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  1. February 5th, 2012, 02:22 PM #1
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    Question Minecraft

    I am looking to learn Java, and the best way I learn is through practical situations. I have decided to make a game extremely similar to "Minecraft". If you do not know what this is then please google it. I was wondering if anyone could tell me where I should start and if they could point me in the right direction. I want to create it from scratch without copying any of the Minecraft original code, I don't mind if it ends up the same I just want to find my way there rather than doing a copy and paste job.
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    Default Re: Minecraft

    I'm sorry, but unless you've got experience in mastering programming languages, I highly doubt you will be writing anything which resembles mine-craft for a very long time.
    You're going to need to start from the beginning, which would be Sun/Oracle's tutorials (found here) - and unless you jump right in at the deep end, which I highly recommend you don't, you're going to be writing a lot of console based programs to help you learn - and not interactive GUI's.

    Good luck with making a game which has supplied Notch with his millions
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  4. February 6th, 2012, 12:16 PM #3
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    Cool Re: Minecraft

    I do believe that Notch used lwjgl game framework, which in turn uses a 1:1 (almost) implementation of c interface to opengl.

    So this is how your learning path would probably look like.
    - Java intermediate / advanced level
    - Linear Algebra to a pretty decent level - college class atleast
    - Opengl theory (atleast the basic understanding of the pipeline abstraction).
    - Shader technology incl. a shader language glsl.

    Thats really a lot, but then again, Notch is now a very very rich man
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