I got my first computer when i was about 12. 286 monochrome Zenith laptop. It was pretty cutting edge at the time. I used to just mess around on it without a purpose or goal. One day i discovered these weird Gorilla.BAS (and some other .BAS files) that i discovered could be opened and run in QBASIC. Thats about all it took for me. I just started reading the QBasic help files and looking at the Gorilla.BAS file. I was writing my own text games within a week. Didnt take long to start making an RPG with actual graphics. After completing that i had to move up.
By this point i had met a few other programmers and someone pointed me to Turbo Pascal. It was fun while it lasted and i believe i finished two games using it (and started about 50,000).
I was starting to discover the limitations of Turbo Pascal and while messing with a friends computer i found Borlands Turbo C++. I went out and bought it a few weeks later. Since finding C++ about three or four years ago (its so hard to remember) i'm (not so?) proud to state that i've never completed a single game using pure C++ code. New things to learn just keep coming up and i run off in hot pursuit. Just over a year ago i got the internet and its been a whole lot easier since. I had always just used the help files as my source of information but with the entire net at my fingertips...
This messageboard was helpful when i found it as well.
-KEN- said:
Then I typed in a few random URLS and found this site
*lol* Its funny. Thats how i found this site too.