Mickey2471 Junior Member Posts: 2 From: Scotland Registered: 06-19-2002 |
Forgive me for being so new to this but I could use a little help. I am doing Advanced Higher computing (over in sunny scotland!)this year at school and I have to do a 60hrs software development project and I dont know where to start. I was thinking about using BlitzBasic but im still not sure. If any of you godlike programers out there have any useful hints or tips or decent sites to visit please please please reply to this message.ThanX, Mickey2471 ps remember, jesus loves you! |
Krylar Administrator Posts: 502 From: MD, USA Registered: 03-05-2001 |
Hiya, To help you it'd be helpful to know what kind of project you're looking to do. Is it a game? If so, what kind of game? Also, have you ever coded a game before...or coded at all? I ask because it's tough enough to learn programming concepts and language syntax, but to learn how to do a game at the same time and to accomplish that within 60 hours would be an increadible task. If it is your first run through, make sure you're designing something extremely simple. As far as the possibility of choosing Blitz Basic. Go to http://www.blitzcoder.com and look at the "Articles/Tutorials" section. There are tons of tutorials that can help you get started. Give us more specifics so we can help better God bless, -Krylar ------------------ |
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Krylar Administrator Posts: 502 From: MD, USA Registered: 03-05-2001 |
So, you want to do a space invaders clone in 60 hours? It's not that complicated, actually. I would highly recommend using Blitz Basic for this since you won't have to worry about building all of your own graphics/sound/input routines first. It will save you time...and it's beyond fast enough to do space invaders. However, it's going to be a big challenge to do this that quickly unless you're familiar with how to develop 2D games. The following games are written in Blitz Basic and include full source code: http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/showcase/showcase_showentry.pl?id=kev05042002165421&comments=no A lot of this will be confusing if you don't understand the fundamentals of not on BB, but also game development...so make sure to read all of the Articles/Tutorials (specific to 2D) on the BlitzCoder site. All the best! -Krylar ------------------ |
