[Makis]

I wanna learn a programming language.I want most to create games and programs easily .Tell me the best and easy language to create games and programs and a good tutorial to learn it.Thanks :]

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As far as im aware most games are written in C++. Learning that alone would be highly fundamental. Dont just learn it but be a pro at it. Other aspects of games development may come into play such as graphics rendering using: direct x or open gl. There are hundreds of tutorials out there. You just got to look. A good C++ book to start off with is the SAM's publishing Teach yourself C++ in 21 days. Thats a good book to begin with.

[coyne20]

As far as im aware most games are written in C++. Learning that alone would be highly fundamental. Dont just learn it but be a pro at it. Other aspects of games development may come into play such as graphics rendering using: direct x or open gl. There are hundreds of tutorials out there. You just got to look. A good C++ book to start off with is the SAM's publishing Teach yourself C++ in 21 days. Thats a good book to begin with.

[mpascal]

A good C++ book to start off with is the SAM's publishing Teach yourself C++ in 21 days.

The newest edition of it is SAM's Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day, great book overall. I have a copy of it sitting on my shelf and it was the book that gave me a great introduction to C++. It also touches it some advanced topics and gives a good introduction to them. Highly recommended.

[edge2022]

C++ or Java would be good game languages. Game programming is difficult to learn, and you should take it slowly.
You might want to see if you like 3D modeling for games. Download Google Sketchup or Blender, and there should be many tuts online. Making a game requires much more than programmers.

[Johnny Tootall]

I would recommend learning Microsoft Visual Basic first. It's not very good for making games but it's a great first programing language.

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[Cold Titanium]

Python a good first language

Edited by Cold Titanium, 02 June 2009 - 09:38 AM.

[W-Unit]

As evidenced by the fact that the most powerful home computers are generally gaming computers, video games are a very difficult thing to program.

As others have said, I would recommend C++ as your first language. However, if you find it too tedious or challenging for your first, I also believe that C# is a solid language and a good starting point. Of course, the bad part about C# is that it relies on the .NET architecture, meaning your programs will only work on Windows. But if you don't mind that, it's an excellent language with more control than Java or Basic but not quite as much to worry about as C++.
I personally would stay away from Java. As someone who took a course in Java, I feel very much like I wasted my time learning a language that is inferior to PHP and Flash for web development and more or less useless for non-web development. However it is pretty much the standard for OOPLs these days.

Anyways, your starting language doesn't matter so much, as long as its Object-Oriented. Once you've learned one OOPL (Object-Oriented Programming Language), the rest come very naturally. The main thing is, this has to be something you REALLY want to do. I would venture to say that anyone with the skill to program a decent video game that people would pay for is a professional programmer. As a hobbyist you will probably be restricted to creating rather simple 2D games, for a variety of reasons. So if you really want to do this, it's imperative that you set your sights on it and study hard for years, because you can bet it will be a good while before you're ready to program your first major game.

[murzark]

Python is highly recommended as first programming language.
then i don't know, maybe you can learn C++.
but once you learn C++, it is easy to understand Java and C#.