Computer Programming

[Ze_PilOt]

You don't want to be bothered with memory pointers, memory management in general and with a poor string support while learning some basic logic concept, common to all modern languages.

[Panchovilla]

Great feedback and after searching around on the Internet, I found a great site and community devoted to this sort of stuff, and they even have classes on Game Engine design...3D modeling, and other neat things. hoping to get started with some C++ classes then move into Python/Maya/Houdini and other things once I've mastered the basics and learned my first language. Wish me luck.

[Softly]

Good luck!

[Panchovilla]

Thanks for the support Dilli

[kissemisse]

Great feedback and after searching around on the Internet, I found a great site and community devoted to this sort of stuff, and they even have classes on Game Engine design...3D modeling, and other neat things.

Could you share the site you found?

[Panchovilla]

Great feedback and after searching around on the Internet, I found a great site and community devoted to this sort of stuff, and they even have classes on Game Engine design...3D modeling, and other neat things.

Could you share the site you found?

Of Course, its www.3Dbuzz.com

[crippen]

I would suggest a language that is popular, cause popular languages have lots of people asking newbie friendly questions (ruby and java comes to mind, but Im a bit outdated already), and there are more forums to attend too, where you dont feel like your the only beginner. But whatever, just jump into something, although C++ might be a bit tedious at times, but your mental approach is to be the same, you need the right language/tool, for the right job. It's very easy to jump into a new language once you learned programming in general.

Whatever you choose, its about how well you manage your emotions and patience. No matter how skilled you become, you still have to meet a lot of tasks that was suppose to only take 10-15minutes, but instead takes 12 hours. Programming is easy on paper, so freaking easy, but when reality comes, things seldom go as planned. As you program, you will learn to trust that things just falls into place after all. Sometimes, a task that you dread will take 4hours, takes 10minutes. And this is where many people fall off, they make a tiny bit of code, and it works, MIRACLE, they are glad, but they are too afraid to take on new tasks, they like to sit in the comfort of their recent success, postponing new learning. Some even jump on new frameworks/languages, hoping it will be better there. Sometimes yes, but be careful that you are not too timid of your current progress and project.

I wish you luck, its a great field to explore.

[Raging_Squirrel]

You could start by enhancing the replay window of FAF. The replay
tab shows (amongst other things) this info:
http://faforever.com/faf/vault/replays_simple.php

I'm not sure but I guess this is the source:
https://bitbucket.org/thepilot/forged-a ... swidget.py

Your guess is wrong. Python has nothing to do with PHP

[Gowerly]

If you want to build an application quickly, C# will help you do this.
If you want all the power and libraries in the universe, then go Python.
If you want to get into Games Development, then it's C++ or a third party engine.

[IceDreamer]

Learning the physical part of programming, memorising the commands etc, can be learned from a tutorial, and is pretty easy really.

Learning to think as a Programmer is a long, hard path, which will take determination, time, talent, and a huge amount of frustration. If this is what you find yourself having problems with after the basics are out of the way, then I suggest looking specifically for tutorials and languages specifically designed to help develop the thought processes and the certain logic which is needed to be a Programmer.