How Bisqwit started - Frequently Asked Questions, Part 4/4
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- Bisqwit answers your questions! Part 4.
0:00 - intro
0:03 - Where did you learn all this?
3:33 - How did you begin?
5:45 - Which books would you recommend for a beginner?
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The photo at 0:18 is me in 1992, i.e. almost 14 years age. Sorry about taking so much time to make this video! A brief explanation of the delay is found at 7:25 in this video.
That child is not polygonal!!, what is that camera!! So HD 1080p
Photo cameras and film… How do they work? 🙃
@Tony M Hi, first of all: *If you want me to reply, POST A NEW COMMENT, NOT A REPLY. See why: **th-cam.com/video/OKjXpxTGEBk/w-d-xo.html*
I explained my education background in part 2, at th-cam.com/video/zqZHteVhIeQ/w-d-xo.htmlm18s .
You looked like a grown man at 14, and I look like a grown man-baby at 49.
I first learned QuickBasic (or, QBasic?) when I was 14 as well! It was in early 2000. I started learning C++ just a few weeks later and have been using it ever since. I don't think I'm quite as knowledgeable as you are with C++20 yet, from what I have seen of your videos so far.
Note: This is a reupload. The previous release had a tiny editing mishap at some point.
Bisqwit, you are a genius, you'd deservet more acknowledge than you got.
He has returned! Joy
- Do you work for someone? or you sell your own program/s?
- How many hours do you program a day?
- What are you 10 favorite games of all time?
- Do you like FreeBSD?
- Your favorite music?
- Is Finland good to live? What do you like and don't like in Finland?
- Do you like riding a bicycle? how often do you ride?
It's called part 4/4 for a reason.
• For most of my life I have been working in a company. Right now I am studying in a university.
• The amount of daily programming varies. It has decreased over years.
• Star Control II, Mega Man 2, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy V, Tales of Phantasia, Portal, Portal 2, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Cities Skylines
• I have no particular interest in FreeBSD. I have tried it a few times.
• I don’t listen to a lot of music, but at background I prefer video game music, or better yet, silence. I also teach Israeli Folk Dance and I like some of those songs in moderation.
• Finland has good things and bad things. As I have never lived anywhere else, I am not qualified to give an unbiased opinion. I like that nearly all people are fair and honest, and that they very much respect personal boundaries. I like (nearly) free education and affordable healthcare. I like that it is nearly always safe to walk everywhere at all times of day, and that you can trust the police. I do not like that the traits mentioned in the previous sentence are decreasing. I do not like the leftist government and the trend of decreasing freedom of speech. I also do not like dark and wet winters and autumns. I do not like the high level of taxation, and the fact that we are consequently becoming one of the poorest “wealthy” nations in Europe when measured in terms of mean wealth per adult.
• I like riding a bicycle, but I do so rarely. Mine was stolen a couple years back, and I have not bought a new one since then.
No... Definitely not watching this at 3 in the morning... This video deserves less sleepy version of mine 😂
Hopefully everything is going fine bisqwit, we miss you. Its hard to find such passioned person like you, how you learned things being just a kid is Incredible.
That part where you wrote the code on paper really spoke to me. Thats exactely what i had to do back then when my parents still let me use the computer for a limited amount of time per day.
I still did it in my univ, well its for mid and final exam, we wrote in on paper, i find it very useless and unpractical, i mean you guys were unable to use computer thats why you uses paper, but my university is one of the best in indonesia, we have easy access to computer.
Bro this channel is a programming goldmine
Best programming channel on youtube.
There is also the video series by Andreas Kling, on his Serenity OS implementation. He also uses C++ extensively.
Glad you're back. Happy new year!
even just looking at it from my own little world, you're amazing, keep it up!
Nice gesture to thanks your childhood friends and their parents!
I could listen to him all day
2 years ago i learned 8088 asm because i wanted to learn to write programs for MS-DOS, or at least make patches for them or reverse engineer them.
People often don't understand why i learned asm.
You should learn whatever you want. No matter what they say!
Thank you Bisqwit for sharing this video!
Talk about taking me back to the past... this video brings up such memories! (I especially remember/like the pages of code with doodles of cats, magnets, etc on the side. =) )
I got happy when I saw a new video.
but I guess everybody understands how difficult it is to do good content (and so complex as in your case) and still have a full time job.
take care of your health! I wish you the best!
My first programming language was qbasic as well, but that was because it came with ms-dos.
I ended up joining the long now defunct qb45.com community where you could ask questions and show your findings and show off your games ... and of course everyone at some point wrote their own fake OS.
