Many people find that learning a programming language is too hard. They often want to being with the hardest first, but programming isnt something that can be learnt over night.
I remember borrowing "Visual Basic .NET for dummies" and take about 1 month to read it all and do the examples. Even then, I couldn't FULLY understand it.Now after about 6 months, i fully understand most things (about 95%) but if i try and move forward (c++) i find it too hard, but VB is to easy.If you were going to start to learn a programming language, i would recommend starting off with Visual Basic. you can download from www.microsoft.com then move onto BASIC (i would use darkBASIC) then do something like HTML or Java.Find out what you like doing, then go futher in that direction.Or you could stick with GML lolNote: First Blog =)
LOL!!! @ Dragonos
It took me like a week to master basic php, from there on its been mostly just learning more functions.
When I want a language,I want it to be free,have syntax highlighting and(nice if it comes with)a good manual.GML happens to meet all those requirements
Seems many STplayers joined 64D…Alert was rightOMFG WIREB0mb has a 64. =P
I went from Pascal to GM to Python/PHP/C++
though I have a working knowledge of over 14 programming languages.I've learned C, C++, C#, Java, and a few other languages very well. I'm thinking about trying Assembly next.
Nintendo would never use Java for game programming, that would be dumb.PHP, GML, Actionscript, C++ (a smattering) - all the languages I know. Oops - forgot English, Spanish
arcalyth, what kind of horrible programming practices do you pick up from it? granted, it doesn't really give you a straight crack at oop, but that's easily alleviated. vb is great for making a windows app in ten minutes, because that's what it was designed to do, and nothing more.
I'm really sure that Nintendo uses their own language. I know there's a college for Nintendo somewhere up in Washington. So…yeah. I suck with languages. I only know…1…that's GML. I'm taking a class next year though for a language.