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Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please.

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在 2012年2月14日星期二UTC+8下午7时31分12秒，Nick Keighley写道：
> On Feb 14, 9:48 am, 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > 在 2012年2月14日星期二UTC+8下午12时37分37秒，Silent Stone写道：
> 
> 
> > > Have any of you folks ever taken a look at the "Beginning C++ Through
> > > Game Programming" series of books by Michael Dawson?  It is in its
> > > third edition now:http://tinyurl.com/75ekx4a
> >
> > > All three editions have gotten a lot of favorable reviews on Amazon
> > > from people who learned to write C++ with them, but I was hoping maybe
> > > some experienced programmers could offer some opinions on it.  Any
> > > major errors, bad practices taught, or omissions of important features
> > > and data... that sort of thing.
> >
> > > I want to learn to write games and graphical programs.  I know this
> > > book doesn't get into graphics libraries, but hopefully it will cover
> > > the C++ I need to know first, maybe with an emphasis on game
> 
> I'm curious how it manages to write about games without doing any
> graphics
> 
> > C++ is an imperative static typed compiler based language that supports OOP defferent from others.
> 
> and so? Does that mean it is good or bad for games?
> 


> > C++ is also a free syle language somewhat like C
> > but not compentrated in hardware supports.
> 
Oops, I typed a wrong word! "concentrated "
> and what, pray tell, is a "free style language"? What would be a non-
> free-style langauge? COBOL? FORTRAN?
> 
C++ is free-style in the sense that a lot wiered expressions are allowed inherited from C.

> > The idea language to support the DRAM industry
> > for the past 20 years.
> 
> I guess you meant "ideal". Are you claiming C++ (or C) generate
> unnecessarily large programs? What would be better?
> 
> > > programming idioms.  I've dabbled in C a bit off and on, thinking that
> > > I should learn it first before going to C++. Now I think that will
> > > just be redundant effort.
> 
> and their idiomatic usage is quite different. If your end goal is C++
> then learn C++. The book "Accelerated C++" is quite nice.
> 
> > > While C and C++ are both capable languages, I get the impression that
> > > if I want to go the games/graphics route pretty much any instructional
> > > material or library set will cater to C++ over C.  Am I right in this?
> 
> dunno. But games tend not to be simple things and C++ has more
> "programming in the large" features.

Just wait for C++ to chunk out an OS with a lot C++
shared libraries built in.  

I waited for 20 years. Maybe it needs another 20  years.

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Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Silent Stone <shibbox@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-13 20:37 -0800
  Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-14 01:48 -0800
    Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-14 03:31 -0800
      Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-14 09:16 -0800
      Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-02-14 22:57 +0000
        Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Silent Stone <shibbox@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-14 22:04 -0800
          Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-15 02:48 -0800
            Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Silent Stone <shibbox@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-15 16:38 -0800
              Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2012-02-16 07:00 +0000
                Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-02-16 12:00 +0000
              Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-02-16 10:30 +0000
                Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-16 06:13 -0800
              Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-02-16 14:47 -0600
                Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Silent Stone <shibbox@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-17 21:57 -0800
          Re: Looking for an opinion on a book, please. Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-02-15 14:21 +0000

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