On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:23 AM, <mark-irel...@msn.com> wrote: > Hey, > Just introducing myself to say hi........Hi! > > I'm very new to programming, I got interested in it when I decided to have > a go at html. When looking around for a place to start I found out that > python and C++ are the usual starting place but when I found out that > civilisation and eve are programmed using python (my favorite type of > games), that helped make the decision. so far I've been using Create Your > Own Games with Python (using python 3.1 and pygame) as a guide and been > experimenting making snippets of code. >
Welcome to Python and programming! HTML is what got me started on my path, too. Pygame is a great package for making games with. > My first aim is to get comfortable with python and move on to C++ > (apparently python is slow ?!?). My ultimate aim is to create a couple of > ideas that I've had floating around for a while. > Slow is a relative term. If C++ does something 100x faster than python, and python can already do it in .5 seconds you won't notice much difference if you're doing it once. If you're doing 2-d game programming Python is certainly fast for plenty of stuff. Take a look at the games of pyweek: http://www.pyweek.org/ Code is available for all the games so you can take a look at how they program and that might help you with challenges you face. HTH, Wayne
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