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[Durastik]

Hey,

I've attempted to learn a programming language many times, (and got bored/computer crashed/got job/found life) but have always failed. Not because I don't have the brains or the patience, but because when I am learning, I like to see more progressive results then how to add the variables "Hello" and " World" together after 5+ hours of studying it.

So does anyone know of any good books or web tutorials that will actually produce progress relatively quickly (bonus if they are game dev related)?

I would prefer a tutorial in either Python, RUBY, C++ or Java(at a stretch), as long as it will actually give me a feeling of progress, as i've seen way to many tutorials that dawdle at the start and never really get down to the meat and bones of a language.

Any help will be appreciated.

Peace

[geon]

I highly reckomend these SDL tutorials: http://iki.fi/sol/gp/ I guarantee they will keep you interested.

A nice IDE for starting out with C++ / SDL is code::blocks. Free'er and smaller than Visual Studio.

[Durastik]

Looks good, i'll definatley give them a try.

Peace

[dave_]

Python try PyGame (I think its build on SDL)

Oh and by the way, you should never finish learning! Maybe a better subject would have been I want to finish beginning?

[neptune3d]

NEVER finish learning! You really can't if you want to get into this industry. For a beginner the posted links look promising. If you get stuck and need something a little more visual then there are videos at 3Dbuzz.com (I am feeling like I work for them, lol) where they go through getting started in c++ through to getting a game up and running. The nice part of that is they are talking to you and explaining things so it's kinda a virt. classroom.

Those aren't free though so I would give the others a try first and go from there.

Good luck,
Nep