Hi Claudio, Quote First of all, c or c++ is niot a language to beginn!! End quote
That is very true, but I feel you have completely missed my point as to why it is important that you know C++ even if you never plan to use it. My disagreement is not with you using Basic 4PPC. I've been doing some research into it, and indeed it is very much a beginners language and seams easy enough to understand. I can understand and can clearly see why you like the language. My point, though, was that most game documentation, quality game documentation, from real professionals is all written in C++ examples. If you insist on only using a Basic level language then your documentation and programming growth will be stunted and limitted to that Basic level knowledge. For example, let us say some day you ask me to help you get a good book or tutorial on game math and physics. Knowing you want all samples and explanations to be written for Basic 4PPC I wouldn't be able to help you as there is not a huge library of resources on the subject, and I am certainly not going to translate everything into that programming language for one user. However, if you were skilled, at least knew C++, I could give you a number of game books on the same subject. One of the ones I use all the time is Programming Math and Physics by Wendy Staller. Yes, the entire book uses C++ all the way through the book to explain the various formulas and functions. I am skilled in C++ so can ttranslate everything into whatever language I need to use. It has opened many doors for my programming education that otherwise would have been closed off for me. Quote The code is very hard to understand and if you dont have very huge knofledges in programming you wuldn't understand it. End quote Yes and no. It is true that C++ can be frustrating and difficult to learn for a new programmer. However, as for the part you need to have huge knowledge in programming to understand it that is completely false from my point of view. When I was in college around 1997 or 1998 when I took C++ I was very new to programming. I didn't know anything in programming other than the 12 week course I had on Visual Basic 5 the quarter before. The difference between you and I was I wasn't a quitter. I didn't look at it the first day and say this is too hard and quit. I will admit it was rough, but I learned it with little to no programming experience behind me. Just to give you an idea of how much I got thrown at me the college course I took was held three days a week, for four hours a day, over a 12 week period. In short I got the entire C++ programming language thrown at me in the span of three months on a schedule with other classes and homework piled on top of it. Even with all that I learned the C++ language and completed the course with high grades. It may have been difficult, but it wasn't as bad as you make it sound. This might sound harsh, but I don't intend it to be taken that way. I've just heard a lot of this is too hard, that is too hard, I can't do it attitude with not a lot of effort on your part. If you really want to know what hard feels like take a full schedule of classes at your local college plus learn C++ at the same time with the same schedule I described above. I garentee you would have a completely different attitude on the subject. Learning the programming language with a full schedule, plus keeping your grades up, is not as easy as taking on a programming language in your free time if and when you feel like working on it. Cheers. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
