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Old November 2nd, 2007, 01:39 PM
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"I want to learn security and game designing."

Security: What do you mean by this? Do you want to learn how to write Firewall rules in a router to prevent people from accessing a network, creating programs like Fortress that prevent end users from preforming X functions??

Gaming: Before getting into the nitty gritty of this, you need to have pretty good math skills (Linear Algebra, Calculus, etc) for game design because almost every aspect of a video game relies on a mathmatical computation.

In so far as Gaming is concerned, you could go a few different routes. Elitests will say that you need to use C++ to develop video games and while it is the most widely used language for this type of thing Microsoft has released a Game Development Framework (XNA) that allows you to develop video games using C# that are playable on Windows and on the XBOX 360. (Wrox released a book entirely on this subject called: Professional XNA Game Programming: For Xbox 360 and Windows personally I have read that book and it is a pretty good book to get you going and it can also be found on http://wrox.books24x7.com/ )

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