thanks for the insightful comments all.

definitely gave me something to work on :)

Quote: Original post by vrd

Well I already know some JAVA and C/Cpp which i have learned in school through books only.

You're getting close to saying "I can how to use a hammer so I can build a house." As you learn more you will begin to realize that, in reality, programming has little to do with the language you chose. But I'm getting off topic.

My best advice would be - just code stuff. Make a simple game. Make a slightly more complex game. Then make an even more complex game. Each time you will be tacking new problems, but also learning from past experiences. With a clear goal in mind you will find yourself looking for specific tutorials to solve specific problems (spacial partitioning, AI navigation, parallax mapping etc.) However, unlike merely finding random tutorials and "practicing" them, doing this will teach you possible the most important skill in programming - being able to find your own answers.

In short I would honestly say it doesn't matter how much you know. All that matters is that you know where and how to find the solutions to your problems. Because you will ALWAYS have new and unique problems, so trying to "learn" all answers through them via tutorials is a waste of time.

Also, don't try to memorize APIs and libraries (Win32, OpenAL etc.) exact functions, variables, parameters, etc. That's what the documentation is for. Merely grasp the general concepts and look up the definitions of specifics in the documentation whenever you have to. By the time you would have memorized all the data, odds are, it would be obsolete anyway.