quagmondo23

I don't know what to do? What do I want to learn? Whats a base language to making programs and stuff like games. Is it C, C#, C++, BASIC, what???

So much time, so little learning. I know I could study Shakespeare but who needs to?

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There's no "base language", you can go with any language you want. If you want to make some games, you'd better off learning C++, but if you're into fancy, myriad database applications or anyhting that's to do with windows GUI (which is practically everything but games), you might want to try Delphi or Visual Basic. If you want portability and/or programs/games for the internet, Java is the way to go. Of course you can do "normal" applications with C++ as well, and it might be good to learn C++ since it's so popular and widely used and it's easy to find free compilers for any platform. DO NOT bother learning C! Zero knowledge of C is enough if you want to learn C++.

Hope this helps!

Just wanted to add a few things...VB/Delphi are visual development tools (I think there's some fancy name for them, but can't remember), which means that you can actually have a form (=window) and drag components like buttons, textboxes and so on on it, and for each component you can write a piece of code (e.g. when pressing button 1 do this and that...) <<that's a very crude explanation but I hope it'll do. C/C++ are..."purely text based" (you write all the code by yourself) and creating user interfaces like windows and such is vey, VERY hard.

BTW DirectX APIs come for C++, and C++ programs compile into very effective(=fast) code and you practically must know C++ if you want to be a games developer.

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quagmondo23

Wow, cool. Thank you for that. I will attempt to learn C++ and then the VB and Delphi stuff. Its all good when your learning.

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quagmondo23

Just have some questions.

Do you know any good free ways to learn C++?
What's Visual C++?
How long would it take to learn?

and

What is C#?

Hope someone can help me again.

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Good free ways to learn C++? The internet should be full of free tutorials, just google for some.
(You local library might have some books, too)

How fast would you learn..that depends on your intelligence, ability to learn, attitude, dedication and so on. Five years of studying/training should make a very decent programmer out of you.

Visual C++ is just it - Microsoft's visual variant of C++. Remember my crude explanation of visual development tools - Visual C++ is a..."visual" version of C++, you design your applications much like you would with Visual Basic or Delphi, only the language is C++ rather than Basic or Pascal. C# is a jva-like language by Microsoft, I'm not too familiar with that.

BTW, do you have M/S Office? Those come with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), a stripped-down version of Visual Basic mainly intended to provide a way for programmers to make their own enhancements, utilities,tools whatsoever for MS-Office products. You can't create any too fancy programs, but it gives you a bit of feel of Visual Basic and other "Software Development Tools" that have a graphical inteface for designing applications (such as Delphi).

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quagmondo23

Thanks again. I have MS Office. I am also young and can apparently learn faster (good for me). I am very dedicated to learning this and expanding my knowledge.
Thanks for helpful help.

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