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johnno56,
Thanks a lot!!!!!!! I needed to buy a lot of things today and I did not have time to look into anything about programming. I needed to go to sleep now and I will try to run your finished source code tomorrow.
I really want to upgrade my programming skills. After I finish learning the source code of Pong, I will try to look into the source code of Snake again. I am also interested in learning how to develop some classic games mentioned by Copilot: Qix, Tetris and Puzznix.
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To be honest, relatively new coders, should focus on a language that is easy to follow, has many examples and has a sizeable community. Languages like Naalaa and RCBasic have limited examples and community size. N7 is a fairly easy to moderate language to learn and is quite capable in producing anything 2D.
When I first started coding, I knew nothing. My first two computers I built (soldered all the components etc) and used the Basic that came on ROM and magazine program listings and typed in each listing. Eventually I began to understand what each command did. Then some 10 years later we were introduced to something called the Internet. Within another 5 to 10 years there were finally examples and tutorials... and the rest as they say, is history....
The big four things to look for: Documentation, Tutorials, Examples and Community
Pro tip: Find a language that "you" are comfortable with and stick with it.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom.
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so only option seems that is a .....Python
well
Python it self...core language is not that bad
and is relatively a simple but have ugly syntax rules
frekin whitespace ..tabs and similar crap which are annoying
python forums are over rated ..simply too crowded for my taste
depend on many libs is somehow good and bad in same time .
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Python/Pygame. I have tried several projects/tutorials for Pygame and the results a quite good... I have to agree with you Aurel, the syntax for me anyway, is weird - it works - but it's weird... lol
I have dabbled a bit with Lua. The structure and syntax, for me anyway, is relatively easy to follow. I have done several tutorials and the results were quite good as well... Small tutorials... The larger tutorials can get quite "busy looking" and I get so confused with larger projects. Small simple games are fine...
Naalaa is my first venture outside of Basic... Still got a lot to learn... I practice a lot by trying to convert either QB64, SDLBasic or RCBasic to N7... Mostly fun; Some difficulties; Some failures, but still fun.
But Python... I don't use it all that often... Python 3 is one of the pre-installed packages on my Linux Mint system. I use Pygame at times... but only if I see an interesting project... lol
At the moment I am trying to deal with a serious problem... My coffee cup is empty and I'm too lazy to get another one... I wonder how much an Automatic coffee maker and delivery system would cost? That would be so cool.... (now 'that' gives me a thought... Ok. Stop laughing... lol - I wrote a simple coffee making program many moons ago... I wonder if it will run in N7?) Gotta do some research...
Logic is the beginning of wisdom.
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Unfortunately, it looks like the Locate command was dropped from the latest RCB 4.2. The last version to include Locate was version 3.21 - I still use version 3 mostly....
Logic is the beginning of wisdom.
