Hello. 
I have been really inspired by the free software culture and I want to be able to make free software myself. Making games is the most interesting but ordinary programs is also cool. I'm pretty good in Java but I think C++ is the way to go. I know a little C and C++ but I want to learn more. What books are good for this? Or is there good online information about it? I don't want to take a random book about C/C++ and after that I take another that contains 50% information that I already have learned.
About the software: I have understand that I should use the GCC. What graphic library should I use? Is there different for different purposes? I want to make it easy to convert the program to different platforms. Does this depend on my programming technique or is the choice of libraries more important?
I don't think I'm ready to jump into an existing project because my lack of C/C++ experience and knowledge. Maybe there is some other forums I should ask my questions to but I don't know. Please point me in the right dirrection
I have been really inspired by the free software culture and I want to be able to make free software myself. Making games is the most interesting but ordinary programs is also cool. I'm pretty good in Java but I think C++ is the way to go. I know a little C and C++ but I want to learn more. What books are good for this? Or is there good online information about it? I don't want to take a random book about C/C++ and after that I take another that contains 50% information that I already have learned.
About the software: I have understand that I should use the GCC. What graphic library should I use? Is there different for different purposes? I want to make it easy to convert the program to different platforms. Does this depend on my programming technique or is the choice of libraries more important?
I don't think I'm ready to jump into an existing project because my lack of C/C++ experience and knowledge. Maybe there is some other forums I should ask my questions to but I don't know. Please point me in the right dirrection
It's quite time consuming because you don't get much for free like in Java but it's more fun in my opinion. Biggest problems is that I'm not used to the language enough yet and don't get a good code structure. The includes and such are a bit tricky. But hopefully it all comes after some practice. At the moment school takes a lot of time so I don't spend much time on it at the moment.
