Programmer Introduction Thread

All new programmers please introduce yourselves on this thread.

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All new programmers, welcome and we are glad to have you with us! Be sure to still introduce yourselves in this subforum, but post here if you wish to join the coding team.

Use this thread to ask any questions on how to get started with the programming, to discuss anything you are currently programming or any questions you have on how the game will be coded, or any other topics related to the code of the game: https://thrivegame.canadaboard.net/t886-programmer-coordination-discussion#17414

Our Github Repository, with all the code available for viewing, can be found here: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive

The GET INVOLVED thread, in case you have not yet found it, is a Global Announcement on these forums containing links to all major threads for each field of development: https://thrivegame.canadaboard.net/t1097-get-involved

And here is a subforum just for you: https://thrivegame.canadaboard.net/f26-programming

Good luck getting started, and have fun on the forums working on this epic game! :D 

Original Introduction

Spoiler:

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Introduced Programmers:

Seregon
Carnifex
Apeiron
jaws2blood
ThRYCKz
GamerXA
TranquilMarmot
gdt1320
Daniferrito
liminal18
ScProgramming
Gawayno
Thriving Cheese
Ionstorm
ostrich160
TropicalMammoth
untrustedlife
FunnyGames
tjblazer85
ThatboiJo
timlyo
SuperLala
crovea
HariboTer
Karthas077

Currently Active Programmers:

Nimbal
SuperLala
crovea

I've actually been discussing this with Apeiron over pm since last night. All I'll suggest for now is that all programmers post their experience in this thread, and any new programmers are pointed this way.

As the game is currently being made using c++/ogre, those are the most important skills needed, but anything else will be useful too. I'll start:

c++ experience: 4 years
production level c++: 0 years
ogre: 0

other major experience: c# (5 years), unity3d (2 years), matlab (6 years)
minor: html, css, java, python, octave, fortran

other skills: math, 3d math

past projects: genetic algorithms, neural networks, novel AI, population simulations.

If you can think of anything else worth adding (notable projects, other skills), please add them.

Can I also suggest we keep this thread clear of discussion. If you think something needs discussion, please us this thread, create a new thread here, or if your not yet able to create threads, send me a pm and I'll do so for you. I'll also try to make sure any relevant threads are linked from here.

edit: added past projects.

C++ experience: 3 years
production level C++: 1 year
Ogre: 0

other major experience: Python (5 years), Java (4 years), C (2 years), HTML (10 years), CSS (10 years), PHP (8 years), Javascript/JQuery/Ajax (4 years)
minor: c#, heroscript, unrealscript, nwscript, other non-relevant scripting languages

other skills: project management (prince2)

I am a bioinformatician with great understanding of DNA and everything involved (such as evolution, chemistry and molecular biology). Which might come in handy for certain parts of the game.

C++: 7 years
Actual professional experience: 1 year
(Although I'm probably the go-to guy if you need some assistance with the C++ itself, I made the ISO standard a compulsory reading for myself :).)
I can do stuff in any imperative / functional language that's required.
Experience with: C, Python, Haskell and some assembly-level languages. (Need to optimize the inner-most loop ? Good, I'm the guy for that.)

Other skills: High level design and software architecture, math

I'm a computer scientist, I eat algorithms for breakfast. The most recent thing I worked on (been working on'ish ...) is the rating and matchmaking system for a multi-player game (player skill balancing). (Both the design of the system and the implementation.) The only thing I know about biology though is that the animals have different leg-counts. Also, if the leg-count exceeds 4 legs, it's likely I'm afraid of the sodding thing.

All in all, designing data structures and algorithms is what I should probably be utilized for, but I'm here to learn and gather experience, so throw something at me and I'll probably do it.

C++: 2 years
Professional: none
Ogre: 1 year but still need more to know

I am completely and utterly self taught and I USED to make games every other sunday but, I've gotten pretty rusty and busy with real life stuff. I will be able to aid in the development of thrive, but not as if it were my job. also, even though this will be useless, I'm quite nifty with Blender 3d modeling. also, just to let anyone unaware know, the current coding for thrive will have to be rewritten from scratch, a few pivotal files are, well, poopy.

These are what I think is worth mentioning:

Visual Basic / vb.net Experience: 4 years
CSHARP / C#.net Experience: 2 years <===== Great at.
C++ / C++.net Experience = A month
PHP Experience = Two months
OGRE = None

Other Skills:
Rough 3D Model Creation = 2 years
Graphic Design = 4 years
Music Producing = 6 Years
Audio SFX = 1 Year

I know that it looks like I am highly undeveloped at C++, but C# and VB taught me most of what is needed for programming. I do feel as if I can deeply help out with the game's C++ Programming despite my experience. I am great in C# though so I am certain I can develop a useful tool for the game in the minimal amount of time using C#.

No projects, a freshman in High School

I don't have anything worth mentioning exept that I understand some Database logic...
SQL and HTML...
AS I SAID ONLY SOME.

Not a state of the art dude.


