A Tutorial for beginners!

FearnleyP · February 10, 2006, 10:49:15 AM

I have moved my beginners guide to this location:

http://www.dsprogramming101.com

I have also added the code in a convenient zip format for those minor errors that creep in.... :oops: it's all fully tested and working and has extra notes in the code file.

I reckon I can currently put up 1-2 new pages a week [maybe not this week as I have had to move the site... don't have many hours to myself unfortunately... :? ] and I would welcome any suggestions for simple projects. I am working on a user input tutorial and a text and colours tutorial at the moment. hopefully the first will be up on Friday... :shock:

Thanks for your support and Happy Programming!

Kvasir · February 10, 2006, 02:23:43 PM

You've already been bookmarked

McScruff · February 10, 2006, 07:47:07 PM

very nice, but if you were a complete n00b, i would recommend the palib as it makes putting text on the screen let less stressful

Poffo · February 10, 2006, 07:54:42 PM

You forgot a | in "videoSetModeSub(MODE_0_2D DISPLAY_BG0_ACTIVE);". This is my first and only experience with ds programming, and it took me goddamn forever to find out what was wrong.

I do like it, though. It's bookmarked and I'll be looking forward to the next update.

q_armando · February 11, 2006, 02:02:07 AM

Yeha I did give it a try this afternoon and I was already dreaming of my first DS game...but in the half an hor that I dedicated to it I only came up with an error for the video set mode not declared or something like that.
However I did bookmark the page and I know that I will come back time and again until I will be able to do some little applications of my own.
Oh and I used to program in basic and a bit of Z80 assebler about 15 - 18 years ago....a long time indeed, but I hope I will katch up pretty soon, expecially because of my beloved DS....

robo · February 11, 2006, 03:10:43 AM

Nice

Keep it up..

FearnleyP · February 11, 2006, 02:15:26 PM

Hi Guys. Thanks for the encouragement - and my apologies. Doing this using Blogger takes out essential symbols at random - very frustrating!!!

I have corrected the code, so if you were struggling, please try again... :oops: :oops: :oops:

FearnleyP · February 11, 2006, 02:59:53 PM

Quote from: "McScruff"very nice, but if you were a complete n00b, i would recommend the palib as it makes putting text on the screen let less stressful

I wanted to avoid PALib as although it makes things easier, if you learn proper C coding it is transportable to other platforms. However, some of the more complex things I want to share might need it.

FearnleyP · February 23, 2006, 05:44:40 PM

New tutorial posted on getting interactive with your DS!

Any and all feedback (good or bad :shock: ) wanted.

socket · February 24, 2006, 01:42:53 PM

great work on this man. your tutorials are really well done.

xizz88 · February 24, 2006, 01:58:15 PM

niiiiiiice!! although i dont think i could do anything useful for the community.

FearnleyP · March 06, 2006, 11:43:51 AM

Another new tutorial posted today: writing a simple game. Go on, give it a go!

It's not pretty and it has a couple of rough edges, but it works!

Koji · March 06, 2006, 01:46:52 PM

Looks interesting. Sadly I'm leaving for a 2 week trip tomorrow and won't get to play around with it.

A Tutorial for beginners!

robo