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Hello,

I originally learned BASIC on an Apple IIE in the late 80's-90's but havn't done any programming since then. I'd say my proficiency was around the high end of novice when I stopped. I'd like to learn again and DarkBASIC Pro is a real attractive package for me because games and graphics are what I'm into. That kind of stuff appears to be a lot more complex (or at least involves one hell of a lot more code) in VB 2005.

Here's my dillema though -- there don't seem to be any GOOD books out there on DB Pro programming. Sure, there's the Jonathan Harbour stuff but he tends to be like "It's real simple... heres steps one through three.... " and then suddenly four through 10 are complete with no explanation!

There are, however, a lot of good VB books that are full of exercises and projects and teach programming but lack any graphic or games content.

SO what's my best bet here? Set aside the graphics stuff until I get a solid ground in coding with VB (since I can obtain good training materials) or might there be some stuff out there I havn't uncovered in my search, good DBPRO books?

Thanks for any advice,
Marc

there are the two guide to db programming books on this site...but i would recommend just following every tutorial you can find...with a basic programming background you should pick up quickly....

i only have 3 books about darkbasic pro but they are all great
hands on dark basic pro 1-2 and dark basic pro game programming the second edition.
but the best way to learn is to check the amazing amount of snippets in the codebase or all the various threads here.
and anytime you nead help is it only to ask as the comunity here is alot about helping each other when we can
cheers and welcome

ps there is another book that i cant remember that recently got published but dont remember the name ?
almost forgot that all newsletters from way back to now have tutorials on all you nead to know

I've actually started to gather the tutorials from around the bords into a single pdf file here: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=137027&b=7.

great stuff nickydude
there you see marc
this is our comunity of dark basic users
a helping hand in the dark