Sorry, i bet this question has been asked a million and one time on this board, but i can''t find evidence of it yet. *skip this paragraph to spare the introduction* i have been browsing around gamedev.net site for a few months, but as of yet it has been purely theoretical, sotry lines, game development processes. But tommorow, I will be getting microsoft Visual c++, and hoping to learn to program with it, and (hopefully, no, definately, will lead onto programming games) I have geared my A level choices (i am from UK) around a career in teh computer industry. My choices are: Maths, Further maths, Physics, and economics. Well, my actual question is: Does anyone know of a particularly good site for c++/ Vc++ programming for beginners? I am fairly adept on teh PC, and have a good knowledge of maths (my knowledge kind of stops at differentiation though). I don''t particularly want a tutorial that is geared around gaming, as i know there is so much to programming than games. And I thikn it would benefit me to learn these other areas first. And if anyone wants to give me some one on one e-mail tuiition? Anyone?? *looks around* thought not. Thankyou in advanced for any help, and sorry for being a "noob", it seems that in any internet based social group, newbies are social outcasts and rediculed to the point of obliteration, so, please, go easy on new little old me [smile] Game play over graphics anyday. Best game ever? The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall

i''d like to applaud you as being a newbie that desires to learn the basics of programming before anything else remotely related to game development. sorry, i don''t have any links to c++ programming, but there are plenty of books that are available for purchase that teach the syntax of the language well.

a2k

I realise that I am not going to be able to program Q4 right away, it will be at least 2 weeks!!
Well, my dosh is already stretched buying the software, so I need free online tutorials....
(thanks anyway)

Try cprogramming.com, cplusplus.com, or use any search engine with the term "C Programming". C++, C, it doesn''t matter which is first for the most part. VC++ isn''t a language, you won''t find tutorials for it .

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Awsuma tutorial.

Edited by - Gwargh on August 28, 2001 2:18:08 AM

tada!

Beginner links:
Neilstuff
C++ Glossary
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: C++
really really good tutorial. Starts to cover STL about halfway through though with no warning, though. *correction: it starts to cover the *pclasses* halfway throught. Something about the Computer Science AP Exam...anyways, the first few sections of the tutorial do a good job of explaining some basic concepts.
Online C++ tutorial
Gillius's Programming
Tutorials on various topics, mostly for beginners.
Bruce Eckel's Free Electronic Books (Thinking in C++)

When you start to feel adventurous:
Graphics Programming Black Book Online
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++
The Function Pointer tutorials
pretty specific...

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Starting with the language basics is a great idea, however don't be afraid to focus on more advanced techniques or libraries that you become interested in. Not to say you should jump in to polymorphism right off the bat, it's just not a good idea to limit yourself before you know you truly don't understand something or need a larger base of basic terms to understand it fully. Being a beginner myself I've found that if I sit down with a good tutorial on something I don't quite get and read it straight through a couple times, I can begin to understand the logic and develop a reference of terms which help in other more advanced tutorials. Even though you might not be able to immediately apply a more advanced concept, once you've gotten a part of something down, the next time you see it pop up, probably in a different context, you'll think "Oh, I know how this relates to that, and this tutorial explains better the relation between these two things that the other one didn't elaborate on enough. eureka!"
Anyways, you get the idea Have fun!







Edited by - eotvos on August 29, 2001 8:42:10 PM

sorry, nearly completely unrelated..

I tried using the Pclasses I mentioned above and got an output box full of errors (I'm using visual C++ 6.0). I was using pstring.h and I checked it's headers; it #includes but doesn't use namespace std (doh!). So you gotta put that in if you want it to compile successfully. Looks like this:

...
#include
#include
#include
#include
using namespace std; //gotta add it or it goes ape shit on ya!
...

just thought I'd pass that along for anyone who cares...

Edited by - eotvos on August 29, 2001 9:03:23 PM
*erm, how to do new lines when using the

tag? :(Edited by - eotvos on August 29, 2001 9:12:07 PM

lol, I think I'll leave it like that.



Edited by - eotvos on August 29, 2001 9:13:14 PM

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Original post by Mortaeus
Sorry, i bet this question has been asked a million and one time on this board, but i can''t find evidence of it yet.
*skip this paragraph to spare the introduction*
i have been browsing around gamedev.net site for a few months, but as of yet it has been purely theoretical, sotry lines, game development processes. But tommorow, I will be getting microsoft Visual c++, and hoping to learn to program with it, and (hopefully, no, definately, will lead onto programming games)
I have geared my A level choices (i am from UK) around a career in teh computer industry. My choices are: Maths, Further maths, Physics, and economics.
Well, my actual question is:
Does anyone know of a particularly good site for c++/ Vc++ programming for beginners? I am fairly adept on teh PC, and have a good knowledge of maths (my knowledge kind of stops at differentiation though).
I don''t particularly want a tutorial that is geared around gaming, as i know there is so much to programming than games. And I thikn it would benefit me to learn these other areas first.

And if anyone wants to give me some one on one e-mail tuiition? Anyone?? *looks around* thought not.

Thankyou in advanced for any help, and sorry for being a "noob", it seems that in any internet based social group, newbies are social outcasts and rediculed to the point of obliteration, so, please, go easy on new little old me [smile]


Game play over graphics anyday. Best game ever? The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall

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First of all, lets get one thing cleared, VC++ is NOT a language, it''s a compiler. The language is C++. Now, lets move on, if you want to learn c++, do a search in any search engine for C++ tutorials.



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