jojoestinky wrote: Probably can, but it's in python, another language I can read, but don't really use.
I am the same way. I can hack away at python, and python script, but as far as learning it 100%... I see it as a complete waste of time. Every script kiddie out there can do python or java, it takes some real talent to do C or assembler though.
So, the next language I am going to learn is probably C. I have already some experience in Assembler (Commodore 64), but I would much rather learn something that it a bit more human readable.
in the past I have wasted time mastering:
C-64 Basic-assembler
GWBASIC
Quick basic
Erlang
Fortran
COBOL
Damn, old skoool! :D I love it!
lol, that's awesome! I started on the commodore 64 back in the 80s but not assembly, basic. Learned binary and hex from hacking Game Genie Codes for the Sega Genesis, played with qBasic a bit, but then moved into vb, focused on design and graphics also, then as the internet boomed in the 90s, I really got into web protocols, html, xml, then moved into php, javascript, ajax, jquery, sql databasing, but with web standards and vb, you can do some pretty cool stuff... it's of course higher level design and programming, which I never seem to get much slack for, but people can say what they want, I can obviously dance the dance if I can work with CPP even though I never have before, but I'm starting to fully understand the full potential of the different codes, so I can see why C and CPP are very popular languages, but I'm still 4 basic, I won't be writing any top 100 games in it, but square me of in app design against any language, I can rock it :D
yeah Assembly is a beast, agreed. My opinion is this, the language is only as good as what the user can dream within it... and Assembly lacked that, It's so robotic, it leaves little to the imagination, obviously it's used everywhere, but most of the time now compilers produce the assembly, ie the higher languages. I think every level has it's place, the reason the higher languages were developed were to increase the overall reach, to incorporate more capabilities... I'm going to get slack for this I'm sure, I grew up with cpp programmer, we use to battle it out vb vs cpp all the time... but, a programmer is a programmer in my opinion. It's not what language you know, it's all about how you think.. breaking down everything into parts and pieces, like gears of a clock... the language comes second... but that's my opinion.. lol :D
My friend growing up was the only other programmer I've really known, lol, since before high school I've just been the solo computer nerd, learning and absorbing everything like an amoeba...
If i would have just started with C+ i would have been a coding god by now.
But then again, i probably would not have become an animator if i stuck to strictly coding, so maybe it is not too much of a tragedy.
I see what you mean, for a long time I've hit glass ceilings in vb... and then I ponder how is it possible to write games in this language, refresh rate sucks, no way I could get a playable fps.. lol... cpp is where it's at for streamlining the full process, taking control of every component and include... cut the fat... I'm using this experience as a whole to help me in that direction also, it's time to pick up cpp, actually through php, cpp is very familiar already to me... php uses almost the exact same syntax for 90% of everything, with a few extra cpp operators to learn, it probally won't be too difficult to pick up. The hard part is the binary level operations, which are very popular in c, they are just not hardly used for anything else these days, except for stream line client->server cpp or proprietary formats... which are still where it's at so it seems lol, at least if you want to learn gaming as opposed to just apps.