Beginner C++ Game Programming Tutorial 9

In this video we make our first class and Chili teaches us about the birds and the bees and the static constexpr.

Concepts Taught

• Creating a class
• public vs. private access
• static member variables
• constexpr variables

Video Timestamp Index

• Intro 0:00
• ClampScreen code recap 0:18
• The issue of the current Game data organization: 1:38
• Classes: OOP to the rescue 2:25
• Creating our own class 3:21
• Header guard: #pragma once 3:40
• Letting other files know about our class: including headers 5:52
• Refactoring game code related to poo 6:56
• A little trick: Advanced find + replace with regex enabled 7:08
• Adding an implementation file (.cpp) for Poo class 9:05
• Advantages of the new poo object oriented code 12:07
• Initializing poos' velocities 14:12
• Factoring out common attributes from class objects: static and constexpr 14:41
• Difference between constexpr and const 16:08
• Accessing static class members 16:40
• Class member access restrictions: public vs private 17:20
• Summing up what we have learned and a couple of tips 19:12
• Homework 20:03

Homework

Make the Dude entity into a class as well. It's up to you to decide what member functions you should give it. Might want to add another function to Poo as well (hint hint hint!).

The solution is given in this video.

Downloads

• T9 Starting Code
• Tutorial 9 Code (WORK IN PROGRESS)
• Tutorial 9 Homework Solution Code (WORK IN PROGRESS)

See also

• Planet Chili Patreon
• Next in series (Tutorial 10)
• Beginner C++ Game Programming Series