Coding

[Skanky...Muffin]

Personally I would start out learning some different forms of programing language. Learn..

Java: http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/CatalogJava.htm
or C: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark/CTutorial/CTutorial.html
and maybe even learn some C++: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

Then once you have some clear understanding of those, all programming will be a lot easier. One you learn one language you've got a pretty good grip on some of the others.

MIPS is completely different though. Since it's not a regular language but an assembly language. Learning MIPS will help you a lot though, since it is the basis of what these games are made up of (in theory). But knowing the previous programming languages will definitely help you a bit in knowing how MIPS runs.

MIPS: http://www.cs.unibo.it/~solmi/teaching/arch_2002-2003/AssemblyLanguageProgDoc.pdf
Here's also a tutorial made by our sites own JohnnyMcKinney for MIPS in PS2DIS
http://www.consolediscussions.com/fo...-ps2dis-t9310/

Someone has already included PS2DIS in another post so I won't post an attachment, but that will also help you in coding. Good luck, Hope I helped.