I just started getting intrested in game programming about, 1 week ago. I have decided to learn C++, which will be the language i will use to programe my games. First off i need help on where i can learn C++ the best. Either on the Inetrnet or get a book?If a book, which one? So far i have been looking on the Internet for tutoral''s but i can''t find any. Another thing i am have trouble deciding is wether to use OpenGL or ActiveX. I have been told that OpenGL is better. Please help, i dont know where to start.

I''m relitivly new to the programming thing to. I just finished my first real game, it was a 2D platform game where u were a little green man and jumped between moving platform which appeared from the sides of the screen shooting the invading humans. I used 2 books to learn form, the first was tricks of the game programming gurus, by andre LaMothe, and the other was SAMS teach yourself DirectX in 24 hours. I found tricks was very detailed but sometimes too technical 4 me to understand fully, while tricks was somewhat lacking in details, like it said now we do this, code, but didn''t really explain how the code worked. But between them I managed to get a good idea of what I was doing and the game turned out pretty cool (extra special thanx to the people from this forum who helped when I got stuck). I used DirectX just because thats what the books were on.

good luck,
Ehren holgersson
ehren@sneaker.net.au

I thought ActiveX was for webpage stuff. ....Oh you mean directX

In my help letter i put in activex, when i was meant to say, directx. Thanks for the advice Eholga.

first off, visit my page! j/k i don''t have any tutorials but i do have some c and c++ compilers. i would suggest using the djgpp compiler because, if you''re like me, then you''re on a tight budjet, and it''s free. you can get it from www.delorie.com
if you want, though, you can use MS-VisualC++

awright, mostly i learnt c++ because i had a nice guru tutor in grade 12 to teach me, but he''s since graduated. some sites to check out:

http://www.progsharehouse.com/ <-- lotsa links to tutorials, including a good graphics tutorial, i can''t remember what it''s called

http://www.programmersheaven.com/ <-- they have alot of dl''s for much stuff

plz note, this is all for if you are a complete newbie like i was! alot of the stuff you can find at these places deals with DOS programming, which is a good pllace to start out if you want to learn the basics.

Just kill yourself and put us out of your misery.