[BabaGanoosh]

Hi all! I'm new to this forum, and I am very new to programming. I am an aspiring video game programmer, and I will be going to school for that soon.(hopefully lol) but until then I will be trying to teach myself a thing or two or learn from others. Any help with this like books to read or videos to watch to help me learn would just be amazing. I've been reserching a bit in my off time from work but I just feel overwhelmed and don't really know where to even start or what actual languages I should be learning to accomplish my goals. So I'm checking out C++ lol. Definitely going to be snooping around the forum to see what I can learn off of it.

[raghav.naganathan]

Hello BabaGanoosh

Welcome to DIC

I would suggest you go through the various tutorials of this forum and you can certainly learn a lot as these tutorials are very concise and easy to understand.

Looking forward to seeing you around in the forum

regards,
Raghav

[Xupicor]

Se my signature for a link to Amit's place, great articles there. There's also a forum here about game development, and you know, gamedev.net has a lot of resources too. You should use them all, but first - you should learn general ideas of programming, and how these ideas work in practice - learn a programming language to the extent of being proficient with it.

There are no shortcuts on the way you're trying to go, so either you'll be patient, or you'll be lost.

Welcome aboard and good luck!