How long has everyone here been programming in general? How long were you programming before you decided to do games? How long have you been doing games? Just curious

I haven''t begun to program any games simply because I''m learning how to use basic OpenGL. However, I''ve been programming in C/C++ for about a month and a bit. Not TOO long... :p

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I really started my programing a couple years ago, but it was slow as possible. Finally i decided to hit it hard a couple month ago and plan on creating a Space Invaders type game in windows(maybe directx). But i''m really new at it.

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Well, I had my first programming experience back in 5th grade with Logo (I''m a frosh at Harvey Mudd college now, so that was 8 years ago!) Anyway, I made a bunch of cool animated sceens with that, but then nothing really happend for a while (I tried to do a little bit of game programming on our old Apple IIe in BASIC, but never got very far with that.)

My programming interests sort of trickled off until 9th grade when I took a Pascal class (almost by accident.) And realized that I was pretty good at programming... and liked it a lot!

The next year, I took the AP and got a 5 (man, was that exam easy!) Anyway, that was it for computer science at my highschool, but I had a really cool CS teacher and he let me to an independent study in some various things for the next 2 years. I leanred c++, OO design, etc. and a little bit of Eiffel (its a cool language... years ahead of c++... you can check it out at www.eiffel.com)

Ok, so in there somewhere I decided to try and do a little graphics prgramming on the Mac (yes, macs, they really are cool but, alas, nobody uses them ) The thing that really got me into game programming was this game for the Mac called Bolo which was a tile based tank game... very cool. The best part was, you could make "brains" that plugged into the game to controll the AI, so ended up making a very simple one that just bumbed around the screen and shot a little bit... but it worked! hehe

Once I got to college and got my act together I built myself a brand spanking new Athlon 500 system! (and to think, the 1Ghz processor is out now ) So, with that new system I got MSVC++ and "Tricks of the Window''s Game Programming Gurus" and set to work.

The book actually came before my system was setup, so I read a lot of it before being able to work with the code... but over christmas break I was able to make a decent Tetris clone... you can check it out at chippy.freeservers.com/tetrad.html if you really want to... its not much, but not bad for a couple days work and some help from Andre''s BlackBox.cpp

When I got back to college this semester things where kinda busy so I haven''t had much time, but over spring break I''ve been able to get started on my own DDraw wrapper classes which are working well so far...

Well, that''s about it... everything important about my life hehe Sorry its so long, but I just got going and couldn''t stop! Game programming is just SO MUCH FUN!

I wrote my first program when I was 8 on a BBC Micro (UK People? )

I then started VB when I was 15. I stopped doing VB when I was 16.

I started C++ when I was 16. I am now 17.

Thats it

Personally, I''ve been doing C++ for about a year or so. I only started doing dx/win32 stuff a few weeks ago, which is why i''m so full of silly questions
I plan on taking the ap comp science test this year ( shouldn''t be too hard ) along with ap physics and stats.

Alright, since you all did a little time-line except for me, I might as well write one for my timeline..

March 15th 1999 - With some birthday money, I went and bought an HTML book. HTML was awesome, but it was sooo easy! (this was my 14th birthday)

Augest 21st 1999- I bought the C++ I have today! I started reading it, but it was really boring to me for some reason. I never really got into C++ until the middle of February!

Everything in between to the present- I bought some game programming books, but they were useless...

... just as useless as my post! hehe well, C++ isn''t boring to me now- in fact, that''s all I ever do now. Anyhow, enough my useless ramblings- goodnight folks!

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I''LL STAND BY MINE

- king171@hotmail.com
- http://www.cfxweb.net/mxf/

Programming professionally since 1990. Did games part time until 1996, when I got published. Been doing games full-time ever since.

Been programming since 1987. Still not finished anything