Figured I might as well put up a thread of all the C++ resources I found. First of all a really big book online:
http://cma.zdnet.com/book/c++/

All of these are excellent resources, with just about everything you could ever want with programming, C++ or not(though they all have C++ sections at least)
http://www.cprogramming.com
http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone3/mh22.htm
http://www.planet-source-code.com/
http://www.codeproject.com/
http://www.codeguru.com/
http://www.thefreecountry.com/sourcecode/cpp.shtml

3D Game Programming sites:
http://www.opengl.org/
http://opende.sourceforge.net/

Of course, nothing beats a good forum. If you can't figure something out, try asking on a forum like this, there's usually at least one person who is willing to help. I might add more sites if I come across a few more.

cprogramming is for text but these all look good

i gotta be honest, i didnt fully read through all of em so i just kind of hoped they were good. what exactly do you mean by cprogramming is for text though?

www.cprogramming.com teaches text only i went through 10 tutorials and still nothing about games just cout and cin and pretty basic stuff

ah thats what i thought. thats really a beginner beginner site, for those who have no experience with C++ before, and its good for that purpose.

true, but books go through a lot more and also explain games

how could i forget? books! those are the holy grails of knowledge, but i know a lot of newbies might be very skeptical about going into 600 pages of something theyve never seen before. some of my friends like to understand some basic things before getting into the big books, but thats just them I guess :lol: also, books cost money, online cost nothing, so its the poor mans way too :D

i know, but books contain better info while all tutorial places i have been to are totallly basic so the hardcore programmer better and go get a book to find more stuff out

ultimately, thats the truth, anybody serious into programming should spend a little money and get a good book, and maybe use online resources to help further understand C++. Bottom line people is...

BUY A BOOK! :D

believe me, i in no way argue that books arent as good as online material, because thats a damn lie :lol: I find that the 'program' books work the best, such as sams teach yourself. That really gets you on a schedule, and I find it works best.

yeh, i just spent 3 hours reading and i learned so dan gmuch, my brain itches jk but still the book compacts so much useful info

any book that can make me understand

#include <iostream.h>
int main()
{
cout << "Hello World!\n";
return 0;
}

is great, and any book that can make me expand on that with cin, const, class, if, switch, while, go to, and *(pointer) is just amazing :lol: i mean, your looking at someone who didnt even think they could understand html two weeks ago <_<

i do cout/cin like this

std::cout <<"hello world!" << std::end1;
this is really clean code

i use using namespace std; so you dont have to "use" everything.

i use using namespace std; so you dont have to "use" everything.

so std is like an alternative to using cout and cin in normal ways?
std::cout <<"hello world!" << std::end1;

now first off, what does :: do, i forget, need my memory refreshed. second, what does the std::endl; do?

std::end1 is the equivalent of ending a line so the code goes on to another line, so
std::cout<<HI<<std::end1 is the first line after line 1 std::cout<<"weirdo"<<end 1 would be on the next line

so what exactly does std:: do for endl then? seems like it does the same thing. maybe i should just learn std when my book tells me it :lol:

end1 finishes one line of code, so say you wanted to write 2 separate lines of output text, end1 allows that so next time you use cout it will be on the next line

i know that much, i just dont understand why you would precede it with std::

i think it is like a visual c++ standard meaning u have to use it in viisual c++ but not dev C++

ah ok, then i guess i'll worry about that once i get to VC++

ok

if im not misteaken std:: means that your using the standard identifyer for a particular function for instance if you want to change the way you input files you can do

before any functions and you can use just fin instead of ifstream. so theoreticaly you could use cout print; to change the thing for cout, but i never tryed that so i duno. the :: is the scope.

ok, my book never told me that, about ::

thanks that explains it a little better though im still pretty dumbfounded.

i did a little C++ before i got my book, so i was pretty dumbfounded too, but my book says to do it for visual c++, so maybe it is a requirement in Visual c++, or the author was taught this way.

I found http://www.bruceeckel.com to be very useful. Two great books on C++ and free to boot.

sweet, dude. thats pretty cool stuff.