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If this sort of thing interests you (or even if you think it is totally ridiculous) you should definitely check out Handmade Hero[1], which is a livestream of a game's development. My own programming skills have improved from watching Handmade Hero as I've picked up some new techniques (and shed some bad habits as well).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/handmadeheroarchive

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I can never imagine having as much knowledge of any programming language as Casey does. After only programming for a year now, it blows my mind that anyone can know and explain programming as well he does.

Yeah, it's been really amazing to watch. Plus you can really see how passionate he is about it, which is also a wonderful thing.

That is a pretty naive point of view. That amount of know-how, and I'm assuming he knows much more that has presented, is normal for someone who has been programming for 15+ years straight.

If you find yourself still seriously programming after a few years, try evaluating this position then.

ha I actually had typed out a sentencing saying, "this may be just my naivety since I'm inexperienced.." but deleted it but yeah I'm curious if that point will ever come for me.

Still I think in my position I am qualified to say that Casey is exceptionally good at explaining programming.

He is very familiar with the compilers too.

Can you name the those compilers?

He works on VS2013 on Windows, and LLVM+GDB+QtCreator on Linux, IIRC. He has also commented on the "involution" of Visual Studio in the last years, making it difficult to the user to ship a standalone executable.

(He has praised Turbo C several times - probably his favorite environment in the 90's, never matched these days in some ways... )

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