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What is the best way to learn darkBASIC?

The best way to code and learn how to make games, and other apps.

start very simple and work up.

e.g.

first program:

print "Hello World"

wait key

second program:

do

print "Hello World"

loop

etc.

or import the examples from the help files and edit bits to get to know how they are used.

Hope this helped.

The best way to learn is to DO.

For the first few months after i got DBC all i did was sit there and look through the examples and commands trying to memorise what they did. When i realised i wasnt getting anywhere i tried a new approach - type.

Just try all the commands, knock up quick little programs to see what each command does, believe me youll learn it a lot quicker and it will stick. The more you do something, the better you get, and the more commands you remember. Eventually youll write programs without looking at the help files once.

make a veay easy game like pong or solitaire whene you happy whit this move on to more complexs games like pacman or spaces invders. and just keep makeing games and tech demos.

when you find a command you do`t now how to ues try make a small program to get it to work.

there my tips

--Dr 0--

whatever you do DON`T try to become a cut`n`paste merchant, we get more crys for help from people who think they can cut and paste snippets together to get a working program and their code is the biggest mess imaginable, they don`t understand a thing except that this bit should display a title screen and this bit move an object on a matrix and this bit does collision detection, they even use the same variables in the different codes for crying out loud, learn what a variable is, and how to display them, learn arrays (more useful than you could possibly imagine and easy to understand despite what people say), then play about with commands, don`t go for a full game, but think "I want to make a 2d game, so how do sprites work?" read the help and work out how to get a sprite on the screen, then make it move, then animate it, and so on and so on, before you have done many bits of code like this the penny will drop, remember the computer is a high speed idiot, it will do EXACTLY what you say, so when things seem to be too slow or not working properly then you know you have your first bug , and the only people with bugs in their code are those that can code, the rest have bugs in other peoples bits of code

Mentor.

WHat i did was i just messed around with every command i could find, then made mini-projects out of what i knew