[Other] Good books to read up on?

[bri.an]

Hello, I was wondering if there are any great books that would be useful when learning to work with a decomp repo? I can see the languages that the repo is comprised of on GitHub, but wanted to see if anyone has read a great book that will help understand how to make editing more intuitive.

 

[ellabrella]

i think you'll find this useful: game programming patterns by robert nystrom

i've only read some of it but learned a lot! it seems like a really great resource.

if you're totally new to programming, you should be looking for something to help you understand the specific language your repo uses. for gen 3 repos, look for something to help you understand the C language, for gen 1 and 2, look for assembly. i personally didn't start learning programming by reading, so i don't know about any books specifically that will help you learn these languages. but if you can't find a book for them, online tutorials are great too.

 

[bri.an]

Thanks ella_trifle! I'll check it out. I've been doing UI and UX web development for years, but only have done more classical languages in school. I did come across this book that I was planning to read, O' Reilly - Practical C Programming 3rd Edition.pdf, but wasn't sure if was the most practical to start with.

 

[ellabrella]

that book looks good! seems like it tries to be accessible even to people who aren't familiar with programming, so you could definitely give it a shot. it's outdated in places, but C doesn't really change much as far as i can tell, so the actual programming should still be fine. it just means you might want to do some more research yourself in terms of things like picking an IDE.