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@Jivi...awesome idea...less involbed than d sango fighting game.....i believe a group should b formed for this.

hi people...if u need a dev for this fighting game idea...contact me

@wiseman...funny...3d is just more involved than 2d...its not so scary...wat r ur strengths then?

Wow...been forever. After doing a lot of 'boring' web and db apps i've had enough. A good time to be back in this business. With game startups springing up in the country. Good work to them.

yes...so is BASIC....for d free version of Unity that doesnt give u access to do more dan write script events...u cnt do much without some crazy unmanageable coding practice...jst my opinion

what about a game about weed?...seriously. who has done scripting in lua and who knows C/C++? and truth b told...u wont b able to make use of Unity the way u can with an in-house engine...so i dnt support the use of Unity

hello poster, if d client needs a customizable school management system that has these features:
* time table generation for both class lecture schedule and exams
* customizable report builder with table formatting and statistical graphs
* result management and transcript customization
e.t.c

then send a mail to dueal21@gmail.com, with d subject school management system.
will get back to u

i dont need phone numbers, need solutions here and if you offer something good here then i can call for more info, please i need a business plan for buying and selling mostly.

A thread to all nairalanders. There are lots of business ideas but they all seem to require huge funds. Need something or Know about a profitable 1 Million Naira investment? Talk about it here!

Hi nairalanders....I'm in desperate need of a 1 Million naira business plan. Any idea or ready made business plan will help!

Nice to see the game development spirit brewing here.

@tundebabzy. Nice to knw ur intrest has always been in this field. Just can't believe someone got u to think that by studying a computing course will land u a job at a cyber cafe. Not withstanding there are many great minds in this field with prior qualifications in something unrelated, so don't get discouraged. As an advice, don't start to study just to pass a certification exam, companys are wising up on the fact that the paper is not a true representation of a persons productivity/capability. So, take ur time to study,experiment,and have fun while at it. Ur portfolio of works done will surely stand as ur certification. Have fun!

@poster.
Question:
1. What training instituete are u at?
2. Will u prefer a one-on-one training by an experienced developer in any of c/c++/java/c#/vb.net/python/mysql/ms sqlserver/ado/flash and actionscript/javascript/vbscript/3ds max/maya?
3. If ur answer to 2 is yes, drop ur mail.

@saintiyke. How to start is to ask your company to get a software developer who knws vb.net/java/c# and sqlserver. Hope that helps.

@poster.
Question:
Who needs the service, you or the company you work for?
If the answer is your company, then answer this:
1. Where in the country is your company located?
2. Is your company wanting to hire a permanent developer or is it for a one-time project?
3. Does your company currently have a software development department?
4. If the answer to 3 is yes, what programming language do they work with?

@poster.
Question:
1.In what programming language do you want to develop computer software?
2. What domain/area do u want to specialise in.i.e network sockets, multimedia, database, web apps, security/cryptography?
3. Are you passionate about this?
4. Can you pay for services?
5. ,

@all. Game dev aspirants, we are on a roll. Python embedding in the framework is now 75% complete but we still have to write a few custom python extensions in C/C++ to call it a wrap on this stage of development. Keep ur fingers crossed. Play and Code games.

@seun. Am i still making games? Sure!! It's like a sickness without a cure. Need to complete the game development framework to a stable release. Keep playing and coding games.

@all. Hey, seems the NL gamers have be sleeping since i was last here. Anywayz, had to announce that the game engine's release is still on schedule as today mega-max was able to complete the embedding of the Lua scripting language in the game engine. That's awesome! Don't knw what i'ld have done without his contribution. Well, we are left with embedding Python scripting support with a video player for the Theora encoding. Beta release coming soon. Keep playing & coding games.

@poster. It's not a bad thing that u r putting the paycheck issue into consideration; but u won't get far if that's the root of wanting to be in this field. Sshit, u might not even get out of the door. Think of someother thing that'll drive u in the yrs to come.

@chukxy. C is a small language and a 'naughty' one if i might add cause it makes u do 'dangerous' and tricky stuff sometimes without u knowing. It was created in the era where memory was very very limited so it was designed with speed and use of limited system resources as its main priority. Yes C is the industries choice language for systems programming cause it abstracts the machines architecture one level up enabling the programmer think more in terms of the problem than the hardware yet giving the programmer full control to specify operations and directly access system resources(main memory, registers, ports). You might wonder why don't people just use the assembly language of a device directly. Well, using the assembly language for a device makes your program less portable btw devices with varying architecture(ISA), cause your only 'speaking' the devices language. If u use C u make your program more portable btw systems with varying architecture cause at the end of the day u use each systems C compiler to translate your program to the assembly lang of that system and hence your program works on a wider range of devices. Also, since Denise Ritchie could us it(C) to create the marvel called UNIX it shows that C is a  strong language in that area. I'm sure u'll appreciate C if u're the type that likes getting under the hood of things,  Have fun!

