I have experience in other languages, visual basic, perl and java script,(used at work) but I switched to C for game dev and have been coding in it for about a year or more. But I first started off trying to learn C++ first. I would see alot of small *tip sections that stated, learning C first would be a better approach at learning C++. So I took that route. Needless to say I love C. I could go on talking about C but I wont. My question is this. I have programmed my first game. (---play applause track here---) small but Im happy with it, and I can see where C++ would help. You know inheritance, classes, the whole OOP bit. QUESTION: Is the transistion between C and C++ really that difficult and is it common to mix the two while coding, if its even practical. (Thinking of switching for more control flow and structure over my code, just looking for opinions) a_insomniac If my compiler was voice activated with the voice of my mother-in-law....there would be no errors!

C++ is a lot easier than you think, even easier than C IMHO. I still use C functions, but use C++ code structure for better performance.

JoeMont001@aol.com www.polarisoft.n3.net

Heya, I cant understand peoples reasoning about C++ being like a totally different language.

Its just an extension of C, which gives you some extra tools which (GREATLY) help data structure management mainly. Its actually pretty easy to convert someones C code (eg structs) to C++ (classes).

Grab an intermediate C++ textbook or the C++ for Dummies, which explains C++ to people who know C already. Learn classes and pointers and you will be on the way

Cel

Hmmm, well im glad to here that it is like that, I already know pointers fairly well and I figured the part about structs to classes.
What gets me is when people say. "The difficult part is getting someone to think in terms of Objects" being object oriented .

Thats what makes it seem like a totally different language because of style change and Modular to Object oriented style of thinking .

a_insomniac

I still have trouble deciding how my object should interact, I always end up with pointers to parent objects in my contained classes. It seems to snowball too, you add this function that calls the same type of function in that class, and that class calls yet antoher same-type function in some other class...