hi i'm bubbles

[bubbles]

hi i'm  bubbles.  i'm  new here as i just reg'd today.  i was chatting with irc, and someone told me i could come  here if i wanted to  learn graphics programming....  seems neat   to me.  can  anyone help/?

ps...sorry bout the typo's,  my keyboard has water damage

[Shockwave]

Welcome.

How's life in Mount Laurel NJ ?

What language do you want to learn?

[Ghost^BHT]

Hi Bubbles, welcome aboard You can certainly get some help here, from the freindly coders here. We got some really  brilliant coders here.  Check the threads out and  start posting your questions. What coding language are you going to use?  Enjoy your stay.

[bubbles]

NJ? haha, i  wish, i lives in VT, campus wifi prolly gave me an odd ip...  hmm is it possible to learn  cpp when you have no programming experiance, i've looked aroundn a little, and it seems  to be the most common  language?

[Shockwave]

It's probably easier to learn C++ properly if you don't have any programming experience than if you have a lot of experience of structured languages. OOP languages like C++ require a different approach than structured languages.
We have a C / C++ forum so feel free to have a look.

[bubbles]

wow,  a lot  of that is so complex, i'm nont suree where  to start! any clues? 

[Yaloopy]

Vermont is nice. Welcome.

[Jim]

Start right at the beginning.  Get yourself the development environment - we're recommending Visual Studio Express - and then start with 'Hello, World!' and go from there.  Our C and C++ tutorials are a bit thin on the ground, I think everyone is waiting for everyone else to make the first move.  Whenever that happens, there are at least a handful of excellent C and C++ coders on this forum to help it along.

Welcome to the forum!

Jim

[Clyde]

aboard Bubbles dude

If you feel that C++ / Dev C++ is a bit taxing, then you could always try out Freebasic as that has some similarities to the C family, and at some stage Object Orientated Programming will be added to it. And it's also free.

All the very best,
Clyde.

[Shockwave]

Be prepared for a long time downloading it In the meantime I'll be needing a drink.

I'll be in here >THIS THREAD< if anyone needs me 

[Stonemonkey]

Welcome Bubbles.

[ferris]

Hey bubbles,

Glad to see yet another new member!

My suggestion to you would be to learn something like blitz basic or freebasic, then download bloodshed's dev-c++ when you think you're ready.

Whichever path you take, I'm sure this place has everything you need to start!

[Shockwave]

I agree with Thygrion there, Blitz would be my reccomenation if you are starting out with no knowledge of programing.
There's a free 2D demo knocking about somewhere, I think that BB have taken it down but I am sure you could get hold of a copy if you look around. Besides, the full version isn't too expensive.

[bubbles]

any chance someone could email me a  copy of  that free demo? if so, addy is edbd_bubbles@yahoo.com. ill check  it out. i did gete a chance to play with devcpp a little yesterday, annd got ''hello world'' to work this stuff is so exciting. i really cant wait to get to the graphics stuff!

[Shockwave]

I don't have the bb demo any more myself but I know a couple of the other people here have it.
How about posting your hello world program?

[Ghost^BHT]

You can get the tryout versions of Blitz3D, BlitzMAx and Blitz+ here:  BlitzBasic

I would go for the B+ of Blitz3d (which has all the 2d commands as well) for a start. Good luck.

[Jim]

I've got the original downloads on my website.

8Mb for the 2D Demo members.iinet.net.au/~jimshaw/Blitz/BlitzBasicDemo.exe
6Mb for the 3D Demo members.iinet.net.au/~jimshaw/Blitz/Blitz3DDemo166.exe

These are really ancient now.

Jim

[Clyde]

Wicked some retro Gems!
These might be cool to have in the usefull links area Jim dude.

[benny!]

  bubbles

[rain_storm]

Welcome aboard, Bubbles!