My Introduction

I'd just like to give a hello to all. I joind this bbs in an attempt to learn halflife mapping. I know some very basics from a friend, but that is about it. I hope to learn here. I also hope to contribute as well. I have some pretty advanced computer skill, and am just learning programming in c. (my first language) So hopefully, I'll be fit to help. Later

--conquest

p.s If introductions are conciderd spam, go ahead and delete. I couldn't fine the rules listing.

welcome aboard bud.  No, intros are not spam.  But we do charge a 5$ fee per user posts :biggrin:  Ok, maybe not.  If you wanna learn to map, this is the place.  The site has just been rebuilt but soon you will find that all our tutorials will be uploaded and at your disposal.  Until then feel free to just bum around. :smile:

You're learning C as your first language?!

No! Run away! Go and learn Python first! It'll teach you about object orientation and procedure-based programming much better than C. C is not a newbie's language.

Indeed, c is not typically a newbie language. And I do intend to learn Python. But the challenge is extremely fun for me. I enjoy that confused feeling before something finnaly dawns in on you. Just my style. Hell, after I learn a few high level langages (c. c++, Python, LISP, Java, Pearl) and maybe some scripting ones like cgi and php. Hell, I may go for assembly..LOW LEVEL BABY! w00t

I've been doing Java for 2 days and already I miss Pascal.

Just uploaded my avatar. I love that rk pic. What do you guys think?

Bleh. Horrible avatar. Lemme make you a better one sometime here. o.o. Oh, and hi. :dorky:

It is a bit oddly pixelated. It would probably look a ton better if it didn't feel so poorly stretched.

I'm not a big fan of the name taking up two lines either, kinda makes the forum look a bit silly.

Yes, C can get you into trouble if you're doing it on your own, especially when you're not aware of dynamic memory and proper use of pointers and such.  But then again, it's fun making system crippling programs on accident :biggrin: .

I've currently gone through my C++ class(which we basically learned C the first month) at Full Sail.  I've also completed Data Structures and Windows Programming, so if you need help on any of those, feel free to PM me.  I have no programming classes until November, when I take Real Time 3D Programming, until then, there's no real coding, just focusing on game designing stuff.

 

Welcome!

I like your avatar, ruroni kenshin- although it`s way to pixalted.

Since your new you owe me 5 dollars.

Wee!

Welcome aboard bud :biggrin:

here's the same avatar image but... better :biggrin:



is 150x150 the max size? I saw the filesize was way bigger now. I'd rather have bigger/nicer avatars and not allow images in sigs. I hate how people abuse sig images with huge annoying images on some boards...

actually its slightly different. Well, just the background. I guess thats the handy work of photoshop. As for the name. I could alway shorten it to cmd-conquest, but would that make me loose all my bs? As for pixelated. I just kinda like things blury. Dunno why

I actually just hopped on a wallpaper site and cropped the image down from that. the 'paper artist must have added the background.

pixilated is almost the opposite of blurry...

why not just 'commandline' or something? you're like one of those annoying women with the hypenated last names!

1. Learn a scripting language first. PHP's good, as you won't break anything major if you b0rk.

2. Learn a scripting language that can actively participate in the system, like Perl or Python.

3. Learn C.

4. If you want to learn Assembler, I have a list of links I can give to you. Also, I recommend Assembly Language Step By Step, it's where I learned it.

Good luck to you.

1. Shorten the name.

2. Kenshin owns.

never got into it....

Kenshin does indeed own. I'm too lazy to download the episodes though, so I just catch it sometimes on Cartoon Network. But I never really know when it's on, so that usually amounts to almost never watching it.

Oh, and, uh, welcome. :razz:

Shorteneth teh name peon! It maketh our forumeth looketh messeth! :biggrin:  I think we can change them if you do decide to.. rustle a PM if you think of anything under 1,000 letters

Hello and welcome :smile:

My uni made us learn C first, and yet now we are moving on to C++ after essentially learning next to nothing of C. I far prefer C++ but since we don't really begin learning it fully till next semester starts I still know little of it.

My course is so lame sometimes :D

Sure, if an admin wants to shorten my name, go ahead. Conquest would be great. Thanks for all the reply's. blushes I'm getting so jealous. snickers As for being compared to an annoying women. That's got to be my first. :wink:

so many people into anime on ere, Cant stand it myself.

I'm really going to hate it when I start Console Development, I don't want to do C, I want my classes!!!  I've seen people try to make C sort of behave like C++(See Neverwinter Script) and to be honest, most of the time it just looks bad.  Full Sail actually did a great job of teaching C and did it well in a month.  We actually covered pointers, arrays, structures, and loops before we even coved conditional (if/else/else if) statements.  Pointers at the start seem unimportant, then once you start learning some of the applications for them, you may fall in love with them, or see them as completely evil.  Later on when you do ADT(Abstract Data Types), you'll learn to appriciate and even like them.  Full Sail does a great job of teaching because they assume you know absofuckinglutely nothing about programming when you walk into the C++ class.  And in the usual fast-paced way, they thoroughly teach you how to work with everything. 

Now moving on to C++ at first seems no big deal.  Classes at first really don't sound like they're really important.  It's when you start doing structured programming and you can take advantage of classes that they become a godsend.

I remember you telling me your Data Structures teacher taught with party tricks, well thankfully ours didn't.  So if you want to learn them, come over here Reno :biggrin: .

 

We're learning Ada right now, and I have to say that its a fun little language. Not as useful as C, or anywhere near as advanced, but still has enough power/versatility to be good for small projects. Good ole' non-object oriented programming drool

KoRnFlakes said:
so many people into anime on ere, Cant stand it myself.

Here here! Can't stand the stuff! The drawing style is just.. eurgh! Long live dark art, that's what i say!

Gwil said:

KoRnFlakes said:
so many people into anime on ere, Cant stand it myself.

Here here! Can't stand the stuff! The drawing style is just.. eurgh! Long live dark art, that's what i say!

-grabs bat- GET EM!

I read an article about Full Sail in Game Developer the other day, sounds like a really interesting teaching style. You get to choose ALL of your modules over there don't you, and it only lasts 2 years right? It certainly sounds pretty intensive stuff - the article said that its 8 hours a day minimum or something, and one woman there once had a class that finished at 1am :biggrin:

The big problem for me with programming is that they don't teach you using interesting tasks. Our coursework for programming last semester was to make a program to figure out all of the possible, legal board positions in a game of noughts and crosses - dull! It doesn't help that they are normally short enough programs that you can simply leave them to the last couple of days and still pass with flying colours. In the first programming coursework I got a 1 (top grade) even though I did it the night before it was due in and I'd never touched programming before.

We have console development this semester, not too sure what to expect from it to be honest. Hell, I don't even know if they mean console as in playstation, or console as in a windows console. Maybe I should do a little more research :rolleyes:

/me waves to new comers

C++ is generally good for games and GUI development; while it's a good language for those applications that would be awful to code in other languages (ever try Windows programming in Assembler? Bleh!), its forced compatability with C makes it a bit cumbersome and bloated. Besides, with a bit of effort you can do anything in C that you can in C++ (although you're a fool if you want to make HL in C :razz: )