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[Gabanisu]

Hello, I want to learn programming for making games.
However I have little to no direction!

[TheCompBoy]

Welcome to CodeCall!
You could use C#'s XNA to make great games, And even release them to the Xbox 360.

[WingedPanther]

Welcome aboard!

[Gabanisu]

Ah thanks, I will look into it.

[fread]

Welcome to codecall, Gabanisu! Java is pretty friendly for making games, but it is good to try a few languages.

[jerrywickey]

You are probably wondering about the equivocated enthusiasm of the replies.

Very usually people who are very good at programming don't like playing video games. and people who like playing video games, write scripts and speadsheets and graphic artist work, but don't really do any serious coding.

So if you are interested in programming just so you can write a game, you probably have an uphill battle. If you are really interested in programming, there is a lot of money in writing games, but only if it is a top seller. Its probably easier to become an American Idol or ball player or win the lottery.

But programmers can make very good money writing all kinds of things. My brother and someone here in this forum have asked about learning to program and I am thinking about offering a simple beginners course. A few lessons to show people what programming is really all about.

Are you interested in that.

Jerry

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jerrywickey said:

You are probably wondering about the equivocated enthusiasm of the replies.
Very usually people who are very good at programming don't like playing video games. and people who like playing video games, write scripts and speadsheets and graphic artist work, but don't really do any serious coding.....

I believe there exist a quantity of truth to this statement. However I am not sure where I would rank in terms of skill, but I am not a game enthusiast, more of an occasional gamer.

[jerrywickey]

You sound like a good candidate for programming.

At what level of understanding are you?

Do you have any experience with restating real life tasks as sequences of imperatives? Or are you at the point where you know a programmer writes code and that makes the computer do things?

Jerry

[fread]

Hell of a choice, but I don't think I am that extreme and I won't call myself a novice either. However programming accounts for more than 50 percent of my time. Whether reading learning or writing.

[jerrywickey]

Like I said, that sounds like a good candidate.

So do you want to learn to program even if it means you might not ever write a game?

jerry

[fread]

I know how to program and I wrote a few games already. I just loose interest at the documentation stage.

[jerrywickey]

well then,

pretty much everything i said was inappropriate. where do you want to start?

Jerry