Rob Manuel Quotes

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.

When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

I am a programmer.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I'd spend the rest of my time building.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.