's the only non-CS person here, although Kirby's major is probably called something different because he's doin game-oriented stuff.
You'd be correct in that. I'm doing Game and Simulation Programming. Although after I get my degree in this, I'm going to go for the CS degree so that I round out my programming abilities.
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Haha yeah, although while reading through the book for my Advanced Artificial Intelligence Book, its going to be a really boring class. "Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach Third Edition" for those interested. The concepts it goes through is relevant but I don't know just doesn't fit the way I like for textbooks. We'll see I only read through Chapter 1

The other book for graphics 2 is way more interesting. "Real-Time Rendering Third Edition". If I was going to choose which field of game design I would go based on these two classes and their textbooks right now I'll be leaning towards a Graphics Programmer.
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yo, AI is awesome, no hatin' on it. The only part of class I hated was they tried to get us to code in LISP, but if it's game-centric I doubt they'd do that :P
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Haha never said I was hating on it. As it is, when I went into game design, the one thing I wanted to do was be an AI programmer. Although graphics programming has been on my mind since I started getting into it as well. Who knows. I might do both in the end.
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though not exactly programmy, I'm gonna post this in here because it's computery :V

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=8

$25 computer that runs linux, yo.

and Quake.
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