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How to become a better programmer

I'll be the first to admit, programming was never something I found easy. My very first experience in programming was when I got this book at the ripe age of 11. I liked playing my Nintendo 64  and wanted to make games on my own. The book that changed it all for me My ability was far under sub-par. Somewhere in these  forums I wrote a post asking for help trying to understand a while loop - needless to say I got defensive because I felt I was being talked down by people smarter than me, telling me that I should start and learn more simpler things first (than dive right into making a PC game). Forums did actually look like this (circa 2005) The truth was, I was being too ambitious. BUT - TwisterMan was not going to code itself! (All drawn in glorious Microsoft Paint :)). Animation frames of TwisterMan doing some whirlwind attack Watch out for spikeo ! *rawr* And whoever this boss was called... Baaaa? The point I'm trying to get across i...

Changing the background image of the Visual Studio editor

I happened to be browsing on a discord server , which happens to be the now, go-to VOIP platform for gamers (but is also rapidly growing for other interest groups likewise) and saw this image: Woah, super cool! If you had any response like I had, you would be saying right now; how do I get that in my editor?! ClaudiaIDE If you go over to the Visual Studio Marketplace, you will find a tool named ClaudiaIDE  (I assume as some ode to a lady named Claudia). Download and install the tool (close Visual Studio before installing). Let's get ready to load some images, Claudia Please just be wary, this isn't an official tool by Microsoft. If any bugs or issues happen, please go and report them in the tool author's github . I am also not responsible for anything that might happen after you install this (but I feel this is generally safe to install or otherwise it wouldn't be on the Visual Studio Marketplace, right?) Configuration To configure ClaudiaID...