What is next? How to expand?
First off, hello everyone! I started programming roughly 6 months ago off and on as a hobby, and am really starting to enjoy it and want to take it more seriously and improve. However, I'm not sure how to do that.
As for now I have the general knowledge of things from I/O to classes and pointers. However, it still feels like I don't KNOW much. Yes I can write code and small little things (A console connect four game being my biggest), but how do I apply that to actual real life application of programming? I downloaded SDL last night and seem to be getting the understanding of event driven logic vs procedural programming. Is it a good idea to just "jump in" to APIs like this to try to learn the overall structure before learning more advanced things in C++?
I seem to be all over the place with this post, but my main concern/issue/question is how do I break out of the "beginner" coding and expand to the "intermediate" and "advanced" things?
Thank you all! (Sorry if this is comes across as dumb or pointless jumble)
As for now I have the general knowledge of things from I/O to classes and pointers. However, it still feels like I don't KNOW much. Yes I can write code and small little things (A console connect four game being my biggest), but how do I apply that to actual real life application of programming? I downloaded SDL last night and seem to be getting the understanding of event driven logic vs procedural programming. Is it a good idea to just "jump in" to APIs like this to try to learn the overall structure before learning more advanced things in C++?
I seem to be all over the place with this post, but my main concern/issue/question is how do I break out of the "beginner" coding and expand to the "intermediate" and "advanced" things?
Thank you all! (Sorry if this is comes across as dumb or pointless jumble)
Make a 2D game using SDL or SFML (I recommend SFML). It can be anything you want, even a clone of your favorite Sega or Nintendo game (though the latter will not allow you to distribute it). Getting the game to a point where it plays mostly like the original will be a journey that gives you much more experience. You will want to start over from scratch at least a few times too.
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