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Hey everyone, In addition to... Lazy Foo's Tutorial http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/index.php "SDL Game Development" - Shaun Mitchell book are there any other recommended resources (does not have to be SDL) people could suggest? I've already created a console-based text adventure game and am really interested in expanding it into a text-adventure game …

Hey everyone, I'm trying to convert some values to ASCII characters. I understand that this is possible through means of something like this: std::cout << (char)0x31 << std::endl; // prints 1 std::cout << (char)0x4C << std::endl; // prints L However, my problem is that i have char array that contains …

Hey everyone, Got 2 questions here that i'm hoping will be answered. Say i have 2 variables int iValue; int iValueArray[300]; and later on init. them in the constructor Banana::Banana(): ival(0), ivalArray() {} 1. What would the ivalArray() indicate? Would it be the same as initializing every element to null/empty? …

Hey guys, Not sure if i should be posting this here so i'll just give it a shot. I've been planning a board game but as of this moment i'm just thinking of concepts for the movement of a player. Because it is an Alien theme where aliens invade earth …

Hey Guys, Really want to learn Java and hope you guys could recommended some Beginner, Intermediate and Expert books/resources (e.g. websites) As of this moment i'm thinking of... Beginner: Java for Dummies, Thinking in Java Intermediate: Effective Java Expert: In addition, it'd be also be awesome if any recommendations of …

std::endl vs \n Are any particular one which should be used at specific times? I understand endl flushes the stream (although i'm not 100% what this means) while \n is simply a newline.

Is anyone familiar with "removing" an image from screen with SDL? It's just simply a toggle on/off function that i'm looking for. I don't really want to free/release the image, since i intend on using it again throughout the program. switch (e.key.keysym.sym) { case SDLK_a: drawSDL_RenderFillRect(...); break; case SDLK_b: **remove …

Hey guys, Was wondering if someone could assist me in elaborating the c_str() function... I understand that it returns a pointer to an array that contains a null-terminated sequence of character but could someone further elaborate upon this, perhaps with a simple example. Cheers,

So i've decided to use SFML and i'm just trying to figure out its advantages and disadvantages...I've looked around and this is what i've got so far. Advantages: * Cross Platform * OO Design * Simple and fast (subjective) Disadvantages: * Quite new Any additional thoughts will again appreciated

Hey everybody, As of this moment i'm trying to work out how to approach a state design. I've come across Source Makers' site [http://sourcemaking.com/design_patterns/state/cpp/1](http://sourcemaking.com/design_patterns/state/cpp/1) and am testing out the example. The program works fine when it's all in 1 file, although i had to change some stuff in main, but …

Sup everyone, Does anyone have any recommended tutorials/sites for Hash maps? I'm planning to use it to create and link "locations" in a basic text-based game but i've looked around and there seems to be a lot of description on hashmaps but not much tutorial/examples for them. Any sort of …

Hey guys, I'm interested in learning about simple multithreading in C++ for Windows. Does anyone have any reccommended tutorials/links thats quite good?

Just wanted to say hello to everyone on this forum! I'm very excited to join this community and hope everyone is nice :P I'll try my best to help people though i am only an Beginner-intermediate programmer in C++ and C#

Hey everyone, Just trying to add to a scoreboard from a different class. The problem is that i'm not sure how to add to a scoreboard that has been previously defined in a different class. As i've instantiatied i'm assuming that has made a whole new Game (with a new …

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/basic_io/ http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/functions/ Sounds like a simple program. Have a look at these tutorials to start out.

i believe you can use reserve() to increase the capacity of a vector. For example... vector<int> vec(10, 0) // initalize all 10 elements to 0 vec.reserve(20) //reserve more memory for 20 elements in total.

Hey Guys, Was wondering if anyone could help me with this sort function for a vector of struct type. What i'm aiming to do is to make a score board being based on a player's score and print out the scores (along with the name) in descending order. I've looked …