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Geek Culture / Friend wants to start programming (in DarkBasicPro)

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Peter H
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 20:13
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Hey guys,

I have friend who recently has been asking me if i can teach him how to program... (using DarkBasicPro because he knows i use it and he wants to start with a "Basic" language) he's not an idiot when it comes to computers but he's never programmed before...

I don't mind answering his questions and helping him learn the language, but i'm trying to find a good tutorial to give him a jumpstart on... (so i don't have to tell him everything from scratch) So i've been looking around... and so far i haven't found a nice begining tutorial in DarkBasicPro for somebody who hasn't programmed before at all...(i would show him the limit rush one but i think he would get discouraged if he couldn't run the code at the end... ) he could buy the "beginner's guide to darkbasic game programming" book but he doesn't want to spend $40

So i was just wondering if anybody around here has a favourite begining tutorial for DarkBasicPro that they would be so kind as to provide a link to (or at least it's name )

--Peter

"We make the worst games in the universe."

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spooky
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 22:15
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Look in newcomers section and there are a few links to tutorials.

Hamish's one for absolute beginners seems quite nice;

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=25076&b=7

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Jeku
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 22:19
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You should also direct him to some of the beginner tute's from the TGC newsletters. There have been quite a few recently.

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 22:23
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The dbpro help files have some

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http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=63878&b=8
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Hawkeye
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 22:33
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Ehhh. David T's code from merc2, when he "accidently" put it in the code box

Seriously, I never really learned much of anything from any tutorials, I just messed around with boxes and stuff, putting stuff on the screen.

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MikeS
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 22:34
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I'd recommend Hamish's tutorial for a complete beginner, and then have him skim over my Curved Basic ones once he wants to start doing something specific(moving camera, matrices, lighting, etc.).
If nothing, I learned from the built in tutorial in the manual.



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Peter H
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 22:57
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thanks for helping!

what's funny is that i've never seen hamish's tutorial before!

it's a great tutorial though... i'll start him on that one...

--Peter

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Philip
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 23:39
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Buy the Darkbasic book? Its for DBC but its still of some assistance for complete newcomers.

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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 08:15 Edited at: 1st Nov 2005 08:17
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Once he picks up on the basic programming principles in Hamish's tutotrial or the book you can show him Binary Moon. It shouldn't be long after that he gets to a point where you can give him a problem to solve and he'll be able to work it out with basic knowledge of programming and some quick checks in the html reference. He might also like C++ though. My friend cannot stand Basic, and his logic gets all fuddled up when he tries to code in DB, but after a month of two of C++ he worked out how to write a small little file encryptor. The encryption wasn't good (split up the array of characters 8 ways and went from there), but it worked. So, we're looking into DarkSDK, Torque, Irrlicht, and TrueVision3d now.


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