[Audyssey] Game development was intro

[Thomas Ward]

Hi Damien,
As I recall there are VB 6 books on blindprogramming.com as well as 
safari.oreilly.com. Honestly, the language isn't all that hard to learn 
with the proper documentation. Of course, my opinion might be a bit 
biast since I took Visual Basic 5 while I was in college for my CS 
degree, and it helps to have college level books, instructers, etc to 
fall back on. However, even then I didn't find it all that hard to pick 
up on.
I don't know what you mean about C#.NET, (C-Sharp,) having built in 
documentation,but the .NET framework SDK you download from Microsoft 
does have documentation as well as example programs to work with in 
C#.NET, VB.NET, and even C++.NET. However, those materials are less a 
tootorial than a reference guide to look up certain classes, what 
members and variables are in a class, and some examples how to use it in 
your code.
If you want to do any language right, correctly, you need to buy a good 
book from Oreilly like C# In a Nutshell or Learning C#.



x-sight interactive wrote:
> this is very interesting what you write. the thing is, when i first started
> programming i was only taught vb6. knowing nothing at all about programming,
> and given no real tutorials on how it works or how to do things correctly
> with it, i struggled a lot with it. then one person got me into autoit. now,
> thanks to that, i know a little more about programming (if you've seen my
> dectalk scripter and timer on my site), and am now learning c++ as i said
> before, and it is making more and more sense as i do more and more things
> with autoit. i'm using a programming language similar to autoit in
> functionality, but similar to c in syntax as a stepping stone, and it is my
> aim to port all my autoit programs into c++ in the end. but i find that
> starting off with autoit really helped me in the programming side of things.
> but yes, i can understand your viewpoint on this matter also and find it
> very interesting. i'm sure it was you who mentioned c sharp as well - that
> has in-built documentation or something? maybe she'd be good starting off
> with that one?
>
> regards,
>
> damien
>