Hey guys,
Just wanted to give a shout out and say hello. I wasn't sure where else to ask this question so I'm posting it here. So here it is:
Right now I'm interested in programming, specificly toward the gaming industry(PC games), but I don't have a clue where to start, what to learn, and how to make a demo. I'm in no rush since I'm still only a 10th grader, but I would like to start building a portfolio for future job interviews. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated!Thanks for all the help!

For starters you can't go right into game programming. I would say go with VBasic and once you think you've got the fell of programming leap into C\C++ and then when you know that very well then you can do game programming. Hope that helps you.
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[ This Message was edited by: dxprog on 2002-11-15 12:11 ]

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mmmmm, gamedev. Welcome in the club!! I'm one of those who want to program games. I've started a project recently, called DX games, which will concentrate on portable games. Maybe you could join us and learn together with us in that project. That is, if you're interested.
You can either mail me, or meet me directly in IRC (my nick is kage-chan) in irc.freenode.org #ypn and #DXGames.
I think there's already plenty I could teach you if you like
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On 2002-11-15 10:01, Sabin1 wrote:
I'm still only a 10th grader

don't worry i'm only a 8th grader.
gamedev hmmmmmm......do you want to prog. games for linux or windoze?

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[ This Message was edited by: Henning on 2002-11-15 22:46 ]

that's the wrongest thing you can ask about gamedev these days
Many people already use linux as their desktop system, and they also expect some games to come around for linux. So I think you shouldn't write a game for only either of them, but a game which works on most major platforms. This will also help you to get a greater audience, and, since many linux users are programmers, you will most likely be able to get more information about bugs etc. from linux users, feature requests etc. from windows users. I think you can make up a great balance out of this.
But, again, I think asking "windows or linux?" these days isn't a choice anymore
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@kagez i don't know an prog. lang. with that you can make games and use it for windoze AND linux [addsig]

Thanks for the help guys, I'm really glad I was able to find this forum around the net. I'll take all your ideas into consideration, but more then likely I'll only be developing windows games(I share a comp. with mom and linux would only confuse her even more). Again thanks for all the help!!

That's what we're here for. Good luck. [addsig]

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@kagez i don't know an prog. lang. with that you can make games and use it for windoze AND linux


Then why did you write a tutorial on one?

There are several libraries, and free ones at that, that are compatible between OSes. I think that's what KaGez is trying to do with Tux Racing (or whatever ). And as for Mr. Java-is-platform-indedependant (aka Henning) what's the deal there? [addsig]

oh hear somethink about with gtk+ for java but i think games in java(not include applets) are very difficult.I will check it [addsig]

javagameplay.com has some pretty cool games, and I think they are made in Java. (duh ) [addsig]

well, C/C++, PHP, Perl, Java, an many more. All work in most UNIX systems, Windows, BeOS, MacOS an other stuff. And you don't know any language which works on multiple platforms?
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Ok here's another newbie question, I found this while surfin the net and I'm not sure what it is or means, so any help will be greatly appreciated, what is algorithms? Is this part of the math of programming or is it just a fancy word like classes and OO?Thanks for the help?

Algorithm is the math part. [addsig]

I can only repeat the words of dxprog here
btw, did you get my mail? --> Sabin
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Speaking of algorithms, I came up with a really good encryption one. I surprised myself there. [addsig]

Ok, what kind of math are we talking about? Caluclus and advanced math? Any good sources to find more info about it? Thanks!

An algorithm is really any kind of math to get something done. The dictionary defines it as: any special method of solving a certain kind of problem. So an algorithm can be almost anything math related [addsig]

I think in C/C++ (and other programming languages) the algorythm is the code itself, no matter what it does. Maybe you can also call a single function algorythm.
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Welcome, Sabin1! If you're totally new to programming, I think you
should check out the book _How to Design Programs_ (MIT Press).
Actually, the entire book (plus some) is availiable online at
http://www.htdp.org . How cool is that?