Summer Project

[tcglkn]

I have given myself the summer project of converting VirtualScape over into a program that Mac users can easily use. I am not very good at programming so this will be a huge learning curve. Any of you guys on this site that have any experience programming, especially on Mac, if you have any advice for me please post. I am looking for some good instructional websites, books and videos.
Thanks,
tcglkn

[Snappleman]

Has anyone tried using wine to run VS on a mac?

[tcglkn]

Originally Posted by Snappleman

Has anyone tried using wine to run VS on a mac?

Yea I tried it. It works decent, but the 3D rendering doesn't work. The program locks up everytime I try to generate a 3D image.

[Snappleman]

I've been a software developer for almost 10 years now and I can say that converting code from one language to another is a difficult task. Make that nearly impossible if the program is complex (3D) and the individual attempting the task isn't already very familiar with both languages. If learning is your goal and not creating a Mac version of VS, then I say jump in, have fun and mess around and as long as you're enjoying the learning part, you might actually come up with something awesome.

When approaching a big project like this, I've found it usually works best if you already know most of what you're attempting to do and have a couple holes to fill in versus having a big hole in the middle and knowing some stuff around the edges.

If you're like me, you'd probably do best making a 3d app in a mac language first from scratch rather than trying to read through VirtualScape's code. Once you're familiar with the Mac libraries, you'll have a much easier time trying to figure out how the Windows code works. I'm not sure how much help I can give on either language (I'm a Java guy), but if you have general programming questions, feel free to poke me.

[tcglkn]

Originally Posted by Snappleman

If you're like me, you'd probably do best making a 3d app in a mac language first from scratch rather than trying to read through VirtualScape's code. Once you're familiar with the Mac libraries, you'll have a much easier time trying to figure out how the Windows code works. I'm not sure how much help I can give on either language (I'm a Java guy), but if you have general programming questions, feel free to poke me.

Where would you begin to code a program? Is there a program you use? My summer goal was to use WineBottler to convert VirtualScape. But this sounds like more fun

[Cavalier]

Originally Posted by tcglkn

Where would you begin to code a program? Is there a program you use? My summer goal was to use WineBottler to convert VirtualScape. But this sounds like more fun

You start by taking some VERY basic classes.

Programming is not easy and something like VS is beyond daunting, especially to a beginner.


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