Frustration.
Now, I’m never one to preach about Microsoft, I know. In fact, I’m normally fairly disparaging about the quality of their products: Now is not the time for this to change. See, I finally got Visual Studio 2008 installed today (the download finished on the 4th attempt at 03:36 this morning, I was not awake to witness this miracle) and the very first thing I did was to subsequently install XNA Game Studio 3.0.
It was a bit of a shock when I then found out that it appears you can only make games using Visual C# (maybe you need plugins or something to use other languages, I don’t know) but I don’t really mind – I just ploughed on and figured I’ll learn C# as I go. Which turned out to be a good plan.
Because the tutorials on the XNA website are so slow it’s unreal. I don’t mean in terms of buffering, I mean they assume you’re completely incapable of navigating your own screen. They have to recap in painful detail exactly where a menu is (despite having a goddamned video. I have eyes, thank you very much. And they work too, funnily enough.) and all of the important parts of the last video. You know, that video that I just finished watching.
It’s fair enough aiming the tutorials at people with no C# experience, or even no programming experience. But we’re not retarded. Honestly. Plus, it’s all in American. They really kill our language. For example, what is #? It’s a hash, or a sharp symbol. Not a pound. That looks like £.
Anyway, that’ll do for an XNA-directed rant for the moment. In other news, I still have the same job as yesterday and the day before. This is promising, no? Today, I was updating the content of one website. And then tidying it all up with phpMyAdmin because the backend is useless and has no edit page. A minor annoyance, but it’s more than counterbalanced by the fact that Macs are pwettiful.
My job means that I’m not really getting all that much done: No Xbox 360, limited coding, no Mech, Stats or Pure Maths and no social contact. Fortunately, night was created for a reason: for people with jobs to not sleep because they’re doing things they would otherwise have done during the day.
Not to mention the fact that I’m enjoying both the work and the atmosphere. There’s a lot of banter that goes on, plus random pictures sent around on iChat (for example: this was pretty funny, if inappropriate) and I’m finding new places to eat in Huddersfield every day. We went to a noodle bar for lunch today.
None of us ate noodles. Anyways, back to the frustrating tutorials.
~ Godders.
Comments
Emad (Jul 23, 2009)
Finally downloaded! Noice work mister.
As for preaching about Microsoft…oh dear…
=P
Godders (Jul 23, 2009)
Did you read past the first paragraph? I was bitching about M$