"Cinebar;c-16772071" wrote:
"Writin_Reg;c-16771903" wrote:
"Cinebar;c-16764314" wrote:
Python? You know we were using Python back in Windows 3.5. maybe back in 3.1, it's been years so it's hard to remember. I think there was a newer version around the time we got Windows98 to use with it. And isn't it one of the reasons or is there another reason TS4 can't utilize DirectX11 but still using DirectX9? Wow, we can go back to DirectX6? Reckon we can code the game mods in DOS?
ETA: Are we going back to floppy discs? Python is a big hit for games there.
ETA: Here you go, want to build a game in Python, have at it.
http://pythonprogramming.net/pygame-python-3-part-1-intro/
Well the creator of Python just won the Noble prize for it for advancement in mathematics, science - you name it - seems perhaps it's better than you think - sort of indicates top dog wouldn't you say. Especially seeing this is at least the third time Python has won the Noble prize that I recall - maybe even more than that.
https://qz.com/1417145/economics-nobel-laureate-paul-romer-is-a-python-programming-convert/
How many games use Python is the question when it's used for data analysis. That is the question. Python was used for simple games years ago, maybe they use it for all those pop up messages you get in TS4. As I said no one is knocking Python as a computer language program/software/ concept but how many modern games use Python? We are talking about games, not how well this can gather data or write apps.
ETA: What most people don't know is Python was free. I'm not sure a newer version will be free for Windows 10. And if you want to undestand how Python is used you can learn Python in seven days. This is the last time I hope I have to speak about Python.
http://www.kaggle.com/page/python-course-ads?utm_medium=paid&utm_source=google.com+search&utm_campaign=us+learn+python+7day+challenge&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIksuM2qv-3QIVDb7ACh3sbAu0EAAYAiAAEgLM1vD_BwE
Well I want to see you use C++ and C# in 7 days. Go for it. May be a 1990's early version or the online version they give you for free to learn some of the basics. I did things like that before but I will never even suggest I am the least bit prolific with any pc language. It is definitely not the easiest and yes many games do use Python. Depends on the game. You know you can even get old Unity engine and such for free but doesn't make them great other wise they would not need new and better if you think about it. Also technically computer is about math and physics and science. It wouldn't exist other wise. It's the core of that machine you play games on.
I learned Machine language well before any C anything was around before windows of any kind exist and I still used a book along beside me as all it took was one single miss of a asterisk of 0 where a1 belonged and a month of work was lost. C++ an C# makes machine language look like childs play. It still can take me two weeks to type up a game of hangman on mach language on one of our old 1980s heathkts. LOL. I tinker with them now and then with the old true floppies to. You know that cardboard types and add games my self now and then. They are awful really - my games but fun to try and do things now and then. It keep grand kids laughing. LOL.
Unless you are prolific in programming don't believe that. I have a long background in the beginning of computer age - I am old than you are by far -and not the least bit convinced that is possible unless you practiced every day and did nothing but even then doubt it. I do all I can to read Python and I am still not great. I cheat - I call over my son who is a programmer and has been a programmer for 14 years since graduating college for Programming and returns to college often when thing change to stay up with everything. Even he would argue that point and he aces programming - know Maya like the palm of his hand. He build pcs from scratch I mean real scratch soldering every component on empty board. He builds competition rigs for my oldest son not pre mades, but from scratch. Run his own company. He will argue. My husband started out with pc when they were only made from empty boards and component you soldiered to the boards... and machine language you type into the things to make it do anything. There was once nothing at all like today. Today is a piece of cake in comparison but the stride in what they have done with it is beyond amazing. And what look simple in machine languages and how it has grown and approved is commendable and amazing. Comparing even the last rendition of certain machine language to the newest is a very big step even for people who know machine language and why one who does those things need to keep learning the newest and the best. It why my son goes back every fewyear and refreshes himself - also in even building system everytime the new gets made. It's part of that life for people who care - who really care.
You use the best language needed for the game you are building. That is what matters.
Until you've walked a mile in someone else shoes - how can you judge. You read it on the internet so it has to be right? I don't think so. But I have talked to people who walk in those shoes and rarely do they full agree with what they see on the internet. Judge for your self.
