What Programming Program do i use for Game Programming?

Question

I'm totally new to programming and found this website that teaches me the basics for both Visual basic .net and Visual C# which one do i learn or do i learn both?

Answer 1

C++

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Tutorials online:

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

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Code::Blocks == open source free C/C++ IDE

http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/5

codeblocks-8.02mingw-setup.exe

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Game Programming

http://www.cppgameprogramming.com/cgi/nav.cgi?page=index

http://www.toymaker.info/Games/html/beginners.html

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Free Electronic Books

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Thinking in C++ 2nd Edition by Bruce Eckel

Volume 1 & Volume 2

http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html

Answer 2

Hello!

Real quick, iphone apps tend to be coded in a language called Objective C, which exists in the family of C languages (which C++ is a part of). The C programming language is all very very similar and works very well for making games.



One of these languages in the C family is C#. I'm glad you brought up that language, by the way, in your question. You can consider C# as a "managed" version of C++ (which means you don't have to worry about being the one responsible for direct mangement of the computer's memory...which means WAYYY less crashing games when you are programming). In addition, Microsoft has something called XNA Game Studio which can (no doubt) give you the fastest head start in game programming. Check out the attached link to download both Microsoft Visual Studio Express (the program you will code in) and XNA (the library of tools and code you will use to make your game in C#).



Even if it is your first time programming, there is a wealth of information and tutorials on XNA game development alone (check for books, the internet, and especially msdn.com. There are also video tutorials all over the internet). And its all free. For a small fee, you can sell these games you make, online.



If you aren't too interested in C# and xna specifically, game programming takes a lot of work making things from scratch, so you'll want to look at getting a good grasp of any object oriented programming language near the realms of C and java. Enjoy!

Answer 3

Start with learning basic programming first. Personally, I would recommend Python. (although others will say otherwise) I say this because Python has quite a few solid library extensions such as Pygame, and its easy to learn.

http://www.python.org/



After you have mastered the basics, then you can move on to bigger and better things. Although, it does depend on what type of game you are trying to make.

If you want to make flash games, learn flash. (obviously) This isn't a bad place to start, since you learn basic programming, level design, ect.

If you want to get into more high level programming for AAA games and such, you will have to learn C++ or java. I recommend learning another language first before C++, and its helpful to learn another language before java.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Your best bet would be to get the iPhone SDK which uses Obective C and OpenGL and OpenCL

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/index.action

iPhone games and apps also use C++



You can also check out ngmoco.com who are leading game developers for the iPhone and iPod touch.



Why design a game for the iPhone or iPod touch? because you would be designing for a market fast approaching 70million users who all use the app store where you would be selling your game.