The best idea would be to learn C++ programming on the PC first, getting more and more experienced until you're ready to make the jump to the DS. At that point, I'd suggest the TONC tutorials, which assume you already have basic C++ knowledge but are regarded as some of the best tutorials out there. They're for the GBA, but there is very much in common between the GBA and DS so after that it wouldn't take too much effort to switch to DS, plus it's much easier to accurately test GBA code than DS code (emulators for GBA are usually accurate, whereas with the DS you'd mostly be testing on actual hardware most of the time).

 

lol.. it gonna be much harder than yous Basic HTML w/o tables.. IMO you should learn tables or atlease frames/iframes they will help you make those good looking webpages..

its programing kid, C++ is a not very hard language.. least we dont have to do this crap in asm

if you have prior programming experience it helps... cause you would know it's not what u know, but how long it takes u to learn it.

 

well no but the guy doesnt even know about tables

 

y r ya'll so anti frames?

i wouldn't use frames either this day in age, now is all about aspx and cs

 

styles sheets ya.... ok this is just a question... what would be more secure PHP or Aspx?
lol rounded corners

 

Everyone has different opinions about learning to code. I would say, for DS, C is good enough. Before I started coding on the DS I only really knew BASIC, and even then I kept forgetting stuff. From my experience, you will need a little more than an hour a day, but once you get going, if you get to like coding, an hour will pass in a few minutes. There are plenty of resources on the net for learning C or C++, or go to your local book store and see if they have some book on it, C is a very common programming language, they should have at least a couple. If you want to start on the PC first, that up to you, I think it would be easier that way as the DS is quite a limited system. However, I learned C (and am still learning) on the DS and I feel I'm picking it up quite well, once you remember how to do loops and if's etc. it's not really hard. There are libraries set up for DS coding, such as libnds (or ndslib, can't remember which way round it is) and PALib, which has a whole bunch of functions to make coding simpler, although you don't learn much about the hardware that way. I'm going to shut up now or I'll start rambling on about nothing.

 

Only way you'll know is to try There is as much information in online tutorials as you'll find in a book. So it's just a matter of preference whether you find it easier to learn from a book or a screen. Try your local library if you need a book, the language has been around for ages so using an old book'll be just fine.