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Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« Reply #1050 on: January 30, 2012, 11:59:33 am »
And now I want to learn Ruby. You guys are going to make my head asplode, I swear.
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Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« Reply #1051 on: January 30, 2012, 12:00:54 pm »
Quote from: MaximumZero on January 30, 2012, 11:59:33 am
And now I want to learn Ruby. You guys are going to make my head asplode, I swear.

Don't worry, compared to most languages its pretty easy to learn!  Hell chances are you could just bang your head on the keyboard and you'll get something with valid syntax.
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Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« Reply #1052 on: January 30, 2012, 02:16:31 pm »
Quote from: Levi on January 30, 2012, 12:00:54 pm
Quote from: MaximumZero on January 30, 2012, 11:59:33 am
And now I want to learn Ruby. You guys are going to make my head asplode, I swear.

Don't worry, compared to most languages its pretty easy to learn!  Hell chances are you could just bang your head on the keyboard and you'll get something with valid syntax.
Well, Perl certainly looks like that, but I doubt it'd work for Ruby :P
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Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« Reply #1053 on: January 30, 2012, 02:45:44 pm »
perl is a write only programming language.
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« Reply #1054 on: January 30, 2012, 03:37:40 pm »
Quote from: Nadaka on January 30, 2012, 02:45:44 pm
perl is a write only programming language.

I disagree, but maybe it has to do with the fact that I learned Perl as a mother tongue.
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Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« Reply #1055 on: January 30, 2012, 09:35:15 pm »
What is the best networking api for c++? And why?
I'm thinking raknet
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« Reply #1056 on: January 30, 2012, 11:56:01 pm »
Hahaha, I cannot program at all.  However, I am trying.  I know a little Scheme and even less Python (and a miniscule amount of Java).  Someday, I'd like to make some games... I have some ideas I think would be pretty cool, but I don't know the first thing about how to start.

My least favorite thing is bug-hunting.  I say this as a person whose first major project of the semester is ~500 lines long, with a small part of it pre-written by the professor, so I can't figure out what in the hell is going on.  So, yeah, basically... I suck, but I hope to work every day and eventually get something going.
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Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« Reply #1057 on: January 31, 2012, 12:00:52 am »
500 lines eh? What language?
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« Reply #1058 on: January 31, 2012, 12:02:28 am »
Python.  With the requisite obscene numbers of carriage returns.
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« Reply #1059 on: January 31, 2012, 12:05:02 am »
I see... So you are defiantly doing OOP.
And is it split up into many classes, or alternatively many, many functions? If you don't understand the question please say so, it is a factor.
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« Reply #1060 on: January 31, 2012, 12:09:52 am »
Quote from: Max White on January 31, 2012, 12:05:02 am
I see... So you are defiantly doing OOP.
And is it split up into many classes, or alternatively many, many functions? If you don't understand the question please say so, it is a factor.

I don't know, but frankly, a huge amount of that is documentation.  I think it's mostly ... yeah, I checked.  It's all functions.  We haven't done anything object-oriented yet.
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Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« Reply #1061 on: January 31, 2012, 12:12:28 am »
Just to warn you: Vectors in programming as I understand them from my C++ class are entirely different from Vectors in math as I understand them from my lowly Applied Tech Math class.
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« Reply #1062 on: January 31, 2012, 12:16:14 am »
Quote from: Vector on January 31, 2012, 12:09:52 am
I don't know, but frankly, a huge amount of that is documentation.  I think it's mostly ... yeah, I checked.  It's all functions.  We haven't done anything object-oriented yet.
Ah, well that isn't so bad than. I was worried for a second, a 500 line project to start with is like expecting a student to do photosynthesis before they understand what molecules are, but I expect your program is half code, half essay.

Still, what does it do?
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Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« Reply #1063 on: January 31, 2012, 12:28:59 am »
Care to share? We can probably help you chop it into manageable pieces, if your prof won't get mad about you seeking help outside your class.
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Re: if self.isCoder(): post() #Programming Thread
« Reply #1064 on: January 31, 2012, 12:34:37 am »
As for game programming, the language you will want to use will depend on the game in question. Text-based games can be done in any language, but graphics requires a language with some sort of useful graphical interface.

C# is a good language for 2D and simple 3D games, as both it and XNA have excellent documentation on msdn. It's Windows dependent though, which may or may not matter to you.

Depending on what sort of facilities the university has, you may or may not have access to Flash Builder and Flash Professional. Using Flash and its language Actionscript, you can create small games which can be uploaded to the web and played in a browser. It's relatively easy to get into, though it's not a compiled language, and so is a bit slower, preventing it from being as useful for games with a wide scope.

Then there is C++. It's the language used for almost every large title, as it is much more powerful then languages like C#. However, its power comes in large part from the same things which make it more difficult to use than other languages. C++ can do graphics programming through a number of graphics APIs, with DirectX and OpenGL being the most common.

There are numerous others, but those are some of the big names; again, it mostly depends on the scope of the game being created.
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