Getting Started: Just starting

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GameProgrammer.Com: Getting Started: Just starting
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By Joshua Frazer on Wednesday, September 6, 2000 - 08:18 pm:

 FOR ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE DOING
BUT WANT TO GET INTO GAME PROGRAMMING
download  DarkBasic from www.darkbasic.com.  read all the
tutorials, then mess around with it a bunch, and make some
mini games.  then download a free c++ compile/linker like
Borland, you can find Borland in any search engine.  Then
goto places like www.cplus.about.com for tutorials on basic
C++ programming, and the gamedevelopment search engine at
www.gdse.com for tutorials on game programming, and
programming tutorials.  You  may eventually want to get
Visuall C++ because it is a very powerfull compiler/IDE, but
it is complicated to learn on its own, so you should learn
c++ first.
     Just be sure to start learning c++  as soon as you can
after you have mastered or atleast  become competent at
using it, because c++ is much more powerfull, and is the
industry standard for game programming.  That guy said learn
assembly language but dont plan on just using that.  it take
thousands of code in assembly to do what you can do with
just a hundred or so in C++.  Dark Basic is for begginers
to, it is best as a learning language, it isn't powerfull
enough for commercial release games.  It is also good for
creating prototypes of game ideas.

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