Graphics

[ASCII14]

Not to toot my own horn, but i fancy myself an okay programmer, been learning for about two years, and I've successfully programmed a bunch of command-line stuff, but what i really would like is be able to make some simple graphics move, like a box or a sprite or something being able to be moved by user commands; (up down left, etc) but i've not the slightest idea where to begin with graphics. I use Xcode 4.1, and i don't want to spend tons of money on some ultra HD 3d game engine. I know this has been asked before, but none of the threads i've read have helped. Any help appreciated.
-ASCII14

[Mats]

Simple graphics you say? Two suggestions:

http://www.libsdl.org/

http://www.sfml-dev.org/

Both are cross platform. SFML is a little more game orientated, but they will both get the job done when it comes to basic graphics and they are both popular, full of tutorials on the web, fairly simple and effective.

[Austin J]

There are tons of libraries for graphics, one of which you'll have to use.

Just a list of many but certainly not all options for graphics 2d and 3d. (Some libraries are usable for both, and the ones that are 2d only can often times be integrated with a 3d lib)

2d
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SFML
SDL
Allegro
OpenGL
Irrlicht
DirectX

3d
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OpenGL
Irrlicht
DirectX
Panda3d
OGRE

Of course I'm assuming you can work with C or C++(or some language with a binding available to one of these libs) and not just Xcode. If you only work with Xcode then I'd ask this question else where, perhaps Stack Overflow. (Keep in mind though that they are a lot pickier about questions than we are).