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First post in many many years... and things have changed.
He has my good looks, my dislike of mornings and a better English accent... him being English and me French - it's tense during the 6 nations.
And he is my son, 14 of age... but probably already more mature than I ever was.
He has been learning Python at school for a year or so - that and pseudo-code.
He now wants to have a go at programming games. And he'd like a book for Christmas. I am a C++ programmer but I have not touched game programming since the days of Oric 1, Zx spectrum and Atari 800 when I programmed in Basic (ahem if this comes out, I know it's you!) and (some) assembler.
What should I advise him to read and learn?
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This book[^].
The main site has several other books online for free, but this I feel is the first book to read and implement.
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BadJerry wrote: What should I advise him to read and learn?
The many, many horror stories about crunch time at game development companies.
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BadJerry wrote:
What should I advise him to read and learn?
Unity with C#.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yes - it looks cool - I have watched a few tutorials and that seems very elegant! Thanks
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BadJerry wrote: What should I advise him to read and learn?
Some of your old code.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Whou could be that cruel to his own blood?
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Two hours on the damn phone.
Paypal have sent me emails recently saying my bank rejected payment - at first I assumed they were phishing, but ...
No, paypal has been trying to get money from my account - genuinely, I've bought stuff - via the same method they have been doing for 10 years, a bank direct debit mandate. Only on some requests, they are saying the bank declined it.
So I contact the bank: nope, we have declined nothing, and there is no reason we should.
Paypal: Tbank declined.
Bank: No we didn't.
Paypal: Yes they did. Here's the transaction IDs
Bank: News to us, we never saw 'em.
Paypal: Yes they did.
Bank: No, they never arrived here.
Paypal: Yes they did, and the bank declined them.
Me: Will you please talk to each other and sort this out?
Bank: No. Technical people can't be contacted by phone.
Paypal: No. And you still owe us £20.07.
Me: Fer elephants sake ...
Paypal: We ask 'em for it, they said no.
Bank: No They didn't.
Me: Oh FFS...
Result: I've cancelled the mandate, paid teh £20.07 directly, I'll set up a new one and hope that lot all works.
Why can't these companies have a technical level that can actually look at what is going on and sort them out?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why can't these companies have a technical level that can actually look at what is going on and sort them out?
Too much cost for too little benefit for them.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Don't get me started. The company I work decided to do MFA thanks to security issues raised, so I use a desktop machine hardwired internet connection and now have to prove that I work for the company I have to use MFA, problem 1) no direct dial phone number 2) no company mobile. So I have to use my own phone to authenticate I am an employee. See a problem?  A lot of it is due to not being able to find what has gone wrong, why do companies not let you talk to the people who can tell you what is wrong!!
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I suspect that some of it is "there is no-one who knows what is going on". There was someone, but he was downsized in favour of the new bunch who work cheaper (and are fully proficient in the QA and SO coding patterns)
Plus the inevitable "big company" ethos of "it wasn't us, must be them". It would help if you got to speak to the same person each time but that's a huge no-no...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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As companies approach the size of government, they also approach their efficiency.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I suspect they are run by a bunch of Biggus Dickus[^]
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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modified 10-Dec-18 8:42am.
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I have never seen that clip... 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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why not a credit or even visa/master debit card? Not hard to get these free from any bank you've been with for a while (and if you suspect anything dodgy banks are happy to issue new numbered card on request - avoiding scams is as good for the bank as it is for the customer)
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Because the expiry date changes every few years, and that means I have to update it. Which is the usual PITA "card confirmation" rubbish which always takes far too long. Set up the DD and it works until you cancel it. And has done for ten years!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why can't these companies have a technical level that can actually look at what is going on and sort them out?
Because I don't want PayPal to have access to my bank account, and I don't want my bank to have access to my PayPal account.
They can ask each other for money, but only with my permission, and they don't get to see more than the requests and the money being transferred.
If they were to attempt to access any more information than that, I would close the account that did so.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So you can't buy happiness with paypal...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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If you send me your account number and password I can probably get you all fixed up in a few minutes...
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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@User-12547300
You won on Friday, remember?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I look to left
I look to the right
I look wherever I might
My heart longs for thee
My darling CCC
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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