Please don't tell me Java is slow, as someone who has benchmarked it between 4 different languages, the compile time is out of this world.

And the execution time?

AFAIK they use Maya for modelling and animation.

It's _possible_ for a small game, where you either cut corners you don't care about (and build something that most people will hate) or you cleverly cut corners by design (e.g. Minecraft, VVVVVV). I don't think though that you can one-man your way through something like Portal which, whilst still "smaller than most games," had a team of about 10-15 IIRC.

Might I point you here? http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/440/discussions/

引用自 YaS Neico：

PS: if you get to debugging C++ you're pretty quick back to "I have no idea what this is doing, neither do I know what I am doing here" if it's not your own code at least...

Like when the debugger breaks in the middle of the STL... :(

Honestly,

This is brought on because I have never worked well in a group with other people when I have a specific idea in mind.

It sounds like you'd be better off working on teamworks and collaboration skills than trying to replace an entire team with yourself. It takes years to master any one section, plus one person just doesn't have the time to build an entire game. See the Pipeline interview with Tom Bui - everything he said about working in a team I can attest to from my own experience.

引用自 =pG=™ Cpt. Hopi：

It's weird how I can look at 4 squares, with hundreds of lines overlapping each other, and still figure out what I'm precisely doing on a grid in Hammer Editor. Yet I can't sit on a notepad file and figure out basic code.

I'd guess you're more of a visual person - coding is hard. I often have to draw out what I'm trying to code in order to keep track of it.

That said, I'm curious as to this as well. How does mapping work in with the industry in terms of career?

I don't think I can use books, any good websites to use?

What do you have against books? When I was learning, and while I continue to further my knowledge, I find books to be incredible valuable.

My friend is trying to teach me php soon to get me some experience, but I need something further to help me. I want to learn C++, but I do not know about what goes into designing games, like how are menus coded, ect.

Don't jump the gun. Start with PHP, that should teach you some of the basics such as program flow, data types, control structures, and hopefully some object-oriented design. Once you have a solid grounding with that, then move to C++ - seriously, C++ is incredibly complex and advanced. C++ was one of the first languages I tried major programming in, and I both barely scratched the surface and didn't really know what I was doing.

Hi Brian,

The theory is more important than picking a particular language. Pick one to start, but once you understand how to program in one language, jumping to another language is much much easier than learning your first. After three or four (which probably sounds incredibly daunting before you've even started one), they all more or less become the same, with only syntactical differences. The core philosophy, patterns and techniques apply to all of programming.

I personally started with Visual Basic which I wouldn't recommend anymore, but Javascript, Ruby, C# and even Applescript are pretty good languages to start with. C++ is more commonly used in games development, but as a 'lower-level ' (more advanced) language it's probably best to get some grounding in the basics before you dive deep into the extremely complex world of C++. That's of course assuming (since this is Pipline), that you're interested in games dev.

Chickenlordable: I personally started C++ with the book 'C++ Without Fear', plus all the other books in my local public and school library. Online resources are great, but I find it's often much easier and quite valuable to learn something when you're away from the computer and your code, and you can just focus on a bit of theory _before_ trying to apply it immediately.