On 25-9-2011 19:18, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>
> I should have said at first that he wants to get into game programming.
> Ultimately he wants to make games for the Nintendo Wii. It's going to be
> a long road....

Are you sure that games programming will still be necessary when he 
finishes?

There is also game and character design.

Partly prompted by this: Tomorrow I will be visited by two students who 
study game design and one of their teachers. The students will do an 
internship in our embryology group. Creating (hopefully animatable) 
models of our embryos. Message: You can find knowledge about games in 
strange places and you can apply that knowledge in even stranger places.

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On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:56:51 +0200, andrel <byt### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> On 25-9-2011 19:18, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>>
>> I should have said at first that he wants to get into game programming.
>> Ultimately he wants to make games for the Nintendo Wii. It's going to be
>> a long road....
>
> Are you sure that games programming will still be necessary when he  
> finishes?
>
He's a Nintendo fan so it will be whatever the equivalent is then...

> There is also game and character design.
>
> Partly prompted by this: Tomorrow I will be visited by two students who  
> study game design and one of their teachers. The students will do an  
> internship in our embryology group. Creating (hopefully animatable)  
> models of our embryos. Message: You can find knowledge about games in  
> strange places and you can apply that knowledge in even stranger places.
>

Games are taking over the world  o_O

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-Nekar Xenos-

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"Nekar Xenos" <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> I should have said at first that he wants to get into game programming.
> Ultimately he wants to make games for the Nintendo Wii. It's going to be a
> long road....
>
> --
> -Nekar Xenos-

Hi,

If he's completely new to programming and OOP, he could start with an object
oriented scripting language like python, for example. The python tutorial is
quite understandable, in my opinion.
Also there's python libraries for graphics (e.g. pyOgre or pyQt) and sound
stuff.

Regards
Aydan

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