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Is there a difference between a computer programmer and a game developer?
Asked by Smooth
I just decided, just fck it, since I'm Asian, i cant go big in the music/acting business. What is the difference between a computer programmer and a game developer? And i know game developers develop games and computer programmers program computers.
Asked by Smooth
I just decided, just fck it, since I'm Asian, i cant go big in the music/acting business. What is the difference between a computer programmer and a game developer? And i know game developers develop games and computer programmers program computers.
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they are mostly the same. "Developer", now days usually refers to someone who uses a 4GL and works with a lot of other people, each doing their little piece of a puzzle to make a single application, that will only work in a specific browser, or version, and will run really slow because it is snap together. game developers have to be very inventive. They have to be able to write very tight code that will run on almost anything and almost any kind of processor and / or OS. Writing in Assembly when possible, but usually in C or C++
they are mostly the same. "Developer", now days usually refers to someone who uses a 4GL and works with a lot of other people, each doing their little piece of a puzzle to make a single application, that will only work in a specific browser, or version, and will run really slow because it is snap together. game developers have to be very inventive. They have to be able to write very tight code that will run on almost anything and almost any kind of processor and / or OS. Writing in Assembly when possible, but usually in C or C++
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A game developer *is* a computer programmer - but one that specializes in programming games.
(This might make more sense when I tell you that the terms "software developer" and "computer programmer" mean the same thing - but "software developer" sounds slicker).
Answered by sashazur
Answered by sashazur
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A game programmer is a small area of computer programing. Actually, very few people in IT right code. Companies buy software, and IT specialist make it work correctly. And there is a lot of software out there that has not been debugged. It just installed a new software package to manage our files better, and it corrupted all our auto-cad files. It will cost us $100,000 to unfuck it. Linux users of the world unite!
Answered by Mark M
Answered by Mark M
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