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gumbyman31 · May 27th, 2006, 12:08 PM

Okay, I've stayed out of this way too long.

Let's say you DO get the funding, you DO get a team of a hundred willing to work for free, and you DO have the time and tools to do this. What happens when your team has problems(which they will)? Why should someone with no programming experience be the leader of a group rivalling the best 3D software out there? Think about it. All of the leaders of other computer/electronics fields got where they are today because they had the knowledge to actually do it. Do you think Steve Jobs got a whole bunch of people together and said "Hey, you make an Apple II and I'll just tell you what to do, because I can't learn all of this stuff"?

Sit down, and write a "Hello World" program in C++. Then move on to more complex stuff. Then you'll see how difficult programming can be and may even start to realize the extent of what you're asking.

The original Doom source code had over 100,000 lines of code. I wrote a version of the game of Risk in Visual Basic and it was 3,000 lines of code. What you're asking is more complex than either of those.

Take your project, make it open-source, and make Pong. Get input from others. Go from there.

May 27th, 2006, 12:08 PM	#64
gumbyman31 Newbie Join Date: May 2006 Location: Inside Posts: 14 Rep Power: 0	Okay, I've stayed out of this way too long. Let's say you DO get the funding, you DO get a team of a hundred willing to work for free, and you DO have the time and tools to do this. What happens when your team has problems(which they will)? Why should someone with no programming experience be the leader of a group rivalling the best 3D software out there? Think about it. All of the leaders of other computer/electronics fields got where they are today because they had the knowledge to actually do it. Do you think Steve Jobs got a whole bunch of people together and said "Hey, you make an Apple II and I'll just tell you what to do, because I can't learn all of this stuff"? Sit down, and write a "Hello World" program in C++. Then move on to more complex stuff. Then you'll see how difficult programming can be and may even start to realize the extent of what you're asking. The original Doom source code had over 100,000 lines of code. I wrote a version of the game of Risk in Visual Basic and it was 3,000 lines of code. What you're asking is more complex than either of those. Take your project, make it open-source, and make Pong. Get input from others. Go from there. __________________ Use the best: Linux for servers, Mac for graphics, Windows for Solitaire.