by TheeMahn » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:02 am
mac9416 wrote:I have nearly NO programming experience (unless you consider QBasic to be valid programming experience
) but I would like to make my own 2D games. I could use some suggestions for language(s) that might work for me, and maybe a few good Wikis or books to check out.
Thanks ahead of time.
I would suggest C, it is an all around good language for doing anything, I will forewarn you it will be quite difficult to learn now that you know basic, I bought a book "learn C in 14 days", a total waste... Chapter 1 said if you know visual basic you may as well hang it up now, it will be tremendously difficult to learn as you will compare basic to C.
It did indeed take me a long time to learn C, ASM was the hardest language I have ever learned I suggest staying away from it it is faster then C, but make a mistake there and it will lock up your system losing your code since your last save at least that was the way it was back in the the Commodore 64 days, been a long time since I used it obviously, but still remember #C000 in hex = 49152 in decimal which is the address I did most of my programming.
There are many websites that teach programming in C can you say "Hello World" Google it
Wish you the best of luck and look forward to seeing some of your work here.
Best regards,
TheeMahn
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