Piratesoftware's "2D Raytracing" code is just shitty radial light diffusion with collision checks. The worst part is he's individually checking each pixel and manually adjusting the lighting pixel by pixel😭 🙏

Does anyone else feel like Piratesoftware's content is just dedicated to people starting out with coding and game dev? Should this piece of shit be the person these newbie devs look up to? What a fucktard. This is the dude who has "DECADES OF INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE" hacking windmills and sending emails like "please let me hack you" in blizzard

I learnt things by myself using websites like w3schools or geeksforgeeks and by making random useless things and i feel like that's how learning how to code should be like? My college made me forget why I loved coding in the first place, which was my creative freedom in it, making things I love, making things I would use. I don't care about what outcome comes out of it, I just like making things by my own volition.

I hate how coding is taught in academics. I don't know how it is in the US or other countries, but in India it just feels so irritating and boring, I feel like they should make things more hands on and out of the box rather than making us sit in class for 10 hours and give us 2 hour labs which are useless. If you're going to have a CS F111 course at least make sure it's inclusive of all the students you have? I worked my ass off to get into a really 'prestigious' college only to be disappointed by a vast array of professors who absolutely don't give a shit about teaching. They're brilliant researchers don't get me wrong, thousands of papers to their names, hundreds of citations, but when it comes to teaching it feels like they think of us as burdens? I dunno, this entire semester I felt so depressed, expecting more out of this course. I'm not a developer guru, I'm far from it, but I still feel like even if you're teaching the bare basics you can include things for people who already know this stuff? Instead of create an obvious unfair advantage for people like me who've been doing this for way longer than others.

I feel like evaluation should be made on progress rather than how much of the syllabus you can memorise. From this point, to that point, how much progress did you make. I feel like instead of evaluative components being MCQs or fill in the blanks they should be projects, how well did you code this project, how well did you document it. Create your own project! It'll take time to evaluate yes but it's not like you don't have that time, it's a genuine investment to not just make this a read and repeat course.

Thanks for reading my rant

MacOS doesn't deserve a special mention (they're neutrals)

You are not cool for flexing you have linux.
Seriously I am so sick and tired of people thinking linux is a big deal, it's not. If you really need to use linux us it, otherwise just stay on windows or use a virtual machine. The sheer fucking number of people who made their entire machine unbootable or accidentally corrupted their entire install just cause they wanted to join the linux cool club. STOP TELLING PEOPLE TO USE LINUX IF THEY DON'T NEED IT. "Oh but microsoft is stealing your data :3" THEY'LL DO THAT ANYWAY WHEN YOU BOOT UP YOUR BRAND NEW FRESH ARCH INSTALL AND GO paru -S google-chrome. This isn't to say windows 11 isn't horrible, it's abysmal, but people prefer it? And it's okay. I personally hate the idea of my data being collected, and it's okay. Some people don't give a fuck. AND. IT'S. OKAY. You don't need to sit next to a windows user and go "Oh my god XD is that windows!1!!111 are you actually using windows? are you serious :/" It's detrimental, it scares off newer users, it creates a false assumption that linux is where all the cool awesome developers go. Most of my friends who are incredible developers and make insane stuff stay on windows, and some of my most useless friends spend twelve hours trying to install LFS just to get the flexing rights. Stop. STop. STOP. If your friend likes not wasting his time and likes his setup with his windows 11 and his microsoft trackers and his 99.9% RAM Usage, LET. HIM. BE.

Thank you