Greetings everyone. As i started learning programming and reading a few books about programming, i started questioning, are these books going to get me any far? I read Head First HTML & CSS (which was pretty good), now i'm reading Head First JavaScript Programming, and i have some programming experienc?, i want to ask if this book is going to help me learn game programming in the future if i want to? And will it give me the knowledge to grasp JS game engines, or should i consider another book since im interested in game programming and game development? I'll read this book for sure, since i bought it, and its really good, i can grasp everything in it, i just need a opinion on this thing. And i need an opinion where to continue after this book if you think that is good. Thank you for your time.
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Short answer: No. Those will do little to nothing to enhance your knowledge of game development or even software development in general. It will give you some very limited web development knowledge, which is a whole separate field of study from software development that has some very slight overlap with it, and nothing more.
Short answer: No. Those will do little to nothing to enhance your knowledge of game development or even software development in general. It will give you some very limited web development knowledge, which is a whole separate field of study from software development that has some very slight overlap with it, and nothing more.
So what d? you recommend?
So what d? you recommend?
Try to build a game. In the process of trying to do specific things, you hit so many edge cases and unexpected roadblocks that in the process of being forced to figure out how to get past them, your knowledge and experience grows. The trick is to have an idea in your head of each specific thing you want to do and then work out how to do each thing at a time. Don't approach it from the viewpoint of working out what things are possible before getting started. I was doing that and it was a huge waste of time. Just start building, and the rest will follow.
Short answer: No. Those will do little to nothing to enhance your knowledge of game development or even software development in general. It will give you some very limited web development knowledge, which is a whole separate field of study from software development that has some very slight overlap with it, and nothing more.
So what d? you recommend?
Basically what axefrog said. Try to make a game. The more you build, the more the fog will clear and you'll have more specific questions to ask. Right now, the best I can do is tell you to figure out what platform you want to make games for (e.g. desktop PC & console or casual/mobile gaming), so you can figure out which basic tools you're going to need first (e.g. C++ and Visual Studio or Java and Android Studio).
HTML isn't a programming language. It's a markup language (notice the "ML") for tagging content. CSS isn't a programming language. It's a style sheet language used for formatting content. JavaScript is a scripting language used for short bursts of simple logic. You can write game logic in JS, but it'd be silly to attempt to write the entirety of a game in it. When you write code in HTML and CSS, what you're doing is not programming. CSS cannot make a game. HTML5 cannot make a game. This is different from saying that HTML5 cannot be used to make a game, in the same way that XML can't make a game, but can be used in one (for example, as a config file). If you're using the term HTML5 to refer a host of technologies that also includes CSS3, JS, all the browsers that support them, and any web APIs you connect to that do a lot of the backend work for you, then yes, you can write some very simple games utilizing some combination of these tools.
Java is a programming language. It's good for writing your general enterprise applications, web applications, and used as a scripting language on top of game engines which are typically written in C++. C# is a programming language. It serves pretty much the same purposes as Java (and in my personal opinion, does it better). C++ is a programming language. It's good for writing pretty much everything, but especially for games and simulations (or anything else that's too performance-critical for a managed language like Java or C#). In my experience as a software engineer and game developer, the mainstream IDE in use for desktop/console game development in C++ is Visual Studio. The mainstream IDE in use for more general development with C# is Visual Studio, and with Java is Eclipse. The mainstream IDE in use for Android development is Eclipse, but I'm seeing a shift toward Android Studio more recently (we use both at my company).
In any case, if you intend to do these things as a career working for a company, you should be pursuing them in school at at least a baccalaureate level. If you intend to do these things as a side hobby or as an indie developer, then you may want to compare some existing game engines available for licensing/royalty fees, such as Unreal Engine 4 (my personal favorite) or Unity.
Short answer: No. Those will do little to nothing to enhance your knowledge of game development or even software development in general. It will give you some very limited web development knowledge, which is a whole separate field of study from software development that has some very slight overlap with it, and nothing more.
So what d? you recommend?
Basically what axefrog said. Try to make a game. The more you build, the more the fog will clear and you'll have more specific questions to ask. Right now, the best I can do is tell you to figure out what platform you want to make games for (e.g. desktop PC & console or casual/mobile gaming), so you can figure out which basic tools you're going to need first (e.g. C++ and Visual Studio or Java and Android Studio).
HTML isn't a programming language. It's a markup language (notice the "ML") for tagging content. CSS isn't a programming language. It's a style sheet language used for formatting content. JavaScript is a scripting language used for short bursts of simple logic. You can write game logic in JS, but it'd be silly to attempt to write the entirety of a game in it. When you write code in HTML and CSS, what you're doing is not programming. CSS cannot make a game. HTML5 cannot make a game. This is different from saying that HTML5 cannot be used to make a game, in the same way that XML can't make a game, but can be used in one (for example, as a config file). If you're using the term HTML5 to refer a host of technologies that also includes CSS3, JS, all the browsers that support them, and any web APIs you connect to that do a lot of the backend work for you, then yes, you can write some very simple games utilizing some combination of these tools.
