Learn SDL2

Step-by-step guide on creating the SDL2 application and event loops for interactive games

Learn how to detect and handle mouse input events in SDL, including mouse motion, button clicks, and window entry/exit.

An introduction to the generic engine classes we'll use to create the game

Implement flag placement and tracking to complete your Minesweeper project.

Learn how to create and customize windows, covering initialization, window management, and rendering

Learn how to create a flexible and extensible UI system using C++ and SDL, focusing on component hierarchy and polymorphism.

Explore techniques for building UI components that respond to user input

Learn how to load, display, and optimize image rendering in your applications

Learn to precisely control image display using source and destination rectangles.

Learn techniques for scaling images and working with aspect ratios

Learn to load, manipulate, and save various image formats using SDL_Image.

Designing a flexible component for handling images in SDL-based applications

Key techniques for implementing class designs in more complex scenarios

Explore advanced techniques for optimizing and controlling text rendering when using SDL_ttf

Implement win/loss detection and add a restart feature to complete the game loop

Building a two-dimensional grid of interactive minesweeper cells

Updating the game to to place bombs randomly in the grid and render them when cells are cleared.

Implement the techniques for detecting nearby bombs and clearing empty cells automatically.

Learn to render and manipulate text in SDL2 applications using the official SDL_ttf extension

Discover techniques for detecting and responding to SDL runtime errors

Discover how to use the SDL2 event system to handle custom, game-specific interactions

Learn the essentials of double buffering in C++ with practical examples and SDL2 specifics to improve your graphics projects

A step-by-step guide on setting up SDL2 and useful extensions in a project that uses CMake as its build system

This guide walks you through the process of compiling SDL2, SDL_image, and SDL_ttf libraries from source

This step-by-step guide shows you how to set up SDL2 in an Xcode or CMake project on macOS

A step-by-step tutorial on configuring SDL2, SDL_image and SDL_ttf in a Visual Studio C++ project on Windows

Discover operator overloading, allowing us to define custom behavior for operators when used with our custom types

Learn how to write flexible and extensible C++ code using polymorphism, virtual functions, and dynamic casting

A quick tour of ten useful techniques in C++, covering dates, randomness, attributes and more

Learn the fundamentals of controlling program flow in C++ using if statements, for loops, while loops, continue, and break

A crash tour on how we can create custom types in C++ using classes, structs and enums

Learn the fundamentals of the C++ build process, including the roles of the preprocessor, compiler, and linker.

Learn the fundamentals of references, pointers, and the const keyword in C++ programming.

Learn the fundamentals of C++ programming: declaring variables, using built-in data types, and performing operations with operators

Learn the basics of writing and using functions in C++, including syntax, parameters, return types, and scope rules.

A quick introduction to namespaces in C++, alongside the standard library and how we can access it

An introduction to C++ package managers, and a step-by-step guide to installing vcpkg on Windows and Visual Studio.