Cheat Engine

atom0s · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:11 pm Post subject:

XNA has a great site for resources and examples, along with a helping forum at:
http://creators.xna.com/en-US/

Some stuff requires you to be a paid member to their community, but a lot of stuff is free and helpful with first starting off in XNA. It's a fairly simple structure for game development to get started with though.

False Prophet · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:05 am Post subject:

Your best bet is to research a programming language. Get a feel of it by learning the language from programming small applications. Any programming language is good.
Java is portable, cross platform and a lot of cell phones support it natively. It is not a compiled language.
C is a very advanced procedural language. It's commonly used in game programming because of it's popularity.
C++ is a polymorphic object oriented language. It is commonly used in game development because of it's popularity and somewhat compatibility with the C language.
C# has a lot of similarities with C and C++, however it is developed by Microsoft.

There is no "best language". Don't listen to someone who makes this claim. Each programming language has it's own strengths and weaknesses.
Program flow is something you will want to study.