Need more knowledge over c++ and programming in general

[khimaira]

Hi all, new here. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what to do now?

I'm 15 years old, have mastered HTML, CSS, PHP (and sql) and JAVASCRIPT.
I know the basics of C++ and have tried OpenGL (with visual c++, which sucked) and allegro, with only a little success.

Maybe if i give some idea of what i can do and how limited my skills are, you can help me more efficiently:

Here's the address to my homepage: http://www.circean.fi

For now I have restricted the access for outer world since it's still pretty much under development, but I made a quest account for the admin login:

user: quest
pass: 1234

From the "account" tab you can change all the additional and required information as you want. I only disabled the password changing.

It's also running VERY heavily on JavaScript (i don't like ASP, so i use Ajax and Jquery for cool effects and functions) because i can do pretty much everything i want with it.

Here is my biggest project with C++ (finished it at the age of 13)
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=862e3e9ef88af1290f83d91f6dff7c38e04e75f6e8ebb871

It's a 2 human player Tic-Tac-Toe game with good available preferences.
After this game, I have only maintained my skills, never improving them because of the lack of tutorials, and nowadays the laziness of even trying to find any.


So in short, I know what the code usually looks like and am very flexible for new languages.


So could anybody here lead me the way to the next path to follow? I would be eternally grateful!

[S6k9GNh0]

Experience of course! If you truly coded that, then move on to something bigger! Tutorials are nice but a lot of method coding is gained from experience. Tutorials normally don't teach this. They teach you how the code will react when you compile it (or interpret it) and from that, people start toying, gaining experience by coming out with faster, smaller way to get something done.

Also, make something useful. Though it's a bigger task than one might think. :[. I've tried several times but almost everything I code seems to lack experience and thought. Be careful with every line that you code.

EDIT: Might wanna work on folder permissions. Not good to have people snooping around.

[khimaira]

Might wanna work on folder permissions. Not good to have people snooping around.

I don't really mind if anyone's snooping around xD
there's nothing critical to see. Even tho i look forward on making folder permissions.

And yes, experience is a good way to learn of course :D I quess i'll just continue doing what i did 2 years ago. I'll make a bigger tic-tac-toe :D

[kevinchkin]

I quess i'll just continue doing what i did 2 years ago. I'll make a bigger tic-tac-toe :D

LOLZ

+1

[gcampton]

I have some pdf's which I can send you c++ tutorials, and shell scripting/ and java...
If you can code c++ you can code Java it's very similar both being oOLanguages. Sun has a tutorial on it's site.

Also you might like to try out linux/or Unix(freeBSD) as this can give way to learning about shell scripting the python language etc.. Python is C++ intergrated with scripting which a number of people find more practical and powerful than C++.

You can usually resize your windows partition down 10gb and stick a linux system on 10gb(so long as it isn't too bloated), FreeBSD or BSD in general is a direct port from Unix, while linux was something linus tovolds(spelling) made to replace mincom(spelling again) but ended up more Unix like, hence linux refered to as the Unix-like operating system. If comming from a windows only environment then I suggest possibly, openSuse, Ubuntu, Mint, there's a few others which are more user friendly. FreeBSD requires a lot of reading pre-install as it isn't very nub friendly installation.
While the others I mentioned are nub friendly.

[khimaira]

Yes, i'm interested in those tutorials you have :)

Especially shell scripting would really help me with my future: Understanding more of how the system works and improving it for (later on) public use and even private.

I remember scripting with batch: and messing with my school mates linking them to www.own3d.es through a file with the name of a game or such.
Batch was pretty simple and there wasn't really much to learn xD

Also java interests me.

On top of that if you really have good C++ tutorials included, that would really be awesome!

If it's not too much trouble you could send me those to my e-mail: khimaira(at)live.co.uk

thanks in advance :)

[gcampton]

cool sending them now, if you have trouble downloading due to live not accepting large emails. Then you may need to create a google, or yahoo acc or something. It's been a long time since I have used a windows mail program, but I remember hotmail used to only allow 2mb files or some such. Just send me an email from the old account with the new account info if that is the case :)