As qbasic/quickbasic/qb45 became less and less compatible with the newer Windows versions a group of the more talented qb45.com programmers splintered off and wrote a new compiler that was 100% compatible with the qbasic dialect but also offered more features like being able to compile to linux and you could use (if you wanted to) object oriented style programming etc.
The compiler is called FreeBasic, is still actively worked on, and can still be found at www.freebasic.net along with the whole community.
I learned qbasic back in the day and went on the BBS to get quick basic and later, visual basic. I moved on to qb64 (it was called qb32 then lol)
Mister Bisqwit, Sir. Happy holidays!
Glad you are back
Good to see you're doing well bisqwit
Most code I've wrote on paper was around half a page, and it was python haha. What you showed here is incredible.
Inpiring, thanks for sharing.
I remember back in the day, our school had 4 or 5 computers (I didn't have one at home). So after class we would race to the computer room, and if we were lucky, we would get to use the one with a color monitor.
I have a lot of respect for those who find the passion to self teach a skill without any of the equipment themselves.
Yay, you're back!
Ziomuś uwielbiam Cię i Twoją pasię !
Keep us inspiring!
Love from India🇮🇳
Nice to see you back
Such a great inspiration.
very inspiring, i think the best way to learn programming is become autodact and researcher and to not give up with hard work and perseverance
I think I am a similar age to you. I studied Computing at college in the mid 90s. I also didn't have a computer at home until the early 2000s. I have been looking through my old college work from the 1990s this week and I found lots of ASM code from the end of that decade. All of it handwritten on lined paper. I think my code then was a lot better than it is now!
love that end shot
You're amazing. Learning to code without internet, it's unfathomable to me. I'm 20 years old, from Sweden btw.
We took a similar path. Other than dabbling in Basic on like an Atari 800, my first PC language was Cassette Basic from ROM, on a broken IBM Portable PC which wouldn't boot from disks, given to my brother by a sympathetic computer teacher at our high school. Not being able to save my programs was frustrating, and motivated me to tinker with the insides. I was eventually able to fix the disk drives, and moved on to disk Basic. From there it was QBasic for a while, then Turbo Pascal so that I could compile programs.
Turbo Pascal was also the language Seth Able wrote LORD in, so I decided if it was good enough for him, then it was good enough for me. He was my idol at the time, and I attempted to write clones of LORD and LORD2, the latter of which I released as a public beta through Fidonet, called Defenders of Zentax. I never finished it, though, because my local BBS scene was simply too far gone. I also remember writing code for it (and other ideas) on paper sometimes, because I shared a bedroom with my younger brother, and my mom made us both go to bed so that he could sleep, so I would dabble in notebooks for an hour or two before I would go to sleep.
My only knowledge of C at the time was that Exitilus was written in that language, and it was a very buggy BBS game. My first attempts to learn it were unsuccessful because of things like pointers, which weren't explained very well in a large C tutorial I had printed out on continuous feed paper from my dot matrix printer. But I did eventually learn it, because I had delved into speeding up my Turbo Pascal programs by writing inline assembly functions, and decided I wanted something which was more of a compromise.
I think the only similar experience that young people today can get is programming for microcontrollers. I think there's a satisfaction that is gained from directly controlling hardware which some programmers never experience today. I think it's important to experience that, even if your job or hobby language is very high level.
This video has a nostalgic sense to me. I am from Iran, I have very similar experience of not having a computing, secretly using school computer and writing codes on piece paper...
Are u Shia Muslim?
I know this is kind of deviating from the point of the question, but I just wanted to say that I *greatly* appreciate your fond words about Bulletin Board Systems and, in particular, Seth Able Robinson's _Legend of the Red Dragon_ Door Game. That pretty much sums up my my childhood from years 10 to 16, or so - though for me, it was more about _The Pit_ by Midas Touch Software. (;
Can you do part 5/4, how what you've learned still holds up, most fun and interesting projects you've had, biggest mistakes you've made :D ?
You're back, hey! 😁 :)
Writing assembly on paper, what the actual hell
We had to do something similar in my early programming classes in college, but it was with Java.
@@WordoftheElderGods thats what you do in like every engineering school. assembly on paper is much harder believe me. java on paper is good / pseudo code, makes you understand what you write and easier understand algorithms when you read them in code form instead of running.
@@VancoldGH yes..for python also, its same
@@yourfellowhumanbeing2323 python...
@@xeome5596 ...
You inspire me my man !!
