From: Hal Fulton Date: 2007-07-19T06:21:53+09:00 Subject: Re: I need serious help! Peter Seebach wrote: > In message , Joe Wiltrout writes: >> I will use my google skills now, TO FIND BETTER HELP. All of these tips >> were agravating, annoying, useless, telling me what I did wrong, telling >> me to do stupid stuff like that hellish Hello World crap, or all of the >> above. Not to mention, im going straight to dam C++. I have a better >> chance if I tackle the lion with my sword and shield rather than wait >> until the lion is hungry and attack it with the knoledge how to kill a >> baby lion. If you don't get the anology, your not as smart as you think >> you are. > > It's a very bad analogy for the reality. You're telling people who regularly > take out elephants with combat knives how to hunt. > > I think the best analogy would be that, since you're finding crawling > unacceptably slow, you've decided to go straight to the skateboard. Good > luck with that. And that is a good analogy. But let's all give him a break -- he's obviously years away from finishing high school. Joe, you have my sympathy, but between Hello-world and "make a weapon move in a game" there is still a hellishly long learning gap. You simply can't run a marathon until you have learned to walk. Hal