Top 8 Recommended C++ Self-Study Materials! [December 2023]

Learn Unreal Engine 5 C++ Programming by Creating an Action-RPG Style Open World Game!

This course will take you from beginner to hero as we create everything in this course project from scratch. Learn Unreal Engine 5's new features from Open World maps, Quixel Bridge megascans for ultra-realistic environments, landscape sculpting and painting, dungeons, free-roaming creatures and humanoids with various weapons, breakable objects that spawn treasure, and more!

Slay your way through your open world level, hacking and slashing creatures, breaking pots and collecting treasure and souls, and try to keep your health and stamina high!

We will implement enemy behavior that can be reused for various creature types, including gruntlings, raptors, insects, and golems. Code your character to be able to pick up and equip better and better weapons as she slays stronger and stronger monsters and collects loot.

We will cover new Unreal Engine 5 features such as Motion Warping, Meta Sounds, Linked Anim Graphs, UE5's new retargeting system with IK Rigs and IK Retargeters, Leg IK with Control Rigs, visual effect creation in Niagara, and more!

We'll start with a completely empty level and add everything from sky and atmosphere, nature, trees and plants, and we'll even import an entire dungeon level with the use of UE5's new Packed Level Instance feature.

We will cover vectors and game development mathematics in a full math section to prepare you for gameplay programming before diving in and creating our first C++ class.

We will then learn Unreal Engine's class hierarchy, creating a basic Actor, learning about trigonometry as we use the sine function to give our items floating behavior.

We then create a Bird using the Pawn class so we can fly around our level and get a literal bird's-eye view.

We then create our Character class, using Echo from the Valley of the Ancient Epic-released free project, a beautiful and lifelike humanoid with cloth physics on her scarf and garments.

We implement weapon equipping and combat. We learn how to calculate directional hit reactions, using root motion animations to make our enemies stumble in the correct direction based on the direction of impact.

We give our enemies patrolling behavior, then chasing and attacking behavior. We make our enemies smarter with the use of UE5's new Motion Warping system, warping our enemy's location and rotation to make it hit the target more frequently, and making it harder to move out of harm's way.

We then give Echo a fighting chance, by implementing a dodge ability, similar to Dark Souls and Elden Ring. She can dodge out of the way while the enemy swings fervently, making them miss so we can move in to counter-attack.

We make breakable pots and vases using the Chaos destruction system, and these breakables spawn treasure when we break them, allowing us to collect loot and increment our gold count in the HUD.

We create a beautiful Soul effect in Niagara, and make enemies spawn souls upon death so we can gain experience points.

We learn how to make enemies stronger with an Attribute component, giving them varying levels of health and damage, and soul spawn counts.

We use UE5's new Animation Blueprint Templates to reuse all of our enemy code to create different types of enemies, from humanoids that wield weapons to creatures that bite, sting, and smash.

Get your RPG project started with this amazing course, which is the product of nearly a decade of professional Unreal Engine experience and teaching.

This course is in a whole new universe than the original UE4 version I created four years ago! Benefit from years of learning, teaching, and implementing Unreal's newly evolved system with its cutting-edge game creation capabilities!

This is my most well-taught course yet, and by far the most beautiful game project of all my courses on Udemy thus far.

Join me and let's have a ton of fun creating the start of an action RPG hack-and-slash Open World game in Unreal Engine 5!