@chuxy. C and Java are a far way apart. Yes they look syntatically similar and some minor similarity in sematics yet they differ greatly. Java is what u could call a managed/safe language cause it runs on a virtual machine while C is ur assembly language looking 'prettier'. U have to use something low-level to do systems programming and C/C++/C# is the choice in that area with C leading the 3. Java was not made for that kinda job though it has JNI(java native interface) which u can use to get to the gritter part of the hardware but few core people use it. I'm sure when u get to pointers and see stuff like unsigned char* or typedef void * (pfT*) (void *, void*), u'll see the difference.

@ghenghis. An auto garbage collector doesn't ensure that more resource(memory) is available to an app in a limited environment but that the available resource is handled more effectively without the total reliance on the programmer to take care of house keeping. Yes C++ is symbian os's choice dev language but is scaled down and uses memory management technics like memory protection and reference counting when u dev with the symbian framework/sdk. Now adays u can also develop with the python language as well which i see as an effort to include garbage collection facilities within symbian os which it lacks. Same can be done using LUA and since the core of lua is small(less than 1.4MB) it will fit as a better alternative.

@i-guru. Can a C/C++ programmer develop mobile apps? YES & NO. Let me start with the 'NO' part. Programming languages are like this: a language designer creates a specification 4 a programming language and then creates the first working implementation of it. Then companys and various other individuals may choose to create there own implementation of that language following the specification as far as they can for separate devices. Now, if there isn't such an implementation of that language for a device then that language can't be used directly. Secondly, c/c++ isn't a language built with an automatic garbage collector within it and mobile devices have limited resource. So, if a programmer using C/C++ isn't careful enough u could crash the system. Now the 'YES!' part. C/C++ has a friendly extension language/library called LUA, that provides a garbage collector and is small in terms of memory used to run it. The library is cross-platform even on mobile devices. So,  yeS u can and nO u can't. Isn't programming great fun!

@all. I'll recommend everyone read this post above. I've been tempted to take peoples cash when they come up to me asking that i should teach em programming but i end up not taking it cause they have this weird idea that it'll be over in no more than a year and some think 3 months at most. I say just like aladdin, 'if u wish to be a geni be prepared to have it and everything that goes with it, including the bottle'.

@i-guru. Wow, i knw i might sound like a repetitive jukebox on this sought of question but truly i can't help u with that. I'ld say pick any recent book on C++ u can lay ur hands on asap(even the dummies series). Read it, and when u have any question on a topic just post. I'll reply asap. Hope that helps?

@all. Polygamy is a beautiful idea. Men let's be true to our testestrone. Wouldn't u like to have two or more onome, mixed with 5 or more adama, spattered on the side with 2 or more fatima, zainab, yasite then groom the thing with busty bummi, and not forgetting the itua's, and the rest. That will be utopia on earth.

@all. We all knw what the head of state should do to change Naija 4 life. The same thing that former president of Ghana did, what's that his name again, COKER or something like that. You knw him, the one that killed those bad belle people way been won send people of Ghana to hell. Yes, oga Goodluck should shoooottt the obasanjo's, gowon's, bangida's, ribadu's, aondakaa's, all them bad belle for dis our country. Then put the akunyili's, soyinka's, that son of the soil wey die last year, ehe! Gani's. Do that then put me in charge of PHCN(NEPA for short), then Great Nigeria can live happily ever after. Agree?!

@buffnaija. I always try to correct people who claim that C++ is difficult by saying C++ is not difficult it's just involved. Meaning the designer didn't think the language will be used by 'dummies' or as a play thing but that it will live a long time and be used by serious programmers for non-trivial tasks. So, If e no good for your brain quit!!

@movingcoil. Long time no C. It's being long since i wrote in low-level C but i think i can help.
Your first error is on line 2 & 3. Trying to assign a string to a char, wrong.
Next, to compare C strings use strcmp() in your conditional(u can use the '==' only if both operands are string literals).
In your area() body the return keyword needs a space btw it and the parenteses.
Also, in your main() where if condition is true,the printf() has no place holder(%d) for its second argument.
I also noticed that u #include standard headers with the .h suffix(#include <string.h>) this shouldn't work with ANSI C current standard instead do this(#include <whatever and no dot h>). I see u understand that the name of an array is a pointer to its first element(holusormi asked where u threw the '&' operator, hope he learns from this).Just an advice, Move to C++ if u don't want to bug your brains with malloc(), realloc(), name collisions,  e.t.c. Have fun!

@poster. That's a great idea. But judging from the popularity of NL, it could become a burden managing the traffic a chat app will spore one the server, depending on how it's implemented though.
@Seun. I'll be glad to lend a hand on this one,