Re: [GP] help getting started

[Alexander Whaley <awhaley@postino.up.ac.za>]

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I bought a book called something like: SAMS teach yourself game 
programming in 21 days. They have another one called something like SAMS 
teach yourself DirectX game programming in 21 days.

It teaches you how to do simple 2D games such as making a chicken cross 
the road without bing squashed by moving cars. You may want to look into 
it. It expects you to know a minimum of C++, BUT if you know some C, you 
should easily be able to understand the code there.

Rick Letarte wrote:

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>           Hi everyone.  I'm very, very new at programming, but am 
> extremely interested in it and plan to pursue it as a carreer in the 
> future.  I know a good amount of C that I have taught myself using 
> books and other resources, but I haven't gotten into C++ or other 
> advanced languages yet.  I'm a junior in high school, and plan to take 
> it as independant study next year.  Anyway, I recently read a post 
> from someone needing to make a 3D game engine for a 3 pigs and wolf 
> action game.  It sounded pretty advanced.  I certainly am not 
> advanced.  My question is:  does anyone know of a good book to help me 
> get started (think EASY) with graphics?  All I've found so far are 
> books on 3D graphics programming, which are far too advanced.  How 
> about one that might help me make a tetris clone or some other 2D, dos 
> based game?  Is this possible in C?  Or do I need to move on to 
> C++/Visual C++?
>
>   I apologize about asking such trivial questions to those of you who 
> obviously know what you're doing.  All the talk of DX and GL have me 
> wondering if there's another way to get started with graphics that's 
> easier.
>
>                             Thanks a ton,
>
>                                                Dan
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