First off, congratulations, newcomer. By reading this before posting, you have just saved yourself some time, made our day a little better and proven to be smarter than half of the internet!
When posting, please put a specific summary of the problem in your topic and expand in your post. If it’s errors in code, please post the errors, and the code. If you have a lot of code, you can use: http://rafb.net/paste/ or http://hashasp.mine.nu/paster/
Also, if it’s not too much to ask, Google it first! We cannot emphasize this enough. Also, to ensure never ever being harassed for you posts, it may be helpful to gloss over this:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Of course, we don't expect you to read it all, and most of this should be obvious if you've ever been a member of an internet forum, newsgroup, etc before.
If you’re new to programming, before creating a “help me get started” topic, please look through at least one of these:
http://geocities.com/dragontamer5788/programmingfaq.txt
http://rav.realitybytes.tk/newbies
http://patrickavella.com/fornewbies.shtml
http://www.cprogramming.com/gameprogramming.html
http://patrickavella.com/proglinks.shtml
http://www.christopherhiggins.com/links.asp
All of these links get dropped in every general beginner’s topic, and they're excellent resources. If you don’t take the time to check this great stuff out before posting, you will only be told the truth: you’re probably not cut out for programming, because if you want to succeed with it, you’ll need to be willing to do things for yourself, and to devote a lot, and I mean A LOT, of time to developing your skills.
Great, you now know what’s ahead of you. To start, we suggest reading through the short "FAQ" section, where many common questions are given common answers. http://gdapfaq.wikidot.com/faqs
