Well hello to all the other budding GD's out there, hope you are all having a great day. The question I am asking I am sure has been asked a million times, and I have read a lot of them, Ive researched, read tutorials and papers on the subject, but I come to GDNet to get opinions from other noobs like me. So here it is, I want to get into development of software, games yes of course, but i do not want to be limited by what I learn, so should I just dive into the 'C' family, or is there any benefit to playing around with the 'Game creator Basics' like Blitz, and Darkbasic. A bit of history, I am probably a lot older than most on this board, I grew up with the Apple II, IIe, IIc, etc....in schools, at home I had multiple PC's, COCO's, TI's, Timex Sinclairs etc etc. I have very fond memories of my first personal PC,the MC10, I learned to program basic on it, so I have a rather dusty understanding of Basic. At one time I could code rather well in it, and had started developing games for I and my friends to play. I wonder in anyone else can remember the days of copying(typing) pages and pages of code from the latest Rainbow, then hoping you didn't make any whopper mistakes, entering 'run', then seeing if you actually got a game out of it, Halcyon days to be sure. So twenty some odd years later and I get the yearning to get back into programming and trying to make games to amuse myself. Thus my question, should I just concentrate on the game maker type languages or just dive into C++, or possibly Python ? Thanks for any advice anyone offers, -Grais.

If you're interested in programming, I'd recommend Python.