I was told by a game developer at this seminar that if I want to learn how to program games, a good way to start is with Java and making cellphone games. I plan on learning C++ before Java anyway but around how long would it take a newbie to learn Java or when would it be a good idea to learn Java if not at all?
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Anonymous2006-08-03 10:03
You can't get into game development without learning how to program. Game programming is seriously the worst kind of programming to teach you good programming skills. Game programmers never finish their game, never release their source code and rarely work together with someone else. A Game programmer is a guy who has half written 2 or 3 "engines" but finished nothing. Even commercial game code is horrible.
Oh those are not called optimizations, those are called algorithms and datastructures. Why don't you go back to arguing if preincrement is faster than postincrement.