Start from?

Marc43 · January 12, 2014, 9:04am

Then… the best way to learn game development it is OpenGL?

trollwarrior1 · January 12, 2014, 9:10am

Absolutely no. If you’re new to programming overall, you will die in there.
Stick with java2d for now. Should be more than enough.

Marc43 · January 12, 2014, 9:13am

One question, Java2D it is an engine or just key words of java that make “Java2D”?
You understand me? xD

trollwarrior1 · January 12, 2014, 9:16am

A game engine is like Unity or Unreal Engine.
Java2D is a rendering API. It allows you to render stuff in 2D.

Marc43 · January 12, 2014, 9:18am

Then, “Java2D” it’s inside java programming language
I am going to make some homework, and then start to learn!
Bye!

Troubleshoots · January 12, 2014, 11:01am

One thing Wikipedia doesn’t point out is that you should use Swing for the GUI. If you just want to develop games, then don’t bother fully learning it (just learn about JFrame, JPanel and layouts), but if you may want to create other kinds of applications as well as games, then you might want to consider learning it.

As stated previously, OpenGL is better for developing games, however for a beginner it can be very hard to use. Start out with Java2D and maybe after 1-2 months you should ease yourself in to learning OpenGL, either with or without using a game engine.

Marc43 · January 12, 2014, 11:15am

Now i’m watching videos of “TheCherno” he explains some part of the codes but not all of the code, i hope that i’ll understand some parts of the code that i don’t understand right now…

trollwarrior1 · January 12, 2014, 11:20am

You can post your question here I could probably answer anything.

Marc43 · January 12, 2014, 11:22am

The Thread, he doesn’t explains too much about the thread, i think it is the process, but i don’t know more about it.
And this :
try {
thread.join();
} catch(InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
I haven’t seen never anything like that xD

Troubleshoots · January 12, 2014, 11:26am

Google/javadoc/nice articles are your friends.

Concurrency in Java. There’s a lot to read.

trollwarrior1 · January 12, 2014, 11:27am

Thread is basically what it looks like. It is like a train track. You can say that train is where you program is currently at and that train track is your code. The track can split into 2 and the train splits also. You get 2 tracks and 2 trains instead of one. Thread.join doesn’t really do anything. When you exit your program everything is cleaned up for you.

Marc43 · January 12, 2014, 11:33am

I know what you’re saying, but i don’t know what Thread does! D:

trollwarrior1 · January 12, 2014, 11:35am

Do you have skype maybe? This is turning into short conversation instead of forum posts. Skype would be faster and all that.

Marc43 · January 12, 2014, 11:38am

Skype:marc4326

Troubleshoots · January 12, 2014, 11:41am

Read the page on concurrency that I posted a link to. A thread exists within a process on the CPU.

Threads are sometimes called lightweight processes. Both processes and threads provide an execution environment, but creating a new thread requires fewer resources than creating a new process.

Threads exist within a process — every process has at least one. Threads share the process’s resources, including memory and open files. This makes for efficient, but potentially problematic, communication.

Multithreaded execution is an essential feature of the Java platform. Every application has at least one thread — or several, if you count “system” threads that do things like memory management and signal handling. But from the application programmer’s point of view, you start with just one thread, called the main thread. This thread has the ability to create additional threads, as we’ll demonstrate in the next section.

Also here’s another good resource on threads. Learn to start to do your own research before posting a question on a forum.