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

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