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#41952 - NewbSabott - Tue May 03, 2005 6:36 pm

Hello everybody. Learning C++ right now.

I have no previous experience, so this should provide fun for those of you who will find pleasure in watching me fumble my way to knowledge!

As you know from my post in the announcements header thread, I have done Hello World twice (GBA and C++ Win32 Console). I am currently moving further into things and enjoying myself. I never thought I'd say it, but programmers are about the coolest people on the planet.

Plus I'm crazy so Object Oriented thought is easily applied analytically to the real world in my head, which bugs me out. I laugh and it's fun.

For my first post, I was wondering if the people who regular this thread could make some introductions and if everyone would point out the best places to go from "Hello World".

Also, should I even be playing with GBA yet? Or is there something I should focus on first?

I'm Newbie J Sabott, from New Jersey in the US.
I love to make music of various kinds and am willing to make music for games anytime.
I am currently learning everything to do with Maya modeling and C++ right now, also I'm looking into the Mel language for maya, but that won't apply here.

C++.

Let's make games.

Newb.

PS check out my post at Announcements and vote in the Marble Madness poll.
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#42001 - MumblyJoe - Wed May 04, 2005 2:03 am

Sorry, I don't have much time to reply, but I recommend learning how to use sprites and tiled backgrounds next. Maybe framebuffer mode first but thats pretty easy so yeah.
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#42011 - tepples - Wed May 04, 2005 4:17 am

Tiled backgrounds are easy to grasp once you've learned how to output text through AGBTTY. Try to make the background of Mario Bros. out of ASCII art, and then add custom glyphs to the font to make it look better.
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#42013 - sgeos - Wed May 04, 2005 6:33 am

NewbSabott wrote:
Also, should I even be playing with GBA yet?
Probably not. You should probably learn C++ in a... less embedded system.

NewbSabott wrote:
Or is there something I should focus on first?
Mucking around with GBA will not hurt you, but you might be able to learn C++ faster if you stick to PC console output. Take things one step at a time. First learn C++, then learn the ins and outs of the GBA. Start with basic stdin/stdout, then move onto something like curses. Learning the curses API is simple. The GBA text display modes are very similar. You can even write realtime curses games =)

-Brendan

#42072 - NewbSabott - Thu May 05, 2005 12:15 pm

yea, i was afraid that was gonna be the answer. but its cool ill work my way to gba soon enough. Im going to stick around though. Be cool to pick up whatever I can.
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