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Hello everyone!
« 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



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



lol. :b
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Re: Hello everyone!
« Reply #1 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 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. ;)
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Re: Hello everyone!
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2014, 01:57:03 am »
Hi, and welcome, Silver :)
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