It also helps to turn up your punctuation settings, because some important symbols are not spoken in general.
On 2/25/14, Thomas Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Josh, > > I think you are over complicating things for yourself because usually > even when I was learning to program I never needed to slow my speech > down and go through the code line by line and character by character. > The important thing is to understand the mechanics of what the code > does rather than understanding how a custom function, variable, etc is > spelled in someone's sample code. > > For example, if I am reading someone's code and I see a string > variable called text in the code. I don't really need to know how text > is spelled unless I intend to modify the program somehow. Otherwise I > just need to know there is a variable there and it is of type string. > > Same goes for functions. there might be a function called GetHealth() > and it returns an integer. If I am just studying code I don't need to > know exactly how GetHealth() is spelled unless I intend to copy it > word for word and character for character into a compiler or intend to > modify the program I am reading. Does that make sense? > > In short, I think you are paying more attention to the niddy gritty > details of the sample code than how it works. Variable names, fun > ction names, change from program to program and that is not at all > what is important. What is important is the type of data that variable > stores or what that function does. > > HTH > > > On 2/24/14, Josh <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was looking at the bgt manual. It seems for me when reading code I get >> more out of it by either slowing my speech way down when reading code, >> or by left and right arrowing a character at a time to slowly go through >> it and see what its doing. is that how you guys read code also by >> arrowing left and right through it or when writing and reading it >> slowing the speech down a good amount? >> >> Josh >> >> -- >> using windows7 laptop >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [email protected]. >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [email protected]. >> > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
