LaMothe, mathematician and computer scientist and author of the immensely well-received Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, has reprised that technohit with the same thing for 3D simulation.

Flavio Coelho/Moment, via Getty Images. ... Opinion Columnist. I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer.