Return of Reckoning

I will start with my question then explain a bit of my back story --- I am interested in programming for things like video games, how would you recommend a beginner get started? (More so asking someone who has experience but all input is welcome )

In high school I took a Java class that was very fun. We made basic text based games and other little programs. When I was 19 I went to a "technical college" where you sat alone without speaking to anyone, and read a chapter from the textbook. You would then take a test on the chapter and if you failed you had to reread the entire chapter before taking the test again. This was the entire class. It was incredibly boring, and I wasn't learning programming, like the Java class from high school, I was learning basic computer ****. I dropped out after 2 months, and ever since then I have shied away from anything programming related.

I would like to self learn to see what its like, but I have no idea where to start. From what I know Java, C, C++ are the main ones.. and I think a new C is out or something. I did a bit of google searching and found some helpful things, but if anyone here has some insight, stories, helpful books, or anything in general that might help I would highly appreciate hearing from you. Thanks everyone

I have no clue about programming, but i think you mean C Sharp.

Luth wrote:I have no clue about programming, but i think you mean C Sharp.

Ahh yes C# thank you.

Elven wrote:I did programming for several years through college and university. It was a good few years ago, so I'm rusty and no use at programming anymore lol. Side note: I never really enjoyed it...

From what I know, so far. Warhammer Online was based in C# language. I guess brush up on C# and object oriented.

One of the dev's can elaborate more about it.

@Nalgol, @Maxhayman.

If any of the devs come across this I would appreciate their input! Do you happen to know if i would need to start with C or C++ before going onto C# or can you start wherever? Also I realize I might not enjoy programming it looks very complicated, but I need to give it an honest try!

Elven wrote:
Any other more "intense" guides. Just Google around

I appreciate all the help and advice ^-^ I have been asking professor google many questions for about an hour now grabbing as much stuff as I can find

I started properly learning in Java, and I think its great. C# is very similar to Java, the server we use is coded in C#. A lot of the tools me and nalgol are working on are coded in Java. Starting by following tutorials is tedious, but in the end it'll all piece together.

MaxHayman wrote:I started properly learning in Java, and I think its great. C# is very similar to Java, the server we use is coded in C#. A lot of the tools me and nalgol are working on are coded in Java. Starting by following tutorials is tedious, but in the end it'll all piece together.

Even though I don't remember much about my Java class the few tutorials I have done so far in C# have been pretty easy and feel like I have done it before

I decided to dive into C# for now and tinker around. I will give a progress update if I end up sticking with it long enough to make any real progress. When coding I would assume it probably requires a lot of patience with yourself to write out all the code and make it work. I can see how it can get tedious to learn everything.

Thanks for all the advice and information everyone! If anyone has anything else feel free to post

Check these out..

http://www.dotnetperls.com/dictionary

http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/webpages_examples.asp

http://compileonline.com/

dynorex wrote:Check these out..

http://www.dotnetperls.com/dictionary

http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/webpages_examples.asp

http://compileonline.com/

Thanks for the links, I appreciate it