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Unread 01-12-2010, 12:41
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Re: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
Which is not at all what he said. In the future we should try to be more precise on what we mean especially when complaining about things.
You must be new around here

I'm a big fan of the "Stand on the Shoulders of Giants (tm)" I like to use other peoples ideas/products/code/etc. to get started. Once I have things in place that work I can start refining / optimizing small parts to make them better. I know that I can dig iron and coal out of a hill, but it does not mean that I want to make my own steel gears from scratch.

So from a few posts up. I would use the CMU camera and it's code. Once I understood how it worked, I would start changing sections out to make it better and better. While there are other platforms you can use, any of them are better than starting with:
Code:
main(){
}
as a starting point.
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