I''ve been working in VB for about 2 years now as a hobby and can pretty much do anything thats possible in Visual Basic. I even went as far as making 2 games in VB. Now I would like to switch to C++, and start making games in it, I''ve used it every once and a while to write DLL''s to do all my trig, and graphic manipulation routines because its speed advantage over VB, but aside from knowing the basic If statements, Variable declarations, creation of functions and math operations I''m pretty much dead in the water when it comes to VC++ I''m wondering if there''s any good sites or e-books (anything thats free cuz I dont have much $ to spend on this stuff) that is written to teach C++ to Visual Basic developers, and is extensive enough to act as a stepping stone into game development in VC++. If anyone knows about any websites or tutorials/e-books i can download please post a reply here. Thanks!

gametutorials.com has great C\C++ tutorials. They start at the basics - loops, ifs, input, output, then they goto functions and structures. Then they goto classes and what you can do with them. They also teach Win32 console functions which do a lot for the console programs. Finally they reach Win32 API and OpenGL.

They got like 100 tutorials from the ground up.

Jeff D

Bruce Eckel''s series of electronic books

,Jay

Congratulations on kicking the VB habit, welcome to REAL programming!