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Beginners > I am new and know barely anything about programming

#119706 - RegalSin - Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:26 pm

I need directions on to.

What would be a great place start learning programming tools for the gba.

Should I read books on Hex, Assembler, C, Barons. Which books do you reccomend.

Which tutorials do you reccomend. Which classes to do you reccomend.
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#119714 - tepples - Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:19 pm

Start by working through C For Dummies.
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#119723 - RegalSin - Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:11 pm

tepples wrote:
Start by working through C For Dummies.


Personally I have brought dummies books before and they have not been helpfull in the past where it gets to the point at hand how is this book diffrent from the other dummies books?
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#119734 - keldon - Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:29 pm

I've never had a problem with them, but then again I just read every book in the library ^_^

#150429 - bojecka - Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:57 pm

Try "A Book on C" by Al Kelley and Ira Pohl :D

#150431 - kusma - Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:06 pm

I've heard good reports on SAMS "Teach Yourself C in 21 Days".

#150432 - silent_code - Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:18 pm

kusma wrote:
I've heard good reports on SAMS "Teach Yourself C in 21 Days".

i've got that one and it's really not bad. i've got a quite old edition, but it's still worth reading, even today! it's only about c, though. well, once you understand c, you can allways move to learning c++.

when it comes to programming tools, i recommend getting used to some gui library (mfc [windows only], qt [multi platform], wx [multi platform] etc).

there's a free, open source version of qt3, which is pretty easy to use and program (comes with all neccessary tools and ide, though it needs to be compiled first - no big deal, as it's just running a batch, and there's a good manual on the project's page!) - once you get the idea of qt (which isn't really hard to understand.) they also have a nice tutorial available. you can also use opengl with qt etc.

#150573 - alien8r33d - Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:27 pm

Forget all that, learn assembler.
Programming in assembler is like not being able to see Cameron Diaz playing with your tackle because Michelle Pfeiffer is sitting on your face.

Well, nearly.

#150575 - Legolas - Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:49 pm

alien8r33d wrote:
Forget all that, learn assembler.
Programming in assembler is like not being able to see Cameron Diaz playing with your tackle because Michelle Pfeiffer is sitting on your face.

Well, nearly.


lol
That's poetry. Really! :?D
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#150578 - Miked0801 - Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:54 pm

Umm, not the assembler I've learned. You must be talking about a completely different language :)

#150589 - Lord Graga - Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:38 pm

Sanskrit probably?