1. Getting Started
2. Introduction
3. How to Get Help
4. Installing Unreal Engine 5
5. The Level Editor Viewport
6. View Modes
7. Object Manipulation
8. Panels
9. Section 1 Challenge
10. Realistic Landscapes
11. Quixel Bridge
12. Open World
13. Lighting and Atmosphere
14. Landscape
15. 11 - Landscape Material
16. Landscape Painting
17. Foliage Painting
18. More Foliage Painting
19. Post Process Volume
20. Forest Polish Up
21. If You Get This Popup While Migrating...
22. Packed Level Actors
23. Mountains
24. Level Instances
25. Section 2 Challenge
26. Vectors, Rotators, and Trigonometry
27. Coordinates
28. Vectors
29. Vector Examples
30. Vector Operations
31. Vector Operations Examples
32. Vector Magnitude
33. Vector Magnitude Examples
34. Vector Normalization
35. Rotators
36. Section 3 Challenge
37. C++ in Unreal Engine
38. Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
39. Setting up Visual Studio
40. C++ Refresher
41. Reflection and Garbage Collection
42. Section 4 Challenge
43. The Actor Class
44. Actor Creation
45. Blueprint Creation
46. Onscreen Debug Messages
47. Formatting Strings
48. Drawing Debug Spheres
49. Drawing Debug Lines
50. Drawing Debug Points
51. Custom Header Files
52. Section 5 Challenge
53. Moving Objects With Code
54. SetActorLocation
55. SetActorRotation
56. Actor World Offset
57. Trig Functions
58. The Sine Function
59. Exposing Variables to Blueprint
60. Visible But Not Editable
61. Exposing Variables to the Event Graph
62. Exposing Functions to Blueprint
63. Template Functions
64. Components
65. Components in C++
66. Section 6 Challenge
67. The Pawn Class
68. The Pawn Class
69. Capsule Component
70. Forward Declaration
71. Skeletal Mesh Components
72. Enhanced Input
73. Binding Inputs
74. Enhanced Input for Movement
75. Adding Movement Input
76. Camera and Spring Arm
77. Enhanced Input for Controller Input
78. Adding Controller Input
79. Setting the Default Pawn
80. Section 7 Challenge
81. The Character Class
82. The Character Class
83. Enhanced Input for the Character
84. Character Inputs
85. Character Camera and SpringArm
86. The Rotation Matrix
87. Controller Directions
88. Hair and Eyebrows
89. Custom Hair Color
90. Section 8 Challenge
91. The Animation Blueprint
92. The Animation Blueprint
93. The Anim Instance
94. Jumping
95. Jump Animations
96. Inverse Kinematics
97. Section 9 Challenge
98. Collision and Overlaps
99. Collision Presets
100. Overlap Events
101. Delegates
102. On Component Begin Overlap
103. On Component End Overlap
104. Section 10 Challenge
105. The Weapon Class
106. The Weapon Class
107. Sockets
108. Downloading Animations
109. IK Rig
110. IK Retargeter
111. Attaching the Sword
112. Picking Up Items
113. Enum for Character State
114. Switching Animation Poses
115. Equipped Animations
116. Multiple Animation Blueprints
117. Section 11 Challenge
118. Attacking
119. Animation Montages
120. Playing Montages from C++
121. Attacking State
122. Resetting the Action State
123. Item State
124. Sound Notifies and Meta Sounds
125. Meta Sounds for Footsteps
126. Fixing Foot Placement
127. Putting the Sword Away
128. Playing Arm and Disarm Animations
129. Attaching the Sword to the Back
130. Equip and Unequip Sounds
131. Editing Animations
132. Section 12 Challenge: Option A
133. Section 12 Challenge: Option B
134. Weapon Mechanics
135. Collision Box
136. Tracing
137. Box Trace in C++
138. Dynamic Arrays
139. Disabling Weapon Box Collision
140. Unreal Interfaces
141. Enemies
142. Notes on the Blender Addon
143. Root Motion Animations
144. Implementing Interfaces
145. Hit React Montage
146. Playing the Hit React Montage
147. Dot Product
148. Cross Product
149. Directional Hit Reactions
150. One Hit Per Swing
151. Hit Sounds
152. Hit Particles
153. Weapon Trails
154. Section 13 Challenge
155. Breakable Actors
156. Destructible Meshes
157. Field System Actors
158. Creating Fields with Weapons
159. Breakable Actor
160. Blueprint Native Event
161. Breaking Sounds
162. Section 14 Challenge
163. Treasure
164. Treasure
165. Spawning Actors
166. Spawning Actors from C++
167. Different Types of Treasure
168. Different Types of Breakables
169. Niagara Effects
170. Niagara Components
171. Section 15 Challenge
172. Combat
173. Actor Components
174. Widget Components
175. User Widget Class
176. Setting the Health Percent
177. Damage
178. Custom Health Bars
179. Enemy Death Animations
180. Enemy Death
181. Death Poses
182. Polishing Enemy Death
183. Section 16 Challenge
184. Enemy Behavior
185. Making Enemies Move
186. Enemy Movement Anims
187. Blendspaces
188. Patrol Targets
189. Selecting Patrol Targets
190. Patrol Wait Time
191. Pawn Sensing Component
192. Enemy States
193. Enemies Losing Interest
194. Attack Radius
195. Agro When Hit
196. Weapon Alterations
197. Section 17 Challenge
198. Enemy Attacks
199. Using Inheritance
200. Enemy Base Blueprint

