Brand New Programmer Here
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| any advice for someone just getting in to simple 2D programming? -adam |
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| Check out the Blitz Plus help files in the editor, and check all the 2D commands to give you an idea of what it can do and for examples. Then get creative! |
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| How about looking at some Tetris code... |
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| spoolboyy: being new here is ok, but in order to give you some advice we also need to know your status :) Are you an excellent coder in another language already? Do you know 'basic' in general? etc. Or are you a beginner, in all aspects? If you have code-experience already, then browsing through the B+ help is a matter of just 2 evenings.. B+ is *that* easy.. |
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| experiment:p check out the examples as suggested, try changing stuff see what happens if you are very new. Although as stated already let us know your experience. |
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| oh im pretty new. BASIC is the only language i have EVER programmed in and that was several years ago. I was able to come up with some very simple texting programs and so forth, but never got into graphics, so my skill level is practically zero. i've got some working source code from a few games (and will find some for tetris) that i have been tinkering with and a beginner's game programming book that's based around BlitzPlus. More than anything i just wanted to introduce myself and see how helpful you guys were, thanks for the numerous responses! i'll try to study as hard as i can on my own so i dont lean on the forum too much. -adam |
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| Simplest approach: start with a minimum source.. and expand by testing each new command individually. Don't just pick any big example file to study, if it's all alien to you. Just read the help, there's plenty o' simple examples in there.. Quick n00b lesson in a nutshell: Images, GUI gadgets, banks, streams etc. are all a _handle_. A handle is represented by a number, the size of an int (4 bytes). Once you created a handle of something you use that handle for all operations on that handle. window=CreateWindow("title",0,0,640,480) now 'window' is a handle.. and it's in reality just a number.. Notify window will show something like 21635245 orso, that's the number represented by the handle. Each handle (so, each 'thing': image, GUI object, bank etc.) has its own number. Once you got this in your head, the rest of B+ is cake :) |
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| You can try and have a look at the tutorials on my website, they are pretty easy to follow, and there is a good range of different things that could be useful. Link is in the signature. |
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| thanks guys. you're definitely a helpful bunch. as far as biting off more than i can chew, im biting off as little as i possibley can at a moment. ive started with the basics like Print "Hey Dude." and im moving up from there. im currently working on Arrays and Types. -adam |
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