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[MarauderIIC]

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projecteuler.net

Recommendations by community member anothrguitarist can be found in his content-heavy post here. I highly recommend reading his post in addition to this one.

C++ E-books (Found by davidthefat) Complete AFAIK
Mastering C++ (1999)
Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (2nd ed)

Actual books

• Programming Role Playing Games with DirectX 2nd ed. by Jim Adams
• Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus 2nd ed. by Andre LaMothe (out of print though...)
  Community member mllarson says that "both are full of wisdom on game programming."
• Additionally, see anothrguitarist's post here.

Videos

• antiRTFM´s tutorials C++ : "from youtube he explains very well and goes through all so you understand." (Recommended by Vortex)
• GyroVorbis' How-To Game Development Playlist videos

General Tutorials:
The more broad stuff.

• Stanford CS Education Library -- Lots of good documents on Pointers, Memory, Lists, Trees, Perl, and other stuff. (Thanks andrew)
• Eternally Confuzzled -- Advanced stuff on trees, sorting, hashing, lists, and more. (Thanks andrew)
• C++ about.com tutorial - For the basics. Please turn on your pop up stopper.
• NeHe Productions - OpenGL stuff. NeHe has bad style though.
• MS OpenGL intro - Technique is better than NeHe's (esp pixelformatdescriptor)
• theForger's Win32 API Tutorial - Basic windows programming
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming - THE tutorial/reference/document for sockets/internet programming!
• php.net - Main PHP site with tutorials & very thorough docs
• C#: Fahrenheit to Celsius tutorial - Thanks Keevu (OP)
• C++ Beginner's Guide on MSDN

Practice Exercises

• projecteuler.net

Specific tutorials:
These deal with very specific questions, issues, or techniques.

• Dynamically allocating multi-dimensional arrays
• Dynamically allocating multi-dimensional arrays, new vs delete
• Member function as a thread - How to make a class's function be in its own thread.
• The Matrix and Quaternions FAQ (Thanks M_D_K)
• David Henry's Homepage - 3D Modeling: Specs for md2, mdl and md5mesh/md5anim files including example apps & source (Thanks M_D_K)
• Al's Programming Resource - Win32, OpenGl, and ODE Physics tutorials (ThanksM_D_K)
• Isometrics (OP by andrew)
  • This article is pretty old(1996), but I'm sure you'll find it to be exactly what you're looking for
  • Here's another link that will also help

Documentation:

• cppreference.com - The only C++ reference you ever need, 75% of the time.
• Lua 5.1 Reference Manual - Official Lua docs
• MSDN Individual Control Reference Reference for each windows control
• OpenGL documentation - OpenGL docs. See links on the right of its page
• OpenGL documentation on Microsoft Developer's Network - More complete, but it's a bit maze-y.

Useful functions:
References to certain functions you might find useful.

• QueryPerformanceCounter() (Windows) - Use for random number generation.
• STL Optimization Techniques - How to use STL properly (ie, make it go faster).

Miscellaneous links:

• i++ vs ++i- Which is faster?
• programmersheaven.com - Good forums w/ pretty quick responses about anything any-language related.
• gamedev.net - Good forums, slower responses. Includes "Beginner forum".
• Guru of the Week - I think it's dead, but it still has an archive of specific issues and nifty solutions.
• thefreecountry.com - Free Programmers', Webmasters' and Security Resources

System-specific:

• PSP (Thanks to M_D_K)
  • psp-programming.com
    Has an active forum and tutorials on setting up the psp toolchain in cygwin and linux
    A few of the NeHe tutorials have been ported to psp as well
  • Yet another PSP Documentation
    Something all PSP devs needs. Too many things to list, falls just short of everything :)
  • Learn PSP Programming - Part 3: The Libraries
    List of libraries and how to get them to compile for the PSP

[Arce]

Your "Dynamically allocating multi-dimensional arrays " link no longer works. =/

[Falco Girgis]

Your "Dynamically allocating multi-dimensional arrays " link no longer works. =/

LOL!

C-style? You're better off vomiting into a scanner, using some sort of text detection software to make it into letters, and pasting it into your source code as a loader function than mucking with it in C.

j/k

[MarauderIIC]

lolno, fix'd.
Hey did you know the difference between malloc and new is that new calls constructors? (And delete calls destructors?)

[cypher1554R]

Does anyone know any good NEWER win32 programming guide.. like a book, e-book, site, or something..?

I bumped into a book:
Programming Windows - 5th edition by Charles Petzold

October 5, 1998 .. :s

[M_D_K]

If anyone is interested in the PSP

http://www.psp-programming.com/
Has an active forum and tutorials on setting up the psp toolchain in cygwin and linux, A few of the NeHe tutorials have been ported to psp as well

http://hitmen.c02.at/files/yapspd/psp_doc/frames.html
Something all PSP devs needs. Too many things to list, falls just short of everything

http://www.devsgen.com/index.php?option ... &Itemid=28
List of libraries and how to get them to compile for the PSP

Edit- Added to OP. --Mar

[MarauderIIC]

Does anyone know any good NEWER win32 programming guide.. like a book, e-book, site, or something..?

Apparently not =)

Also, adding PSP stuff

[cypher1554R]

Does anyone know any good NEWER win32 programming guide.. like a book, e-book, site, or something..?

Apparently not =)

No problem. I guess I'm okay to just roll with msdn resources & reference.

[M_D_K]

your welcome marauder. If i find anything else interesting I'll post links

[MarauderIIC]

added books that davidthefat posted here http://elysianshadows.com/phpBB3/viewto ... art=999999

[Falco Girgis]

For Lua programming, add the official reference: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html

It covers every function in the entire Lua library and also explains the basic software integration process.

Edit: Added to OP -- Mar

[Vortex]

http://www.youtube.com/antiRTFM

antiRTFM´s tutorials from youtube he explains very well and goes through all so you understand.

but im new to programming so if hes videos teach bad habids etc please tell me.

Edit: Added to OP --Mar

[mllarson]

Well, these aren't online resources, but a few dead tree resources I have are:
Programming Role Playing Games with DirectX 2nd ed. by Jim Adams
Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus 2nd ed. by Andre LaMothe (out of print though...)

Both are full of wisdom on game programming.

-Matt

Edit: Added to OP --Mar

[MarauderIIC]

Last edited by MarauderIIC on Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:06 pm, edited 26 times in total.
Reason: isometrics: nice hunting, andrew

Sorry I haven't added the videos or dead trees yet =p

[andrew]

Stanford CS Education Library -- Lots of good documents on Pointers, Memory, Lists, Trees, Perl, and other stuff.

Eternally Confuzzled -- Advanced stuff on trees, sorting, hashing, lists, and more.

Edit: Added to OP --Mar