(04-05-2012, 08:28 PM)scummos Wrote:(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
To be fair to the both of you, Python does get recommended to a lot for people looking to step into game development, at least on GameDev. C# gets recommended frequently as well. Also, the Pygame scummos mentioned is built on top of SDL. For indie projects, yes people do use Python.
Commercially though, I don't think Python is that big in the industry. Also, since the OP already has some knowledge of C++, there's no reason not to start game programming with C++.
In the end though, languages are tools. Use the right one for the job. If you feel one or the other isn't cutting it for you, switch it. I think that once you get the basics into your head (program flow, conditional statements, loops, variables) e.g. the core concepts that almost every programming language will use, learning how to program in XYZ language is just a matter of getting the syntax down.