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Andux

Member Since 02 Dec 2012
Offline Last Active May 24 2013 03:48 AM
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#46232 Starting Out With Games and Graphics in C++

Posted by Andux on 01 April 2013 - 03:55 AM

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1435457420/

 

I'm thinking of purchasing that. I'm a total newb to C++, and I'm looking ot get into programming myself. I mean i know HTML for the most part, and CSS isn't hard really. But I want a challenge. I need something to keep me busy. Thing is, I'll be doing this in Ubuntu, and it recomends Microsoft Visual C++ or something.

 

Also, I typed this out last night and thought I posted it.....I am teh dumbs.

 

You don’t need a paid for Integrated Development Environment to produce OpenGL programs via Ubuntu. All you need is to download appropriate libraries for the free GCC C/C++ compiler and a text editor. Programs can be compiled via a gcc terminal command including options -lglut and -lGLU. There can be complications on installing libraries. A work around for this, with links to source code, commands used and other Linux/graphics adapter issues,- can be found in my report:

 

http://www.roylongbo... benchmarks.htm

 

Last year a Quality Engineer for Canonical, working on the Unity desktop experience, sought permission to incorporate the benchmark into testing of the desktop. I said “yes” of course, but there is no shooting.

 

Roy