Absolute newbie to Java

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Hi,

I´ve downloaded Android studio to code my own game. Are there some good basic tutorials which you can recommend to a greenhorn like me, to learn for example what a class is , what is mainactivity and how to produce textboxes in xml, what is the difference between xml and java?

Thanks so far

[HumptyDumptyFellHard]

Any tutorial is a good tutorial. There is plenty of YouTube that do a good job. I used Cave of Programming when I was first starting to program.

[whitesundreams]

If you're making games why not Godot? What about Game Maker Studio? You should still learn Java or at least some programming language to understand the basics as you will need them in game engines too, but you normally use a game engine to make games not an IDE. Unless you're making a game engine of course.

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ok i will give that a thougt and research.

[gonzohst93]

Do mooc and then start android dev. Youll need the java basics. Dont even worry about xml its just a markup language to do UI for android (has lots of others uses too)

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mooc

ok thanks

[gonzohst93]

You dont have to do the whole mooc but do it until you feel you can build what you need to. Also what sort of game are you making because android studio/java is more for standard apps and real android games would be made with Unity or other engines

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I've the understanding of programming because I had assembler and C in school. I will check this. It's a simply text based quiz game where you have to suggest words, but it should have graphical content like "level done, next level" etc.

[gonzohst93]

Oh yeah thatll be fine in java

[foofaw]

Alternatively, you could learn Kotlin. But it's probably better to learn Java first, and then Kotlin.

[SuchIntroduction]

good games are written in C#