I want to start coding

[Distortional]

Yeah it's all good. But I want to understand the callbacks bit. I want to understand every sinlge bit of code i'm putting in. Why it's there ...

[splodger15]

Yaustar is the best person to ask he knows alot in coding

[Distortional]

Thanks How would I get hold of this person? Can't really do a callout thread or PM, it's a bit rude.

[splodger15]

post it in the development forum

[yaustar]

http://parabellumgames.no-ip.org/art...-c-programming

If you have literally just started programming, I really recommend you don't use the PSP as your first development platform and switch to PC. However, that is just my recommendation. The problem is not learning the language but learning how to use it and how to program and this can take months to years. This will be even harder if you are using a platform such as the PSP which is relatively restictive, getting code from compiling to PSP to test is a lot longer then doing it on the PC, debugging is even more a chore, basically the amount of time you spend not programming is longer. Just mu opinion though.

[Zion]

I would also like to recommend either lua or python

[gunntims0103]

yea i suggest you do a bit of studying. belive me i made the mistake of making the psp my first development platform and it was doom to failure. I actaully write down all the codes and try to interpret them myself thats how i first started. Not very effective. The best thing is to get a teacher like i did, a coder that will take the time out to teach you code like a good friend of mines did. He refamiliarized the lua laungauge in a way that i could not. The debuging part is definitly a choir, just ask yaustar how many pm's i sent him about fixing problems and bug fixing. Really sorry about that yaustar. Don't let anyone lia to you lua is still hard to learn and your gopnna run into difficulty's. I think we all have. So go back review and study code's. My advise pic up a book on lua coding, good references are Lua programming luangauge for Dummies, Lua coding for Dummies, Or Lua The officail book. All good references. Im picking up a copy of all thses books myself, just for references of coding and to learn new things.

good luck with your coding

[yaustar]

gunntims0103: Don't get those books. Lua isn't established as a widely used language by itself. There are literally 0 jobs for just Lua scripters in the industry (actually there was one IIRC at Rockstar North but the salary was lower then a entry level programmer in C/C++). Lua is a good scripting language for using with engines/games/applications in compiled languages and that's it at present.

If you still want to learn a scripting language then learn Python. It has a much larger range of uses in web development, applications, games and scripting. Better job offers as well.

[jairolas]

relax don't do it, when you wanna $#@!... tatata

[Distortional]

I see what you mean. So first i'll try to get the hang of simple coding for the PC then if I spend like a year doing that, I can then lok at some of the code again and figure out how to port these things to the PSP.