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Completely Unrelated / Learning C++ - Is there no better way?

« on: 2011-08-27 03:12:41 »

Currently I am learning C++. (Much slower than anticipated sadly.)

Now my predicament is that I'm learning via Youtube, and the guy is a bit slower than I would prefer.  Getting off track, and sometimes spending his time in the video trying to figure out what happens if he does something that, I'm assuming, his teacher told him not to do. Personally, I'm the kind of person who learns by doing rather than watching or reading.

I have a few reasons for my desire to learn programming in general. I want to be able to learn a good bit before I get into college in January, to see if that is something that I would love to pursue in a possible career situation. I want to be able to see if learning could push me along the right path to bringing my own ideas to life for myself and others. And possibly to be able to help others with their projects in the future.

Back to the point. Can anyone help me with possibly some materials that they used to help them along? Be it a video a tutorial (preferably with exercises and the such) or maybe even very helpful books?

As an added bonus! Since your Dying to know what channel on Youtube I'm using, I'll give the link, so you can review one or two videos, to see if maybe its something I should stick with, or Remove from my bookmarks.

http://www.youtube.com/user/iam4eversmart88

As always any and all responses are appreciated. ( And I do enjoy your creative insults)

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Troubleshooting / Question about Jenova Char editor. (Dunno exactly where to put this.)

« on: 2011-08-24 19:59:53 »

Sorry if this is in the wrong spot!

The question is: Is there any kind of memory issue with the editor itself? I used it for 10000 gil, ( Cause im cheap, and wanted to get out of a spot very quickly.) and now, about 5 or 6 hours in, the game slows down a good bit. Just wondering if Jenova could be the cause. If not I should be able to narrow it down to my pc, or something I've set wrong in Aali's driver.

Any help would be appreciated. Oh and Vicious remarks would be fun.

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Completely Unrelated / Not sure exactly where this goes for Qhimm's Jenova source code

« on: 2011-08-18 19:20:44 »

I apologize for posting this here to begin with. I couldn't exactly figure out where to put it. So I figured I would post it where it wouldn't seem to jumble everything up.

I have begun learning to program in C++. This will be my first language, but hopefully not my last. I figured that in between these many exercises, i would take a look at  programs that i personally use with the progressing knowledge that I obtain.

Currently I am using Microsoft Visual Studios 2010 Express to learn the basics of C++. My issue is that Qhimm's programs were written using Visual Studio 6. Unfortunately it seems that 2010 cannot load a VS6 project.

Finally the question. (Sorry to fill your heads with the nonsense and such that my ADHD brain decides that I should post...)
Is there anyway to upgrade the files to VS2010 using another program? Am i missing something important with the basic install that should allow me to do so? Or am I completely and utterly SOL in this whole idea?

Any and all help would be appreciated, and I understand if none is given due to this being in the wrong space/being something that I was just too far behind to understand.

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