What languages are you happy with? If you know python PyGames comes preinstalled I think. Or I like using SDL with c++ which is easy to set up in codeblocks (though I find it quicker to write on a PC then just copy the code across and compile on the pi).

Wow, this thread went in an interesting direction. I've vote too for codecademy. The python course got me up and running in no time at all.

how 'graphical' is gcc? If not, is there anything that has an intuitive GUI that will help me in my transition? Thanks Gcc isn't graphical at all (to the best of my knowledge). You may be wanting an IDE like codeblocks, it's available for everything, though I only do compiling in it on the Pi versi...

DeeJay's post about interrupts sounds really useful.. I didn't know you could check for an input without actually spending cpu cycles repeatedly looking at it. Regardless though, I'll give a suggestion on how I would have written the program (and like I said I'm a beginner too so this may be terribl...

I'm new to programming so take my advice with a pinch of salt, but since nobody else has replied yet... I'd take the sleeps out of the go/stop functions. Have a main loop that is quickly going over things (including checking the inputs) and maybe has a counter in it, and when the counter hits a cert...

I always appreciate a good SDL tutorial... But I can't for the life of me find the videos, how do I get to them?
Thanks.

Calculate all the prime numbers between 1 and 100. :) that's my fav personal challenge when learning a new language, because I keep forgetting how to do it :) You could also check out codecademy it has a brilliant collection of python lessons which are always worth a quick look to see if its your th...

Ok, ignore my last post, turns out all I did was forget that images need to be in the same folder as the project file ( and not just the folder with my code file). Things got much clearer when I discovered the SDL_GetError() function :) Ok here is my simple guide for getting SDL working with codeblo...

I too would love some help with this. I can get the basic empty SDL template from Code::blocks to compile ok. But I'm trying to go through the excellent tutorials on lazyfoo.net, but they won't run - either because it doesn't like a SDL_image command, or it will give no compile errors but just fails...

Excellent, thanks for the tips

Quick question, I keep seeing people posting links to tool and updates with simple 'sudo apt-get install ...' commands, but how could I find out what all is available?

That's great, thanks for the reply. Can't wait to get it running.

I'm very new to programming, and the Pi, but I'm good at picking things up quickly. However Chimera has me stumped. Despite the nice claims on it's product description on the Pi store, the huge lack of documentation makes it seemingly possible for a beginner to use. Has anyone got it working? If so ...