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Title: Time to get started... Post by: Noma89 on May 11, 2004, 06:37:47 pm I'm out of ideas. Of gone to every possible programming forum, and have been turned down by programmers left and right. I've got all summer long until I take classes for C++ in the next school year, so I've decided to teach myself. If anyone could tell me what is required to program in C/C++, please tell me. Also, if someone could give me some links to resources, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks. Title: Time to get started... Post by: bEn on May 12, 2004, 09:48:29 am Damn I knew I forget sth... you posted the same some time ago...
First thing to get is a compiler and an IDE ... I think that means Integrated development Environment tho I"m not sure... nevertheless it basically means that you have a text editor with syntax highlighting (so you have a better visual impression of your code) and you can start the compiler by clicking or keyboard shortcut. Popular IDEs are -Eclipse (free, tho you must install the C++ plugin yourself - http://www.eclipse.org/) -Visual C++ (commercial MS product tho the compiler was released for free recently - nevertheless 6.0 is worth the 10 bucks you gotta pay for it .. tho it is rather old) -Bloodshed Dev-C++ (free, based on a Linux compiler so everything you program must be portable or Linux C++ http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html) Next step will be to learn C++ I am still looking for good tutorials (can"t remember a site at the moment) but there are several sites you will love once you learned C++: www.cplusplus.com - a site containing the c++ docu - great for research http://nehe.gamedev.net/ - a site containing all zou need to learn OpenGL http://www.gamedev.net/ - general game development Last but not least a list of tutorials - tho I didn"t check them according to quality http://cplus.about.com/library/blcplustut.htm http://www.intap.net/~drw/cpp/ http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ http://www.gnacademy.org/text/cc/Tutorial/tutorial.html http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/C++/ http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/cppcen.html Title: Time to get started... Post by: Noma89 on May 14, 2004, 10:09:30 pm Thanks heaps bEn. I did post this on the "SF Creation" thread, but no one answered, so I posted it here. Thanks for the help. Hopefully, I can get everything ready to do some learnin' by tomorrow, since I probably have more free time than a rotting corpse. :lol: RJ, get ready to start those stat calculations!! :lol: :D
Title: Time to get started... Post by: Satan on May 15, 2004, 04:33:40 am Heh, fun. Don't worry, I have my trusty calculator. *calculator falls on floor and breaks* *runs away*
Title: Time to get started... Post by: Noma89 on May 18, 2004, 04:02:08 am Hey! I know were you live! Besides, I have another calculator. :D
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