learning exersizes

[xteraco]

um.. sinse i'm a beginner, i'm looking for some good exersizes that will help me along, like, what did you do to get good? i know practice, but what would be some good practices?

[Anonymous]

imagine something that youd like your computer to do


now, figure out how to do it :P

[Punk Krash]

imagine something that youd like your computer to do


now, figure out how to do it

Exactly how i learned

and a tip.. dont try to "make a tile based RPG" bescause it can be rather advanced for a beginner.

Start off with pac-man in textmode.. thats what i did and was my first game... then i made a tetris clone (horribly i might add)

then i planned a project and made small working portions of it.

Dont try and make a something horribly complex until you have the basc's down...

[TheDarkJay]

Start with meaningless things, the first thing i ever made was a interview with a robot, he asked you what you liked, and said he too liked it, then what you disliked and said he too disliked it.

Learn the math engine and stuff, i made 2 maths quizzez, i then made a program that worked out the area and circumference of a circle, then i made a short text based game, then i made just a pong thing, and a thing where you had to dodge dots moving around the screen. Start simple, learn the different engines that can be used, then go into more complex things.

[xteraco]

heh, thnx, i've actually just been playing around with the line command, putting it in strange loops to get it to do crazy things and the such... i'm thinking about taking on a space shooter or something