[gameprogrammer] Re: any good??

[Alexander Sabourenkov <screwdriver@lxnt.info>]

jcool bubu wrote:
> is Visual J++6 from the Ground Up any good for someone who is just now
> starting out? and i bought it for $1. is that good?
> 

It depends on what you are starting out in.

If it's programming, I would definitely recommend putting Java aside and 
tinkering with Python tutorial examples and pyGame demo programs.

I now find (too late I'm afraid) that Python as a language does a really good 
job of offloading boring syntactic details and library issues off one's head.

It feels very concise. As a consequence, when writing in Python I tend to 
think more of what I'm trying to accomplish, rather than of how to get around 
language limitations and wade through syntactic jungles to make something 
work. This, I feel, is even more important to a beginner.

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./lxnt


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