Difference between revisions of "Intermediate C++ Game Programming Tutorial 7"

Revision as of 00:14, 30 July 2017

We finally ditch our janky makeshift chili:: routines and use some real shit here. Standard streams (std::cin / std::cout / std::fstream) are covered, and then we talk about string manipulation with std::string. We'll also cover some other less well-known dank C++ code memes, so check it out. Note that this video is more of an overview / whirlwind tour; it introduces various techniques and gives examples, but don't expect a detailed or exhaustive treatment here.

Topics Covered

• C++ Streams
• std::cin / std::cout
• Insertion << / extraction >> operators
• std::endl and buffered I/O flushing
• <iomanip>
• Cleaning an input stream with ignore() and clear()
• std::numeric_limits<>
• std::string
• OutputDebugString()
• std::stringstream

Video Timestamp Index

Tutorial 7

Source Code

GitHub Repo for Snek

Other Links

C++ Hardcore Reference
C++ Softcore Reference
War and Peace (warp.txt)

Homework

The homework is to modify Poison Snek so that various game settings can be configured by the user by editing a text file. The settings file should be parseable regardless of the order of the settings in the file. The following settings are recommended:

• Tile Size
• Board Size
• Speedup Rate
• Poison Amount
• Goal Amount

For this homework, you are not required to handle malformed input files, though you can attempt to handle those as a bonus challenge if you like.

See also

• Next in series (Tutorial 8)
• Intermediate C++ Game Programming Series