New to game programming

Question

I'm new to game programming, and I am interested in making rpg/mmpog, and I want to know, what are some classes I will need to know well? Does anyone have code I can pick at to help me learn?

Answer 1

I too am new to JAVA, and am trying my hand at a VERY simple RPG. My suggestions, as I've found out over the past few weeks in class.
1 - Get a good book, not all teachers (assuming you're taking a class) are very good, and I've found "Java 2 Complete" By Sybex excellant.
2 - Go slow. Work through the book, learning those sections you think you'll need. I.E. as I found I wanted a GUI, I went through every example of the AWT package, and learned them as I typed.
3 - Stay simple, I am creating my own classes for this (Rooms, Monsters, Players, Items are the only four) and use the array and TextArea classes a lot also.
//Room class
   public class Rooms
      private int exits;
      private String name;
      private int flagN = 1;
      private int falgE = 2;
      private int flagS = 4;
      private int flagW = 8;
      private int flagMonster = 16;
      private int flagItem = 32;
      public Rooms()
         name = "Room One";
         exits = 1;
      public Rooms(String nameIn, byte exitsIn)
         name = nameIn;
         exits = exitsIn;
      public byte getExits()
         return exits;
      public void setExits(byte newexit)
         exits = newexit;
      public String getName()
         return name;
      public void setName(String newName)
         name = newName;
   }In this class, I set up a Room(s) with the name of 'name' and a byte of 'exits' which is how I'm marking the exits and items in a room. I'm not too far along, but I hope some or all of this helps!