P.S.
STOP MAKING THREADS LIKE YOU ARE THE LEADER OF THE FORUM, YOU ARE JUST CONFUSING PEOPLE.
WE ALREADY HAVE A THREAD BY SURGEN, THE REAL PROGRAMER!

ido66667 wrote:

I don't have anything worth mentioning exept that I understand some Database logic...
SQL and HTML...
AS I SAID ONLY SOME.

Not a state of the art dude.


P.S.
STOP MAKING THREADS LIKE YOU ARE THE LEADER OF THE FORUM, YOU ARE JUST CONFUSING PEOPLE.
WE ALREADY HAVE A THREAD BY SURGEN, THE REAL PROGRAMER!

A specification of your C++ and other programming experience was requested by Seregon, I don't see how overusage of capital lettering and an insult contribute to this thread.
Stating you have some basic knowledge of SQL and HTML is fine, but there's no need to start derailing the thread by trolling or whatever the belgium it is you are doing.

I think nick simply made a suggestion, perhaps the word "we" is a little out of place but he meant well I guess.

If anything, I've hijacked Nick's thread. The other thread your refering to was made after this one, in order to avoid unnecessary discussion here.

Nick was only trying to help by getting things organised, and I can only thank him for that.

Now, can we keep this on topic, and move any further discussion to the thread linked above please.

I assume I should post here.

C++ Experience: 2 years
Production Level: None
Ogre: I'm familiar with some of it.

Other: GML (5 years), Delphi Pascal (2 years)
Minor: Java and HTML

Skills:
Basic Vector Math and 3D Modelling with a lot of experience with creating 3D Games.

Other Projects:
* Ecosystem Simulation (Including Evolution Algorithms)
* Procedural Terrain Generation
* FPS (with Gas/Atmosphere Based Game Mechanic)
* Solar System Gravity Simulations
* And Modded a handful of Games

Anyone programmers who haven't already, could you check the discussion thread, as we're trying to arrange a meeting over IRC.

Hey guys, I'm a programmer looking to help out on this project- I see a lot of potential here!

Major skills:
I have about 2 years of experience with C/C++ and 3 years of experience with Java. I'd say I'm a lot more comfortable with Java, but I do pretty well with C/C++.

I've got 2 years of self-taught OpenGL knowledge under my belt- I've made 3D and 2D games from scratch before using OpenGL, and they've turned out pretty nicely (although they were mostly solo projects started as learning experiences and were left unfinished).

I've been using git for a bit over a year now; I've never used mercurial or subversion.

I'm a very quick learner and always eager to learn more and to apply my knowledge to new and interesting problems. I also love teaching things to people, so if I end up getting involved in this expect to see quite a few tutorials from me!

Minor skills:
I'm familiar with Python, HTML/CSS, SQL, some assembly, and a whole bunch of other languages. Over the next year, I plan on learning Haskell and Javascript.

I'm pretty good with 2D art, I've been doing a lot of svg stuff lately and am really good with Photoshop.

I have a bit of experience making 3D models, mostly in Blender. I'm very familiar with all the formats that 3D models are stored in and how to read those formats and render them using OpenGL. As for OGRE, I've never used it; I looked into it a while back but opted to write my own rendering engine for the sake of getting some experience (which ended up using a large chunk of my allotted development time). OGRE seems like it would be a great choice for this project.

I've never worked on any production code, but I do have strict personal standards that I apply to all of my code that tend to mesh nicely with most coding standards I've seen. I'm still a student (college, almost done) but I've had a pretty unorthodox education so I know a lot. I'm studying computer science, so expect a lot of thought and theory to go into any code I write. I recognize that I still have a lot to learn- it's more important to know what you can't do than it is to know what you can do!

Can't wait to get started! I'll join the IRC channel shortly.

c++ experience: 1 year
production level c++: 0 years
ogre: 0

other major experience: matlab 4 years,
minor: python

other skills: math, kinetics, numerical methods, processes, thermodynamics, chemistry

past projects: nothing serious. Some class projects, and a small minigame in c++.

So my coding skills as a programmer may not be up to par, but I'm pretty good at writing specific methods to model various systems. (I.E. cell growth in response to environmental conditions, enzyme kinetics, pretty much anything to an extent) If you think I can help in any way let me know.

I have alredy presented myself in the presentation subforum, but i gess i would put this here to have this kind of info more centralized.

C++ experience: 1 Year
C++ real project experience: 0
ogre experience: 0

Other: Java (2 year), python
Minor: delphi (just tiny)

Rellevant skills: Astronomy physics, math and AI (just starting on that, althrough i could easily get help on AI translating)

Projects: Mainly on android devices: table games (othello, go and tic, tac, toe), including a computer controlated oponent (not for go), a solar system simulator, with real values calculations and editable objects, and part of a voice messaging aplication (just the client side).

Biggest project on C++ was a sudoku solver, and althrough it was quite badly implemented, it still solved them.

Hi,

Thrive looks really cool. I just played around with the cell editor.
Let me know if you need any help. You seem to have quite a few programmers, but
I would love to get into the challenge of developing with you. I have experience in Python, Supercollider, Java, Javascript, and others.
Let me know ASAP the cell editor didn't look terribly beyond my abilities and I would love to work on menus, or other basic routines.

