I've been learning C++ for a while now from a book called 'Problem Solving with C++' and i feel i have the basics covered pretty well now. i can write simple programs and i pretty much know what everything means (syntax). However, i'm not sure what to do now. I would like to know more about GUI programming, and the windows API. Does anyone know a proper book, or possibly even a website (book prefered) that explains this well , and connects to my current knowledge? (just knowing the basics (classes, recursive programming, arrays, pointers, call by reference, function overloading, inheritence etc)
What i might also be interrested in , is learning something about OpenGL / DirectX programming.
What i just find important is that the source of information explains things clearly, and the information connects well with my knowledge this far so i won't be fully surprised about the new information, but can atleast understand it when reading it.
I hope someone can give me a pointer in the right direction,
Well I just looked for an hour straight through 20 torrent sites and 5 sharez sites. 200 forum pages in total. Have fun.
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In all honesty, the best tool to any programmer out there, especially with C++, is the MSDN. If you can't find it there, then it doesn't really exist.
I'd suggest starting by working with winforms, before moving on to OpenGL and DX. Maybe work with G3D for a while.
There are also numerous ebooks out there that'll help you. (Most can be found for free, some not)
Wouldn't Winforms mean you're using C++/CLR, if he wants to use 'normal' C++ I'd recommend MFC over Winforms (for GUI stuff). Orrr if you want to go really high peformance/low overhead then just do everything manually, it's ugly but that's the price you pay for speed. :P (I've never used Winforms in C++ but I'm pretty sure it runs off the CLR, in which case you may as well use C# which is a lot easier to code in for .NET)
hmm that stuff seems to be pretty far ahead of me -.- and the books posted here seem to cover more basic stuff that i already know. Maybe i'll start with network programming first (winsock etc) and possibly threads later and then possibly towards windows programming? don't know what subjects there are either.. Also in some codes (windows gui programming for example) i see variable declarations/initialisations that have a type that's unknown to me, and dont know the variables of that type are for (looked one up, but the explaination for it has mutliple terms i am not familiar with..)
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