i want to learn to code, where should i start?

[darksun9210]

Hi all, i've kinda come to the idea that i want to learn to code properly. where should i start?
i did some pascal back in school, and i can read C, VB, other macro scripting to kinda follow it to see what it does, or coherency check, but sit me infront of a blank screen and ask me to put something together and i'm completely lost.

i've kinda wanna knock out some 68k demos and stuff, maybe get into game engines in a year or two.
i'm mulling over 68k assembly, but that just looks a little frightening, so maybe later on when i've got an idea how to get stuff going first.
then there is C, in all its forms. but again, where to start?
what about blitz basic? whats that about?

 :-?

[darksun9210]

cool thanks :-)

classic is where i'm at! :-D

[darksun9210]

sweet. right. thats my evenings sorted ;-)

[darksun9210]

yup, we did that in my CS classes, to the point where we were taking exam questions in floating point binary. how many bits was the mantissa? is it BCD or pure? happy days. not!  :lol:

[darksun9210]

i think i am going to go with Storm C, and get that nailed before exploring 68k asm :-)

thanks for all the links on tutorial code, this should get me going :-)

[darksun9210]

@Methuselas
lol sorry i'm a bit picky with my food. as much as it would be cool (and dangerous) for the human race to maintain skills that way, i only eat members of the opposit sex... badoom tish! :-D

and anyway, how do you mean you "hear" he is very good with ketchup? you know someone who has had a bit of a munch already? *backing away slowly* :lol:

@Chrome
assembly is my goal  :-)  :crazy:  

[darksun9210]

good luck with your results! nice to hear that college computing courses still haven't moved on from when i was learing borland pascal on RM nimbus 80186's and if you were quick enough, on super wizzy 14Mhz 286's! wooo!
unfortunaly, i ploughed all my effort in my final year project into pascal coding, library development, and optimising, what i should have done was fleshed out the design and implementation. lots of paperwork and user meetings and acceptance testing. bleh!
so predictably EPIC FAIL. :lol:
so instead of computing and statistics and a place on the rugby team at Bath Uni, i landed at Manchester Metropolitan for a year of advanced drinking and kebab eating, erm, i mean, foundation comp. sci. i ended up teaching some of the labs before dropping out into the real world(tm). i think it worked out for the best... :-)

[darksun9210]

how about an Amiga emulator for Cuda? :lol: and run storm C on that?
or how about a P96 or CyberGFX driver for the PCI based 8600? maybe Cuda on amiga? :crazy: