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How long you lot been programming?
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The header says it all really...
I''m just curious how much experience you people have in games programming.
I''ve not been programming long, so I just want an idea how long it''ll be before I can call myself a "good" programmer :-)
All depends on the definition...
I''m not a ''good'' games programmer... I can program ANSI C++ and use the STL and such... but am only just getting into DX...
anyway, I started HTML (which I DON''T consider programming) when I was 12... 4 years ago. When I was 14 I learnt VB, and about 4 months ago I started on C++... now, as already mentioned I''m learning DX from the MSDN, waiting with baited breath for my very own copy of TOTWGPG to arrive from amazon...
J2xC
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About time I put something funny here? I think so too...
I''m not a ''good'' games programmer... I can program ANSI C++ and use the STL and such... but am only just getting into DX...
anyway, I started HTML (which I DON''T consider programming) when I was 12... 4 years ago. When I was 14 I learnt VB, and about 4 months ago I started on C++... now, as already mentioned I''m learning DX from the MSDN, waiting with baited breath for my very own copy of TOTWGPG to arrive from amazon...
J2xC
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About time I put something funny here? I think so too...
I started writing games about three years ago, but I''ve been programming for six years, since I was 12.
I don''t want to mention HTML, ''cause it''s no programming language...
Well, I started with Basic and Pascal at the age of 12. Then I learned C/C++ and Visual C++. And now I''m working at Rarebyte, but I don''t think that I''m a good programmer, ''cause I''ve to concentrate on Game Design and our programmers do the code.
Charlie McSow /Paradigm Game Design
www.rarebyte.de.st
Well, I started with Basic and Pascal at the age of 12. Then I learned C/C++ and Visual C++. And now I''m working at Rarebyte, but I don''t think that I''m a good programmer, ''cause I''ve to concentrate on Game Design and our programmers do the code.
Charlie McSow /Paradigm Game Design
www.rarebyte.de.st
I dont know . Seriously , at one time I was typing code for my ZX spectrum from those spectrum game magazines before I could play the games. Then I started to modify shit and see what it does . Then I was making shit from scratch , avoiding school staying up all night something went wrong etc .
I begun to learn the computer (how to type, use the mouse, turn it on! 
etc) about a year and a month ago...
I have been programming since early February, and I almost know just about all the standard concepts of C++ (I word the sentence like that because I believe no one is every FINISHED learned a language because there is always something new you can learn with it.) I just got into OpenGL, loving it but having a little trouble. So, you could say that my programming experience is about 2 and a half months old.
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etc) about a year and a month ago...I have been programming since early February, and I almost know just about all the standard concepts of C++ (I word the sentence like that because I believe no one is every FINISHED learned a language because there is always something new you can learn with it.) I just got into OpenGL, loving it but having a little trouble. So, you could say that my programming experience is about 2 and a half months old.
Programming::~Fredric(const Annoy_Ance)
I called myself a good programmer when i was 10...but then again i was/am cocky and only knew applescript. I started serios programming about a year and a half ago, and consider myself a pretty good programmer
Lemme see...I started using a computer at age two (I have a picture of me on it somewhere), although I doubt I knew what I was really doing all the way back then. I started programming at about 5...when I realized that if I turned on my Commodore64 w/out a cartridge in it, it gave me this blue screen, and I could type stuff. My parents happily encouraged my new pastime, and bought me little kids-books on BASIC...which I learned until about a year or so ago. Then I forgot it when I got into Java, then, last year, C, and in the past few months, C++. I know the syntax and all...that''s as well as anyone can say in "knowing the language." I''m learning the Win32 API stuff right now...and I plan to write a couple games using that...and the Windows GDI...then I''m gonna move on to DirectX.
So, am I a good programmer? I don''t think so. Of course...I also went to Cancun recently for Spring Break, and I brought along a notebook w/ source code and all in it so I could work on programming away from my PC--I''m addicted and I''m proud of it.
P h a n t a s m
"Through dreams I control mankind."
--Legend
So, am I a good programmer? I don''t think so. Of course...I also went to Cancun recently for Spring Break, and I brought along a notebook w/ source code and all in it so I could work on programming away from my PC--I''m addicted and I''m proud of it.
P h a n t a s m
"Through dreams I control mankind."
--Legend
Lemme see...I started using a computer at age two (I have a picture of me on it somewhere), although I doubt I knew what I was really doing all the way back then. I started programming at about 5...when I realized that if I turned on my Commodore64 w/out a cartridge in it, it gave me this blue screen, and I could type stuff. My parents happily encouraged my new pastime, and bought me little kids-books on BASIC...which I learned until about a year or so ago. Then I forgot it when I got into Java, then, last year, C, and in the past few months, C++. I know the syntax and all...that''s as well as anyone can say in "knowing the language." I''m learning the Win32 API stuff right now...and I plan to write a couple games using that...and the Windows GDI...then I''m gonna move on to DirectX.
So, am I a good programmer? I don''t think so. Of course...I also went to Cancun recently for Spring Break, and I brought along a notebook w/ source code and all in it so I could work on programming away from my PC--I''m addicted and I''m proud of it.
P h a n t a s m
"Through dreams I control mankind."
--Legend
So, am I a good programmer? I don''t think so. Of course...I also went to Cancun recently for Spring Break, and I brought along a notebook w/ source code and all in it so I could work on programming away from my PC--I''m addicted and I''m proud of it.
P h a n t a s m
"Through dreams I control mankind."
--Legend
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