Which programming language is often seen as a badge of honor among software developers?  C++

Which programming language can you learn that when added to your resume,  will often get you a job interview?  C++ 

Which programming language is routinely ranked in the top 5 programming languages by popularity, and been consistently in the top 10 for close to 20 years?  C++

Why you should learn C++

Much, if not most of the software written today is still written in C++ and this has been the case for many, many years. 

Not only is C++ popular, but it is also a very relevant language. If you go to GitHub you will see that there are a huge number of active C++ repositories and C++ is also extremely active on stack overflow.

There are many, many leading software titles written entirely or partly in C++. These include the Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX operating systems!

Many of the Adobe products such as Photoshop and Illustrator,  the MySQL and MongoDB database engines, and many many more are written in C++.

Leading tech companies use C++ for many of their products and internal research and development. These include Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, PayPal, Google, Facebook, Oracle, and many more.

Can you see how learning C++ will open up more career opportunities for you?

If more professional companies are using C++, it stands to reason that there is going to be more of a demand for C++ programmers.

But the main reason programmers should probably learn C++  is because it is so powerful!

What do I mean by powerful?

C++ is super fast and is a general-purpose programming language that supports both procedure and object-oriented programming making it very flexible.

It can scale easily. And it can be portable as well.

C++ can do many things that other languages just can't.

That's why nearly every major language has a way to interface with code written in C++.

Since C++ has influenced so many languages, if you know C++ you'll likely see elements from C++ in new languages you learn.

How can a beginner learn C++?

Find a good course, taught by an instructor with many years of experience in C++ is critical, as is the need for the instructor to have the necessary skills to be able to teach you the language.

Frank Mitropolous, the instructor in this course has been using C++ for over 2 decades and has taught students in both university courses and industry training courses.  He even worked on a C++ compiler development project while he was in the industry.

So not only will you be learning C++ from an expert C++ programmer, but you'll also be taught by an instructor who has successfully taught at university level for many years.

As a result, you can take this course with confidence, knowing that you will learn C++ the right way, and in the shortest possible timeframe.

Which version of C++ should I learn?

C++ has had many version releases and updates over the years.  It's a sad fact that most C++ courses do not teach Modern C++, but focus on old, obsolete versions of C++.

Frank teaches you Modern C++ (specifically C++ 14 and C++17).  

Learn C++ the right way, with Modern C++, as taught by Frank in this course.

What about C++20? Don't I need to learn about that as well?

This course currently covers C++14 and C++17 but is still valid if you ultimately want to learn C++20. 

C++20 is new and the reality is that C++20 compilers and tools are not yet ready for prime time and the industry is using mainly C++14.    So it's not really of any benefit for you to learn C++20 right now when the industry is not using it. 

It's going to take many, many years for the industry to migrate to C++20 and that means jobs for C++20 are not going to be around for quite some time.

What is available right now, are tons of jobs for Modern C++ developers, and you will obtain those skills in this course.

It's our sincere advice to focus on learning Modern C++ and not get too hung up on the latest and greatest versions of C++.

And even if you really do want to learn C++20,  the new features in C++20 are mostly advanced features that require understanding the foundations of Modern C++.

If you don't learn the basics, you won't master any version of C++.

Learning the foundations of Modern C++ should be your priority, which you will learn in this course!

Is C++ difficult to learn?

With all the power and flexibility of C++ comes complexity.

There is no question that C++ is one of the most complex programming languages out there.

But with the right instructor and the right training, you really can get up to speed with C++ quickly, and that's what this course is all about.

What will I learn in this course?

The course assumes no previous experience with C++ (or even programming in general), and you will end up with the skills to create your own programs in C++.

Key topics covered include.

