i'm just a high school student, but i want to get to programming. i want to try creating a game ( just a simple one) before getting in college for my computer science course. My BIG question is: "How to Start?"...... i have no idea to how, but i really want to start programming.

hi miggylinaw, and welcome to </DIC>.

if you're trying to get started in programming, pick a language and have a look around the forums, tutorials, and code snippets available here. i'd say that c++ would be the way to go, but since that's my preferred language, i'm probably more than a little biased . the web is also replete with introductory tutorials for a lot of different languages. when you've settled on a language and played around with it a bit, a quick post to the appropriate forum will get you a bunch of recommendations for further resources.

once you've gotten started, you will soon start having problems, because that's how programming goes - no matter what level. when you hit that stage, try to work through things on your own (a critical programming skill), but don't be afraid to ask for help or advice in one of the forums (another critical skill).

again, welcome, and hope to see you around.

-jjh

Welcome to </dream.in.code> miggylinaw, glad you could join us!

Welcome to </DIC>

Hi miggylinaw, welcome to </dream.in.code>

Hello miggylinaw welcome to DIC

Welcome to Dream in Code. Look forward to seeing you around the forums.

Hey! Welcome to </dream.in.code>! I'm looking forward to seeing you around the community.

There's a lot of great information here at dream.in.code! Welcome to the community and thanks for joining!

I'll see you around the forums!

Welcome to Dream.In.Code miggylinaw! I found the best way to start off programming was to pick up a nice beginners book that assumes you are brand new to programming. They will start you off with the hello world program and work you up through the principles. All it takes is one solid book to give you a major jump on the other class mates.

Enjoy the forum! I will probably see you around in the C++/Java/C# boards.

Greetings I think that you would find the answers you require in the game programming thread.

There are a number of good tutorials out there all you have to do now is just pick a language.

Do you want to make a flash game a java game a..... ?

Haha I like how the How to Start thread change into a Welcome to DIC thread .

Anyways you seem like you know how programming works or atleast a bit of it. Its best to ask yourself what kind of simple games you want to make, a web game? a flash game? a 2D game? simple console application game? (The ones in the dark screen and lots of typing as they call it).
Then from there on you can start off with the language you think you need to know.

And ya, welcome to DreaminCode.