Java is a programming language. It's good for writing your general enterprise applications, web applications, and used as a scripting language on top of game engines which are typically written in C++. C# is a programming language. It serves pretty much the same purposes as Java (and in my personal opinion, does it better). C++ is a programming language. It's good for writing pretty much everything, but especially for games and simulations (or anything else that's too performance-critical for a managed language like Java or C#). In my experience as a software engineer and game developer, the mainstream IDE in use for desktop/console game development in C++ is Visual Studio. The mainstream IDE in use for more general development with C# is Visual Studio, and with Java is Eclipse. The mainstream IDE in use for Android development is Eclipse, but I'm seeing a shift toward Android Studio more recently (we use both at my company).
In any case, if you intend to do these things as a career working for a company, you should be pursuing them in school at at least a baccalaureate level. If you intend to do these things as a side hobby or as an indie developer, then you may want to compare some existing game engines available for licensing/royalty fees, such as Unreal Engine 4 (my personal favorite) or Unity.
I know that HTML and CSS aren't programming languages, and JS is some type of it, since it has programming syntax. And btw, i've seen pretty good browser games made with java script, and since it can be used in Unity Engine, it has to be pretty good.
Short answer: No. Those will do little to nothing to enhance your knowledge of game development or even software development in general. It will give you some very limited web development knowledge, which is a whole separate field of study from software development that has some very slight overlap with it, and nothing more.
So what d? you recommend?
Basically what axefrog said. Try to make a game. The more you build, the more the fog will clear and you'll have more specific questions to ask. Right now, the best I can do is tell you to figure out what platform you want to make games for (e.g. desktop PC & console or casual/mobile gaming), so you can figure out which basic tools you're going to need first (e.g. C++ and Visual Studio or Java and Android Studio).
HTML isn't a programming language. It's a markup language (notice the "ML") for tagging content. CSS isn't a programming language. It's a style sheet language used for formatting content. JavaScript is a scripting language used for short bursts of simple logic. You can write game logic in JS, but it'd be silly to attempt to write the entirety of a game in it. When you write code in HTML and CSS, what you're doing is not programming. CSS cannot make a game. HTML5 cannot make a game. This is different from saying that HTML5 cannot be used to make a game, in the same way that XML can't make a game, but can be used in one (for example, as a config file). If you're using the term HTML5 to refer a host of technologies that also includes CSS3, JS, all the browsers that support them, and any web APIs you connect to that do a lot of the backend work for you, then yes, you can write some very simple games utilizing some combination of these tools.
Java is a programming language. It's good for writing your general enterprise applications, web applications, and used as a scripting language on top of game engines which are typically written in C++. C# is a programming language. It serves pretty much the same purposes as Java (and in my personal opinion, does it better). C++ is a programming language. It's good for writing pretty much everything, but especially for games and simulations (or anything else that's too performance-critical for a managed language like Java or C#). In my experience as a software engineer and game developer, the mainstream IDE in use for desktop/console game development in C++ is Visual Studio. The mainstream IDE in use for more general development with C# is Visual Studio, and with Java is Eclipse. The mainstream IDE in use for Android development is Eclipse, but I'm seeing a shift toward Android Studio more recently (we use both at my company).
In any case, if you intend to do these things as a career working for a company, you should be pursuing them in school at at least a baccalaureate level. If you intend to do these things as a side hobby or as an indie developer, then you may want to compare some existing game engines available for licensing/royalty fees, such as Unreal Engine 4 (my personal favorite) or Unity.
I know that HTML and CSS aren't programming languages, and JS is some type of it, since it has programming syntax. And btw, i've seen pretty good browser games made with java script, and since it can be used in Unity Engine, it has to be pretty good. And yes, im talking about HTML5 technologies, not just JavaScript as a scripting language. Atleast that's clear :). Thank you for your post though, it's a pretty big article :)
I know that HTML and CSS aren't programming languages, and JS is some type of it, since it has programming syntax. And btw, i've seen pretty good browser games made with java script, and since it can be used in Unity Engine, it has to be pretty good.
You're making the classic correlation == causation mistake. Saying that because JavaScript can be used for scripting in a good game engine, that it "has to be pretty good" for game development, is like saying you want to pursue making cars by learning woodworking, because some nice cars are made with a wooden dash, and therefore woodworking must be pretty good for automobile manufacturing. The wooden dash isn't what makes the car work, and JS isn't what makes Unity work.
