About C++ and Game Programming

Hi, I'm new :D .

Anyway, I want to learn how to program in C++ and DirectX, and then makes games. But I don't truly know where to begin.

First of all, I'm contemplating about getting a Visual C++.net compiler (student edition) or just sticking with the freeware (but I really want to get the compiler- it's 50 bucks).

The books I currently have are:

Visual C++ 6 for Dummies
and
Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus (which I can use as references for game theology, mathematics, and basic structures for the programming (since the book is in C)).

Really, after I get the compiler, I'm not really sure where to begin. Do I just go through Visual C++ 6 for Dummies and learn all the stuff? I don't know what type of programs to write to really sink in the commands and such.

I'm not completely clueless, but I would like to ask for your help. I'm appreciative of any due to the fact that most of you have probably heard hundreds of others asking the same question (but since the search function only works with specifics, I never really got anywhere with it). Thanks in advance.

You should try to learn C++ (or C) before you try anything else.

I'm kinda asking for both..and I am aware that I need to know a programming language before even thinking about jumping into games. I just wanted to let you know what my initial goal was.

So my book is okay...but whatever.

Also when is a good time to start game programming? Is there a right time?

Worry about that later. :)

You can do simple games with text (like a treasure hunt).

I would forget learning C as C++ is a more adapted language to game development, I personally knew a lot of C before I jumped into C++. But if you learn C++ without C, it is no big deal. The one big advantage in learning C++ is the fact it incorperates OOP.
(object orirntated programing) which is all Classes and stuff like that.

I f you want to learn C, then do so as a part time study, but in my reason, C++ is the one to go for if you want to make games for a living. Almost evrey commercial game is written in C++

You still have to start from a hello world application :) and imho, visual C++ 6 and .net are slightly different, I think that .net is more for stuff like internet and network applications (thus the postfix .net right?)

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Originally Posted by Ruski

You still have to start from a hello world application :) and imho, visual C++ 6 and .net are slightly different, I think that .net is more for stuff like internet and network applications (thus the postfix .net right?)

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true, but if you want to work really hard you can use the .net features for the game to be online.
( instad of making life simple and using the c++ network tools for doing it )

.net features for online games? I tought .net was too slow for that

.net core is the definitions of the protocols to be used.
if you use those protocols to develop a network game, you are using .net, but not the slow code base for current .net implementations.