Getting Started: Help beginnner need urgent help before he can start

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GameProgrammer.Com: Getting Started: Help beginnner need
urgent help before he can start
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By Joshua Frazer on Wednesday, September 6, 2000 - 08:41 pm:

 yes, i have that same kit.  What the kit is missing is an
in depth book on actaully programming.  2 of the books are
just on using Visuall Studios C++ compiler(Visuall C++ 6)
and the other one is on advanced use of C++.  You can find
tutorials on basic C++ at cplus.about.com, you will want to
learn these first thing.  You can do nothing without a good
knowledge of programming, you cant learn graphics and live
interaction till after you know how to write c++ programs.
     The kit, even though it provides the direct x 6.1
software development kit(SDK), doesn't provide any info
actually connecting that to C++ programmin either.  You can
find tutorials on using Dirext X at the game development
search engine, www.gdse.com.
     Before you lean direct X, but after you learn basic C++
programming, you should read those 2 pdf books that came
with the kit on using visuall C++. Oh yeah, a good way to
learn C++ is to read the C++ review in the back of the
Learning Visuall C++ pdf, and then using the websites for
more indepth information that the pdf review leaves
out(there is alot) as you learn to use Visuall C++. 
Otherwise you wont know how to use the compiler so that you
can take those tutorials.

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