* Looping with while, do/while for, range-based for statements and recursion
* Performing calculations and displaying results
* Functions
* Pointers
* Using existing classes and creating objects
* Creating your own classes
* Using Basic Standard Template Library classes such as Vector
* Constructors and Destructors
* Copy and Move semantics including Copy constructors, Move constructors, and copy and move assignment 
* How to overload operators
* Using inheritance and class hierarchies
* Using Polymorphic functions and dynamic binding 
* Using smart pointers
* Using stream I/O
* An introduction to the C++ STL
* An introduction to Exception Handling
* And much more.

How is this C++ course different from other courses?

You will learn Modern C++, for one.  Many, perhaps most other courses on Udemy teach you old, obsolete versions of C++.  If you are going to learn C++, it's imperative that you learn the Modern version to maximize your career opportunities and to ensure your skills are up to date.

The course format includes theory and concepts which are then reinforced with live code examples. Often the C++ debugger is used to step through code and analyze variables to better understand the behavior of C++. The instructor also uses a pen tablet to write on the screen and provide even more visual explanations.

You won't find better C++ training anywhere, and you will struggle to find someone with as much industry and training experience as your instructor Frank has.

What do I get out of learning C++?

More career options for one!  C++ is one of the most popular programming languages used in games development.    It's also heavily used in embedded applications.  Your investment in time in learning C++ will reward you time and time again with more pay, and more opportunities, and frankly, more fun!

Are you ready to get started?

If you are ready to get that first paid programming job or to move up to a more senior programming position, then this course is for you!

Your new job or consulting opportunity awaits!  

Why not get started today?

Click the Signup button to sign up for the course!

