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Major Payn
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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 04:26
I have a ton of books over C++, and if I really want to presue a career in the game industry, I need to learn it! So I was looking for good, free compilers/IDE's and I find out about Dev C++, it looks like a good free IDE, but there are a few things I want to know first. Is it only an IDE? Or does it come with a built in compiler? And is it a good program?

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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 04:30
I had some problems with Dev-C++, but it is still a good piece of software. I switched over to MinGW Dev Studio, very good also.


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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 04:40
Does it come with a compiler? Because I am new to all this setup stuff, I just want to download and start coding.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 05:32
Dev C++ 5 is excellent, even if it's in beta, it's a whole lot less buggy than Dev C++ 4.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 05:41
Nobody answered his question. Yes, Dev-C++ comes with the MinGW compiler. I'm starting out learning C++ using Dev-C++, and I really enjoy it. I'm still quite a n00b though, barely past the "Hello world" stage of C++

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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 05:57
I have just downloaded it. Its got some good examples. One of them is a word editor exactly like notepad.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 06:19
Thanks, I will be downloading it shortly!

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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 06:22
Dev-CPP is my personal favorite. The WebUpdate feature is priceless. Version 4.9.9.0 doesn't have many bugs, as far as I can tell. But it is definately worth getting.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 06:53
its very good i know C++ i moved to darkBASIC becauseits very hard to write something in it

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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 06:59
hard to write some thing in C++ that is

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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 08:48
ok its easy to write text based programes that is not actual 2D or 3D games but heres a code from a pirteadventure game written in c++ take it for a spin!



//1.4 - Pirate Musketeer Game - Dirk Henkemans -
//Prima Publishing
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std; //introduces namespace std

int main( void )
//tells a pirate story
{
int buddies;
int afterBattle;
string exit;

cout<< "You are a pirate and are walking"
<< " along in the crime filled " << endl
<< "city of Havana (in 1789). "
<< "How many of your pirate buddies "<<endl
<<"do you bring along? (lots)"<<endl;
//records the amount of friends you bring along
cin>>buddies;
//calculates the amount of pirates left after the battle.
afterBattle = 1 + buddies - 10;
cout<< "Suddenly 10 musketeers jump out "
<< "from the local tavern and " <<endl
<< "draw their swords. "
<< "10 musketeers and 10 pirates die in the " <<endl
<< "battle. There are only "
<<(buddies + 1 - 10)<< " pirates left." <<endl
<<endl;
cout<< "They drop 107 gold coins. That is "
<<(107 / afterBattle)
<< " gold coins each." <<endl;
cout<< "There is a big drunken brawl for the last "
<<(107 % afterBattle)<< " coins.";
//pauses so you can see the result
cin>>exit;

return 0;
}




its text based tho

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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 10:14
Is that it? Thats a text based game? Must be short

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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 11:21
yeah kind of but its fun some what i have more code if you want me to post more text based stuff

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Major Payn
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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 12:21
I was thinking about making a Text based adventure game as my first C++ game, and I'm just releaved to see that it's not to big a process.

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Posted: 12th Oct 2004 03:39
hehe.... if i only think small


im planning a modeller using directx for my api... would use dbpro but cant put infomation in windows....


plus its a challenge



btw this c++ project is a secret and there is to be more features...

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Posted: 12th Oct 2004 08:32 Edited at: 12th Oct 2004 08:32
Speaking of Dev C++... 10 year olds are more simple minded than adults and teenagers. Is there a tutorial for Dev C++ easy enough for me? Thanks!

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Posted: 12th Oct 2004 09:39
There's no tutorial on Dev. It's incredibly easy to use. Just go to New->Project and select the project type.

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Posted: 12th Oct 2004 11:14
your best bet is finding a book dealing with windows c++ programming, yet not visual c++, as the two are a bit different and would cause you headaches.. The ideal is to find a book covering mingw... good luck


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DarKLE
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Posted: 13th Oct 2004 10:32
c++ for dummies teaches you dev-C++ its a great book that how i learned c++ but it takes 78 lines just to make a cube spind in C++ 78 LINES! in DB its only 4 lines!

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Posted: 13th Oct 2004 10:50 Edited at: 13th Oct 2004 10:53
Quote: "78 LINES!"


Ah, but you feel a greater accomplishment with those 78 lines than 4 lines will ever make you feel. And you'd better get used to long programs if you wanna go into C++ (or programming in general). They can get pretty long. Took me 1037 lines to get this in C++ w/OpenGL (something that someone could probably do in about 100 or so in DBPro):
http://www.ppcdesigns.com/public/WIPNWCTransversion4.JPG

And if you're looking for easy tutorials, just start out with the ones that everyone uses at first. Hello World, Variables, Input and Output through the console, etc. Easy stuff. Don't jump into graphics until you have all of that stuff down. But if you're just starting out, it'll probably look like hell to you. Take it slow, you'll learn it in time (and you should also check out if there are some C++ classes in your area, might make things a bit easier).

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Posted: 13th Oct 2004 10:58
Nope, no C++ classes, I live in a little town in south texas and half the people around here don't know how to turn on a computer let alone program something, but I have books, and an internet full of knowledge.

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