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Combro

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Are There Any Good Youtube Tutorials?
« on: February 14, 2015, 06:07:07 pm »
Looking to pick up SFML, but most of the Youtube tutorials I've seen employ pretty bad programming practices. I was wondering if you guys know of any good SFML tutorials that actually use some proper practices that one can learn from. Also, are there any books/ebooks that you would recommend? Worst comes to worst I can just use http://www.sfml-dev.org/learn.php I suppose.

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Re: Are There Any Good Youtube Tutorials?
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2015, 06:16:37 pm »
I don't know of any video tutorials that are actually good. But there's a book: https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/sfml-game-development and a wiki: https://github.com/SFML/SFML/wiki

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Re: Are There Any Good Youtube Tutorials?
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2015, 06:27:22 pm »
Thanks! You know of any other similar books? I just searched my library's catalog and that book doesn't seem to be in their catalog, and I'd prefer not to spend $27 up front. Anything around $10 or below I'd be willing to spend most likely. I know that the best books are going to cost a bit of money, but I don't want to spend that much because I'm trying to mess with SDL and SFML and seeing which one I prefer. The wiki seems pretty useful though, I'll definitely use it! Thanks!

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Re: Are There Any Good Youtube Tutorials?
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2015, 06:48:40 pm »
I know of no other books, but the official tutorials are pretty damn good and combined with the API documentation you should be able to get started.

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Re: Are There Any Good Youtube Tutorials?
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2015, 01:16:27 am »
Like Jesper Juhl said, the best and most accurate sources are the SFML Wiki or book - however, I think might be worth a mention. It's kind of a mixture between modern C++ and SFML and touches on a wide variety of topics in addition to SFML library functions. I think it's a pretty solid resources and it seems to have gotten pretty good feedback in the SFML forums
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