Hi Richard, You got it right. C++ is widely taught to those seaking degrees in computer science, and those looking for a specialty in game programming. Most of the APIs DirectX, OpenAL, OpenGL, Mesa 3D, you name it became available to C++ developers first. They are only now being offered to other languages.
Richard Bennett wrote: > well, I am taking a game programming class that is geared toward the sighted > community. It is being taught in C++, and what I hear that is pretty much > the game programming standard, but I don't know if it is or not. The tools > that I use work great with JAWS this IDE will compile both C and C++. It is > the DevCpp IDE and is a great price too, it is free from: > www.bloodshed.com and works absolutely great. Also with this IDE they have a > great game library called allegro. I don't know if it will work with other > languages or not, but the allegro game library will allow you to write both > linux and windows games with no diffuculty. How I know this is because I am > the only Windows user in the class and the other students are on Linux and > the C and C++ language will swap over between Windows and Linux. I hope this > helped and if you want any other information, let me know. > BEAN > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
