Programming Memorization

MarpleSoft · 2003-07-10T20:56:10

I would like to program with directx, i read many books and understand how it all works and how it''s all ut together, but there is just one problem ...memorization. I cannot remember all funtions, parameters, and so on. So what do i use? msdn online library?

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Started by MarpleSoft July 06, 2003 07:46 AM

16 comments, last by MarpleSoft 20 years, 9 months ago

Pipo DeClown

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July 07, 2003 12:03 PM

NOONE remembers all the DirectX names.

.lick

Anonymous

July 07, 2003 12:32 PM

Things like Visual Assist (www.wholetomato.com) help a lot

FlamePixel

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July 07, 2003 12:40 PM

Hello MarpleSoft. I remember having the smae problem. I thought I had to memorize everything. I can tell you this right now. You WILL NOT memorize the DirectX functions, parameters, and interfaces. There''s simply too many! What you can do is get comfortable with them. What I find useful is to find an interesting feature of DirectX, and apply it to different situations. That helps me become comfortable with it. Another trick is to wrap those features into a class system. You''ll find it much easier to remember the functions for your classes because you wrote them! This will also help eliminate redundancy. Hope this helps!

MarpleSoft

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July 08, 2003 08:41 AM

Thanks, i know what i need to do. I''ll just keep continue to use msdn for reference for functions, variables, parameters or what not. Thank you all once again.

Rob Loach

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July 08, 2003 03:51 PM

After a while, you start to pick up habits and eventually begin to memorize the names without knowing that you memorized them. It just becomes second nature.

Rob Loach
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Jolle

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July 08, 2003 03:59 PM

Normal phenomenon... get used to it. There will always be new (or old) API:s that you will use that you don''t know the function names for. Sad, but true.