learn c++ basics to make better games

[simranjit]

Here is a PDF book explaining basics of c++
You should read it and uunderstand the basic concepts if you have no experience with programming languages
All topics are well explianed and I myself read it to clear some doubts.
Its a PDFversion of online classes available at cplusplus.com
Its a bit old version and not suitable to learn c++ but its suitable for game editor c scripting ,but if you wish to learn c++ you should visit cplusplus.com
Here is the book

cplusplus classes.zip

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[simranjit]

I see,
there are many downloads but no one wants to cast vote.
Perhaps there must have been another option for "I don't know"

[digiot]

I see,there are many downloads but no one wants to cast vote.
Perhaps there must have been another option for "I don't know"

No, a poll is totally unnecessary here.
Instead, let me thank you for the tip. I have many C/C++ tutorials, but this one
was new to me.
It covers C and C++ as well, very useful.

Cheers !

[Zivouhr]

I'm still learning about C, but will C++ be applicable to Game Editor's C coding?

[koala]

I'm still learning about C, but will C++ be applicable to Game Editor's C coding?

I didn't try to code in C++. C and C++ are similar. As the name says, C++ is upgrade of C. I don't know can you do object-oriented programming in Game Editor, like making classes, but knowing C++ will help you understand some concepts in Game Editor. For instance [actor_name].[attribute] is something you will always use in C++.

[Zivouhr]

Thanks Koala for the info. I did find out through my C studies that "//" was integrated into C from C++, as the C version /* was more cumbersome compared to // . As you can see, I have much to learn.

[Rebenely]

This question might be odd, but I just want to know. I learned C and C++ from school. We are already done with some elementary data structures such as structs, linked lists, stacks, queues. I just want to know how these things can be implemented in game editor. I really can't understand. I was once thinking that structs can be used to give attributes to an actor, but I am not so sure how to do that.

[koala]

This question might be odd, but I just want to know. I learned C and C++ from school. We are already done with some elementary data structures such as structs, linked lists, stacks, queues. I just want to know how these things can be implemented in game editor. I really can't understand. I was once thinking that structs can be used to give attributes to an actor, but I am not so sure how to do that.

You can add attributes to an actor if you click on Variables button in Script Editor and there you can choose a variable to be Actor Variable. However, you can choose only integer, double and string. So using struct in this case is really good idea. You could make a struct:

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typedef struct attributes {
    Actor* act;
    int array[10];
} Attributes;

This way Actor that is pointed by act has its array of 10 integers. Not really attributes, but this is a good idea.

[PerrySteven]

I would agree that you can't depend on the Event Based functions all your life, but I would suggest learning the fundamentals of C, instead of C++. C++ is a rather messy programming language, and I would say it's for professionals.

Just C gives a better feel for programming, and thus can make understanding of other programming languages easier.

[bat78]

Oh, now that I read this topic..

C++ has nothing to do with C except for some inherited keywords and the re-implemented standard libraries. This unites them.
C and C++ are close on lexical level, to some extent on syntactic and most of the differences are in semantic level.
Besides, C++ is Objected Oriented Programming Language while C is procedural.
Yes, C is capable to recreate some Object Oriented rules but that's it. And this is much of a bad idea.