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im not talking about copyright. i meant free community resources. well i see that this website is absolutely no help i guess i'l just leave now. cya and i wont be recommending this to anyone.
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Re: new to programming, looking for a professional to tell me how
Posted 28 March 2011 - 07:31 PM
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Posted 28 March 2011 - 09:37 PM
A little late perhaps, but some links to add:
Which language should I learn
DIC Tutorials
In Game Programming, Java, C# (XNA), and C++ are pretty common. Java syntax and C# syntax are pretty similar. C++ has more involved syntax, but is used more widely in the industry. Not really sure what stage in life you are at, but if you are going to college for IT or CS, Java is the primary language taught, with C++ as a close second.
Also, there *are* links to tutorials in the link I posted last time. We have been and are trying to direct you to the resources on this community. It is up to you to read them and ask questions about what you don't understand.
Which language should I learn
DIC Tutorials
In Game Programming, Java, C# (XNA), and C++ are pretty common. Java syntax and C# syntax are pretty similar. C++ has more involved syntax, but is used more widely in the industry. Not really sure what stage in life you are at, but if you are going to college for IT or CS, Java is the primary language taught, with C++ as a close second.
Also, there *are* links to tutorials in the link I posted last time. We have been and are trying to direct you to the resources on this community. It is up to you to read them and ask questions about what you don't understand.
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Re: new to programming, looking for a professional to tell me how
Posted 29 March 2011 - 01:14 AM
Paronomasia!
Game programming, from what I have learnt so far, is one of the most involved and complicated mainstream applications of programming. There are more complex things that coders do, but day to day, programming cooks a lot of noodles. I wan't to get into this field myself, with aspirtations towards developing interactive education software one day. But at the moment I am slowly but surely getting the basics down. I myself have started with a language called Liberty BASIC, and have after nearly 5 months, only just started getting around to learning how to add text boxes and buttons to windows. A lot of what you are going to need to learn is about data manipulation, strings and variables, arrays and so on, how to combine them and how to get them to interract, and how these interractions are related to game programming. As the others have said, there are a great many tutorials available on this site, and many many more asides, but we will not spoon feed you, go a'googling for half an hour. Or wait until you have a little capital and go get yourself a book (or 20 like i have 8D ). I would reccomend (from friends feedback, not personal experience) that you take a look at python and pygame, as they are free and havea lot of gratis tutorials and resources on the web:
http://pygame.org/news.html
Please don't go off in a huff, because programming, once you start getting into the details, is a fascinating and very rewarding hobby, and I am already envious of those who get to do this stuff for a living.
Game programming, from what I have learnt so far, is one of the most involved and complicated mainstream applications of programming. There are more complex things that coders do, but day to day, programming cooks a lot of noodles. I wan't to get into this field myself, with aspirtations towards developing interactive education software one day. But at the moment I am slowly but surely getting the basics down. I myself have started with a language called Liberty BASIC, and have after nearly 5 months, only just started getting around to learning how to add text boxes and buttons to windows. A lot of what you are going to need to learn is about data manipulation, strings and variables, arrays and so on, how to combine them and how to get them to interract, and how these interractions are related to game programming. As the others have said, there are a great many tutorials available on this site, and many many more asides, but we will not spoon feed you, go a'googling for half an hour. Or wait until you have a little capital and go get yourself a book (or 20 like i have 8D ). I would reccomend (from friends feedback, not personal experience) that you take a look at python and pygame, as they are free and havea lot of gratis tutorials and resources on the web:
http://pygame.org/news.html
Please don't go off in a huff, because programming, once you start getting into the details, is a fascinating and very rewarding hobby, and I am already envious of those who get to do this stuff for a living.
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Re: new to programming, looking for a professional to tell me how
Posted 29 March 2011 - 04:18 AM
go.to.college.
I'm sorry but it's simply the best way, I go to a very small college and am doing games now, I'm almost finished my 1st year, the main advantage of the smaller college is that all my lecturers know me by name.
The only annoyance is that in this course I'm not only doing programming, I'm forced to do subjects based on how the CPU works, how networks operate etc.
I believe a mainstream education is the best way to go.
I'm sorry but it's simply the best way, I go to a very small college and am doing games now, I'm almost finished my 1st year, the main advantage of the smaller college is that all my lecturers know me by name.
The only annoyance is that in this course I'm not only doing programming, I'm forced to do subjects based on how the CPU works, how networks operate etc.
I believe a mainstream education is the best way to go.
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