Yes @ShadedVertex, it absolutely makes one program efficiently. I’m now very much interested in the low level details more than in higher OOP abstractions that I used to be fond of. Whenever I see a program, I’m now wondering how many instructions that this generate, etc.,
And by the way, I don’t want to offend, but I don’t believe one works so busy when in school, not only in school but anywhere. If you really want to do something, you can always try to make time for it. I did this in the two day preparation time that I got before my end semester examination, and the subject was Web Technologies, I had to study HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Ruby, Perl, CGI and MySQL all for one exam. But I did great on the test. Just wanted to say, don’t think otherwise.
Congratulations on your inter-school game dev competition, hope you do it well, and hope we will be able to play your game soon.