I loved Borland, their IDE made my life so much easier. My first taste of programming came from Ti-BASIC on the Texas Instruments Ti-99-4a
It is my first taste too.
If you know nothing about programming and need a place to start, I would recommend finding an introductory programming course online and going through it. Personally, I started out by taking Intro to Computer Science from MITx (which available for free online and teaches a bit of Python). Another good option would be to start with JavaScript if you're interested in web development. At the end of the day you don't need to worry too much about finding the "perfect" place to start: Once you know the basics it will be much easier to find better resources later on. Which language you learn first is also not _that_ important: As long as you pick something beginner-friendly the skills you'll learn will be largely transferable to other languages, anyway. The most important thing is to practice, practice, practice!
Happy New Year
love the drawings on 5:23, cute snakes :>
Please post more Videos Bisqwit. I think the world would benefit from just your raw Intelligence these Days.
Not the latest, but the greatest.
we miss you sir
Wow, sounds familiar, I spent days at my cousins' house watching them playing and waiting for my turn to be allowed to do some programming ;) Before that I wrote my programs onto paper waiting for some better future when I can try them. I've even learnt Commodore 64 6510 assembly from books, and wrote routines on paper. Sometimes I miss that era. Well, only sometimes, it's really frustrating otherwise ;) One key difference though, that I've never heard about BBS'es back to then (just much much later, almost at the era of the Internet). Hey, most people even does not have phone lines, and waiting for ten year or so to get it. So we usually send floppies in envelopes by the normal postal service, with files, programs and text messages to each other. Those "nice" postmen were strong enough though to be able to blend even 3.5" disks :-O
Ralph Browns interrupt list RBIL is a great documentation. For graphic modes the vbe3.pdf costfree from vesa.org is very usefull too.
I saw you on a comedy central comment so now I'm here and I have no idea why
Heh, I was similarly confounded by Wend when I started programming. I had no idea it was supposed to be interpreted as W(hile)End. My best guess was that it was a English cognate of Swedish "vänd", meaning "turn", which I interpreted as "turn (back)". You can sort of make sense of source code interpreting it as this, even though it's wrong.
Thank you.
Hmm, I always thought I was the only one programming on a sheet of paper. :)
When I did that in elementary school, my classmates and teachers always picked on me for doing that.
he is back on the track
Incredible.
0:07 "The question isn't where, but when" - Mikkel Nielsen
Thanks!!
Watch and relax ☕
The god has returned :D
According to your words, learning depends on passion, motivation and curiosity. You don't sound like a genius ( you can be talented by born) but i understand that programmers from your generation had more difficulties to learn because of lack of tools (internet) but they overcame it by "Never give up".
It's a beautiful story beacause the results, basically your current projets and programmer capacities, are really impressive.
Of course, there are so many people intelligent and surely better than you but it is not a challenge et your are really impressive and mainly when it concerns the situation in 1990.
Yeah, definitionally an inspiration. I love your open mindedness. It's a rarity these days.
Ajattelin joskus että tässä on kiva ja nostalgiaa indusoiva kanava. Hienoa että jaat historiaasi sekä kokemuksiasi meidän kanssa!
Kiitos!
I feel you bro, i write java code on paper, that is frustrating, it was mandatory in my univ, i wonder why is that, we have practical class that grant you access to computer, but in theory class, if you have exam, the code must be written on paper.
I also bought my first computer at age 17 from my hideous job at McDonalds (which I was terrible at). An Amstrad CPC 6128. I stuck with the built in (rom) Basic but should have focused on C running on the CP/M operating system.
Wait, 30 years of experience? Man you look quite young.
You're the best..
The answer to what and where book we should read now, is always the same, Library Genesis, computing book section.
The idea of wanting to start programming is generally irrelevant just find something which allows you to create a program and go. I started (in terms of programming languages my first was batch scripting) with C# from a tutorial video then just started modifying it and experimenting, after that I studied it in an IT school and around 11th grade I stumbled upon a website called learncpp.com I have found it to be good for beginners seeing as my younger brother have quickly got the hang of it after he read through like two chapters.
On another note thanks for your videos Bisqwit it has inspired me to try out new things and have learned about a whole lot more.
I second learncpp. It's quite detailed, explains the quirks of c++, has exercises at the end of each chapter to test what you've learnt, and it's actively updated to add information about new versions of c++.
What do you think of languages some people think are "easier", or aimed at beginners, such as Python? Do you think a programmer should aim to learn C++ as fast as possible?
Have you gotten into Rust in any significant way yet? If so, how would you compare it to C++ (pros, cons of either)?
I can definitely say that nowadays you do not have to pay money to learn something.
living,living,living!
You don’t look 42. Maximum 28-30
Based on the doodles in your source code did you read Donald Duck comics as well?
I wrote some Mega Man comics for my own fun, and imitated styles of some few select comics books. But overall, in the 1990s, I was very artistic. I have many school papers remaining from high school and it surprises me actually that almost every one of them was filled with doodles. Considering that nowadays I almost never draw anything.
EDIT: Oh and yes, I did read Donald Duck comics. They were (and are!) extremely professionally translated here in Finland. The translations are very much lauded here.
Actually isn't that uncommon, even for programmer senior superstars who now like to lecture students in big colleges, to had a small doodling stage in some point of their lives. That or doing bits of music (anyone tells here the word "Tracker"? xD), or both.
They may now tell you they only liked to read literature, and writing complex stories, when they were kids... But that's not completely true almost all time.
Very good video, with all of the information on the internet today, I feel I may be limiting my progress by getting quick answers from stack overflow instead of truly learning core concepts. I consider myself a seasoned web developer, but have had a hard time being fluent in c/c++. Do you have any tips on getting more into low level programming.
in my experience it really just comes down to reading some articles on computer memory and how it works because memory is the key to low level programming. C and C++ (as you probably know) has no garbage collector thus you are left with the responsibility of managing memory on your own. Once you are comfortable with Pointers and how you manipulate memory through them you can go even deeper and start to learn the basics of your processor and how it's assembly language works. x86 is really a clusterfuck but i managed to learn computer architecture through it anyways. Keep in Mind that i am still relatively young and not as knowledgeable as our friend Bisqwit but i am still confident enough in my abilities to at least know why certain memory operations result in the Kernel shutting down my process. In the end it all comes down to practice and patience because you'll be reading through a lot of documentation(the Intel Developer Manual is 5000 pages long lol). I hope you don't get discouraged throughout your journey to become a low-level programmer :).
Omg if only I knew about the pc gpe when I was a kid! My life would been completely different 😔
I would love to hear you say whipped cream!
Why?
What technologies did you use for developing yours Rest APi ?
I remember watching a video where you started it with showing texture filtering in talos principle, but I can't find the video. Do you have an idea of which one it was? Nevermind, it was illumination tutorial part 2.
Yes, that’s correct.
so cool
the head first books are good for teaching the basics
Head first books? As in… previews.123rf.com/images/kmiragaya/kmiragaya1306/kmiragaya130600016/20179370-exhausted-student-sleeping-with-her-head-on-a-table-and-books-by-her-side.jpg , www.learningliftoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/How-Students-Can-Avoid-Spring-Fever-730x390.png ? Or like, www.crushpixel.com/big-static12/preview4/sad-pensive-boy-with-book-904913.jpg , c8.alamy.com/comp/BWKR0D/photo-of-young-girl-holding-book-over-her-head-BWKR0D.jpg ?
@@Bisqwit decent joke, but it's a book series from O'Reilly. you should look into them, there far below the level of a programmer that knows even the basics, but there good for new people. Lot's of repetition of core concepts. I learned the basics from one, and then C from another. I felt like I was having my intelligence insulted the entire time, but it worked very well for me.
Hello Bisqwit, just for curiosity...
do you use, or know more "paradigms" of programming, different from the imperative one?
(I just simply admire your work)
Regards!
I try to use the possibilities of the languages that I use, but without trying to shoehorn things into any particular paradigm or philosophy. In general, my C++ programs incorporate at least some aspects of functional programming. For example, in the texture mapping series, to initialize the polygon vertices for rendering, I used a functor that translates and rotates a vertex from map data.
What font do you use?
Curious on your thoughts on the rise of ARM. Do you think it’s gaining so much attraction due to the benefits of the architecture, or because the x86 instruction set has become so bloated it’s becoming harder to work with and secure?
Edit: Always a wonderful treat when you post a video. Thank you!
I am fine with ARM gaining more foothold and I welcome competition. However, I think the instruction-to-µop decoder in x86/x86_64 levels the playing field quite a bit. But I also think that the instruction set in ARM has quite a few fantastic ideas that x86_64 could benefit from, such as the bitmask push/pop instructions.
As for bloat, the SIMD instructions in x86 are becoming quite massive indeed, but each of the instructions do a very specific job, so I don’t think they are a vector for security really (except maybe for vpgather* instructions…).