1. Introduction
2. About the Course
3. Why Learn C++?
4. Modern C++ and the C++ Standard
5. How does all this work?
6. FAQ -- Please Read!
7. Installation and Setup
8. Installation and Setup Overview
9. Installing the C++ Compiler on Windows
10. Installing CodeLite on Windows
11. Configuring CodeLite on Windows
12. Installing the C++ Compiler on Mac OSX
13. Installing CodeLite on Mac OSX
14. Configuring CodeLite on Mac OSX
15. Using the Command-Line interface
16. Installing CodeLite on Ubuntu Linux
17. Configuring CodeLite on Ubuntu Linux
18. Creating a Default CodeLite Project Template (All Versions)
19. Using the Command-Line Interface on Windows
20. Using the Command-Line Interface on Mac OSX
21. Using the Command-Line Interface on Linux (Ubuntu)
22. Using a Web-based C++ Compiler
23. Using the Included Source Code Course Resources
24. Curriculum Overview
25. Curriculum Overview
26. Overview of the Section Challenge Exercises
27. Overview of the Section Quizzes
28. Getting Started
29. Section Overview
30. An Overview of the CodeLite Interface
31. Writing our first program
32. Building our first program
33. What are Compiler Errors?
34. What are Compiler Warnings?
35. What are Linker Errors?
36. What are Runtime Errors?
37. What are Logic Errors?
38. Section Challenge
39. Section Challenge - Solution
40. Section 4 Quiz
41. Structure of a C++ Program
42. Section Overview
43. Overview of the Structure of a C++ Program
44. #include Preprocessor Directive
45. Comments
46. The main() function
47. Namespaces
48. Basic Input and Output (I/O) using cin and cout
49. Using cout and the insertion operator to say Hi to Frank
50. Using cout and the insertion operator
51. Using cin and the extraction operator
52. Section 5 Quiz
53. Variables and Constants
54. Section Overview
55. What is a variable?
56. Declaring and Initializing Variables
57. Declaring and Initializing Variables
58. Global Variables
59. C++ Built-in Primitive Types
60. What is the Size of a Variable (sizeof)
61. What is a Constant?
62. Declaring and Using Constants
63. Section Challenge
64. Section Challenge - Solution
65. Section 06 Quiz
66. Arrays and Vectors
67. Section Overview
68. What is an Array?
69. Declaring and Initializing Arrays
70. Accessing and Modifying Array Elements
71. Declaring, Initializing and Accessing an Array
72. Multidimensional Arrays
73. Declaring and Initializing Vectors
74. Accessing and Modifying Vector Elements
75. Declaring, Initializing and Accessing Vectors
76. Section Challenge
77. Section Challenge - Solution
78. Section 07 Quiz
79. Statements and Operators
80. Section Overview
81. Expressions and Statements
82. Using Operators
83. The Assignment Operator
84. Arithmetic Operators
85. Using the Assignment Operator
86. Using the Arithmetic Operators
87. Increment and Decrement Operators
88. Mixed Expressions and Conversions
89. Testing for Equality
90. Relational Operators
91. Logical Operators
92. Compound Assignment Operators
93. Operator Precedence
94. Logical Operators and Operator Precedence - Can you work?
95. Section Challenge
96. Section Challenge - Solution
97. Section 08 Quiz
98. Controlling Program Flow
99. Section Overview
100. if Statement
101. If Statement - Can you Drive?
102. if else Statement
103. If-Else Statement - Can you Drive?
104. Nested if Statements
105. Nested If Statements - Can you Drive?
106. switch-case Statement
107. Switch Statement - Day of the Week
108. Conditional Operator
109. Looping
110. for Loop
111. For loop - Sum of Odd Integers
112. range-based for Loop
113. Using the range-based for loop
114. while Loop
115. While loop exercise
116. do while Loop
117. continue and break
118. Infinite Loops
119. Nested Loops
120. Nested Loops - Sum of the Product of all Pairs of Vector Elements
121. Section Challenge
122. Section Challenge - Solution Part 1
123. Section Challenge - Solution Part 2
124. ​Section 09 Quiz
125. Characters and Strings
126. Section Overview
127. Character Functions
128. C-Style Strings
129. Working with C-style Strings
130. Using C-style Strings
131. C++ Strings
132. Working with C++ Strings
133. Using C++ Strings - Exercise 1
134. Using C++ Strings - Exercise 2
135. Section Challenge
136. Section Challenge - Solution
137. ​Section 10 Quiz
138. Challenge Assignment - Letter Pyramid
139. Functions
140. Section Overview
141. What is a Function?
142. Using Functions from the cmath Library
143. Function Definition
144. Function Prototypes
145. Function Parameters and the return Statement
146. Functions and Prototypes - Converting Temperatures
147. Default Argument Values
148. Using Default Argument Values - Grocery List
149. Overloading Functions
150. Overloading Functions - Calculating Area
151. Passing Arrays to Functions
152. Passing Arrays to Functions - Print a Guest List
153. Pass by Reference
154. Using Pass by Reference - Print a Guest List
155. Scope Rules
156. How do Function Calls Work?
157. inline Functions
158. Recursive Functions
159. Implementing a Recursive Function - Sum of Digits
160. Implementing a Recursive Function - Save a Penny
161. Section Challenge
162. Section Challenge-Solution
163. Section 11 Quiz
164. Pointers and References
165. Section Overview
166. What is a Pointer?
167. Declaring Pointers
168. Accessing the Pointer Address and Storing Address in a Pointer
169. Dereferencing a Pointer
170. Dynamic Memory Allocation
171. The Relationship Between Arrays and Pointers
172. Pointer Arithmetic
173. Swap Values using Pointers
174. Const and Pointers
175. Passing Pointers to Functions
176. Returning a Pointer from a Function
177. Passing a Pointer to a Function
178. Find the Maximum Element in an Array using Pointers
179. Reverse an Array using Pointers (Challenging!)
180. Reverse a std::string using Pointers (Challenging!)
181. Potential Pointer Pitfalls
182. What is a Reference?
183. L-values and R-values
184. Using the CodeLite IDE Debugger
185. Section Recap
186. Section Challenge
187. Section Challenge - Solution
188. ​Section 12 Quiz
189. OOP - Classes and Objects
190. Section Overview
191. What is Object-Oriented Programming?
192. What are Classes and Objects?
193. Declaring a Class and Creating Objects
194. Accessing Class Members
195. Creating and Accessing Objects
196. public and private
197. Implementing Member Methods
198. Adding public methods that access private class attributes
199. Add more public methods to an existing class
200. Constructors and Destructors

This course covers C++ from very basic to more advanced features. 

Concepts of C++ programming are made very simple and easy.

Every topic is covered in greater detail. 

All Lecture are discussed both on white board like a classroom session and practical demo.

Programs and Bullet points are provided as resource.

Every Topic is Explained with Real life Examples

This course also covers features of modern C++ 11.

