Ask HN: What's the most important piece of code you've written?
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What's the most important piece of code you've written? My answer is as follows... The most important piece of code I've written was a rudimentary 2d tile engine in QB64 for an RPG I never finished. It's memorable and important to me because of what writing it did for my confidence as a developer. At the time, writing a tile engine "from scratch", in my mind, would make me a "professional". I had been following a Game Development YouTube series called "Adventures In Game Development". I wanted to be a game developer! It was my dream! I was a novice developer when I took on that challenge. After a few articles and discussions with some people in various IRC channels, I began. A few hours later, I saw a map appear that I had hardcoded which contained 0's, 1's. When I saw the square patch of grass with water in the middle (my clever map design), I thought I could accomplish anything. It was one of those moments that changed my life. I'm not kidding when I say I had wanted to write a tile engine for a year, at least, before I was actually able to do it. I was probably around 14 years old, at the time. I hope you enjoyed reading my answer to this question and I look forward to reading yours! EDIT I found the link to one of the articles I read when writing the tile engine. http://bit.ly/1mNSQr0
Jan 14, 2019
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