My Journey

This week was a week off from university; what did I do you ask? Learnt C++ of course!

I've covered all the changes from C to C++ and started learning a bit about classes.

Beginning C++ Through Game Programming is an excellent introduction to C++ and I greatly recommend it. There is a problem though, where to go from here? Every book I've found is either for beginners or advanced, where is the intermediate books? I may have to teach myself through experimentation or move onto another language such as Java.

But I like C++, it's the industry standard, so I'm going to learn OpenGL or SDL (graphics libraries for making games I believe, I want to start in 2D obviously).

More info soon, I promise!

Well that was my final C assignment (more information coming, be patient please!); so now I'm getting ready to move onto C++.

The course officially doesn't start C++ until 3rd of October but I'm getting a few weeks head start to ensure I do well.

The book I'll be using to begin with is a book I bought a few years ago but never attempted very far past chapter two: Beginning C++ Through Game Programming.
Amazon has it listed at $5.91 (US), I recall paying a lot, lot more than that so it's certainly a bargain now.

I'll also be using the last few chapters of Engineering Problem Solving with C and C: How to Program as they include introductory chapters to C++ (the former has C++ for almost half of the book!).

So finally, finally, I should be able to make games as C++ is such an object oriented language. Hopefully you'll see playable games, albeit not great ones, within the next few weeks!