C++: What package should I learn to create real world programs?

[DecoratorFawn82]

Hi! C++ programmers! I'm wondering about which package should I learn if I want to develop programs for a computer?

I do know that it's packages such as SDL, SFML, Allegro but I don't know which of them that you can find great information of them.

And SDL of course has lazyfoo.net tutorials for. Or at least the old SDL 1.2. They're still working on the 2.0 tutorials.

However right now I'm working with the book SDL Game Development. The book is great but it's code is actually wrong in the first chapter of making the "Hello World" program.

So it's hard to figure out if it isn't working because the code isn't written correctly.

If anyone has read that book and is very kind. He could really help me out.

But however guys. If you have tips for a package to learn to develop softwares for the computer. Please show me the name of these packages! Thank you!

[Salem]

It depends what kind of programs you're interested in writing, and for what platform.
I guess SDL is OK if you're into the PC gaming scene.

But if you were say writing business apps for mobile, then SDL is of no use whatsoever.

> The book is great but it's code is actually wrong in the first chapter of making the "Hello World" program.
A few mistakes keep you on your toes, and you learn a lot more through fixing it.
Simply copy/pasting something which always works won't teach you half as much.

[DecoratorFawn82]

> The book is great but it's code is actually wrong in the first chapter of making the "Hello World" program.
A few mistakes keep you on your toes, and you learn a lot more through fixing it.
Simply copy/pasting something which always works won't teach you half as much.

Yes, I agree with you but when I had a code that I had written once. And it was function in that class. And we wanted to use them to display an image.
But the problem was that when I called the constructor for example: "Player.h" constructor. It had no functions in there. That's meaning that the functions
we wrote in the book is useless if not the constructor is calling them. But I figured out what to do myselft at least.

But I'm think the book at least could have a bit clearer text explanations. But however. It's a really great book at least.
It really explains how to create what I wanted to create.

What I'm really want to do with my C++ basic skills is to apply the skills to develop applications for Android phones? So a package for that would be great!

[cyberfish]

Android apps are written in Java (with their own SDK). That may be a better language to learn if that's your end goal.