Hi!

I also started with Qbasic (Yep, also something like the quesiton-answer thing *g*). Then my aunth told me to learn C if i really wanted to go somewhere, sent me a Borland C/C++ Compiler. I tried to learn it just by reading the help files.
(I almost printed the whole Helpfile *g*). After sometime i got pretty fed up with that and took a course on very basic C programming. That got me started. now i just learn by reading.
(The C progamming language (Kernighan/Ritchie), the C++ reference (by the inventor of (C++ what''s his name?)), The Red Book (Opengl), some Math books and a lot of articles on the web (Whatever interessts me at the moment and what GA tells me to programm ;P ).

If i''d have to start over again, i think i''d start directly with C. C++ is to advanced, and assambly to hard to start with.. C is a good middleway... and u can start doing cool stuff pretty soon.

Ok, hope that helped,
good luck,
cya,

Phil

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and no!, there are NO kangaroos in Austria (I got this questions a few times over in the states ;)

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original post by dwarfsoft

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you will find it easier if you start by directly putting it in your code

That''s what I did in Pascal!

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Original post by phueppl1

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and no!, there are NO kangaroos in Austria (I got this questions a few times over in the states

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Are there kangaroos in Austria??
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WOW!!!! thank you everybody for the replies. i expected only 2 or 3! thnak you so much im reading this at 11:49 my time and thanks to you im on my way to the local borders books! Thanks alot for the help guys!!

we dont need no stinking badgers-UHF

Started with stupid useless programs in ZX Spectrum BASIC and BBC BASIC, little graphics, nothing serious. Then C. Got Beginning C (WroxPress). Then I got Beginning Visual C++ 5 (WroxPress). Then I got Windows Game Programming for Dummies. I used that to learn basic components of DirectX. I learnt software 3d from Black Art Of 3D programming (Waite Group Press), and more advanced DirectX (D3DIM, DS3D, DP etc.) from Teach yourself DirectX 7.0 in 24 hours. However, there was lots of time between Beginning C and Windows Game Programming for Dummies making simple apps. This gave me a full knowledge of the whole C++ language. This was absolutely neccessary before I could start DirectX. You should not jump in too quickly. You don''t need to know MFC and how to write a DLL or ActiveX control though. You just need knowledge of the Win32 API.

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#pragma twice

Pascal suk!!

There are three main level :

BASIC -- PASCAL - C/C++

If you want some easy, the basic is the language.
If you want some more difficult, then c/c++
If you want some mix (easy and difficult) then pascal. But you don''t want some medium difficult. You want some easy of hard.

And basic let you to programming directx and change then data in runtime!!. You can learn more directx (and opengl) in visual basic that another language. Even, you can manipulate directx in realtime. And it is a very difficult to crash.

Of course, the speed is slow. But you always may change some slow-program to c++ program when the final release of program is ready.

But, the point in visual basic is you need to think the code for speed. And it is very hard. Make some program in basic is easy. But make some fast program in basic is very hard (but possible!!).







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quote: Original post by eng3d

Pascal suk!!

What''s your point ?



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richardve: Nope there aren't any kangaroos in Austria *snueff*
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but a lot of great programmers !! *g*

cya,
Phil

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and no!, there are NO kangaroos in Austria (I got this questions a few times over in the states


Edited by - phueppl1 on August 12, 2000 9:50:43 PM

i have kangaroos in my backyard
sometimes they jump in through the open windows
that really pisses me off
they start jumping all through the house
then i get in their pouch and ride happily away into the aussie desert...

quote: Original post by Aqutiv

...It was a board game, (known as X-Mix-Dricks or X-O or whatever, I don''t remember.)
...

That''s Tic-Tac-Toe for our American friends



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