Here we go!

[Shockwave]

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.

[lilw4t3rdr0p]

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!

[ninogenio]

good luck shockwave im rootin for ya!

you should have just got the books from the library and spent the money of booz 

[Shockwave]

I'm drunk half the time already mate

[Jim]

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

[Shockwave]

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

[taj]

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.

[Shockwave]

Thank you Taj I'll almost certainly be asking you more than a few questions regarding tinycoding once I get off the starting blocks!

[staticgerbil]

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

[benny!]

@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).

[Shockwave]

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