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Hey.
I'm busy doing a Games Development course in college which is very general and only lightly covers all of the aspects of the development of a game (As well as media production in general)
Having 10 or more years of interest/experience/learning in computers the course is a breeze, I have learned very little since I started it last year but I need the qualifications to go on to university.
My problem is learning a programming language, I want to get a head start in programming before I begin university, because in the future I will likely be going against people who started programming a while before now and have a lot more experience/work to show.
We started VB.net a few years ago in high school, but it felt very sloppy and more like a scripting language. I moved on and started trying other languages, lua, c++, c#, java etc but each one I began with the basics, then it was as if the difficulty curve went from a small incline to a vertical wall. The basics were easy to understand, then suddenly all these books or guides would just suddenly jump onto topics where I couldnt understand what they were trying to explain so I ended up getting stressed and being scared off from the language. I also feel that in the time being taught VB.net I picked up some very bad habits which I always try to use with other languages and it just makes it harder.
So im not sure what to do, I feel like every language I try hits a dead end because I cant find any tutorials/books that arent explaining something really basic one second then the next are going on about stuff I dont understand and cant get my head around without a proper explanation.
Any ideas? Languages I should start with? How/where you started learning?
I'm busy doing a Games Development course in college which is very general and only lightly covers all of the aspects of the development of a game (As well as media production in general)
Having 10 or more years of interest/experience/learning in computers the course is a breeze, I have learned very little since I started it last year but I need the qualifications to go on to university.
My problem is learning a programming language, I want to get a head start in programming before I begin university, because in the future I will likely be going against people who started programming a while before now and have a lot more experience/work to show.
We started VB.net a few years ago in high school, but it felt very sloppy and more like a scripting language. I moved on and started trying other languages, lua, c++, c#, java etc but each one I began with the basics, then it was as if the difficulty curve went from a small incline to a vertical wall. The basics were easy to understand, then suddenly all these books or guides would just suddenly jump onto topics where I couldnt understand what they were trying to explain so I ended up getting stressed and being scared off from the language. I also feel that in the time being taught VB.net I picked up some very bad habits which I always try to use with other languages and it just makes it harder.
So im not sure what to do, I feel like every language I try hits a dead end because I cant find any tutorials/books that arent explaining something really basic one second then the next are going on about stuff I dont understand and cant get my head around without a proper explanation.
Any ideas? Languages I should start with? How/where you started learning?