Sdl And C++ Tutorials?

[Shaking Your Fist Productions]

Sorry that I keep posting basically the same thing, but I can never find my previous topics on here (are they deleted?). Just wondering if theres any tutorials that could get me started on C++ here, if you guys can give me any links to anything, that would really help. Thanks!

 

[Nova]

Sorry that I keep posting basically the same thing, but I can never find my previous topics on here (are they deleted?). Just wondering if theres any tutorials that could get me started on C++ here, if you guys can give me any links to anything, that would really help. Thanks!

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But i thought you've already ported halo to the gpx2...

 

[Shaking Your Fist Productions]

Alright, first of all, its not a Halo port, its a fangame, 2d sidescroller in the style of Liero X, if you've ever played it. Second, I found out that the software I'm currently using doesn't work with the GP2X. So If anyone can help me, please do.

 

[jislizard]

Does it need to be in C or C++? I have been reading up on C but I guess I would have to do that even if it was C++

anyway for C

try
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/book/c_guide/index.html
or
http://www.c-for-dummies.com/
for help on compilers etc.
or
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/c.htm

I also got hold of the Dummies guide and a book with the catchy title of 'Algorithm and Program Design with C'

Don't rush though, it will be months before you get your hands on any hardware

 

[junker]

man, Digitalawakening already made a big thread on this!!
go to the gp2x dev forum and check out jislizard's links

 

[yaustar]

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showtopic=21190&st=15

Go with C first, it's a much smaller language then C++.

 

[codesmith]

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showtopic=21190&st=15

Go with C first, it's a much smaller language then C++.

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Definitely. C++ requires you to learn a more complex programming paradigm, which IMHO just gets in the way when you're just starting out. For proof of this, just go to your library and compare "The C programming language" by Kernighan and Ritchie with "The C++ programming language", by Stroustrup - both books describe their respective languages in similar detail and in a very similar style (hint: the C++ book is significantly bigger than the C book). Also, C++ is (mostly) a superset of C, so you won't have wasted your time learning C; you can use all the stuff you learnt in C (and most of the useful C functions you will end up keeping in your bag'o'tricks) when you "upgrade" to C++. The same applies to Java and C#, if you're considering either of those.

 

[Shaking Your Fist Productions]

Thanks for the help guys. I didn't realize that C was easier than C++.

 

[Inopia]

why people are even replying to these threads I'll never know

 

[Jengo]

why people are even replying to these threads I'll never know

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people are just trying to be nice, whats wrong with that anyway?

 

[iignotus]

why people are even replying to these threads I'll never know

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people are just trying to be nice, whats wrong with that anyway?

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Because the OP is obviously blind as a bat.

 

[PSyMastR]

Will anyone (I may do it) port the JAVA runtime to the GP2X? Because I can cook up a storm of stuff in that language, and if C++ isn't that different from java, then I may be able to learn that too, as they are both OOP langugaes, and share similar functions becuse of the 5.0 release of java (printf << >> etc...)

 

[Prothall]

I'm in roughly the same boat, PsyMastr. My understanding of C++ is that it's essentially Java without the same structuring, with most commands that don't reference some pre-made class or something being very similar if not the same - code inside a class (or whatver passes for one in C++) is often indistinguishable between Java and C++, at least at some levels.

 

[drocon]

except java is lame, slow, and the "platform-independant" part comes with a 50mb very platform-dependant interpreter.

learning java is almost as bad as learning vb. except it sounds smarter.

 

[Empyre]

Why isn't this thread moved to the GP2X coding forum?

 

[deadlychicken22]

except java is lame at slow at and the "platform-independant" part comes with a 50mb very platform-dependant interpreter.

learning java is almost as bad as learning vb. except it sounds smarter.

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oops......

I learned VB

It was just so simple I couldn't resist....

And now i'm having a hard time learning c++....

 

[yaustar]

Learn C instead, OO really only come to its own on large projects as it makes code more maintainable (although saying that Quake3 was in C I think).