Learning C++ by creating games with UE4 : learn C++ programming with a fun, real-world application that allows you to create your own games! / William Sherif.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherif, William, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

C++ (Computer program language).

C++ (Computer program language)--Software.

C++ (Computer program language)--Standards.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing Ltd, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Sherif William: William Sherif is a C++ programmer with more than eight years' experience in the programming world, ranging from game programming to web programming. He also worked as a university course instructor (sessional) for seven years. Additionally, he released several apps on the iTunes store, including Strum and MARSHALL OF THE ELITE SQUADRON. In the past, he has won acclaim for delivering course material in an easy-to-understand manner.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Generalized variable syntaxPrimitive types; Object types; Exercise - Player; Pointers; What can pointers do?; Address of operator &; The Null pointers; cin; printf(); Exercise; Solution; Summary; Chapter 3: If, Else, and Switch; Branching; Controlling the flow of your program; The == operator; Coding if statements; Coding else statements; Testing for inequalities using other comparison operators (>, >=, <, <=, and !=); Using logical operators; The Not (!) operator; Exercises; Solution; The And (&&) operator; The Or (||) operator; Our first example with Unreal Engine; Exercise; Solution

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

C++ style dynamic size arrays (new[] and delete[])

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 16, 2015).

ISBN:

9781784394769

1784394769

OCLC:

1457220688