So you would be a junior programmer at a software company? should be easily done for you if you are really a CS major. But the idea that you'll learn to make games 'with' a company is rather stupid. They hire people to get the job done because they have a deadline.

your best bet is to code a few relatively complex games (something you can show during the interview process), and then work your way up in that company or several different ones (from Junior to hey, let's shoot for the stars and say lead programmer on a project).

if you have never made a single game (come on man, not even pong? two paddles, one ball, and some velocity changes with collision, that's all it takes) the chances that they (a company or any 'group of people') will want you on the project is infinitely low.

>>9657
Is right, experience is your friend when programming!
So start making games in your spare time.

I know, but I would rather enter a company to develop applications for them to use, rather than develop the game itself. Of course I have always wanted to make games, but maybe because of the time, lack of motivation and several other stuff I naver got into it. Maybe I would do something once I get a money income, no more studying.

In order from Favorite to least, mine are...
Python
Pascal
PHP
C/C++
Ruby
C#
VB.Net

Ruby
Assembly (prefer RISC to x86)
C
Every Other Language
TI-83 Calculator Basic
C++

Perl 6. It used to be Perl, but things have changed.

For fixing what was broken in Perl 5, and extending what was great.

And no, it's not production-ready yet. But it's awesome to play with.

>I can't do it
>google says it can't be done
>I know the fucker can do it
How the fuck would you know that?

I'm not completely sure, but I don't think the preprocessor can do that since it doesn't know how C works (1+1 could be 1 for all it knows).

>>9652
#if and a few others can evaluate expressions at preprocessing time, but that doesn't mean that the preprocessor can output their result.

There's no way.

You can't make a turing machine out of the preprocessor.

http://www.ioccc.org/2001/herrmann1.hint

But you can make a tiny processor!

http://www.ioccc.org/2004/vik2.hint

Or solve the towers of hanoi:

http://www.ioccc.org/1995/vanschnitz.hint

But what you really want is a term rewriting system. Something like ADVIS, but not retarded. You could probably write one in the time you've spent fucking the preprocessor.

well if you really want a language for a career you should know both, even if it´s just to have a deeper understanding

>>9541
So, you prefer microshafts bastard child of java and c++ over the real thing?

In honesty I would say Java because it forces you to learn all of the OOP concepts and its fairly easy to understand. Once you get that any of the languages that are OO will be pretty easy.

Do make sure you learn both though because even though Java is nice and relatively simple, there is nothing I hate more about it then not having the ability to shoot myself in the foot (pointers, passing by reference, etc)

>>9640
I have nothing against Java. With 5.0, it really has became as pleasant as it can get without breaking its own rules, if you know what I mean. It also is probably the best replacement imaginable for pascal as the default teaching language.

I don't think tressing the object orientation is that necessary anymore. It's so mainstream today and so many languages support it that the new generations of the programmers do learn it without a hassle. Its time to demote the object orientation into a mere paradigm among the other useful paradigms - and allow the computer scientists and language developers to focus to other aspects of language design as well.

Same thing with goto. The new programmers no longer have the C64 BASIC as their first language, there's no longer need to recondition them away from that sort of practices.

Since you didn't specify any language I'll assume you don't know any.

It'll be somewhat difficult, but all you need is the basics of Python and regular expressions (regex). You may use Java, Ruby, or whatever instead of Python, I just recommended Python because it's the easiest language that I've ever used.
Anyway, install Python, do the tutorial at docs.python.org, and, after you feel like you know the basics well enough,

You seem to have problems managing boards too. This is /pr/, not /g/

helo. there is no /g/ board on 7chums, unlike that other place.
it is split into /sci/, /halp/, and /pr/ respectively.

wonderful :3

>>9604
Libraries and stuff.

>>9602
Each OS has their own headers since they have different ways of doing shit. Linux, Mac, and Windows also all have different threading models so you pretty much just have to make your own abstraction of it. Sure, you can be lazy and pull in shit like APR to do it for you, but that's stupid.

There's no such thing as a 'starting game programmer'.

If you don't know how to program, learn C or Python, then when you're at a professional standard you should research whatever language your prospective employers use and learn that.
Some languages are more common than others in the industry, C++ and C# in particular, but neither of these languages are very beginner-friendly.

If you want to grab an early feel for what video-game development is like, I suggest downloading the Allegro library. It's certainly not a professional tool, but it'll teach you a few basic ideas like double buffering.

Ah ok, this makes a lot more sense now.

>>9616
Dude...

int* i = 4;

That'll make an int pointer, which is initialized with address 4

>>9619
>allocate enough space for a pointer (usually a single byte)
lol, mods trolling?

I believe window order is handled by X, not the window manager, so you would get the list of windows and look through them from top to bottom and use the first pcmanfm one. I don't know how you'd get the list of windows but look up xlib or xcb, they would probably have functions to access this.
>how do I get a specific GtkEntry text from another process
I don't think this is possible without modifying pcmanfm. you can't use pointers in your program to access memory belonging to another process unless they're using shared memory; it will trigger a segfault. however, if pcmanfm puts the current directory in the window title you can get it from there if you already have the window's information.

why do you need to do this? have you considered writing a plugin or something for pcmanfm that outputs the current directory to a file/pipe, or doing whatever you want to do inside the plugin?

>>9608
>why do you need to do this?
I'm making a small program to launch a terminal to the current directory of the topmost file manager's window. I've made a similar program for Windows some years ago and it's very useful, I can open a terminal to the directory I'm looking at with very few key presses (ctrl-shift-q). Usually I have a half a dozen terminals open in the same directory (or nearby), and it's much more practical than typing "cd /a/really/long/path/possibly/with/hard/to/type/chars/" in each of them.

>look up xlib or xcb, they would probably have functions to access this.
I still haven't managed to get the order of the windows but it seems to be in xlib somewhere since it can list all the Windows.

>>how do I get a specific GtkEntry text from another process
>I don't think this is possible without modifying pcmanfm
If it really can't be done I'll just take it from the title, although that reduces the portability since the window doesn't have to be named like that AFAIK.

I'm not an expert, but I suspect this is only possible in windows because microsoft was sloppy. I'm getting the feeling this really should be a filemanager plugin.

>>9591
Yes thats what I meant, thank you.
Would I need to iterate through it to fetch all the rows? something like a foreach row loop?

if you are just getting the one image from the database you would do something like this:

string cmd = "select picture from Picture where PictureID="+ picID +";";
SqlConnection cc = new SqlConnection(connectionString);
SqlCommand com = new SqlCommand(cmd,cc);

try
{
cc.Open();
byte[] b = (byte [])com.ExecuteScalar();
MemoryStream mem = new MemoryStream(b);
Image dbImage = Image.FromStream(mem);
}
catch (Exception) {}

But should You keep images in the database in the first place, isn't it more efficient to keep image path in database and image itself on the hard disk?