I followed the tutorials here, now what?

[iOSMusician]

Okay, I followed every tutorial, understand the examples, and have written several programs (from assignments in school)

now what? any tips on where to go/what to do next?

i saw this same question posted before on the forum, but they weren't very helpful, any extra tips?

[Santosh Reddy]

If you are done with basic C++, then may be start with advanced C++ topics like

1. Operator/function Overloading
2. Templates class/fuctions
3. Run-time polymermorism
4. Multiple inheritnace, virtual inheritance, interfaces etc
5. Understanding STL

I can bet by time you through these topics with good amount of hands-on, yo will (by yourslef) come up with an idea of writing a real word program.

[iOSMusician]

okay thanks for the reply, know any good sites/resources for learning those?

Sean

[devonrevenge]

Theres challanges somwhere on the sight tooh.

1; create a program that stores a name and an amount of pancakes eaten, work out who ate the most.

2; create a console tic tac toe game, complete with board.

3; create a program to read from a file and display the info a certain way.

4; install an api

[Fransje]

5: create a console snake game
6: create a console pong game

The console isn't meant for making games, but it's useful to learn and practice game logic and C++ in general. ( http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/28558/ )

[cnoeval]

i saw this same question posted before on the forum, but they weren't very helpful, any extra tips?

That's because a bunch of strangers on an internet forum don't know the person asking the question well enough to provide a valid answer. You're the one who has to decide what you want to do. Pick something your passionate about so you won't lose interest. Hmmm, IOSMusician... How about you write a music app? Something that you can actually use once you've coded it?

[Zaita]

Find an open source program you're interested in. Download the source code and start to figure out what it does. Do some simple modifications to it to check your understanding of the code.

[Fransje]

Find an open source program you're interested in. Download the source code and start to figure out what it does. Do some simple modifications to it to check your understanding of the code.

+1
And when you understand it, try modifying it.

[iOSMusician]

thanks for all of the suggestions guys!

@fransje / zaita:
do you guys have any recommendations for a super simple open source program?

[Fransje]

Well, there are not so many super simple ones. You can of course try a simple game like snake or so somewhere from the internet, but mostly they are written in a bad style with bad habits.

These two games are not so simple, but have been a great help, at least for me:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piNtHWCfLas
- http://www.sauerbraten.org