C++ Tutorials

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This area will contain various learning infos on C++ and game programming. If you have any questions about programming in Pascal(DOS) or C++(DOS or Windows), feel free to contact me. The information in these tutorials is not a replacement for a good book and/or teacher since I can only put as much information my spare time and experience allows me, but it will be a good start.

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Learning C/C++ without classes

This tutorial requires some programming skills from any other language, espically BASIC or Pascal, since this will only explain working with the language C/C++, not programming in general.

Updated: I went through and fixed up a lot of minor errors and formatting in the document and updated it for the new C++ standards to make the code modern and correct.

Tutorial here.
This tutorial is "finished"

Learning Allegro

This tutorial requires C programming skills (as provided above). It also has a tutorial for using MSVC with Allegro step-by-step that assumes no previous MSVC knowledge.

Tutorial here.
This tutorial is "finished"

Learning Object Oriented Programming in C++

This tutorial requires good C++ skills (as provided above).

Tutorial here, last updated 1/24/09 + fix example in chapter 4 on 1/22/2009
The first five chapters are done, the sixth is unfinished.

Addendum to Learning OOP in C++

Some important things to realize about the previous tutorial, and explains the changes that have occurred due to the new ISO C++ 98 standard, which is very standard now but was very new and not supported when I wrote most of the tutorial in 99.

Discusses namespaces and the new include files, iostreams, and the STL.

Tutorial here

Appendices

Appendix A -- Escape Characters
Appendix B -- ios manipulators used with the << operator
Appendix C -- ios flags
Appendix D -- Variable Capacities (Chart in C/C++ Tutorial)
Appendix E -- Debugging Pointers (Chart in C/C++ Tutorial)
Appendix F -- Linklists vs Arrays
Appendix G -- Data Hiding in Inheritance

The Mini-Dictionary

A small dictionary regarding some common and hard to understand terms on the site, found here.