Sined

Out of curiosity, are you a programmer by trade?
If so are you an old school programmer from the early 80s?
Or maybe you program really low level code for the sake of efficiency and/or hardware restrictions?
 
Because honestly, I would never advise any one to start off with assembly.
Unless the intention of the person is to delve head first into programming directly on to "bare metal" there really is nothing to gain other than an "appreciation" of doing something hard for almost no reason.
 
Abstraction of programming code is the greatest thing to happen to Computer Science in its young history.
It's allowed more people to learn to code and has allowed programmers to be more efficient in getting software development up and running.
 
To OP: my go to language for a beginner is Java for many reasons.
I personally don't program in Java, as my job is C++ oriented, but looking back to when I first programmed it made a lot of sense.
 
In this day and age, the most important thing to grasp is Object Oriented Programming paradigms.
Sure C and C++ can do it and are the OGs of OOP.
But you add unnecessary overhead IMO.
For general purposes, there isn't really a distinct need to have such fine memory management of C/C++ pointers, so Java's Virtual Machine and garbage collector allows novice programmers to program without having fear of the pitfalls of memory leaks and null pointers and the cryptic error messages that come with it.
 
Also Java is more uniform in its cross platform compatibility.
C++ is cross platform compatible, but compilers will vary from one OS to another and even have multiple variants on the same OS.
 
Lastly, Java's syntax allows for pretty easy transition to web languages Javascript, or even more niche stuff like Flash's ActionScript or alternative languages like C# (which was designed by MS in response to the rising popularity of Java).
 
A close second would be C# being designed with the same paradigms as Java but having tighter Windows integration which makes for much faster prototyping.

Impressions from users who "obtained" advanced copies of the PC version
 
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/2mcz68/far_cry_4_pc_performance_miles_ahead_of_unity/

http://www.reddit.com/r/farcry/comments/2mdktm/i_played_farcry_4_on_pc/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2me3d6/far_cry_4_performance_first_impressions_coming/

http://imgur.com/a/0aTza 

Hey guys, not true: see link for details (just for dalekphalm )
 
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/far-cry-4s-multiplayer-mode-isnt-locked-behind-a-p/1100-6423123/

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Actually this is the code snippet in its full context:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=116912408&postcount=1421
 
You can see what #ifdef does here: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Ifdef.html
 
Basically in this case, if READ_3D_TEXTURES is not a valid macro then you go perform the code within the #else and #endif code segment. What makes it less readable is that you have a nested #ifdef and #else check.

That's alright, I've made my point in this thread and judging by the likes it seems to have gotten through to at least a few people.
The code snippet was taken WAYYYY out of context as to fool those without the technical background to assume it meant more than it really did.

Now this is going a bit far. Please stop with the whole conspiracy thing.
 
(Because of one misinterpreted comment in the code, SERIOUSLY?!)
@Sined I suggest you stop even trying to responed to some, since I have a feeling you'll just get harrassed to no end.

That's alright, I've made my point in this thread and judging by the likes it seems to have gotten through to at least a few people.
The code snippet was taken WAYYYY out of context as to fool those without the technical background to assume it meant more than it really did.

Your exercising your rights as a consumer. Nothing wrong with that.
Yes I will stand by what our Creative Director said because it's the truth as I've described in my day to day work flow.
However, to extrapolate from that that the outcome will be like WD holds no logic.
To be 100% certain of something that you have never seen (PC version) is a bit puzzling.
 
If you believe what you saw on PS4 at E3 was 2010 graphics and that was enough to saw you not to buy that game, that's all fair game, you are entitled to your opinion.
 
 
I can't say, nor do I know, why the decision was made by the WD team.

I'll stand by Alex's statement that FC4 was spearheaded on PC. I've been iterating and developing on PC. When I'm implementing features, make changes, reproducing bugs to fix I do it on PC first (unless its console specific). We were already well into the project before running the game on PS4 or Xbox One.   Gameplay of people playing FC4 on YouTube at E3 was not faked, they ran on actual PS4s.   You don't get any more real than that.

I was never trying to hide that. Yes, I'm a dev on Far Cry 4. It remains that this is pure irony that a lot of posters here have rallied around this as an anti-PC comment when in fact, this is a PC only shader, as in a shader that's sole purpose was to make the PC version look better. 

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=116912408&postcount=1421
 
This is a segment of code that pertains to an upper color shader that is PC only that is defined in console code and needs to be set to a default value.
 
This is extremely ironic given the comments today because this shader is in fact a PC ONLY shader. Meaning is was code to make for a shader ONLY FOR PC.
 
Context is important and has apparently been lost on many posters here.

There are actually several reasons why Android phones are losing SD Cards. Google itself is trying its best to discourage SD Cards, especially with the recent changes in Android 4.4.