I've currently got three things on the go:

• Final Year Project
  I decided on doing fluid simulation using metaballs for my project. At the moment I'm fiddling around with the marching cubes algorithm trying to get an isosurface working.
  
  
• Tank Assignment
  This is as cool as it sounds. I basically have been given a shell program which is a basic rendering engine and a scene with two tanks in it. I have to implement some XML for game data and set up some basic behaviour for the two tanks to attack and evade each other. After that I can basically do anything I want that is cool. My plans include adding teams of tanks, a nice particle system and perhaps some havok physics on the shells.
  
  
• Signal Processing Assignment
  Pretty boring and straightforward assignment involving loading some signals (a bunch of numbers basically) from file, applying algorithms to them and saving them to file again. It's a second year module, so it's pretty easy stuff and shouldn't take long.

Alright thanks for the tip. I'll start with Python using that book along with video guides.

Please release these two The Tank Assignment especially I'd love to see.

HTML isn't actually a programming language, though.

I wouldn't worry too much about choice of language when learning; once you learn how to program, picking up another language is trivial. The fundamentals don't change, only the syntax (OK, that's maybe a little oversimplified, but mostly true). Python may be a good choice if for no other reason than its syntax forces good coding habits, but you could just as easily learn on Ruby, Java, C, or anything else of your choosing.

But to get performance out of C++ it comes at a huge time price. For a lot of things you would possibly get higher performance out of other languages within a shorter development time (except if you were doing pure number crunching, where C beats all). C++ just allows you to do micro optimizations.

Other languages like C# run at a fast rate, their garbage collection means that their memory allocation is in a lot of cases faster than doing it manually, while taking less time to develop, they have a huge standard library so doing stuff is easy. Reflection is cool etc. So what I am trying to say is for a hobby game, C++ is probably the wrong thing to write it in. Not that I wouldn't recommend learning C++ or C. It teaches you a lot.

I'm not a real programmer by any means.
But I do have beginners knowledge of html, and TI:Basic
I recently made a hello world program in python, but I've put learning more on hold thanks to semester finals.
I may start teaching myself more python when I go on break, but I've also been looking into Ruby.
I gave this a go:

http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/

It was pretty cool, thanks to that, I know more about Ruby now than Python
I dunno, I think maybe Python would be best because I read it has strict syntax rules, where Ruby has a multiple answers to a single question philosophy.

C++, although I don't know a terribly large amount (I'm relatively new to programming). I know enough to write some basic mathematical calculation programs and basic games (like a word scramble game, for example). I hope to learn Python eventually as well. It sounds like an interesting language.

C, because the code I write (at least the really important stuff) has to run in real time at network speed. Sometimes C++, but I've had more than my share of time spent finding elementary blunders in other people's heavily-templated libraries.
If it has to look pretty and handle carefully structured user interaction, Java.
If it just has to run once, or while nobody's waiting for it to finish, Perl.

I'd have to say Basic, which is what I learned back in 1983. Can't say that I've stayed up on languages though.

I have odne basics of C++, VB.NET and C#. But I know more C# then the toher two and am still trying to learn more of it. Wrote a small program for FO3 and Oblivion that was about 900 lines of code, quite happy with that one. Trying to think of a new more useful project though to help me learn more but that I can do with current knowledge.

My primary languages nowadays are Python > C++ > C# > Javascript, though I do bits in other languages now and then.


I avoid GUI in Python as much as possible. I've used both Tkinter and wxPython for toy projects, but the only large project in Python with desktop GUI that I wrote had the interface in C#, and called back to Python for the backend processing. If I ever do a GUI in pure Python, I'm thinking I'll have to bite the bullet and go with Qt. Then again, there's always a web interface, which takes a little more work, but can be tweaked to do anything.

• A https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ipdjaafajlfiopcppipdinmcjbcpofhd, since I missed the similar one I had in Firefox while migrating.
  
