Survey posted 2005-06-14 05:26 by Jon.

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Where can you get a program that can make games w/o programming?

Mario Level Editor?

Search "The Games Factory" on Google. Personally, I wouldn't fel proud of a game I made by clicking and dragging objects onto the screen, but to each their own.

Same here. I prefer my games to be split into at least 10 source files, and have > 5000 lines of code total. :-p

I agree with you. I mean, to just click and drop objects onto the screen, I could see how that would be easier, but it wouldn't be as mean as much to me.

There is a program called Game Maker that can make games without any programming knowledge (well.. unless you want to make multiplayer games or something like that)

I started programming in other languages then I looked at the code for a large math and science program for TI-83+ and saw how most of the functions worked and I am in the process of debugging a game that I will be posting soon.

Most of the stuff I figured out while just messing around (BASIC), but I peeked at the manual a bit. For ASM, well, I just took a look at a couple tutorials to learn the differences between x86 and z80. :)

That's funny - you knew x86 ASM before calc. ASM.

Well to begin I was self taught, but you can only do so much with the Disp command and labels, so I learned more from the manual. For what ASM I know, I learned it all from the great z80 ASM in 28 Days tutorial.

Same here. I've read the entire manual (both the guidebook and 83pa28d) a few times, for extra measure ;)

my friend taught me what each command does for BASIC, and then i played with the commands, and now im much better than my friend.

I'm self-taught with help from the CtlgHelp app for 83+ and one or two things from the manual.

same thing. then I found various undocumented thingies online, and added Mirage and OmniCalc when I downloaded them.

sorry bout double post. that was for ti-basic. squirrelbox I learend from the tutorials. Java I learned from my dad. VisualBasic6 I took as a class (finished 2 semesters in one). Logo, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, and a little PHP, I taught myself.

Java & C++ at school, TI-Basic (83+) from the manual, TI-Basic (68k) from testing and the online manual, and Cocoa from the wonderful Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X book.

Does anyone know about a JAVA manuel that can be accesssed via internet and is free. I am trying to learn it and can't find a guide. (by the way, I am accessing TI via a computer the size of a palm pilot.)

If you know C++, just read source code.

in computer science we just searched on google for the topic we wanted (images, file io,...). we seemed to go to a similer websisght each time. then we found that metroworks code worior had online help that went to the same place.

When i started on the calc i already knew basic language (from the old QBasic help files XD) so when i saw what was avaliable on calc.. i just laugh at it... "this is the same!!" ... ti basic is quite intuitive..