So, I've decided to go ahead and teach myself Game Programming. I picked up a book that seems pretty good for the task (Thompson's "Beginning Game Programming") that deals with the creation of 2D and 3D games using C and DirectX. Now, that's all well and good, but I've never specifically dealt with C before: only C++.
C++ I've learned in several college courses (I'm a Computer Science major), and have completed all the classes offered. These covered the range from Hello World to manually creating Binary Search trees (not using any built-in libraries to do the job for me). I'm fairly comfortable with the language, though nothing I've yet created in C++ used a GUI.
I'm aware that C is sort of a precursor to C++, with more limited capabilities, and much of the syntax is the same. My question for you all is how hard would it be to pick up C having only dealt with its more advanced relative? Is there anything I should know? Any good online resources I should check? (preferrably free)
I'm starting to deploy what I learned in C# to C, and how to use typedef was always nebulous and with lots of crap making in unreadable for a beginner.
>>11
It astounds me that you used an em dash where a hyphen is the only appropriate punctuation, and yet when you could have very well used an em dash, you violated two hyphens and bastardized them into the task of a character that you are clearly aware exists and know how to type. Fuck you.
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Anonymous2011-06-10 23:05
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Anonymous2011-06-11 1:08
Nine years have already passed since an indescribable crime against humanity, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, was systematically begun. Now in its ninth year [1926], a government exists which calls itself a worker-and-peasant government—but not one true worker or farmer has ever sat on it. For nine years, torture has been used in the name of democracy as an official instrument of the state. And in the name of socialism millions of upright individuals have been murdered, put to death through starvation, or banished from home and hearth to every distant part of the globe.
In the name of the proletariat the Russian people has been subjugated by rank foreigners, their speech has been silenced, and their bodies sent—to the cheers of the [Jewish] Third International — into mass graves.
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Anonymous2011-06-11 1:46
Jews lined up other victims in military formation, then ordered the first row to place one hand upon a wooden table. A nail was driven through the hand into the wood. Then they cut a full circle around the wrist skin, drenched the hand in boiling water and pulled the hand and finger skin right off. This they called “making gloves”.
Interestingly, each torture chamber had its own special torture lady, always a Jewess or Latvian female, usually with a nickname such as “Dora, the glove maker” or “Rosa, the glove lady.”
>>46 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Schiff
During the Russo-Japanese War, in 1904 and 1905, in perhaps his most famous financial action, Schiff, again through Kuhn, Loeb & Co., extended a critical series of loans to the Empire of Japan, in the amount of $200 million. He was willing to extend this loan due, in part, to his belief that gold is not as important as national effort and desire, in helping win a war. It is quite likely Schiff also saw this loan as a means of avenging, on behalf of the Jewish people, the anti-Semitic actions of the Tsarist regime, specifically the then-recent pogroms in Kishinev.
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Anonymous2011-06-11 2:02
>>47
This loan attracted worldwide attention, and had major consequences. Japan won the war, thanks in large part to the purchase of munitions made possible by Schiff's loan. Some within the Japanese leadership took this as evidence of the power of Jews all around the world, of their loyalty to one another, and as proof of the truth of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.