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Learning C++ by creating games with UE4 : learn C++ programming with a fun, real-world application that allows you to create your own games! /
If you are really passionate about games and have always wanted to write your own, this book is perfect for you. It will help you get started with programming in C++ and explore the immense functionalities of UE4.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, UK :
Packt Publishing,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Community experience distilled.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Coding with C++; Setting up our project; Using Microsoft Visual C++ on Windows; Using XCode on a Mac; Creating your first C++ program; Semicolons; Handling errors; Warnings; What is building and compiling?; Scripting; Exercise
- ASCII art; Summary; Chapter 2: Variables and Memory; Variables; Declaring variables
- touching the silicon; Reading and writing to your reserved spot in memory; Numbers are everything; More on variables; Math in C++; Exercises
- Branching code in more than two waysThe else if statement; Exercise; Solution; The switch statement; Switch versus if; Exercise; Solution; Summary; Chapter 4: Looping; The while loop; Infinite loops; Exercises; Solutions; The do/while loop; The for loop; Exercises; Solutions; Looping with Unreal Engine; Summary; Chapter 5: Functions and Macros; Functions; An example of a library function
- sqrt(); Writing our own functions; A sample program trace; Exercise; Solution; Functions with arguments; Functions that return values; Exercises; Solutions; Variables, revisited; Global variables
- Local variablesThe scope of a variable; Static local variables; Const variables; Function prototypes; .h and .cpp files; prototypes.h contains; funcs.cpp contains; main.cpp contains; Extern variables; Macros; Advice
- try to use const variables where possible; Macros with arguments; Advice
- use inline functions instead of macros with arguments; Summary; Chapter 6: Objects, Classes, and Inheritance; struct objects; Member functions; The this keyword; Strings are objects?; Invoking a member function; Exercises; Solutions; Privates and encapsulation; Some people like it public
- Class versus structGetters and setters; Getters; Setters; But what's the point of get/set operations?; Constructors and destructors; Class inheritance; Derived classes; Syntax of inheritance; What does inheritance do?; is-a relationship; protected variables; Virtual functions; Purely virtual functions (and abstract classes); Multiple inheritance; private inheritance; Putting your classes into headers; .h and .cpp; Exercise; Summary; Chapter 7: Dynamic Memory Allocation; Dynamic memory allocation; The delete keyword; Memory leaks; Regular arrays; The array syntax; Exercise; Solutions