Starting Fist C++ program

There''s this great thing called "Hello world". Try it.

Resist everyone
I am your only friend. Click here for more information.

mink_trapper.getBrain().initializeStroke();

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Original post by Ravuya
There''s this great thing called "Hello world". Try it.

Resist everyone
I am your only friend. Click here for more information.

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I'' already done that. I even made a math prorgam to solve the quadratic equatoin for me. But i wanna try more than that. that was easy.

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Make a small pong game.

Number guessing game.

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Original post by aftermath
Make a small pong game.

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sadly, i think that would be too much for me right now. Unless there is a site out there with a tutorial that can walk me through it to help me understand what everyhting is while i do it.


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make a string class. Thats what I did to learn classes/operator overloading. also when I learned why you sometimes need a copy constructor/assignment operator

Write Drug Wars, like on the TI-83.

Don''t laugh, I''m not kidding. It''s easy and curiously fun

For something somewhat easy, you could write a text-based tic-tac-toe game. If you haven''t been programming long, it might be a lot of work since you might do things the hard way, but you can still complete it that way. You could make it two player at first, where it prints the board and gets the number of a square 1-9 from a player then does likewise for the other player, then eventually you could try to make a basic AI for it to pick a good square, and then you could try to make a perfect AI that never loses, etc.

Try this:

#include                                                               <ddraw.h>
#define B(x,y,r,p) (p&1<<(((x^(r+1&2?3:0))<<(r*2&2))+((y^(r&2?3:0))*(r&1?1:4))))
#define F(x,y,w,h,c) {RECT R={x,y,x+w,y+h};b.dwFillColor=c;_->Blt(&R,0,0,k,&b);}
char *m="Tetris\0By Pouya Larjani\0Score:\0Next:\0GAME OVER",z[9]; unsigned L=16
,k=16778240,Q=9,I,x=9,n,y,r,p,i,a,t,u,v,e,s[30][20],P[]={1632,75328,83488,74274,
222272,221728,206368};DDBLTFX b={100};LPDIRECTDRAW d;LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE V,_;HDC
q;HWND W;LOGFONT l={96,48};MSG g;DDSURFACEDESC S={108,33,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,{536}};HFONT f=CreateFontIndirect(&l);DDSCAPS c={4};X()
{for(i=1;i<30;i++){a=1;for(I=0;I<20&&aa=s[i][I++]);if(a){for(I=i*20+19;I>=20;s[
I/20][I%20]=s[I/20-1][I--%20]);e++;return 1;}}return 0;}M(int p){return(++p<<21&
1<<23|p<<14&1<<15|p<<7&1<<7)+8355711;}K(int v){return GetAsyncKeyState(v)&32768;
}O(int x,int y,int r,int p){for(I=0;I<L;I++)if(B(I%4,I/4,r,P[p])&&(x+I%4<0||x+I%
4>19||y+I/4<0||y+I/4>29||s[y+I/4][x+I%4]))return 0;return 1;}void G(){v=r;t=x;u=
y;TranslateMessage(&g);DispatchMessage(&g);(g.message==275&&Q)?SetTimer(W,1,1050
-50*((e<100)?e/5:20),0),u++:K(38)?v=r?v-1:P[p]>>16&3:K(37)?t--:K(39)?t++:K(40)?u
++:K(27)?PostQuitMessage(0):0;if(O(t,u,v,p))x=t,y=u,r=v;else if(u-y){for(I=0;I<L
;I++)if(B(I%4,I/4,r,P[p]))s[y+I/4][x+I%4]=1<<23;y?p=n,y=0,n=rand()%7,x=9,r=0:Q=0
;while(X());}}void R(){F(0,0,640,480,1<<15);for(I=0;I<600;I++)F(I%20*L,I/20*L,L,
L,s[I/20][I%20]);for(I=0;I<L;I++){if(B(I%4,I/4,r,P[p]))F((x+I%4)*L,(y+I/4)*L,L,L
,M(p));F(336+I%4*L,400+I/4*L,L,L,B(I%4,I/4,0,P[n])?M(n):0);}_->GetDC(&q);itoa(e,
z,10);SelectObject(q,GetStockObject(13));SetTextColor(q,M(6));SetBkMode(q,0);V->
Restore();TextOut(q,336,120,m+7,L);TextOut(q,336,340,m+24,6);TextOut(q,408,340,z
,strlen(z));TextOut(q,336,380,m+31,5);TextOut(q,444,300,m+37,9-Q);SelectObject(q
,f);TextOut(q,336,20,m,6);_->ReleaseDC(q);V->Flip(0,1);}WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE
h,HINSTANCE,char*,int){srand(timeGetTime());WNDCLASS w={0,DefWindowProc,0,0,h,0,
0,0,0,m};RegisterClass(&w);W=CreateWindow(m,m,2432696320,0,0,640,480,0,0,h,0);p=
rand()%7;ShowCursor(0);DirectDrawCreate(0,&d,0);d->SetCooperativeLevel(W,83);d->
SetDisplayMode(640,480,32);d->CreateSurface(&S,&V,0);V->GetAttachedSurface(&c,&_
);n=rand()%7;SetTimer(W,1,0,0);while(g.message!=18)PeekMessage(&g,0,0,0,1)?G():R
();int U=0;V->Release();d->Release();DestroyWindow(W);DeleteObject(f);return U;}
 

