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General => General discussions => Topic started by: SilverBlaze on October 12, 2014, 10:11:28 pm

Title: Hello everyone!
Post by: SilverBlaze on October 12, 2014, 10:11:28 pm

Hey everybody!

My name is Sterling, but most people just call me Silver. I'm a digital artist/illustrator, musician and an alright programmer.

I'm not new to programming in any way, but I'm not very experienced either. For the past 6-7 years, I've been using GameMaker to create small prototypes and demos. I've got a ton of ideas, but have not been able to develop them far enough using what I know right now. I have one nearly finished game and a bunch of prototypes/demos.

I came across SFML after doing a google search of "Displaying an image with C++". And once I saw it and read the info on the main page, I can say that I had become one of the happiest newbie programmers to ever live. SFML sounds like the EXACT thing I've been looking for for a very VERY long time.

Even though I've been using only GML for the past few years, I do know some C++, which is what made it pretty easy to pick up on GameMaker's programming language. So I'm not a 100% newbie to programming. lol.

I am also an avid musician and digital artist. I've released 4 chiptune albums and have around 100 or so songs available online. I have also nearly completed a 50 page comic which is set to release next month.

So that's all I'll put here, as I sometimes don't know if I'm even saying anything important in these intro threads. :1

Thanks for existing SFML!!!  ;D

also.
Woo! 9000th member! :V

(http://i.gyazo.com/7829075467d313f3cc63b9e88609d51d.png)

but at the time of posting this, the member count is... Over 9000!!! :V

(http://i.gyazo.com/22c6a0d7fb20f95efcfaa466a15e1b1d.png)

lol. :b

Title: Re: Hello everyone!
Post by: eXpl0it3r on October 13, 2014, 01:54:37 pm

Welcome then and congratulations for being the 9000th member. :)

Given the description, I can only highly advise you to first read a good C++ book (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list) before diving too much into SFML. C++ is not trivial and can not be learned through trial and error. And at last keep in mind that this forum is for SFML related things, so if you have C++ issues, you'd be better off by using something like StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/). ;)

Title: Re: Hello everyone!
Post by: Hapax on October 14, 2014, 01:57:03 am

Hi, and welcome, Silver :)