Hi Thomas and all,
I would also be very interested in this since I am currently learning Visual 
Basic 2005 just for accessible games. If i don't find much of that 
documentaiton i might switch language before i have completed this one.
Many thanks,
Christian


On 2006-10-25 at 12:28 Quinten Pendle wrote:

>Hi Thomas
>Where can one find the agdev-newbies list to subscribe to it?
>Also, what do you think of AutoIT as a programming language?
>The little that I saw of it, looked quite good.
>Best regards
>Quinten Pendle
>PENDLE PRO
>Klerksdorp, South Africa
> 
>Tel:  +27 (0) 83 395 4593
>Email:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>MSN:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Skype:
>ahakimbo
>Website:
>www.pendlepro.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>On Behalf Of Thomas Ward
>Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:51 AM
>To: Gamers Discussion list
>Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Learning VisualBasic
>
>
>Hi Robin,
>In the future posts like this should probably go over to the 
>agdev-newbies list where we discuss such issues like this more in depth.
>However, since I am writing this email anyway. I will answer as many 
>questions as I can, and I have a few questions of my own.
>
>/Snip
>> I'd like to learn how to write programs and games in VB.
>End Snip
>
>Is there any special reason you decided to go for Visual Basic rather 
>than say C#, called  C-Sharp.
>I highly recommend going with C-Sharp over VB for the primary reason 
>many things are better documented and supported. One of these important 
>areas in particular to you will  be DirectX. While you can use MS 
>DirectX in VB games Microsoft does not officially support it, and do not
>
>provide code samples, instructions, etc on writing games in VB .NET
>2005.
>
>Snip
>>  1. Is it possible to write good games in VB?
>End Snip
>
>Yes, but you will find that good and reliable documentation for newbies 
>is extremely lacking. Visual Basic became famous among amature and rapid
>
>application developers during the 90's but it's popularity is on the 
>decline. Most of the VB croud have switched to C-Sharp.
>Just some historical background when DirectX 7 and 8 came out Microsoft 
>unvailed it with VB 6.0 examples etc and offered newbies a simple basic 
>language with a good set of multimedia libraries for developing games 
>and other amature home wrote applications.
>In 2001 Microsoft converted all there Visual Studio languages to the 
>.NET Framework furthering increasing the power of the languages as well 
>as a universal development platform, and unvailed a new rapid 
>development language C#, called C-Sharp, which had many improvements 
>over VB, used C++ style coding conventions, reused allot of concepts 
>from Java, and became a very new and innovative language. Now, it is 
>rising in popularity, and in some areas has passed up VB in popularity 
>among amature programmers.
>In 2003 when Microsoft DirectX 9.0 was unvailed to the world the 
>documentation was for C++ and C-Sharp users, and VB devs were left in 
>the cold documentation and support wise.
>Since I know both C-Sharp and VB as well as DirectX I know I could get 
>DirectX up and running in no time in VB, but for a newby I don't see 
>that happening without good samples and training.
>
>Snip
>>  2. Where can I find the toolbox?
>End Snip
>
>Press control+w then press the letter x. Your screen reader should land 
>you on the toolbox area of the screen. Keep in mind there is two columns
>
>in the toolbox window. There is one side which sets the type of tools 
>you wish to view, and the other side is the actual tools themselves. For
>
>your first experience with this I would say arrow up to have it show all
>
>tools, and then you can tab in to the tools and view the entire list.
>Obviously, later on you may want to customise your view as there are 
>only certain types of tools you need for certain projects.
>
>Snip
>>  3. Is it a good idea to create a webbrowser at first?
>End Snip
>
>No. Any seasoned developer will tell you that you need to start out 
>extremely basic. For example my very very first program I wrote as a 
>student was a text program which did nothing more than display my name 
>on the screen. Some use hello world, your name, or whatever but the idea
>
>is to get you use to structures of programming, understanding functions,
>
>variables, data types, etc. Unless you know the basic termonology and 
>use for things in a program you can not begin to write one.
>So first advice keep it simple stupid. Your first batch of programs are 
>going to be lame, boring, throw away, projects, but worth the practice.
>
>Snip
>>  3. Where can I find a good VB tutorial that explains all or at least 
>> most of all the features and how to use them?
>End Snip
>
>Well, I am very fond of recommending
>http://safari.oreilly.com
>which has books on just about any programming topic you can research for
>
>$20.00 US monthly.
> if you are going to do VB I suggest reading something like VB .NET In a
>
>Nutshell by O'reilly and Associates.
>
>Snip
>>  4. Is there someone here who can program in VB and who could give me 
>> some lessons? Thanks for
>End Snip
>
>I know enough of VB .NET to get you started in designing games, but 
>unfortunately I have a rather tight schedule aready and can't take on a 
>student at this point in my life other than ocational pointers such as 
>this email from time to time.
>Smile.
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org
>To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can
>visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make
>any subscription changes via the web.
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org
>To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can
>visit
>http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make
>any subscription changes via the web.




_______________________________________________
Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org
To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit
http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make
any subscription changes via the web.

Reply via email to