Hi guys. I find this community really interesting, i have been a hardcore gamer and on some fine day i wanted to start making a game. And from many recommendations, i heard that c++ is a good language to start with. Therefore i went to get myself some compiler. I started with borland c++5.5 and i do not know how on earth do i code... i am bizzared on how i can start learning c++... i need help... well... thanks haha p.s. i have previous experience on perl and qbasic (beginner standards though) Hi guys. This is lame. This IS lame.

Ahh...how *fondly* I remember those days when all I had to do was goof off. Now I actually have to attempt to accomplish something...but I digress.

Good places to start:

http://www.geocities.com/draqza.rm/prog_links.htm -- my personal programming link page

http://www.cplusplus.com -- has a decent tutorial board
http://www.cprogramming.com -- ditto
http://www.programmingtutorials.com -- tutorials for virtually every language (except maybe new ones)

and of course, GDNet has a fair amount of tutorials to be had, if you can find them at the appropriate level. IMHO, you would to better to get a basic foundating in C/C++ before you try to make a game or anything--at least one with graphics. Those tutorials, run on BC++, will do a good job of that--most are going to give you text output and explain basic operations, pointers, structs, enums, and classes.

And now, for your first lesson of BAD programming, look at my .sig
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WNDCLASSEX Reality;
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Reality.lpfnWndProc=ComputerGames;
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RegisterClassEx(&Reality);


Unable to register Reality...what''s wrong?
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Dan Upton
Lead Designer
WolfHeart Software

Thanks man. I really appreciate your help.

I wonder how long does it really make some guy a good programmer... at least in the programming sense, good enough to do quality games...

yeah, i really love games... especially the FF series... and i haf lots of ideas... i wonder when can them all materialise?

Haha, maybe im dreaming too early...but let me figure out how borland c++ works before dreaming furthur... haha

Thanks guys

Hi guys.
This is lame.
This IS lame.