Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-16 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
jeff wrote: > Jason Stechschulte wrote: > >> I know there are a lot of programmers on this list, so I'm hoping >> someone might be kind enough to help me. I already am a so so >> programmer. I'm comfortable using Perl and PHP and I have a little >> experience in C/C++. >> I'm now thinking of t

RE: OT: Programming books

2002-10-15 Thread Price, Erik
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel Santamaria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 9:37 AM > To: Debian Users > Subject: Re: OT: Programming books > > > java is s dog slow! way too slow for serious game development! > Depends

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-15 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Daniel Santamaria wrote: > java is s dog slow! way too slow for serious game development! > Actually Java is making decent inroads into game development. They have a 3D library now, and it is only getting better. I don't think it is too slow to make any kind of game. It is just slower than

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-15 Thread Daniel Santamaria
java is s dog slow! way too slow for serious game development! On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 23:26, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > Crispin Wellington wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 14:04, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > > > >>Crispin Wellington wrote: > >> > >>While most games are developed for Window

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-15 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 14:04, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > >>Crispin Wellington wrote: >> >>While most games are developed for Windows systems, you can find a lot >>of useful information at gamedev.net and such. > > > Oh yes! And gamasutra.com is another excellent res

RE: OT: Programming books

2002-10-15 Thread Price, Erik
> -Original Message- > From: Jason Stechschulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 6:25 AM > To: Debian Users > Subject: Re: OT: Programming books > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:53:34PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > If y

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-15 Thread Jason Stechschulte
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:04:29AM -0500, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > While most games are developed for Windows systems, you can find a lot > of useful information at gamedev.net and such. Also, the book "Linux > Game Programming" might be a help, even though it doesn't take you > through a proj

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-15 Thread Jason Stechschulte
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:53:34PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > If your project is 2D and you want to develop it rapidly and robustly, > and want it to run on all sorts of machines (not just linux) then I > recommend using Python with the pygame library (bindings to the SDL > libraries). Pyt

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 14:04, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > Crispin Wellington wrote: > > While most games are developed for Windows systems, you can find a lot > of useful information at gamedev.net and such. Oh yes! And gamasutra.com is another excellent resource. Crispin signature.asc Descr

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-14 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 10:22, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > >>I know there are a lot of programmers on this list, so I'm hoping >>someone might be kind enough to help me. I already am a so so >>programmer. I'm comfortable using Perl and PHP and I have a little >>experie

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 10:22, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > I know there are a lot of programmers on this list, so I'm hoping > someone might be kind enough to help me. I already am a so so > programmer. I'm comfortable using Perl and PHP and I have a little > experience in C/C++. > > I'm now th

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-13 Thread jeff
Jason Stechschulte wrote: >I know there are a lot of programmers on this list, so I'm hoping >someone might be kind enough to help me. I already am a so so >programmer. I'm comfortable using Perl and PHP and I have a little >experience in C/C++. > >I'm now thinking of taking the next step and

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:22:45 -0400 Jason Stechschulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm now thinking of taking the next step and starting a real programming > project. I'm thinking of writing a game. My question is this: Does > anyone know of a book that doesn't teach you a language, rather it >

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-13 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I wouldn't say that was a particularly off-topic question. A very good book is Large Scale C++ Software Design by John Lakos, ISBN 0-201-63362-0 Here is a review of it: http://www.accu.org/cgi-bin/accu/rvout.cgi?from=0au_l&file=l000736a The main thing it teaches you is how to write a large pr

OT: Programming books

2002-10-13 Thread Jason Stechschulte
I know there are a lot of programmers on this list, so I'm hoping someone might be kind enough to help me. I already am a so so programmer. I'm comfortable using Perl and PHP and I have a little experience in C/C++. I'm now thinking of taking the next step and starting a real programming proj