@@Bisqwit Thanks for the thorough reply.
I find the new competition x86 is seeing pretty interesting, but I don’t have a huge depth of knowledge. I’d really love to see RISC V get more development and adoption as well.
I’m going to have to look up a lot of those things now, which I’ll enjoy learning about. 😊
Arm may be good as x86 alternative, but they way Apple is pushing with their silicon, and other manufacturers following Apple trends isn't: CPU power locked by an extra smaller crypto processor and manufacturer permissions called Trust Zone, disposable non-upgradeable SoC chip packages, serialized hardware controlled by the TrustZone processor, no documentation, schematics and datasheets on any of the components, with more distribution restrictions than ever... Even in the worst Intel days, they never were like this.
If Apple is the one who is driving now the ARM bandwagon, I don't want to be in such bandwagon.
Hello, I am choosing a monitor for myself and I cannot decide on the parameters (Hz, expansion, etc.), you can advise. What is your monitor?
According to Xorg.log, I have these three displays in my desktop computer:
- LG Electronics M2762DP (DFP-0): connected
- AOC 2470W (DFP-1): connected
- AOC U3277WB (DFP-2): connected
Ilysm =)
0:20 Bisqid
7:45 Thumbs up for AT Keyboard.
Is it even worthwhile to read books about programming most of the time? I once bought a book for Unity 3D development and by the time I got around to read it, it was already largely obsolete.
I will never bash the reading of books. I would never want the practice of writing books to go out from fashion, even for the area of programming.
It’s just that reading them hasn’t really worked for me.
@@Bisqwit I understand. Maybe it works better for some people. Depending on the topic, it might even be necessary to read some papers or books if documentation is sparse elsewhere. Fair enough
@@BlueTJLP Here I am, a very book-oriented learner. I turned the "info-seeking" skill that Bisqwit mentions in the video into a "book-seeking" skill. As most of us can tell if an article on the internet is worth it or not at a glance, I understood the elements that work *for me* in a book, and those that don't.
What I like about books is that if you choose them wisely, you take advantage of the author organizing and sorting the information upfront for you. Also, good books are complete, so you don't risk to leave out pieces - which happened and keeps happening to me when I learn by doing. There are important things I'd rather have known before which I didn't meet because of bad luck, or because I was too engaged in filtering content to notice them in the pile of crap I was discarding.
Have you ever done leetcode contests? if so, in which place did you usually finish?
I have almost never done contests.
I can't tell the start too. Maybe the start is "How"
Awww, no picture of the book
Yeah… Don’t have it anymore. They books were collected at the end of the school year and later given to the the next year class. Too bad.
A beginner have to use all the alternatives: books, google, friends with the same interest(to discuss about questions or challenge - but its not necessary), *oh please dont look for a teacher 😵. Be your teacher. We learn better alone and slowly. Why slowly? Because all your questions have to be solved. If you look on youtube or hear about someone that learned how to programming in 06 months and got a 500k job haha, dont be desesperated. Thats bullshit. Thats marketing. If you want really to learn something, take time to learn. Solve everything you find about the theme. Exercises and exercises. Take notes. Practice and practice. Be a programmer its like a journey to the end of the black hole. You will nevee find the end, but when you start in the right way, you will always the way back to understand all the things 🤘
*always remember
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bisqwit.. have you ever try a competitive programming contest.?
Hi bisqwit, your content is great, but i have some question, do you have any plan/roadmap goals in 2021?
In which context?
@@Bisqwit about this channel
This channel has never been a primary pursuit for me. I do videos when I have time. So no, no roadmap or goals. I also cannot dictate which videos do well and which don’t. Sometimes I make a quick video and it does really well. Sometimes I prepare two years for a video and it gets meager views at best. It’s best to stay detached. I still try to respond to most if not all comments though.
@@Bisqwit thanks, your channels are great, because its open many pandoras box about computer science, i'm interested about some low level programming stuff, this channel are treasure.
8 bit assembler programming. Should be taught by everyone, as early as possible. 8 years and older.
I'm guessing you also used SWAG; the Pascal source code collection
I don’t think I did.
Bisqwit !
hello bisqwit, been watching for about 4 years now, and random late night question, but do you enjoy coffee?
I do instant coffee (just add water) when I am feeling sleepy and I need to be awake, and I also drink coffee when offered, but other than those, not.
Did you reajust to the new youtube design? Or you found a workaround?
I installed TH-cam Redux…
@@Bisqwit you did too, well the onlything what bothers me is that I cant save its settings in private browsing mode