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c++ for beginners, now what?

I just finished a c++ for beginners book. I know the basics, can build some pretty nice console apps and stuff, but my question is; Where do i go from here? I cant seem to find anything that transistions into windows apps/games and things like that. It seems that all the books/tutorials are all either very beginner or advandced, I feel kinda stuck. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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  • 2 decades ago
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    Take a C++ course at a local community college. That's how I learned Java.

    Once you're feeling up to it, search the internet for "Design Patterns". You'll find lots of references. Design Patterns are to Object Oriented programming what Data Structures are to Procedural programming.

    If you can start to become familiar with Design Patterns, then you're C++ coding will become much better.

    Good Luck.

  • mckain
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    4 years ago

    i might shop far off from C++ till you come across this is needed use it. to assert that this is horribly designed may well be giving it too plenty credit, as that could desire to point that there replaced into some attempt made to certainly layout it. C is a perfectly easy language, syntactically speaking. In different phrases, there are a quite small set of aspects to the language itself this is needed study. This makes it much less complicated to overview, even though it additionally forces you to be extremely innovative to get issues achieved. C# is a nicely-designed language. in case you may get a replica of seen Studio, i might especially advise going with C#. it would have a much better required preliminary investment than C, yet as quickly as you get previous some hurdles, you will finally end up being waiting to do plenty greater advantageous than you would be doing with basically C. once you be working Linux, look in to the Mono undertaking for concepts on programming in C# in Linux. sturdy success! P.S. - C# is an ISO and ECMA standardized language that has extremely some implementations to boot those presented via Microsoft. this is basically as proprietary as Python (Guido ruled), Ruby (Matz ruled), or Java (sunlight ruled).

  • 2 decades ago

    Get the bloodshed dev-cpp system and download the SDL (graphic/sound/and more) libraries. There is lots of good stuff on the SDL site that you can learn from by example.

    Hundreds of SDL-based games/apps/tools/demos are available there, some simple and some quite sophisticated.

  • 2 decades ago

    Try to search the internet. There are many tutorials regarding C++, even more on building games.

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  • 2 decades ago

    There r lots of advanced topics..

    Smart pointers, templates, COM/DCOM etc..

    try VC++ or gcc(4 all platforms other than windows.)

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