Good programming language to learn?

[Tiwaking!]

If you have access to dreamspark, see if you can get a XNA Creators Club Academic Membership, then you can run your games on your xbox 360.


However, if you don't have an xbox, then it wouldn't be much use.

I thought you needed two licenses for xbox 360 development?

I know I have two: The Dreamspark one and some other one.

And I will probably never use them.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

The Academic one allows you to deploy your games to an xbox for testing.


The full paid membership allows the above, and also the ability to submit games to the xbox marketplace.

[Kayne]

My brother has an xbox... I might buy it off him if I learn C# :>

[Kayne]

I find string.format really useful

string someWords = string.format("Words and shit {0} {1}", x , y);

{0} and {1} are replace by x and y respectively. Where x/y can be a number or a string.

Now you tell me D:

Anyways, If anyone can help me with this one tiny bit

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int x = x * 10 + 1;
It says i'm using an unassigned variable x (the x is the second one in)
Whats wrong with it? :<

[Bell]

Well how can x = x when x doesn't exist yet?
What is x * 10 when x is undefined?

does not compute :p

[Kayne]

Well how can x = x when x doesn't exist yet?
What is x * 10 when x is undefined?

Does not compute :p

Ahh. Silly kayne.

Yeah I spose I just ignored that, and just assumed X = 0

How come I can never set a variable across the whole script? I want it to set x to 0 on form Load, but it says "x is defined but never used"

[Bell]

int x = 0
x = x * 10 + 1

[Kayne]

Yeah I just did that lol, works :>

Once I get if statements worked out (I haven't even taken a stab yet, Hoping it all goes well), I should have a working calculator :>

edit : ffs, This is why I need global variables lol.

Everytime I click the button, it resets x to 0, then times by 10 (=0) then +1

Got it working, Its all to do with the squiggly brackets

[Bell]

haha the joys of starting to program, I remember doing shit like that using borland delphi

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

static is useful for global constants.

public class SampleClass
{
public static int Anumber = 0;
}

Then you can access that value elsewhere in code like so

SampleClass.Anumber

[Kayne]

You call it joys... I call it a pain in the ass

It now does some random shit when it gets to the 1,000,000,000's, and eventually goes back to 0 lol

and cool, Cheers Spacemonkey, I was just doing saying there was a x variable in "public partial class Form1 : Form"
and changing the value in form_load(), to 0

[Bell]

overflow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_overflow

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Int is a 32 bit Integer, it has a maximum value of 2,147,483,647.

Use long instead, it's a 64 bit Integer, and has a max of 9,223,372,036,854,775,807.


Here's more info about different Interger types
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/exx3b86w.aspx

If you want to do floating point calculations (12.7 + 29.45 etc), it would be best to use a double
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9ahet949.aspx

[Kayne]

Where is the like button for these forums, You guys are so helpful lol

[Bell]

If you want to do floating point calculations (12.7 + 29.45 etc), it would be best to use a double
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9ahet949.aspx

Unless you are doing games, we always use float since we generally don't need a number as big as a double and 32bit hardware handles floats faster and they take up less memory.
Double is generally reserved for hardcore mathematic equations.

I used double all through uni and on the first day in game dev they were like "wooah don't do that!"

[Kayne]

cough cough...first program in C#....cough...

I don't like the fact that it installs, I would of rather it just run off a exe, But I have no clue on how to fix that atm.
Also sorry about the name, I stamped the name calculator inside the program all over the place, but it still wants to be windows application form 2. sigh.

Make sure to remove it via add or remove programs after you've played around with your awesom-o calculator.

[Bell]

Now replace all of your instances of int with double and stuff like 1/100 won't equal 0

Good job tho.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

cough cough...first program in C#....cough...

I don't like the fact that it installs, I would of rather it just run off a exe, But I have no clue on how to fix that atm.
Also sorry about the name, I stamped the name calculator inside the program all over the place, but it still wants to be windows application form 2. sigh.

Make sure to remove it via add or remove programs after you've played around with your awesom-o calculator.

You don't need to make it as a setup package.

Go into to bin/debug (or release), it will be there as an exe.


However the setup ensures the correct version of the net framework is installed.

[Kayne]

Now replace all of your instances of int with double and stuff like 1/100 won't equal 0

Good job tho.

Facepalm lol

Go into to bin/debug (or release), it will be there as an exe.

All I did was "release "Calculator"". I also can't find what your talking about, the files in the rar are all the files I could get out of it lol. No exe's :x

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Go into to bin/debug (or release), it will be there as an exe.

All I did was "release "Calculator"". I also can't find what your talking about, the files in the rar are all the files I could get out of it lol. No exe's :x

The bin folder should my in your project folder along with your source code.

You project folder should be somewhere like 'Documents/Visual Studio 1020/Projects/'


After you click build in VS, the binary exe file should be in the Bin folder, in a sub folder called debug, or release, depending on which mode you choose to build it.

This is what one of my projects looks like.

[toofast]

cough cough...first program in C#....cough...

I don't like the fact that it installs, I would of rather it just run off a exe, But I have no clue on how to fix that atm.
Also sorry about the name, I stamped the name calculator inside the program all over the place, but it still wants to be windows application form 2. sigh.

Make sure to remove it via add or remove programs after you've played around with your awesom-o calculator.

The trick with names is you need to name it correctly the first time you make the project. Once you make the name, it goes into the code (namespace calculator for example), and thats what it will be called. When you save it, it lets you pick another name, which is what the folder is named.

Also maybe you should upload your VS files, so then we can see your source code, see what improvements you can make. Plus then we can just compile/run within VS instead of using installers.

[Kayne]

Cheers guys, understood, And yeah I found the exe of it :>

I'm trying not to be so "herp-derp", But what Visual Studio files are you wanting , in particular?

I'm guessing these

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Yep, they are the ones.

I ran it, used it to calculate my taxes, I owe 0 dollars, good job

[Spoonguard]

Yep, they are the ones.

I ran it, used it to calculate my taxes, I owe 0 dollars, good job

I ran it, amused myself with the overflow errors

[Virus.]

Ok, so I'm going to give programming go. However, I don't know where the place for me to start is.

I'm interested in game modding, for other people or me. This will probably always be a hobby. What should I start learning and how?