Programming C++, Games Emphasis

[scummos]

(04-07-2012, 12:15 AM)Shonumi Wrote: Yes, if I came into Python, C++, Java, or some other language with only general knowledge of what objects where, I wouldn't be able to use the particular features it offers right away. Nonetheless, having a good, even a rough idea of what an object is, lets me start using objects, even at a basic level, in a given language quickly. The finer points and differences of that language are then learned later. Still I don't have to relearn the entire concept of what objects are, not totally, so I can quickly jump to devoting time to those aforementioned differences.

I don't know, but I came from PHP to C++ and it took me *quite* a while to get comfortable with even the basic concepts of C++. Those two languages were very different for me.

[Shonumi]

Yeah, everybody's different when it comes down to learning something. Like I said, I jumped straight from a BASIC variant to C++ no problems, just had to ground myself in some computer science, and I've been using it for some time now. A lot of the other programmers I know generally say that once they got the concepts of programming and computer science, they managed to pick up other languages rapidly. Most of them had to given that they had (or planned to have) some sort of IT related job, and they needed to work on whole range of situations, so it's pretty much sink-or-swim for them.

I had an older member in my LUG, a bearded UNIX guy who programmed with punch cards way back when. He knew a handful of languages, but the way he described it to me, it didn't seem like he had much trouble acquiring them. I personally found it easy to pick up other languages in school, and later gain good fluency in them (PHP, JavaScript, Java, ActionScript, high school was busy for me ) But like I said, everyone grasps things differently at different rates.

I haven't learned a new one in a while though, just haven't had the necessity. I was doing Python a while back, but then college came, and I was up writing papers about literature. I've been wanting to revisit it to make something meaningful. Now however, what with my looking for a job, working on Gekko, and making a game on the side, I just don't have the time, unfortunately.