[edited by - Superpig on January 24, 2004 10:16:35 PM]

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Original post by Extrarius
For something somewhat easy, you could write a text-based tic-tac-toe game. If you haven''t been programming long, it might be a lot of work since you might do things the hard way, but you can still complete it that way. You could make it two player at first, where it prints the board and gets the number of a square 1-9 from a player then does likewise for the other player, then eventually you could try to make a basic AI for it to pick a good square, and then you could try to make a perfect AI that never loses, etc.

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I like that idea. I''ll try it!

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"It takes all kinds." -Adam Carolla

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Original post by Promit
Write Drug Wars, like on the TI-83.

Don''t laugh, I''m not kidding. It''s easy and curiously fun

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got a link? I''m actually curious as to how that used to play out?

omfg i never wrote a fist program

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Original post by Extrarius
For something somewhat easy, you could write a text-based tic-tac-toe game. If you haven't been programming long, it might be a lot of work since you might do things the hard way, but you can still complete it that way. You could make it two player at first, where it prints the board and gets the number of a square 1-9 from a player then does likewise for the other player, then eventually you could try to make a basic AI for it to pick a good square, and then you could try to make a perfect AI that never loses, etc.

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Yeah, I did one of those. Check it out


- CD

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Edit: Fixed the link, which didn't work (damn Geocities)

[edited by - Code_Dark on January 25, 2004 4:06:31 AM]

"Starting Fist C++ program"

Now, is this some school about a sexual activity?

Hmmm..

Try messing around with structs and classes, make a small text adventure style game - hold all of the info within structs and classes (structs for POD [plain old data] and a class for things like hp, mana, etc.). Make a simple algorithm within all of this (using multi dimensional arrays [two dimensional to save on memory, and for simplicity] within a class or struct, up to you - or perhaps even a union!) to calculate leveling and money and all that jazz.

Try that out, it should be rather easy.

Have fun!

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[edited by - Drevay on January 25, 2004 6:19:07 AM]

A MMORPG game seems to be a pretty popular choice. So I would recommend making one.

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Original post by fredizzimo
A MMORPG game seems to be a pretty popular choice. So I would recommend making one.

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Yeah, I''ve noticed that too. "Okay, ''Hello World'' is done! Where can I get a team to make the next EVARQUEST!?!!~"


- CD

Write some programs that force you to learn all the complicated object-oriented shit you glossed over in you intro C++ book. Also learn about data structures such as linked lists, stacks, and trees.

Then when you learn directX you won''t be like, "OMFG this is complicated!" which is what I was like.

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