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so im taking a programming class and im preparing to make a game sometime around, and i cant decide, should i make a sidescroller, or a rpg? of course these are still wips and it will be a long time before i can use programming and figure out gamemaker.

yeah, you're definitely not learning GML at school
what language is the programming class teaching

java its the only one offered at my school. at least its a start.

they teach c++ here

and the class just started this year
how hard is it to get 1 copy of a c++ program and copy it to every computer ever to exist in that school ever
because i imagine i could do it in about an hour

i wish they had that class here, but about the sprite, most likely there is much to fix eh?

Well actually what you're learning it better to start off with than c++. Java was originally built on top of c++ as a more programmer friendly approach to object oriented programming.