Not just straight code, but with little funny videos and fun pictures included as well? Going from start to finish on a project, then showing the resulting timelapse?
I'm currently making some fun programming videos with my engine, I plan on making a couple games on camera then dropping them up on youtube, would you guys be interested at all?
Hmmm ambiguous answer is ambiguous... is that yep, that was the question, or yep, I'd be interested? Or maybe yep, I'm a ninja? Heck it could be Yep. I like italics.
Hahaha, well awesome, I'll grab some video then-
game # 1 pong : expected time from beginning to completion = < 2-3 hours
game # 2 ???? : expected time = TBA =O
rinse and repeat.
Well a text based RPG wouldn't be all that different from a graphical RPG. The way you display your characters would change, probably to a tilemap or something similar.
I personally would use SDL.
Most on this site recommend SFML.
You have lots and lots of options though. All you need to get started is a library that allows you to apply images to the screen.