Help Me Start : )

[vapourstreak]

Hey,

I want to start trying to dev a game for the wiz (when the SDK comes out), so I need to get started. i have no background nor knowledge about codeing... ever, so please explain stuff in simple terms

some questions:

whats C? how about C++?

will add more as soon as i think of more

 

[Squidge]

http://www.cprogramming.com/

 

[quasist]

BloodShed Dev C++ (gp2x SDK) has inbuild C course

 

[yaustar]

C and C++ are not the best languages to start learning to program with as it does exactly what the programmer tells it to do quite happily without complaint causing undefined behaviour.

Higher level languages such as Python and Java will have more 'safeguards' in place that prevent as much unintended mistakes/typos which is much better for a beginner.

If you truly want to start programming and intend to do it for the long run, then Python is a good starting point. With some luck, someone will port a Python library like PyGame and Pyglet to the Wiz and Pandora so we can use it to create games:

on what language, C? C++? or something like C#?

to get started in programming, reccomend learning python. easy, widely used in scripting in 3rd party applications, extendability, and it will be on pandora for sure.

http://www.python.org/

to learn, livewires at http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/home was intended for people 12-15 but it works for anyone new to programming.

if thats not your style, you can start on this:
http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/...ntro/index.html
then move onto this: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programme...rial_for_Python


If you do want to start with C++ for whatever reason, then this should help:
http://parabellumgames.wordpress.com/where...-c-programming/