Wanting Free Proggraming Lessons

qwas · Post by **qwas** » Mon May 23, 2005 6:39 am

Anyone know where I can find free proggraming lessons/be able to teach me free?

PM me, or post here

Legacy · Post by **Legacy** » Mon May 23, 2005 9:49 am

What language?

qwas · Post by **qwas** » Mon May 23, 2005 5:10 pm

Erm... Thats my first problem, I will get the information for the game when I recieve specific "History" knowledge on my suspended "Can I be published now?" website.

What are the languages and the differences, I heard there was a language for gaming?? I got a teacher (no, a program) and I dont get anything out of it, Microsoft's search for online teachers results in zilch

Old Man Johnson · Post by **Old Man Johnson** » Mon May 23, 2005 6:24 pm

Well, once you know what language, you could try searching online for (whatever language) tutorials; that works well for me.

Legacy · Post by **Legacy** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:05 pm

Well, I program in VB, and I'm pretty good with the language, but I'm still learning the graphics functions. I've got a solid foundation, and I can get you started on the basics if you want to learn VB, but I'd recommend C, a language I have only a little taste of. I'm working on a VB game, and there is a VB games community, but there are better languages for game programming.

Goblinarcher · Post by **Goblinarcher** » Tue May 24, 2005 2:34 am

there is also a basic languige specificly for programming 3d games called darkbasic
http://darkbasic.thegamecreators.com/
its not free but its prolly cheaper than visual basic (but im not sure)

qwas · Post by **qwas** » Tue May 24, 2005 4:02 am

3D is what I'm planning on, I'm now kinda stuck 'cause Goblinarcher says "basic", my game will probably be complicating. Anything for more complicating games?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue May 24, 2005 6:27 am

the vast majority of professionaly made 3d games are made on C or C++

Legacy · Post by **Legacy** » Tue May 24, 2005 2:05 pm

By basic he means BASIC - Beginners All-purpose Symbolic(Or is it syntactic?) Instruction Code.

It's a family of versatile programming languages.

Legacy · Post by **Legacy** » Tue May 24, 2005 2:14 pm

My project is sort of a turn based strategy game from a platform perspective. If you can't picture what I mean, then you'll justh ave to wait and see if I actually finish it, because I'm known for dropping projects when I get bored with them.

qwas · Post by **qwas** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:36 pm

Then C it is! lol! Next stage?

Legacy · Post by **Legacy** » Tue May 24, 2005 7:40 pm

Then you're on your own, I havn't gotten far in C yet.

BoxZone_Author · Post by **BoxZone_Author** » Tue May 24, 2005 9:26 pm

Depending on what compiler you have you can get on-line tutorials in C

I have used (some search along the lines of) "Learn C for Microsoft Visual C version 5 in 24 hours"

qwas · Post by **qwas** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:55 pm

Cool, but I need the programs to write C, in fact, I can always go back a stage and learn something different

Legacy · Post by **Legacy** » Wed May 25, 2005 7:10 pm

There are several free C compilers...