C++ Workshop - Data & File Streams (Ch. 17)

Jeromy Walsh · 2007-04-22T12:07:33

Welcome to the GDNet C++ Workshop – Ch. 17For a complete introduction to this workshop, please look here. Workshop Overview This workshop is designed to aid people in their journey to learn beginning C++. This workshop is targeted at highly motivated individuals who are interested in learning C++ or who have attempted to learn C++ in the past, but found that without sufficient support and mentoring they were unable to connect all the pieces of this highly complex but powerful programming language. This is a 'guided' self-teaching C++ workshop. Each student is responsible for taking the time to read the material and learn the information. The community and tutors that arise out of this workshop are here for making the learning process run more smoothly, but are not obligated to baby-sit a person's progress. Because everyone will be working from the same textbook (Teach Yourself C++ in 21 days 5th Ed.), students may find it easier to get answers to the specific questions they might have. There is no minimum age requirement, and there is no previous programming experience required. Additionally, this workshop does not attempt to defend C++ as a language, nor does it attempt to demonstrate that C++ is either more or less useful then other programming languages for any particular purpose. People who intend to start a discussion about the differences between C++ and ANY other languages (except as are relevant to a particular discussion), are encouraged to do so elsewhere. This workshop is for educational, not philosophical discussions. Quizzes & Exercises Each week will have quizzes and exercises posted in the weekly threads. Please try and answer them by yourself. As well, please DO NOT post the answers to Quizzes and Exercises within this thread. Once it becomes acceptable to post the answers to quizzes and exercises, an additional thread will be created each week specifically for the purpose of posting quiz answers. If you try with reasonable effort but are unable to answer the questions or complete the exercises, feel free to post a clarification question here on the thread. Tutors, myself, or others will do the best we can to point you in the right direction for finding the answer. Chapter 17 – Working with StreamsIntroduction Heya all! Here we are in week 17. Only 3 more weeks to go before we bring the workshop to a close. This week we'll be covering streams, i/o formatting, and special methods for getting input and sending output to the standard i/o devices. Finally, the chapter will wrap up with applying some of these techniques to the fstream classes for interacting with files. This will be especially useful for the current project. Speaking of which... Take a look at Project 2 if you've not already done so. It builds upon the topics covered in chapter 1, and also provides some new and interesting challenges for project design. As a tie in to this week, I encourage everyone to set up the program to read the room information in from file, allowing you to create new rooms, and change the connections between rooms just by modifying files on disk. See ya next week! Outline of the Reading - Chapter 17 Overview of Streams Streams and Buffers Standard I/O Objects Redirection of the Standard Streams Input Using cin Other Member Functions of cin Outputting with cout Streams Versus the printf() Function File Input and Output Using the ofstream Binary Versus Text Files Command-line Processing Good Luck! [Edited by - jwalsh on May 30, 2007 5:35:11 PM]

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Started by JWalsh October 03, 2006 03:25 PM

19 comments, last by Emmanuel Deloget 17 years, 2 months ago

Emmanuel Deloget

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April 22, 2007 12:07 PM

Quote: Original post by Dejai

Hey all I am sort of new to c++.. I have been doing a course on it for some time and I think a course that would really get people involved would be a hands on course like that in the book Beginning C ++ Through Game Programming, Second Edition. Here is a link with some Information. http://www.courseptr.com/ptr_detail.cfm?group=Game%20Development&subcat=Programming&isbn=1%2D59863%2D360%2D0

I believe that this is a good book and anyone who wants to get into programming games straight off yet still with a good foundation then i recommend this book.

If you can't afford the book or it is not in stock then take a look at this site:
http://www.gametutorials.com/gtstore/c-3-c-tutorials.aspx

This comes with C++ game Tutorials, C Tutorials, Open GL Tutorials, Direct3d Win32 , Java 350 + tutorails. The C++ ones slowly introduce you into C++ bu pick it up and lead on to make a rpg. Its resonably priced at $60. Downloadable or Can Buy it as Cd form.

Though if you really cannot afford anything take a look at:
http://www.cppgameprogramming.com/cgi/nav.cgi?page=index

This teaches you some basics of C++ and then leads you into simple 2D game development with the Allegro Library. It has quite a welcoming community. Though I have yet to find really indepth tutorials :P

And If you a want to learn or discuss about graphics, coding ect in a smaller environment. Get some nice links and discuss C++ Coding, Multimedia and Other stuff visit my site and forum at. http://dejai.ifastnet.com/

Thank you for you time and I hope that you enjoyed this Post!

The purpose of the C++ Workshop on GameDev.Net is not to learn how to "maek games" but to learn the language itself. If you read the introduction, you should know that we are using "Teach yourself C++ in 21 Days (5th Edition)" (which has been chosen after a long discussion). "Beginning C ++ Through Game Programming" just doesn't have the same goal, and I don't think that this book should be used to learn the basics of C++ (although you can use it if you want).

Regarding the other tutorials/web sites you cited - don't worry, we know them, but again: this is a C++ workshop, not a "game programming with C++" workshop.

(and if you want to advertise your web site, feel free to do it in the Your Announcement forum; not here, unless there is a goooooood reason to do so [smile]).

Regards,

-- Emmanuel D. [blog, in French] [blog, very bad googlized translation]

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