Friday, October 15, 2010

Have to start somewhere: Programming

Indications are that C++ programming is most useful for game design, having to do with it being 'object-oriented'.  I came across a couple of tutorials, but they're quite dry- however I did find a series of introductory computer science video lectures from Harvard's CS 50 course, and this may be a better way for me to start.

http://academicearth.org/courses/introduction-to-computer-science-i

And on further inspection, this site actually hosts a ton of full courses!  Very useful.

2 comments:

  1. You also might want to check out MIT's "Open Course Ware" for video lectures, assignments including software packages to support them and a bunch of other stuff. They have almost all their courses up. I'm planning to learn Python from them

    ocw.mit.edu/

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  2. Yeah, the CS 50 Harvard course actually begins with Scratch 1.4, a click-and-drag programming platform developed by MIT. Thanks for the MIT resource, I'll look over this too!

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