Chapter 1. Getting Started

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Chapter 1. Getting Started

Welcome to the amazing world of game programming! This book will show you the ins and outs of video games and teach you to develop your own. Game programming is a huge topic, however, and we are going to hurry through the boring material in order to get to the fun stuff. In other words, let's start right away!

The easiest language for learning programming (at least in my opinion) is BASIC. BASIC stands for B eginner's A ll-Purpose S ymbolic I nstruction C ode, but that's not really important. BASIC is very easy to write and understand, and it's modeled after human language (it uses words instead of just numbers ), so if you can speak English, you shouldn't have a hard time with BASIC.

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