What to do After Learning C++??? suggestions would be help!!
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What to do After Learning C++??? suggestions would be help!!
hey guys ive been doing c++ for about 2 years now and i am well versed in it. Ive been wonderiound if i should learn Sdl or Allegro to start with, to increase my knowledge. what do u guys think i should do??? also after i learn Allegro or SDL i wanna get into game engine development if you guys can name some great books or something that might help. plz and ty..
Re: What to do After Learning C++??? suggestions would be help!!
Well first of all find out exactly how familiar with C++ you actully are.
If you know
-Arrays
-Pointers, refrences and other data types and managment
-Functions
-At least basic object oriented design
etc
If not then you should spend a while longer with some more C++ books.
If your familiar with above then yes SDL or allegro would be the way to go if you intend to get into game development.
Assuming you are wanting to get into game programming then here is a link to Gryo's getting started videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAgpsks29W4
Otherwise if you just plainly want to advance your programming skills then I suggest you look into anything you might have missed, just search through some C++ books and you might find somthing you didn't know.
If you know
-Arrays
-Pointers, refrences and other data types and managment
-Functions
-At least basic object oriented design
etc
If not then you should spend a while longer with some more C++ books.
If your familiar with above then yes SDL or allegro would be the way to go if you intend to get into game development.
Assuming you are wanting to get into game programming then here is a link to Gryo's getting started videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAgpsks29W4
Otherwise if you just plainly want to advance your programming skills then I suggest you look into anything you might have missed, just search through some C++ books and you might find somthing you didn't know.
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Re: What to do After Learning C++??? suggestions would be help!!
I'm sorry... I'm gonna have to call fake. . There's just something in your post that makes me think you have only basic knowledge of c/++ at best. So... that'll make game programming more difficult.froggy wrote:hey guys ive been doing c++ for about 2 years now and i am well versed in it. Ive been wonderiound if i should learn Sdl or Allegro to start with, to increase my knowledge. what do u guys think i should do??? also after i learn Allegro or SDL i wanna get into game engine development if you guys can name some great books or something that might help. plz and ty..
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Re: What to do After Learning C++??? suggestions would be help!!
http://www.lazyfoo.net has some excellent tutorials on how to get started with SDL, provided you have basic C++ skills. I suggest you start there and see where it takes you
Re: What to do After Learning C++??? suggestions would be help!!
I'm not going to start pointing fingers but I have to agree, after two years you would have probably looked into SDL or Allegro irrelevant.adikid89 wrote:I'm sorry... I'm gonna have to call fake. . There's just something in your post that makes me think you have only basic knowledge of c/++ at best. So... that'll make game programming more difficult.froggy wrote:hey guys ive been doing c++ for about 2 years now and i am well versed in it. Ive been wonderiound if i should learn Sdl or Allegro to start with, to increase my knowledge. what do u guys think i should do??? also after i learn Allegro or SDL i wanna get into game engine development if you guys can name some great books or something that might help. plz and ty..
I started about 1/2 years ago and I never intended to get into game programming but I still stumbled upon SDL
Re: What to do After Learning C++??? suggestions would be help!!
I would suggest SDL over allegro, much better documentation and a really good dev community.
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Re: What to do After Learning C++??? suggestions would be help!!
Definitely, it didn't even take ME that long. It was about a year after I started. Mostly because I started learning Java after a year of C++ and had already made text based games :PN64vSNES wrote:I'm not going to start pointing fingers but I have to agree, after two years you would have probably looked into SDL or Allegro irrelevant.adikid89 wrote:I'm sorry... I'm gonna have to call fake. . There's just something in your post that makes me think you have only basic knowledge of c/++ at best. So... That'll make game programming more difficult.froggy wrote:hey guys ive been doing c++ for about 2 years now and i am well versed in it. Ive been wonderiound if i should learn Sdl or Allegro to start with, to increase my knowledge. what do u guys think i should do??? also after i learn Allegro or SDL i wanna get into game engine development if you guys can name some great books or something that might help. plz and ty..
I started about 1/2 years ago and I never intended to get into game programming but I still stumbled upon SDL
Oh, and learn SDL, I definitely recommend it to start with. I only ever briefly used Allegro (Like 2 weeks total), then decided SDL was for me. So I have no idea what to say about that one.
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Re: What to do After Learning C++??? suggestions would be help!!
I think I said that wrong lol, what I meant to say was I started allmost 2 years ago and I saw SDL/Allegro/D3D/PVR/GBADV/OGL etc about half a year into my programming "history"MadPumpkin wrote:Definitely, it didn't even take ME that long. It was about a year after I started. Mostly because I started learning Java after a year of C++ and had already made text based games :PN64vSNES wrote:I'm not going to start pointing fingers but I have to agree, after two years you would have probably looked into SDL or Allegro irrelevant.adikid89 wrote:I'm sorry... I'm gonna have to call fake. . There's just something in your post that makes me think you have only basic knowledge of c/++ at best. So... That'll make game programming more difficult.froggy wrote:hey guys ive been doing c++ for about 2 years now and i am well versed in it. Ive been wonderiound if i should learn Sdl or Allegro to start with, to increase my knowledge. what do u guys think i should do??? also after i learn Allegro or SDL i wanna get into game engine development if you guys can name some great books or something that might help. plz and ty..
I started about 1/2 years ago and I never intended to get into game programming but I still stumbled upon SDL
Oh, and learn SDL, I definitely recommend it to start with. I only ever briefly used Allegro (Like 2 weeks total), then decided SDL was for me. So I have no idea what to say about that one.
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Re: What to do After Learning C++??? suggestions would be help!!
It takes some longer than others. I know I didn't even try to learn C++ seriously until about a year after my first experience with it.