Strikes me that one or two of you might find this interesting if you've an interest in writing games and/or learning C++.
Back in mid-2006, GameDev.net ran a workshop on their forums that ran over 20 weeks or so to help motivated people to learn C++ with a focus on how it might be applied (simply) to games development.
From their workshop introduction:
The course appears to be relatively generic in terms of the C++ it teaches, focusing on using the free and legal Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition as the course recommended IDE and SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (5th Edition) as the course text.
Broadly, the book is divided up into 21 chapters, each chapter needing a few hours to get through and complete the exercises. Every 4/5 chapters, GameDev tutors post a (simple) game development project based on the stuff you should now know from the book. Their format was to do a chapter a week, though the first week was actually chapter 1 and 2.
I've started on this yesterday and I'm now complete on week 1's material, after about 4 or 5 hours of both reading the book, reading the forum threads and writing a little code. Admittedly, I'm an experienced C# programmer so a lot of the syntax and early concepts are familiar to me, though some are not and, in fact, work differently to C# at times!
Anyone else interested in working through this with me?
I'm going to carry on regardless but it might be interesting to compare notes and/or run our own study group on THN if there's a few of us...
[edit]Doh, almost forgot...[/edit]
The actual forum for the C++ workshop can be found here.
Back in mid-2006, GameDev.net ran a workshop on their forums that ran over 20 weeks or so to help motivated people to learn C++ with a focus on how it might be applied (simply) to games development.
From their workshop introduction:
C++ Workshop Introduction said:
The course appears to be relatively generic in terms of the C++ it teaches, focusing on using the free and legal Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition as the course recommended IDE and SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (5th Edition) as the course text.
Broadly, the book is divided up into 21 chapters, each chapter needing a few hours to get through and complete the exercises. Every 4/5 chapters, GameDev tutors post a (simple) game development project based on the stuff you should now know from the book. Their format was to do a chapter a week, though the first week was actually chapter 1 and 2.
I've started on this yesterday and I'm now complete on week 1's material, after about 4 or 5 hours of both reading the book, reading the forum threads and writing a little code. Admittedly, I'm an experienced C# programmer so a lot of the syntax and early concepts are familiar to me, though some are not and, in fact, work differently to C# at times!
Anyone else interested in working through this with me?
I'm going to carry on regardless but it might be interesting to compare notes and/or run our own study group on THN if there's a few of us...
[edit]Doh, almost forgot...[/edit]
The actual forum for the C++ workshop can be found here.
