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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Is the 700 page DB book worth buying?

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JamesR
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I'm a newbie just learning DarkBASIC and I was wondering if this book would be a good investment, or if it's money better spent elsewhere.
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Cian Rice
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I hear it's a heap of crap. Also I went to borders to purchase some Ender books by Orson Scott card and some Manga, and decided to see if it was any good, and I'll tell you it's nor good, itmainly focuses on "Hello World" stuff, not 3D lighting or sound or any of the game developing stuff in 3D, it mainly focuses on 2D, which is good, but the help is all that good, I'd say stick here and ask lots of question, since curiosty didn't really kill the cat, did it?

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JamesR
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Thanks, that's kinda what I thought, but I wanted to check.
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Don Malone
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You would be better served to checkout the Binary Moon tutorial for Dark Basic Classic to get the basics (from what I have read here) and then check out some of the sites (like curvedbasic) and check out the tutorials there.

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Katsuya
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I don't beleive it. I am new new new. I knew about it for a while. I
think you guys don't know what you are talking about. I think it really depends on the persons. I only know how to type messages in Dark Basic. Really dude go with YOUR OWN OPINION and not somebody elses. Find someone who ha the book and see if you can rewnt/borrow it.Thank you
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Static
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Posted: 16th Jun 2004 16:28 Edited at: 16th Jun 2004 16:30
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Quote: "I don't beleive it. I am new new new. I knew about it for a while. I
think you guys don't know what you are talking about. I think it really depends on the persons. I only know how to type messages in Dark Basic. Really dude go with YOUR OWN OPINION and not somebody elses. Find someone who ha the book and see if you can rewnt/borrow it.Thank you"

Interesting .... if you could put it properly
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Kentaree
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JamesR, like the other guys said, you'd be better going off and finding some tutorials and getting your feet wet with DB rather than getting a book which only covers the basics. The best way to learn is to go out and do stuff.

@Katsuya: If you are new new new and all you can do is write messages in DB, I dont think you have any right to say to someone else that they don't know what they're talking about. Learn some more DB, and then you can talk.

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super skull
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hello i own the book and i think it is the way to go. those other guys dont know what there talking about!
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SCI_CO
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Posted: 17th Jun 2004 21:13
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I think the book is good to.

Its good for any programer to
have samples that work and the help
to those samples.

If you don`t understand the sample
then Test and Dissect them over and over.
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gamer3000
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Posted: 17th Jun 2004 22:01
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thanx i was thinkin about it with DarkBASIC
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gamer3000
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getting it*
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Static
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Posted: 19th Jun 2004 14:28
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your choice
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Dylnuge
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Posted: 19th Jun 2004 17:00 Edited at: 19th Jun 2004 17:00
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All depends on the programmer.
I have the book and think it's good, but when you're ready to make 3D games, you'll need to go somwhere else. Maybe they could write an intermeidete level book .

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Cian Rice
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The book says DarkBASIC on it but, does it mean pro or classic, I didn't really see anything saying which it was...

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both


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