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Started by Asylum August 26, 2005 04:30 PM

4 comments, last by samuraicrow 18 years, 7 months ago

Asylum

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August 26, 2005 04:30 PM

I want to start a pong game but I don't know how to. Yes I do know how to code in C++, I have 5 days experience. People always tell me use SDL but I don't know what it really is, and can you give me a direct link to the windows download. Thanks in advance!

SiCrane

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August 26, 2005 04:32 PM

http://www.libsdl.org/index.php

Check out the FAQs section for the quick summary.

kontrolkl

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August 26, 2005 06:52 PM

You might also want nice tutorials to learn SDL.

Cone3d

cornerstone

lazyfooproductions

I Suggest you to start with cone3d. I used this one to start and learned pretty good.

SKATIN_HARD

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August 26, 2005 07:00 PM

Make sure you have all the console programs down. Program guess the number and hangman. Next, move on to sdl. The cone3D tutorials are amazing. I used them before and they were good. The 6 tutorials will tell you just about everything you need to program games with sdl and c++.

Dev-C++

ender7771

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August 26, 2005 07:53 PM

Do you know any other language besides C++? 5 Days of C++ is the equivalent of learning a foreign language on the airplane; you need more practice before you can get into advance topics like graphics.

samuraicrow

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August 26, 2005 08:21 PM

Yes. C++ is not a beginners' language. Start out with Python and the PyGame extension (it's just SDL for Python with a little extra simplifying code thrown in). That's a lot safer development environment.

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