As it is mentioned in numerous topics thenewboston on YouTube is the way to go, or on his site: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] he has some great tutorials and videos for java, c++ etc..

Though you can always buy a book, I'd say the "for dummies" series are great and are often very thorough. [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

I'd learn Python and then use the Blender 3D engine to develop a game.

xna framework is a pretty good starting point for making games designed for windows products e.g. windows, xbox, windows phone

Never get the dummies books they teach you the inefficient way of programming, start with c# make sure you understand what cases and classes are as at the beginning stage you would use them to determine the different states inside a game. Go into Xna,dont go into openGL as this is much more advance and you should get a grasp on 2D gaming first.

Tolerated wrote Never get the dummies books they teach you the inefficient way of programming, start with c# make sure you understand what cases and classes are as at the beginning stage you would use them to determine the different states inside a game. Go into Xna,dont go into openGL as this is much more advance and you should get a grasp on 2D gaming first.

If you don't often read then yes reading books to learn is a bad way. However, the dummie books, despite the name, are written by proffesionals with usually 10+ years experience on a language, For example the guy that wrote Perl for dummies has nearly 30 years of experience with the language, and he has had huge success in his programming career. I don't think you're in any position to critisize.

Also they're checked again and again so they don't demonstrate bad practise or techniques so that being said I have to disagree entirely with your statement in that "they teach an innefficient way of programming". You may have a different learning style but, these books are really helpful if you enjoy reading of which I assume you don't.