Does anyone know any good c++ tutorials, ive gotten past the early beginning the "hello world" n such, and im in the IF Else logics, switches n such.

Gimme a holler if you have any good pointers or suggestions

I would be inclined to go for this one:-

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

BUT - I am a near-total newbie so don't follow me blindly!

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Hey Solrus!

Being an acomplished programmer/tool maker as you are, i have a few questions

what languages/programs do you use when writing your programs/code?

what c++ compiler do you prefer?

Do you know "Microsoft visual C++ 6.0"?

.....and is it anygood?

have you got any other advice or pointers for a wanna be programmer/game creator ?

also im looking for bigger (than the small code examples) acessible C++ code examples or programs
,so if you got any links up your sleave then please post thx m8

More questions for mr. Solrus

Dude, know that i got your attention, can you tell me a bit about your experiences with the different game engine parts?

Have you ever built a game from one of the open source engines?

Which engine would you say was good and easy to start with for your first game?

Have you ever put together a complete game engine?

If so what "Renderer" do you prefer?

Can you tell me a bit about your experiences with gamephysics?

...I hope this is not too many questions, thx in advance. Ras

Tutorials: http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/cpptutor.html

Book: http://www.amazon.com/3D-Game-Engine-Pr ... 591&sr=8-1

This is one of a set of books for the game developer, there are several.

I would recommend using this only as a learning tool, as the engine in it was old when I bought it years ago.

Well, if you need anything write at my ICQ (pm for it if you want) I am programming in C++ quite... first you should try to make some really stupid, but simple apps. Don't mean making hello world stuff again and again but working with classes, fields etc.

for those you don't need any engine...

get VS 2008 Express C++
http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/#webInstall

Then get some nice book.. try searching for:

- Learning C++ in 21 days
- Thinking in C++

There is also one great publication "Mistrovství v C++" but it's in Czech so you probably won't read (maybe it's somewhere in english I don't know saw it only in this version, the exact transl. is "Mastery of(in?) C++" )

When you got one read it all and make their exercises. I don't want to say anything on online tutorials but if you take book and tut you will see difference on your own At least, it's paper and you don't have to switch windows

To the questions for Solurus, I'll answer from my view:

1. No, but I tried (succesfuly) modify Freespace 2 code

2. I would write my own because my first game will be really simple and engine would just blow my mind away

3. If you take my age of 16 the answer NO is reasonable, but I'm looking forward working in those areas But wahtever I built my very own calculator which got much of improvments and can not be compared with windows calculator (for more pm me I'll maybe share you some code for educ. but it don't lie within this topic much)

4. The question is .. for what:
- DirectX for Windows for sure
- OpenGL for anything else
Note that you can build OpenGL apps for windows too but DirectX is just too great

5. Well there are non.
Not because I don't know about it but it doesn't fir in anything I made for now. Lancer, if I can, I'll correct you. You don't need math, you need the formulas from physic mainly. The computer will compute everything, BUT you need math at second place surely, because all programing is about algorythm and those are areas of logic -> math. So well you need to know all 3

Then it's just easy to make gold ball and use:

m = Ro * V
F = m * g

And you get the gravitation force. You'll just specify constants and set your only value, the volume (which can be again calculated with math formula from radius )

So if you want help pm and I wish you all good. Happy playing with C++

Nice one dark raven

how about posting a link to ur calculator?

Or even better.....the code?

i understand if its a private project..

thx dude.

ONE MORE IMPORTANT QUESTION:

Which C++ compiler is the best?

Is it/or is there a good freeware compiler out there?

Is Visual Studio 2008 express the top of the line freeware C++ compiler?