(04-05-2012, 08:58 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:Quote:Learning another language first might also be worth a tought. Python is great, and will give you nice results much quicker than C++. Once you got the idea what good program code should look like, learning other languages gets a lot easier. C++ is a mess in many places and is not a good language to start programming with, in my opinion.
But nobody uses python for game development.
Really he should be focusing on learning popular frameworks/APIs like Shonumi said.
What kind of game do you intend to develop, alone? Skyrim?
For smaller projects, games too, python is great. I don't see why you shouldn't use it. The Blender Game Engine uses it (and you can make games with that: http://www.yofrankie.org/ ), and there's pygame (http://www.pygame.org) which is intended for 2D games. Panda3d seems to have a python API too: http://www.panda3d.org/reference/python