Student Project at the end of Course

Course Highlights

• Every Topic is covered on White Board
  

• Pratical Session for each Topic
  

• Section wise Quiz
  

• Section wise Workbook Programs
  

• Student Project
  

You will be learning concepts perfectly and also learn how to perfectly utilise features of C++. you will be confident to develop any type of Application using C++.

 What I will learn ?

• Basics - Datatypes and Variables

• Operators and Expressions

• Conditional Statements

• Loops

• Pointers

• Functions

• Function Overloading

• Oops Concepts

• Classes and Objects

• Constructors

• Destructors

• Operator Overloading

• Inheritance

• Polymorphism

• Abstract Classes

• Function Overriding

• Friend Members

• Static Members

• Inner Classes

• Templates

• Exception Handling

• I/O Streams

• STL 

• Lambda Expressions 

• Features on Modern C++ 11

• Student Project

1. Introduction
2. Instructors Note
3. Essential Fundamentals
4. Fundamentals
5. How Computers Works
6. Introduction to Number Systems
7. What is a Program
8. Low-level and High-Level Languages
9. Compiler vs Interpreter
10. What is an Operating System
11. Program Development
12. Programming Paradigms/Methodologies
13. What is an Algorithm
14. What is a FlowChart
15. Steps for Program Development and Execution
16. Compiler and IDE Setup
17. Practice C++ online Compiler
18. Setup Dev-C++ and Settings
19. Setup Visual Studio
20. Debugging in CodeBlocks
21. Debugging in Dev-C++
22. Debugging using Visual Studio
23. Setup xcode
24. C++ Basics
25. Skeleton of C++ Program
26. Writing My First Program
27. Demo - First Program
28. Why Data Types
29. Primitive Data Types
30. Variables
31. Arithmetic Operators and Expressions
32. Operator Precedence & Expressions
33. Program using Expression
34. Area of a Triangle
35. Practice Problem: Sum of First N Natural Numbers
36. Sum of First n Natural Number
37. Practice Problem :Roots of Quadratic Equations
38. Finding roots of a Quadratic Equation
39. Demo - Expressions
40. Calculate Distance
41. Calculate Simple Interest
42. Calculate Volume of a Cylinder
43. Calculate Distance between 2 point
44. Compound Assignment
45. Demo - Compound Assignment
46. Increment and Decrement Operators
47. Demo - Increment and Decrement Operators
48. Overflow
49. Demo - Overflow
50. Bitwise Operators
51. Demo - Bitwise Operators
52. Enum and Typedef
53. Demo enum and typedef
54. Practice : Student Exercise #1
55. Practice : Student Exercise #2
56. Quiz on Basics
57. Conditional Statements
58. Conditional Statement - if
59. Practice Problem : Finding Maximum of 2 Numbers
60. Maximum of 2 Numbers
61. Number is Positive or Negative
62. Check if Number is Odd or Even
63. Demo - Conditional Statement
64. Demo - Validation
65. Logical Operators
66. Compound Conditional Statement
67. Check if Working Hours
68. Practice Program using Compound Conditions
69. Check Age of a person
70. Check if a person is eligible for Offer
71. Demo -Compound Condition
72. Nested If
73. Finding maximum of 3 numbers
74. Practice Problem: Finding Maximum of 3 No.
75. Practice Problem :Find Nature of Quadratic Roots
76. Nature of Quadratic Roots
77. Practice Problem :Display Grades for Student Marks
78. Display Grades for Students Marks
79. Calculate Discounted Bill Amount
80. else if Ladder
81. Display Day name
82. Display Month Name
83. Display Digit in words
84. Practice Problem : Display Day name using else if ladder
85. Short Circuit
86. Demo - Short Circuit
87. Dynamic Declaration
88. Demo - Dynamic Declaration
89. Switch Case - Branch and Control
90. Demo - Switch Case
91. Display Name of a Day
92. Practice Problem : Switch - Program to Display Day name
93. Practice Problem : Switch - Program using Menu Options
94. Arithmetic operations using switch
95. Practice Student Exercise #3
96. Practice Student Exercise #4
97. Quiz - Conditional Statements
98. Loops
99. Loops - Iterative Statements
100. for Loop
101. Demo - Loops
102. Infinite Loop
103. Practice Problem :Multiplication Table
104. Practice Problem : Sum of N number
105. Practice Problem : Factorial of a number
106. Practice Problem :Factors of a Number
107. Practice Problem : Perfect Number
108. Practice Problem : find Prime Number
