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General Question to Developers of GES Source and other devs

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eamonn:
I'd like to get into this sort of stuff myself, as a hobby or whatever. I'm bad at maths, but because I hate school, and not because I'm naturally crap.  ;)

Jeron [SharpSh00tah]:
It took me 5 years to get to where I am now with mapping (Three years of non stop mapping)

killermonkey:

--- Quote from: Viashino Cutthroat on May 10, 2009, 12:56:23 pm ---He was until he turned into a giant weenie and sold us out to Mexico.

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Agreed.

OnTopic:

This is a very difficult and broad question. So I will answer with a broad response. In order to succeed in this modding business you have to be able to drive yourself to learn. Like VC said, the idiots in colleges teach too slow for some of us to be worth our time. I learned C++ in High School, but taught myself the entire language in about a month and took the class as an easy A+. Math is not going to kill you in the beginning, but will definitely be an issue later on as you tackle harder problems. I suggest the first thing you do is stop anguishing about your lack of math skills, find a nice book to learn from, and go to town. Algebra, trigonometry, and a LITTLE bit of calculus will suffice.

BTW, I am in graduate school for Electrical Engineering. It has nothing to do with video games at all except for programming (a little). All of this is just my hobby.

JamesBondMan:

--- Quote ---wanted to learn how to code, but i heard it requires math and stuff which I am not well at. I know a little html, but want to learn python or some other coding language..

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Now I am not a dev, but i do have a tiny bit of Programing knowledge. Hope this helps.


I learned the basics of Python when i was 10. I am 15 now. I Definitely think Python is a good language to start with(Even though its more like a scripting language). I picked up some C++ in like 3 weeks. Once you learn one language you kinda know them all, you just need to learn the syntax of a chosen language when learning a new one. I learned a little Lua last week(for Garry's mod(FUN!)). Math would definitely be a good thing to like if you want to program.



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Online coder colleges?



--- Quote ---For example, I learned all the mapping basics from Kraid (even though he's a modeler), and then shaped some of my own techniques later; Spider taught me a ton of modeling stuff within a short time span that would have otherwise taken me much longer on my own; and RL friend is teaching me the basics of programming; and a lot of video editing techniques I picked up from Xanatos and MonkeyJunkie.
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That's awesome. I started Mapping about 5 weeks ago. Lots of fun. I don't suppose anyone would want to help out a complete stranger?!



--- Quote ---It took me 5 years to get to where I am now with mapping (Three years of non stop mapping)
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Describe non stop. lol.


--- Quote ---I learned C++ in High School, but taught myself the entire language in about a month

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THE ENTIRE LANGUAGE? wow. What books did you use?

I apologize for the incredibly long post.

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