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[SilverWarior]

Hello everybody.

I'm not really sure how long such an introduction should be, so I'll make it short. My name is Jack, I'm 22 years old and know pretty much nothing about programming, let alone game development.

Hi Jack!
Welcome to PGD! I hope your stay here would be as pleasent as posible. Please do some more browsing through the forums for autopromotion system to kick in and unmoderate you.

I did some programming in pascal during high school, which I rather enjoyed, but since everyone else in the class was bored to death by it, our teacher moved on to excel, which means I'm basically starting from square one.

I'm Sorry to hear that.
Was rest of the class less bored working with Excer rather than with programming?
Or was you simply unlucky of being in a class full of lazy pepole who werent prepared to learn anything new (most pepole know athleast some basics about Excel)?

[much.love]

Hi Jack!
I'm Sorry to hear that.
Was rest of the class less bored working with Excer rather than with programming?
Or was you simply unlucky of being in a class full of lazy pepole who werent prepared to learn anything new (most pepole know athleast some basics about Excel)?

Haha, they were just as bored with excel. The switch from pascal didn't really help much in that regard, but our teacher stuck with it anyways, because it had a more "immediate applicability".

[SilverWarior]

but our teacher stuck with it anyways, because it had a more "immediate applicability".

Yes that is ture. There is more applicability to use of excel than some programming language. But since most pepole know how to use it it doesn't give you much help in finding job nowadays.
But I also have to admit that excel is quite powerfull and you can do wonder with it. For instance you can create a 3D graphics engine with it. Sorta. Check the link below and be mindblown as I was when I saw the article for the first time
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/featur...ionary_3d_.php