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cotyrothery · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 11

Justin one of my freinds and I would like to begin learning a coding language and be serious about it to make a custom firmware for the psp should we use C or C++?

groepaz · Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 305

assembly, c, c++ ... all of them. and choose something MUCH smaller for your first project =P
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Shine · Joined: 03 Dec 2004 Posts: 728 Location: Germany

Forth is a cool language, see e.g. my vector font project:

http://www.frank-buss.de/forth/hershey.html

or my upcoming new Forth CPU:

http://www.frank-buss.de/forth/cpu1/

Seriously: If you have no programming experience, don't start with complicated environments like the PSPSDK or C. Download an easy to use package like Python, e.g. with PyGames or Lua Player to learn the basic programming concepts without fiddling about low-level and build-environment details. If you have some basic understanding about programming, you can use more complicated low-level (but faster) languages and environments. And most programers doesn't use just one language, but the language that is the best solution for a given problem or a mix of different languages, e.g. a scripting language for game logic and C for graphics effects.