I bet you guys are sick of this question, but here goes anyhoo:- I''m a computer science student, but having almost finished my degree I''m still hopelessly unequip to attempt even simple computer game programming. I''ve done advanced OO programming courses and have got an undergraduate''s understanding of Java (whatever that may equate to). I''ve never done any C or C++, but I picked up a beginner''s C++ book from the library and went through it in a few days, practising the unfamiliar concepts with Borland''s free compiler. So I''ve got the basics (OO aspects, data structures, pointers etc.) down. Soon I''ll have Visual C++ 6.0, and I''d like to start some simple 2D graphics programming, with the view to programming a simple game (The beginner''s path on this site suggested ''Tetris'', and that sounds pretty cool to me). So what''s my next move here? Most of the tutorials I find on the web are all about (seemingly) advanced 3D graphics. I just want to get a bitmap on the screen first! Friendly advice and guidance anyone? :D

Well, SDL uses OpenGL when it can,
but I''d still go for DirectX, since im used to it
Start with DirectDraw, but as soon as you got the basics figured out, drop it and check out how to do 2D with Direct3D instead.
This will give you a lot of hardware accelerated features that doesn''t exist in DirectDraw, plus DD doesn''t exist anymore, they just keep it in DX for compability.


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