Programers equivalent of polycount?

16bit

My brother has been programming for a couple of years and wants to learn more. Now I know polycount is a great site for a 3d artist like me. But does anyone here know a great programming forum that has a lot of knowledge that can help him like polycount has helped me.

Calabi

Gamedev.net used to be good, but I think its gone downhill now.

Tigsource has some good info. Another thing to try is to the respective language or engine to which you are programing. Unity udk, java, c# or whatever.

Slum

gamedev.net is ok if you can weed out the junk.
http://stackoverflow.com/ is a good place for quick help
reddit.com/r/programming - good general interest programming links and news
reddit.com/r/gamedev - good game dev articles and discussion

16bit

We're doing a UDK game. And the udk forums will almost never reply. But our questions are usually over vehicles which isn't as well documented as udks other features. We've mostly used the beyondunreal wiki to solve most of our problems.

acc

Gamedev.net used to be good, but I think its gone downhill now.

Agreed. No one has really managed to replace it, though, which is a shame.

hawken

as slum mentions, the quickest / best answers are usually on http://stackoverflow.com/

rooster

i second tigsource. Gamedev is ok but there's not really much sharing/pimping of projects so I lost interest
(assuming you mean game programming)

Maph

+1 for stackoverflow! Short, simple and down to the point!

16bit

I like the stackoverflow choice, I just started looking at tigsource and it reminds me a lot of Moddb and the forums are very active so thats good.

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and has it's own wiki.

Kwramm

Codeproject is quite nice too

Richard Kain

I slum it here on the polycount boards even though I've transitioned to doing much more coding than game art. I just like the community, and I get to see a lot of creativity from the gang here. Need that visual inspiration fix, even if you deal with ones and zeros most of the time.

I'll throw in another recommendation for TigSource. I post over there under the same user name. Their "Technical" forum thread features a lot of coding advice and suggestions, and they have a great list of various tools. Their "General" forums are a bit hit-and-miss, but then what web community's isn't?

Ben Apuna

I've been spending about half of my time lurking on the TIGSource forums lately. I haven't posted anything over there yet, though I have been learning a lot from them.

Gamedev.net still has a lot of good info packed in there. You just need to dig into the archived articles and avoid the "How do I maek MMO?" posts.

haiddasalami

Yeah Gamedev.net has a lot of hidden info, even some cool workshops. Just need to search around. Gonna check out TIGSource.

Ben Apuna

Well along with what has already been mentioned, there's also the Indiegamer forum. I don't frequent it very much.

leilei

A programmer's equivelant of Polycount had better also come with a programmer's equivelant of penistanks and spinning quads.

mdeforge

Depending on what board you hang out at, TGC (The Game Creators) can be a charming forum. TGC makes Dark Basic, which is basically (pun intended) BASIC with DirectX. It attracts the younger and more immature crowd, but there is a board for more advanced languages and there are some pretty brilliant people there, including some industry vets.

EDIT: Fair warning, their Geek Culture board is retarded half the time. Best get your general discussion from here.