• An AI simulation of goal-based agents in a 3D environment, based on neural networks. Hardly touched.
  
• An image processing / dynamic compression project which I'm yet to start.

Basic. as in close to the metal, C. Basic, as in easy to learn, probably Python.


That's a decent book, but it is the wrong one to suggest to someone who does not have programming experience. It is so unsystematic and hacky that it doesn't really give the right image of Python IMO.

NOOO! :ahhh:

Only recently been into programming languages, due to my schooling. Trying to get into Javascript, using it on my webpage, too. Although it's mostly stuff snatched from the web, like forcing frames appear if a subpage is loaded. Can't afford php. <_< Would love to find a working random Image-On-Load javascript.



People providing the bandwith and server space want extra moolah for php-supported domain.

I'm just coming to the end of my first semester of University, one of my modules is programming in C++ so I've become sort of decent at basic C++ stuff almost by accident. I didn't even want to to do a programming module, it's just compulsory if I want to do the stuff I actually want to do .

Your probably right


Maybe better suggestions:
http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkPP.pdf
http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/

o.O

I don't get it...

BASIC

Visual Basic .Net would be a good place to start, it's easy to get into, and the language is more understandable to humans than most. Microsoft also offers it's excellent Visual Studio deveploment tool for free for non-commercial use: http://www.microsoft.com/exPress/

Personally nowadays mainly C#, but also Java and C++ in the past. There's not that much difference between Java and C# though (Microsoft made C# because they couldn't buy Java :whisper: ).

Ive looked at python and Java but the only language I know/use is C++. And I dont know it well enough to be considered anything but a beginner. Currently Im not working on anything. I have a project or two in mind but I dont have the energy for it atm. The project I have in mind is coding a text-based version of Pazaak from SW Knights of the old republic, and once Ive gotten the game mechanics right I thought Id try to make a GUI. But as said, I dont have much motivation nowadays.

You can install Apache and PHP on your own machine. Easy peasy and no extra cost.

I don't think running a public web server on your own machine and on your own home connection is such a good idea.

BTW, Olaf, why not answer in a new post? Your answer-with-an-edit posts always confuse me when reading threads.

I didn't say anything about it being public. My understanding was that he wanted to learn PHP, not necessarily host a website.

Sorry. Guess it's a tad silly. I, uh, tried to cling unto my 'Master' status for as long as possible. Not bloating my post-count and all...Still doing it after losing my prestigious title. I just liked the sound of it, guess it's 'cos I'm a svcker for a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi6HlcFgBtg. Something about 'Young master', '(Grand)Master' or 'The Abbot' that sounds good t' me ears. :unsure:





Yeah. I sort of wanted to use php since it's so nifty and allows to make much without either resorting to frames or flash (although I'm currently learning the latter, I don't know what is still required to server-side support, and I'd rather not use flash for hobby-related matters, 'cos it's so painstaking to make). Currently, 'tho, I'm sort of at the mercy of my service provider on the issue, and had to go and make my website with frames and java. Maybe when I strike it rich, I'll take up on php again and remake the whole site. I tried using iframes, if memory serves, but I was buggered to find a proper code that made the loaded content load up the right size (y), nothing worked (I ended up with a 200px high iframe, or had to manually set it to a certain length, which didn't really look good since all the different pages were of different length)...so I went with frames. :meh:



Aye, I guess I could perhaps do some research on the subject. It's just that I'm currently getting the service of hosted space on top of my net connection, and it costs me no extra, as such. I'm just a bit wary about extra expenditures nowadays, since I got nearly zilch in ways of income. No luxuries, and such.

Just a FYI. My hosting provider (computing host) supports PHP (and everything else really) and costs me about $3 a month. Less than a pint of (decent) beer. I am not sure if they still have that offer available :shrug:

If your site has a really low bandwidth usage there is always something like https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/, which has everything metered.

I use and learn c++
Hey how about making programing competitions here?

Server-side includes wouldn't work?