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[Allaye]

hello guys, just need a little help or advice, i just finished the c++ fundamentals and i cant find any meaningful problem to solve with it, i mean a in a cross road of not knowing what to do next, have tried learning winapi but cant find enough resources to help me.. can someone give me a tip about the route to take, anything will be of grate help thanks in advance

[Repeater]

There are many options. What interests you? Number crunching? Sound? Graphics? Networking?

To become a better programmer in general, start solving these: https://projecteuler.net/

[Allaye]

Repeater am interested in winapi and networking? cant get hold of any meaningful resource on that...

[Repeater]

Why the WinAPI? It's very low-level and there are many good libraries that make it much easier to use. It's difficult, especially for beginners.

As for networking, ASIO ( https://think-async.com/ ) , also available as part of the Boost libraries, is considered pretty good, but there are many others to select from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/118945/best-c-c-network-library

[JLBorges]

> interested in winapi and networking? cant get hold of any meaningful resource on that...

WinApi: Windows System Programming by Johnson Hart
https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Paperback-Addison-Wesley-Microsoft-Technology/dp/0134382250
Note that this book is about core system services and the Windows API; it does not touch GUI programming.


Networking: TCP/IP Illustrated by Stevens and Wright
https://www.amazon.com/TCP-IP-Illustrated-3-Set/dp/0201776316
Get into this after reading chapter 12 (network programming with Windows) in Hart's book and writing a few simple programs using sockets.