well jim kitchen has admitted some years back his code is not prity either. not sure if this is true still or not. I programmed in javascript and pascal. and in pascal I would go nice and fast forget to put capitals on var or something or forget somethingelse and my program was locking up, restart, restart, oh man where is that code, where is it. This is already an hour, oh man I need to smash something. eventually I found it but yeah. Actually I think javascript is teaching bad programming practice as you can store variables etc anywhere you want and it really couldn't give a stuff. so if you then go pascal or other languages and try to do that well. At 05:53 a.m. 25/12/2009, you wrote: >Hi Damien, >Smile. Yes, we all need to start somewhere. As it happens a while back I found >some cds with some very old source code on it, code from my college days, and >I was horrified when reading the source for some of those programs. It was >obvious I didn't have a clue what I was doing, or I had an idea of what I was >doing, but not quite sure how to write programs professionally yet. So we all >have had our amateur days. >I also understand what you are going through with C++. Although, I took C++ in >college and have programmed in it off and on for 10 years or so I don't have >an extremely strong grasp of the language myself. When .NET came out around >2003 most of the contract jobs I was looking into wanted VB .NET or C# .NET, >so I learned those languages, and that is mainly what has been in high demand >ever since. The end result was even though I knew the basics of C++ I never >got to grow into the language and get a lot of hands on experience with it, >because I'm working with VB and C# .NET professionally. Now, that I've decided >to begin using C++ for games I'm finding myself looking up tutorials and >refreshing my skills to get back into the swing of things. It isn't that hard >for me since I basically know what I'm doing,but I also know my skills and >experience aren't as good as they should be. >I'm making mistakes and doing things a more skilled C++ developer wouldn't. So >it could be some time even for me to get back into using C++ with any degree >of skill and experience. > > > >Damien C. Sadler wrote: >>Hi Thomas, >>Well, to be honest everyone starts somewhere. I dread to think if I went back >>5 years what my code looked like. Even now I am not very experienced with >>games programming. Yes I can make the odd utility in VB, but even then I've >>been having reports left right and centre regarding bugs that I can't seem to >>replicate. >>However, learning C++, I am right back to novice state. I feel humiliated to >>say that so far, after almost a month of trying to learn, I still can't even >>write a clean hello world program. Probably because of its extensive nature. >>In VB, I had to write it as a message box simply because I wasn't practising >>coding by drawing a window and saving an executable. So as you can imagine, >>writing a 3 liner in a message box to writing an 85 line version creating a >>window is a large jump. >>Regards, >>Damien. > > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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