well, earlier this week i decided i was going to learn something new... something a little more marketable, and possibly something useful as well... so, i decided to pick up Visual C++ .NET 2003... its been a decade since ive written any C++, and i never did too much of it even then, so i knew i was going to be pretty well starting at ground zero but damn... this .NET shit is all new to me... managed C++? wtf?

anyhow ive been working my way through the microsoft "step by step" book for vc++ .net and i just wasnt getting much out of it... its a pretty crappy book, and on top of that, lessons never did serve as much of a learning tool for me... how in the world do you learn anything by just typing in shit someone else already wrote? its retarded...

so, i decided i needed to come up with some kind of small, goofy project that i had no damn clue how to implement, then just bang that bitch out one error at a time... its how ive learned every other language, why not this one? since id like to try my hand at some simple game programming with the torque engine i decided i might as well start with a game... and of course the perfect game for a simple learning project is tic tac toe (which has also served as a learning project for at least 3 other languages)...

5 hours and much hair pulling later and... woot! tizzle tazzle toezzle in the mothafuckin hizzouse!

ok, so it isnt that big of a deal, but i am obnoxiously pleased with myself to have a running, compiled app that actually does what i wanted it to do, and youve got to start somewhere... it even has hotseat multiplayer! ok ok so it ONLY has hotseat multiplayer... AI is next week :)