How to survive any RPG...

[Tawmis]

I've wanted to program games for a while, but I'm horrible with graphics and such. I have experience with many programming languages, including C, C++, and Java.

You're better off than I am. I got to C++ programming - just the beginning - when I had to leave College and never finished. Most of my programming language is all very old and out dated DOS based (BASIC, Pascal, C, Cobal, and minor stuff in C++ - and a few others) - but all of it was learned when I was going to College which was back in um, early 90s. Not touched a new programming language since (other than self teaching HTML, if you can consider that a "programming language")...

[Taryn]

AFAIK, my high school still used QBasic and Turbo Pascal in programming classes in 2005.

[Rath Darkblade]

I've wanted to program games for a while, but I'm horrible with graphics and such. I have experience with many programming languages, including C, C++, and Java.

You're better off than I am. I got to C++ programming - just the beginning - when I had to leave College and never finished. Most of my programming language is all very old and out dated DOS based (BASIC, Pascal, C, Cobal, and minor stuff in C++ - and a few others) - but all of it was learned when I was going to College which was back in um, early 90s. Not touched a new programming language since (other than self teaching HTML, if you can consider that a "programming language")...

You're both better off than I, then. I've never touched C, C++ or Java. I've had some experience with BASIC, Visual Basic and VBA (if you can consider those two "programming languages" *shudder*), HTML/XHTML, CSS and Javascript.

[Taryn]

I've used Commodore BASIC, which was invented in I believe 1977, the era of line numbers and "goto" statements. It was my first programming language, and it wasn't actually all that "basic". A lot of things were cryptic, like there was no colour command, it's poke53281,0 to change the background to black.

Modern BASICs, blehh. They seem like Microsoft versions of Pascal nowadays.

[Tawmis]

Visual Basic is what I'd like to one day learn - doesn't seem OVERLY complex but more modern than the "DOS" BASIC.