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| Fogmeister wrote: I've heard C++ is "the" language to learn for game programming but no one seems to give any particular reasons why? If I was to start learning C++ and write a few programs etc... (trying to expand my portfolio) how would you go about getting them distributed? Is it possible to start with a company for a small salary and get training on the job? | |
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Yes it is 99% of the time, some places do employ other language programmers to do tools etc. Scripting in Lua/Python is also pretty much a must for knowing.
C++ as it has more features than C, it's very fast over a managed language like Java and you can do things other languages wouldn't let you do in terms of accessing memory, writing your own garbage collection etc. It's also very dangerous as you don't get those safety nets.
Unlikely to get a place in the games industry with no experience tbh, it's a catch 22 situation. I even had a recommendation from a friend at Codemasters for a job there and couldn't get an interview after graduation