How am I supposed to memorize all the SDL functions?

There’s all this crap for SDL, even in the beggining, how the hell are you expected to memorize it? How did you guys learn it?

I think I gave basically this same answer in your similar thread on another forum, but programming really isn’t about memorization. The more you program, the more things you’ll be able to do without consulting any references, but generally speaking, you don’t memorize it all - you just look stuff up when you need to.

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Jonny DOn Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jesse A. wrote:

I think I gave basically this same answer in your similar thread on
another forum, but programming really isn’t about memorization. The more you
program, the more things you’ll be able to do without consulting any
references, but generally speaking, you don’t memorize it all - you just
look stuff up when you need to.


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I’ve programming for 30 years in many different languages and I still have to consult references from time to time.

The languages per se are easy to learn and memorize, but there are too much libraries to account for.

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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jesse A. wrote:
I think I gave basically this same answer in your similar thread on another forum, but programming really isn’t about memorization. The more you program, the more things you’ll be able to do without consulting any references, but generally speaking, you don’t memorize it all - you just look stuff up when you need to.


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From: adam_burn@hotmail.com (Soap360)
Subject: [SDL] How am I supposed to memorize all the SDL functions?

There’s all this crap for SDL, even in the beggining, how the hell are you
expected to memorize it? How did you guys learn it?

Hi,Am 23.09.2010 00:03, schrieb Soap360:

There’s all this crap for SDL, even in the beggining, how the hell are
you expected to memorize it? How did you guys learn it?

A good IDE with good autocompletion (SDL_ wait or SDL_+)
and a faint idea what you want do :wink: I think there was a discussion
about the pros and cons of IDEs lately :wink:


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To paraphrase Einstein, “I don’t have all this stuff memorized, but I
know where to look for answers”.On 9/22/2010 4:03 PM, Soap360 wrote:

There’s all this crap for SDL, even in the beggining, how the hell are
you expected to memorize it? How did you guys learn it?

Hi,

Write basecode once, then reuse it. Then don’t touch it ever again.
Everything you use routinely, memorize. Or just memorize it all. And as
was stated above, if you practice programming with SDL (or whatever), you’ll
gradually and automatically memorize the spec.

Ian