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so im taking a programming class and im preparing to make a game sometime around, and i cant decide, should i make a sidescroller, or a rpg? of course these are still wips and it will be a long time before i can use programming and figure out gamemaker.
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yeah, you're definitely not learning GML at school
what language is the programming class teaching
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java

its the only one offered at my school. at least its a start.
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they teach c++ here
and the class just started this year
how hard is it to get 1 copy of a c++ program and copy it to every computer ever to exist in that school ever
because i imagine i could do it in about an hour
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i wish they had that class here, but about the sprite, most likely there is much to fix eh?
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Well actually what you're learning it better to start off with than c++. Java was originally built on top of c++ as a more programmer friendly approach to object oriented programming.