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Taryn wrote: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")...

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

Tawmis wrote:

Taryn wrote: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.

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.

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