Working with a team

[Shihonoryu]

hey guys!

Just a general question i had. I have a small time team in the makes (not including me) 2 C++ devs, and 1 PhP dev. now ive never worked with a team before, but we have all had the same question: How do we work on the same project from different computers? i could have the other PhP Dev write up a page, email it to me or something and i put it in my code. is that how its normally done?

[Jackolantern]

Enter the mighty Subversion. It is what is known as a version control system (although it has about 10 other equivalent names and acronyms). It allows individuals to "check-out" parts of code, work on it, submit it, and then admins can merge it into the main codebase if it is stable (there are many other setups, but having a human gatekeeper is common). It also keeps track of old versions to get rid of the "oh crap I saved a version with recursive bugs over my functioning version".

As for learning how to use it, here is a free online ebook to get you started.

[Shihonoryu]

Ahh thank you oh so much.

Ive had a lot of time programming, not really good in any one, just really know up to OOP in a few, and i thought it was a shame i could never work with any of my friends.

anybody know any good ones? easy to use?

[Jackolantern]

Do you mean programming languages? Some of the easier languages to pick up and learn are PHP, C#, Visual Basic.NET, Java, Python, Delphi, and I am sure others but I can't think of them right now

[Shihonoryu]

No i mean the version control programs :p

[Jackolantern]

Subversion It is the industry standard, and easy enough to use with the ebook I linked.

[Noctrine]

On the GameDev stack exchange we have had a running discussion about this.

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questi ... -solutions

I recommend you read it.

[noaah]

I don't know if this is exactly what your looking for, but Drop Box is a tool than any Indi team, in my opinion, NEEDS in order to work together on a project.