Hubski doesn't like Cplusplus! And I have no clue >.< Have you programmed any games yet? Or still wanting to hone your programming skills a bit first? Templates aren't as difficult as they may sound! ^^ If you wanted you could do some Cplusplus tutorials or get a book on Cplusplus, there are plenty! A proper education would definitely help though, they give you a solid foundation in the field. It isn't easy learning everything by yourself unless you have a good amount of motivation to keep you going! Yeah starting small is definitely the way to go! If you haven't heard of Lazy Foo yet: Starting out on Game Development. As for the maths, it might be handy to learn as you go! Learn whatever it is you need to accomplish programming a certain thing. I find it quite boring studying mere theory, but it gets fun when you get to have a goal to work towards. I totally recommend Khan Academy. If you haven't heard of it yet, it is becoming more and more popular and has an extensive coverage of maths, and much more! They also recently launched a computer science platform which teaches programming through the use of Javascript, in case you find that interesting. I have no idea what community college is, we have no such thing here (Belgium). Over here it's kindergarden -> elementary school (6 years) -> secondary school (6 years) -> university (5 years, academic bachelor, master) or "high school" (3 years, professional bachelor)
I have, but they're nothing to write home about. They were barely finished! I made them for school. A school which teaches "C with classes", as in "C without templates or even constructors and destructors". Nothing about algorithms or anything. Then again, it wasn't university so I won't blame them (too much). I will, as soon as I get some money. I currently simply download .pdf version of books and read them on my tiny tablet and if I like the book within 10 pages, I'll add it to the list of books I'll need to buy. :) I have! But mostly for his OpenGL tutorials. I tried to follow them once and it didn't work out too well, as I barely knew how classes worked back then. I've saved the link to read it later. Thanks! As do I. I restarted on another account about 4 days ago and already got 125,000 points and also have ~500,000 points on another account. It's a great website to learn math if you suck at reading books. As I'm Dutch I translated MBO (Middelbaar Beroeps Onderwijs) via wikipedia, which translated to "community college". I guess it's "secondary school", as university is too high and elementary school (aka highschool, right?) is too low. edit: I checked wikipedia and it claims it's "technisch secundair onderwijs" for the Belgian.Have you programmed any games yet?
get a book on Cplusplus
If you haven't heard of Lazy Foo yet:
I totally recommend Khan Academy.
a computer science platform which teaches programming through the use of Javascript
I thought it was Python.I have no idea what community college is
Also, if you happen to want to do some 2D graphics and haven't heard of SFML yet, it's definitely worth checking out! It's straightforward to use and easy to learn. It can also be used with OpenGL. I've switched from SDL to SFML for the SpaceInvaders clone I'm working on atm, and I am simply loving it. Just sharing!
Yeah I find that the most difficult part of making games- finishing them! It's so easy to just leave it there to gather dust once you've completed a reasonable portion of it. Oh in case you want some more OpenGL tutorials: Nehe's tutorials are really good. But maybe you've found out about those already too! KA is so incredibly popular nowadays! And they deserve it. I haven't used it for quite a while now though, so much to do... Gl with it! Now you got me wondering if it's Python! Ah:
Ohh so it's equivalent to TSO over here. Now it makes sense! I was in TSO as well. I did "Techniek Wetenschappen", which focused on maths/physics/chemistry/biology. We didn't get any programming though. Our "Informatica" course which we had only during the first 2 years didn't go any farther than "How to use Word/Excel".... which was pretty useless.All of the user’s code is written using JavaScript and uses Processing.js to generate all the graphics.
from here.