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Originally Posted by lachoneus8
Another avenue is to start with something fun that will keep you coming back.... look up Microsoft XNA, a free game development engine that can produce applications for PC or Xbox360. This engine is very easy to learn, and there are a large number of tutorials that can get you started in doing something you'll have a lot of fun with as well as learn a new language. |
The same applied to the
Dark GDK. This is another game development engine from Microsoft. It uses C++ instead of C#, which would be rather useful if you want to program in C++ next year. I've used it for several projects (including a Who Wants To Be A Millionaire video game for a school review project. It kind of blew everybody's Jeopardy games made with PowerPoint away.
) and found it really easy to use.
lachoneus is right though. 3-d stuff can get tricky. Luckily the Dark GDK comes with plenty of samples and tutorials, complete with source.