My favorite thing about using a programming language I haven't used in a while is googling its syntax for comments and function definitions. Always makes me feel like a real pro grammer.
a colleague once told me that what makes a good researcher is realizing that reference material exists, so the profession is how to find your way back to / forward to things, and then using the prebuilt stuff. Keeping all of it in your head is actively detrimental to the process, because it requires memorization or a lot of reading very similar things
100% of my life in game dev has been copying and pasting pieces of code with the most manual labor being figuring out how to make those snippets of code from two completely different people play nice together. It hasn’t failed me yet
studying is easy, cheating is deeply convoluted and makes you learn a lot of social, operational security, and counterintelligence skills
this also applies to gaming. all of the best programmers i have known have beaten at least one puzzle-ish game by peaking into the code one way or another.





