1. Beginning C++
Part 1: Procedural Programming
2. Writing a Guessing Game with C++ Types
3. Creating Calculators with Operators
4. Beginning C++ Game Development with Arrays
5. Functions, the Building Blocks of C++
6. Making Decisions with Flow Control
7. Organizing Projects Using Files and Namespaces
Part 2: Object Oriented Programming
8. Object-Oriented Programming with Classes
9. Controlling Data with Access Modifiers
10. Building Games with Inheritance
11. Designing Game Code with Polymorphism
12. Copying and Assigning Data to Objects
Part 3: The Standard Template Library
13. The STL String Class
14. STL Array and Vector
15. STL List
16. STL's Associative Containers
17. STL's Stack and Queue
18. STL's Bitset
19. Using the STL in Text Adventure
Part 4: Templates and Metaprogramming
20. Template Programming
21. Practical Template Programming
Part 5: C++ Game Development
22. Managing Memory for Game Developers
23. Useful Design Patterns for Game Development
24. Using File IO to Save and Load Games
25. Speeding Up Games with Concurrent Programming
26. Supporting Multiple Platforms in C++
27. Wrapping Up
Bruce Sutherland is a video game programmer hailing from Dundee, Scotland. He graduated with a Bsc (Hons) Computer Games Technology from the University of Abertay, Dundee in Scotland, graduating in 2005. After graduating he began his first job in the games industry at 4J Studios where he worked on Star Trek: Encounters (PS2), The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PS3), Star Trek: Conquest (PS2, Wii), Ducati Moto (NDS) and AMF Pinbusters! (NDS). In July 2008 he moved from Dundee to Melbourne Australia where he joined Visceral Studios and was a software engineer on Dead Space (Xbox 360, PS3, PC), The Godfather II (Xbox 360, PS3, PC) and Dead Space 3 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC). He developed an interest in developing for Android in his spare time and writes tutorials on his blog at http://brucesutherland.blogspot.com.
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