Dark Bit Factory & Gravity
PROGRAMMING => C / C++ /C# => Topic started by: Shockwave on October 29, 2006
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Well, I guess that it was time I bit the bullet.. I am going to learn C++ and Fasm. I just invested £50 in books today (I know that there are plenty of great online tuts) spending the cash will make sure that I learn it because I hate to waste money.
I'll be posting my "hello worlds" in here for everyone to laugh at.
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Glad you bought the books! They will have lots of additional information. You will do great. I have faith in you!
HEHEHE then you have to teach me!
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good luck shockwave im rootin for ya!
you should have just got the books from the library and spent the money of booz :P
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I'm drunk half the time already mate :)
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That will help with the C++ programming! Please post your progress, I know this is something you've been trying to break in to for years.
Which compiler are you planning to use? I strongly recommend you go for Visual Studio Express 2005 http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/. That way you'll be able to write all the possible flavours of Windows code. It'll be a massive amount of downloading as you'll need the Platform SDK too, but it's probably worth it. devc++ while it's free and small isn't what the rest of the world are using.
Jim
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I'll take your word for that Jim and I'll use that.
You're right, I've wanted to do this for a long time, this is going to be the time that I do it!
Starting to look through the book last night it is obvious to me that I need to change the way I go about some of the things I do.. Up until now I have been an exclusively structured programmer.. OOP looks a completely different thing.
The two books I bought are;
Sams Teach yourself C++ in 21 days
Opengl distilled by Paul Martz.
The teach yourself one is going to be essential for me, I need to "unlearn" a lot of my bad habits before I do graphics stuff.
I am determined to make a good job of this so don't worry, I will definately be keeping the forum full of new C++ stuff I learn, even if it's just opening windows and stuff for the first few weeks :)
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If I can help, I'll be glad to after all the help you've given on the forum. I've programmed C for nearly 15 years: but no real C++ so do not ask me about templates and the standard C++ lib.
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Thank you Taj :) I'll almost certainly be asking you more than a few questions regarding tinycoding once I get off the starting blocks!
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I've got a couple of those sams books myself. I found them really good.
Is there any particular reason you want to learn c? Not that i think it's a bad idea :)
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@Shockwave:
Good luck. I didn't use C for a long time now and had just some basic knowledge of C++ but I
am of course willing to help you if I can.
Speaking of general OO I might help you because I am rather used to JAVA. Java is true OO
that's why OO with C++ might be a bit more difficult to understand. However once you are used
to thinking in objects it is really easy and makes larger projects better organisable (imho).
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Downloading it now :) 91mb!! Hehe.
Benny, this is all going to be new to me so don't be surprised when I bombard you all with millions of questions :)