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#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Did You Learn Computer Programming?
John Carmack: I can remember as going through the learning process where you find at the start you're just learning how to do the most basic possible things. In fact one of my first sort of major technical hacks that I was kind of fond of was on the Apple to computers they had a mode called low resolution graphics. They could have 16 different colors and I wanted to make a game kind of like the arcade game Vanguard just a scrolling game. So I figured out that I could kind of tweak just a couple things that I barely understood to put it into a graphics mode and I could draw graphics. Then I could just do a line feed at the very bottom of the screen and then the
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