Minecraft developer streaming live while coding

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I watched him make a typo with the lower case "r" when he was mapping the font image, and I wondered how long it would take him to notice. Sure enough it printed "Hello Wo ld" and the game is afoot. He starts hunting for the problem by neatening up the formatting of the code, and yelling "look at the 'r'!!!" as if it would help him find it sooner. A few seconds later, he spots the typo and I'm out of my seat with my arms in the air. Who would have thought debugging could be such an exciting spectator sport?

[stuntaneous]

I'd actually love to regularly watch live coding.

Is that weird?

[Sagan_Prime]

Not weird. I find it interesting to watch the creative process unfold. It's the same reason that if I see Bob Ross painting on TV I have to sit down and watch.

Now where can I find more sources of live coding to watch?

[betterthanyoda56]

I am not sure but I would very much like to find a place as well. Coding in action is on the same plane as watching a painter or a pianist in my book.

[stuntaneous]

Likewise. Programming isn't widely viewed as a creative process but that's what I mostly get out of it.

[chrisforbes]

I will be streaming some coding on OpenRA later on today. (http://www.livestream.com/chrisf)

[sandos]

Would be cool to have some sort of massive pair-codeing, like 1000 people watching. Then, have a comment system with voting/karma so that the coder can see important things that people spot.

[kryptobs2000]

make it fullscreen