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tommy:
Anyone into this sort of thing?

I was looking to learn about making plugins for hl2 and wondered if anyone had any good tutorials as where to get started.

Is it possible to just "get started" with really no knowledge of what I'm doing?

ChadTower:

There are hundreds of good C++ books out there.  All the way from "I'm an expert and just need the advanced C++ preprocessor commands again" to "my mouse tastes bad - help me".

C++ isn't the easiest road to take into programming but I'd say it's a good one.

Grasshopper:
I'd say that C++ is one of the hardest, if not the hardest of the commonly used languages to learn. However, it's also one of the most useful.

If you are going to take the plunge then I'd suggest you learn C first as a stepping stone. The best book on C is still the original one by Kernigan and Ritchie.

When picking books on programming, a good rule of thumb is to avoid the ones that are either very thick, or have an overformatted look.

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 24, 2006, 10:22:37 am ---
There are hundreds of good C++ books out there.  All the way from "I'm an expert and just need the advanced C++ preprocessor commands again" to "my mouse tastes bad - help me".

C++ isn't the easiest road to take into programming but I'd say it's a good one.

--- End quote ---
Agreed.  Your best bet might be to try and find HL2 specific tutorials since thats what your going to be working with.  Most game engines use a scripting language similar to C++, but isn't actually C++ so you may want to double check what you need to learn.

sphetr2:

--- Quote from: Grasshopper on December 24, 2006, 12:57:44 pm ---
If you are going to take the plunge then I'd suggest you learn C first as a stepping stone. The best book on C is still the original one by Kernigan and Ritchie.

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Meh, are you sure about that? I've had no trouble learning C++ and have never learned a programming language before.

I agree with AtomSmasher completely, too.

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