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School has been going on for a while and it sure came in at full force. I am taking an AP Computer Science course this year so hopefully I can learn more programming to make games. We are still learning java and not even dabbling in any other language. I started to learn XNA over the summer after my python roguelike crashed. XNA is Microsoft's java that is written in c++ programming language. I wish I could go and learn just c++ and XNA because game development is much easier with applications like the Unreal Engine and the Source Engine. None the less I am not programming in python or c++ because c++ is too similar to java, and it would get me mixed up on the syntax and make the learning process twice as slow. So, java it is. The only real reason I am writing in java is because I must learn it for my Computer Science class. I will not let that stop me from learning to make a roguelike. Athura and it's band of infidels will rise to the occasion one of these days. Another reason for not going into c++ as well is because I am learning to make websites, which includes learning HTML, javascript, and css. Lots on the plate but there is always progress to be made. I have looked into java modules that I could use for my roguelike and there is a java curses module built off of the java swing module. Curses is a text based interface that uses ASCII characters to display information, in my case my game. The swing module is a gui system for java that is a module that comes pre-installed into the java class library so it is easy to use. I have not written in a while because there has not been much for me to write about. Me writing about my learning are boring. My java will one day come to the occasion where it will be used for something useful in the world and not just for a grade with some pointless project that not even my teacher will read.