Again hit me off if you need anyone.

Andrew

Hey guys, I'm a new programmer here, so I guess I will post some of my experience

c++ experience: 1 years
production level c++: 0 years
ogre: 0

other major experience: c# (2 years), Visual Basic (3 years), Python (1 year),

other skills: I'm decent at most math and some science

Past projects: Mostly school projects, some mini games in Visual Basic, nothing too major.

Looking forward to helping out.

I'm gonna try the programming myself, so I'll post here.

C++ Experience: Took 2 classes of it.
Production Level: Expert
Ogre: Gonna be new to it too.

Other: C# (4 Years), Unity 3D (3 years)
Minor: HTML (5 Years)

Subjects:
-Math
-Evolution
-History
-Culture
-Biology
-Writing Stories.

Other Projects:
-Level Design in Unity.
-Several Games in Unity, both 2D and 3D.
-Prototypes in Unity.

C++ experience: 2 years (reading tutorials (including books ) about c++)
production level C++: 0 years
Ogre: Newbie

minor experience: Python (2 months), Javascript (1 months), unity 3d (2 months), Blender game engine (2 years)

other skills: Blender (2 years)

Hi I would love to help.

C++ Experience: 1 Year
Production Level: Poor
Ogre: Will be first time.

minor skills: JavaScript/html 1 year,c# 2 years, java 2 years, c#+xna 1 year,java + lwjgl 1 year.

I'm decent at maths and fine at science.

C++ Experience: To be honest I dont really code in C++, but rather java. However, that said, if your game is in C++ Im willing to learn, and it would provide me with more experience learning alongside these professionals.
Production Level: None
Ogre: Dont really know much about it, but I've used unity.

Main skills:
Well to be honest Im not an entirely experienced programmer, so maybe this isnt the right thread to post in, however I do a bit of it, I also do 3d modelling and Im good at game design (just to make it clear, Im not one of those people who say their good at game design because they have some good ideas, I format them into every possible detail and research how they could be made, programmed and modelled).


Other Projects:
I also work on my own game, so I couldnt be full time, however anything I learn off my game I can incorporate to this project, and visa versa.

So in short, Im not as knowledgable as most here, but Im a good game designer and it couldnt hurt to give me a shot

P.s. Aside from that, I have good organisation and contact skills. So for example, I heard you needed biologists for the cell stage. Well, if I become part of the team, Im good friends with a community of genetic engineers who love this kind of thing, so just say the word.

Greetings, I am interested in becoming a programmer, I have over 5 years of prior programming experience with a multitude of languages.

C++;C#;VB.NET;Java

I would be glad to offer my skills to this promising project.

C++ Experience: 3 Years
Production Level: I know how to assemble legible source
Ogre: I've experimented with it

C++,GML,Python,Java,JBasic,VisualBasic

Past-projects
I m currently developing a Roguelike Game called Roguelegends, I have also done a ton of little-large projects. (including a game like terraria that was never finished, but i still might work on it)
I Have developed a couple mildly complex evolution simulations in python,these simulations include, predator-prey evolution, plant evolution and mutation and natural selection, food and water (and many other things).

I have just recently started c++ a few months ago (enough to do 2d stuff in libtcod (my favorite 2d library :P)
I have had many years of experience with GML (Maybe i could do some prototyping for you guys?)
2 years of experiance with python (then I stopped doing python because i wanted to start C++)
the Other languages i know are kind of spread out but I have done games in both Jbasic, and VBasic .
I Have read many tutorials on C++ out of curiosity as-well.

0 experience with ogre (Though i will try it out at some point in the next couple days)
I would love to help out with prototyping things.

I thought about it, and I would like work on the project as well.

I know C/C++/C#, GML, Java (as a side).

As I already wrote in my Hello thread, I do have some experience, especially with finding a logic.
I don't really want to rewrite everything, I wrote everything here:
https://thrivegame.canadaboard.net/t1118-hello-i-m-new

Now, I never worked with orge.

Mainly, I like creating AI's and find logic to games.

C++ Experience: 1 Year
Production Level C++: 0 years
Ogre: 0 years

Other Major Experiences: unity3d 1 Year, HTML 1 Year, Java 1 Year, Construct 2 1 Year, Wings 3D 1 Year and Blender 1 Year

Other Skills: Math, Science, Logic and Artistic Skills

Past Projects: Top-Down Shooters, Mods for Minecraft, Tower Defense, Evolution Simulator and Racing Games

I just joined this site about 5 minutes ago, and i think i'll post my programming experience. I'm interested in how this game will turn out.

C++: One year of a high school class.
Java: One year of a college level high school class. I still program in java though.
Android: Started a few months ago. I use java for my apps. I have one app out, and i'm working on another one.

I've kind of worked with C++ in the XNA game studio, but it was only for about a week. A few years ago i tried working with python, but then i ended up taking the C++ class. I've also used Visual Basics, but i went back to java. Well that's all i can really think of.