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A good place to learn programming/game design?

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Hello. Joey here. A good number of users here seem to be pretty technologically competent... I was wondering, what would you recommend to someone interested in programming? I've done a number of online programs and bought a couple of books on the topic, but I just wanna expand my horizons for high school. Anyone?

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Hello. Joey here. A good number of users here seem to be pretty technologically competent... I was wondering, what would you recommend to someone interested in programming? I've done a number of online programs and bought a couple of books on the topic, but I just wanna expand my horizons for high school. Anyone?

I've learned everything so far only from youtube channels (two of them to be specific). AntiRTFM (his tutorials are called "absolute noobs spooned", that will explain everything you need to know in GREAT detail), and CodingMadeEasy (awesome channel, I've watched his videos after AntiRTFM, but if you have any kind of previous knowledge on programming you might wanna skip on to him).

These are all tutorials on C++ by the way (very important and object oriented language - a good thing).

antiRTFM: http://www.youtube.com/user/antiRTFM

CodingMadeEasy: http://www.youtube.c.../CodingMadeEasy

EDIT: I'd also like to add that antiRTFM's tutorials are on general C++, for the very basic console programs. CME has both the general tutorials (but explained in less detail than antiRTFM's videos), and tutorials for various libraries (such as Allegro, SFML...).

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Hello. Joey here. A good number of users here seem to be pretty technologically competent... I was wondering, what would you recommend to someone interested in programming? I've done a number of online programs and bought a couple of books on the topic, but I just wanna expand my horizons for high school. Anyone?

IMO, unity is the best game engine out there to start if you know the basics of programming and the best source for learning is

http://www.burgzergarcade.com/

Specially

http://www.burgzergarcade.com/hack-slash-rpg-unity3d-game-engine-tutorial

with that you should be able to build a 3D RPG from scratch.

But it all depends on what you already know and what you want to do, if you know absolutelly nothing, has no clue, then first you should look at code.org later you should search for a game engine, it is the platform for game develloping if you don't want to make your own, for your purpose, if you don't really want to program and just want to make a simple game then look at focused game engines like RPG Maker and the new ,and cheap, articy:draft SE (cool new engine for games focused on story telling), if you want to make a good looking FPS then use UDK or Cryengine 3 but they require more 3D modeling than any other.

There are a lot of game engines http://indiegamespot.com/game-engines/

I really recommend Unity since it has a huge community to help and it doesn't require that you code if you want to make simple things.

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IMO, unity is the best game engine out there to start if you know the basics of programming and the best source for learning is

http://www.burgzergarcade.com/

Specially

http://www.burgzerga...engine-tutorial

with that you should be able to build a 3D RPG from scratch.

But it all depends on what you already know and what you want to do, if you know absolutelly nothing, has no clue, then first you should look at code.org later you should search for a game engine, it is the platform for game develloping if you don't want to make your own, for your purpose, if you don't really want to program and just want to make a simple game then look at focused game engines like RPG Maker and the new ,and cheap, articy:draft SE (cool new engine for games focused on story telling), if you want to make a good looking FPS then use UDK or Cryengine 3 but they require more 3D modeling than any other.

There are a lot of game engines http://indiegamespot.com/game-engines/

I really recommend Unity since it has a huge community to help and it doesn't require that you code if you want to make simple things.

I've learned everything so far only from youtube channels (two of them to be specific). AntiRTFM (his tutorials are called "absolute noobs spooned", that will explain everything you need to know in GREAT detail), and CodingMadeEasy (awesome channel, I've watched his videos after AntiRTFM, but if you have any kind of previous knowledge on programming you might wanna skip on to him).

These are all tutorials on C++ by the way (very important and object oriented language - a good thing).

antiRTFM: http://www.youtube.com/user/antiRTFM

CodingMadeEasy: http://www.youtube.c.../CodingMadeEasy

EDIT: I'd also like to add that antiRTFM's tutorials are on general C++, for the very basic console programs. CME has both the general tutorials (but explained in less detail than antiRTFM's videos), and tutorials for various libraries (such as Allegro, SFML...).

Thanks guys. Good luck with the game, leo, in the meanwhile... I hope to do me some good programming.

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TheNewBoston is a good YouTube channel that does a variety of tutorials - he used to specialise in just programming. You should try python of you are only starting out.

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