The problem with super smart people is that they often succeed without having to or bothering to understand even the most basic common sense techinques.
I had a friend who told me a story, that when he was a kid, he found a copy of the Borland Pascal DOS compiler on his dad's machine. It came with a demo demonstrating the graphics library, but that was the extent of his introduction to Pascal, most of the syntax he figured out by trial and error.
He went ahead and build a quite elaborate tank game, with things like enemy AI, multiple weapons and destructible terrain.
The code was a fever dream, but the game was pretty impressive, and enjoyable.
One of the things he didn't intuit, was that you could not only use built in functions, but define your own. So when he needed a code block a second time, he just copied it, so you can imagine how pleasant that code looked.
The problem with super smart people is that they often succeed without having to or bothering to understand even the most basic common sense techinques.
I had a friend who told me a story, that when he was a kid, he found a copy of the Borland Pascal DOS compiler on his dad's machine. It came with a demo demonstrating the graphics library, but that was the extent of his introduction to Pascal, most of the syntax he figured out by trial and error.
He went ahead and build a quite elaborate tank game, with things like enemy AI, multiple weapons and destructible terrain.
The code was a fever dream, but the game was pretty impressive, and enjoyable.
One of the things he didn't intuit, was that you could not only use built in functions, but define your own. So when he needed a code block a second time, he just copied it, so you can imagine how pleasant that code looked.