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Game Coder Personality Test
ImLeftFooted
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HardTranceFan
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Snap :D

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MiquelFire
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January 2003
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DLSB here as well.

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Steve Terry
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DLSC

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Mark Oates
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March 2001
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DLSC

You're a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.

You like coding at a Low level.
You're from the old school of programming and believe that you should have an intimate relationship with the computer. You don't mind juggling registers around and spending hours getting a 5% performance increase in an algorithm.

You work best in a Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There's no communication problems, you know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.

You are a Conservative programmer.
The less code you write, the less chance there is of it containing a bug. You write short and to the point code that gets the job done efficiently.

that last one is interesting, considering the last few problems I needed help with were ones where I had about 40+ lines of code and somebody else said "hey! here's the same thing in, like 8 lines". :P

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Oscar Giner
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April 2002
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DLSC too heh.

Matthew Leverton
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Those were some of the worst questions I've ever seen.

Billybob
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January 2003

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Those were some of the worst questions I've ever seen.

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Joel Pettersson
Member #4,187
January 2004

DLSC.

LennyLen
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December 2004
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I'm a PLSB.

Ciro Duran
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December 2002
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Doer, High language, Team, liBeral here... This could be a bit true... I'm the kind of guy who writes for other people. I'm used to program this way, as I've had some experience working on others' code, so I give my two cents for better code understanding :-).

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Joel Pettersson
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January 2004

Since the time I got decent at programming, once having - through self-learning - passed through the messy-garbage-writing-noob stage and the half-arsed-coder stage (during the time after first joining here, halfway through reaching the latter, I remember posting some admittedly WTF-level code), I have gradually become increasingly "conservative", as the test puts it.

My code has become increasingly terse, with significantly less whitespace and comments, and at the same time, remaining (and even becoming more) clear (to me) and significantly more effective. I have also gone from sprinkling some C++ OO here and there to generally preferring to write in pure C, making use of evil (but most effective, not to mention beautiful) macros here and there. And I am developing an interest in assembly and techniques such as self-modifying code, in the sometimes halfway obsessive-compulsive search for squeezing out every bit of performance improvement there is to make.

I seem to be turning into a grumpy young Real Programmer.

Rampage
Member #3,035
December 2002
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DLSC here.

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SonShadowCat
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September 2001
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Jakub Wasilewski
Member #3,653
June 2003
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Those questions were idiotic.

I mean, "who is a better programmer?". I've seen both raw talents and scholarship aces with programming skills so low it was insulting. The correct answer is "the one who programs better".

"Which is the best way to program?". Why not "Prolog, because I just love logic", "Scheme, because I can turn it into any language I need", "Fortran, because I tend to use a lot of legacy code", or "COBOL, because I like being raped in the ass". The only freaking answer is "what's right for the task".

"The perfect language..." does not and will not exist. If it's a scripting language for my game, definitely #1. If I'm coding the game itself, I'd rather take #2.

"You've been given a task to do that will take one man month, how big is the optimal team?". Depending on how well the task can be split up into modules. Definitely not 1 person, but probably not as high as 5. Also, dependent on the actual deadlines we have, obviously.

"Whitespace should be used sparringly or everywhere?". Err, what? The only language that allows to use it everywhere is Whitespace, and any task takes one man month in it ;). Anyway, I chose 'everywhere' because I assumed that was closer to what I do.

That said, I'm a DHSB. Which is whatever.

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Richard Phipps
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November 2001
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Kris Asick
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July 2001

PLSB for me.

Many of those questions I felt needed a third answer, because I didn't completely agree with one or the other.

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miran
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June 2002

PHSB

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OICW
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November 2003
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DLSB as well, but I agree with Jakub. Those questions were really stupid.

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miran
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@Jakub: Did you even read the instructions? They clearly state that the final result doesn't only depend on your answers, but also on how you perceive the questions.

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Jakub Wasilewski
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They clearly state that the final result doesn't only depend on your answers, but also on how you perceive the questions.

I'm just saying that those 5 questions (which is like, half of the test?) didn't have any answer that would come even close to what I would really answer to a question stated in that way. How do you expect the test to provide valid results in such a case?

Anyway, in my eyes this test is akin (in terms of actual usefulness) to those "psychotest" things in magazines for teenage girls where you answer 10 questions and say "How wonderful, I have a romantic personality", or "OMG, my relationship is toxic".

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LennyLen
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December 2004
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Anyway, in my eyes this test is akin (in terms of actual usefulness) to those "psychotest" things in magazines for teenage girls where you answer 10 questions and say "How wonderful, I have a romantic personality", or "OMG, my relationship is toxic".

This probably true, you can get away with these sorts of tests provided you ask enough questions, but 12 certainly isn't enough.

Andrei Ellman
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April 2003

DLSB

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DLSC

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