109. Sum of first N natural number
110. Find Factorial of number
111. Find factors of a number
112. Check if a number is Perfect Number
113. Check if a Number is Prime number
114. Demo for Loops
115. Practice Problem : Display Digits of a Number
116. Practice Problem : check for Armstrong Number
117. Practice Problem : Reverse a Number
118. Display Digits of a number
119. Check if a number is Armstrong Number
120. Reverse a Number
121. Check if a Number is a Palindrome
122. Demo - Programs using While Loop
123. Practice Problem : find GDC of 2 numbers
124. Program for finding GCD
125. Practice Student Exercise #5
126. Quiz for Loops
127. Arrays
128. Arrays - Introduction
129. Arrays Declarations
130. For Each Loop
131. Display all Elements using For Each loop
132. Practice Problem :Adding all Elements of Array
133. Practice Problem :Finding Max element from Array
134. Practice Problem :Linear Search
135. Practice Problem :Binary Search
136. Sum of all Elements of Array
137. Find Maximum element from Array
138. Find Minimum Element in an Array
139. Count number of negative and positive numbers in Array
140. Demo - Array Programs
141. Nested Loops
142. Demo - Nested Loop
143. Practice Problem :Drawing Pattern 1
144. Practice Problem :Drawing Pattern 2
145. Practice Problem :Drawing Pattern 3
146. Draw a Square of *
147. Draw a Lower Triangle of *
148. Draw a Upper Triangle of *
149. Draw cross Lower Triangle of *
150. Draw cross Upper Triangle of *
151. Patterns using Nested Loops
152. Multidimensional Array
153. Demo - 2D Arrays
154. Practice Problem :Matrix Operations
155. Practice Student Exercise #6
156. Practice Student Exercise #7
157. Quiz for Arrays
158. Pointers
159. Pointers - Introduction
160. Demo - Pointers
161. Why Pointers
162. Heap Memory Allocation
163. Demo - Dynamic Allocation
164. Pointer Arithmetic
165. Pointer Arithmetic
166. Demo - Pointer Arithmetic
167. Problems using Pointers
168. Reference
169. Demo - Reference
170. Quiz for Pointers
171. Strings
172. Introduction to String
173. Reading and Writing String
174. String Functions - Length , Concatenate and Copy
175. String Function - Substring and Compare
176. String Functions - Tokeniser and To Integer
177. Class String
178. Basic Functions of Class String
179. Class String - Append and Insert Functions
180. String Class - Replace and Swap Functions
181. String Class - Copy and Find Functions
182. String Class - Substring , Compare and Operators
183. String Class - Iterator
184. Practice Problem : Find Length of a String
185. Practice Problem : Change Cases of Letters
186. Practice Problem : Count Vowels and Words in a String
187. Practice Problem : Checking Palindrome
188. Practice Problem: Find username from email address
189. Functions
190. Functions - Introduction
191. Demo - Functions
192. Function for Adding 2 numbers
193. Function for Finding maximum of 3 numbers
194. Function to calculate m power n.
195. Function Overloading
196. Function Overloading for Sum of Numbers
197. Function Overloading for Min of Numbers
198. Demo - Function Overloading
199. Function Template
200. Function Template for Finding Maximum Number

Learning to program can be dull, and learning C++ is hard enough without having to learn a game engine as well.

In this course we teach you coding the fun way, by making games! And we'll be using a library so you can focus on learning pure C++ and good programming practice.

You'll start by compiling your first program in C++, using Visual Studio Code as your text editor.

Then create your first axe dodging game using the Raylib library. This project introduces the basic concepts of programming: variables, loops and if-statements.

You expand on this in Dapper Dasher, by building a side-scrolling running game. In addition to covering essential programming concepts such as structs and functions, you'll learn to animate 2D characters and make your game pretty.

In Classy Clash we introduce Object Oriented Programming. You'll learn how this simplifies programming for games and how inheritance can avoid code duplication.

Whether you're a total beginner to programming and want to learn pure C++, or an intermediate Unreal student who wants to explore making games in pure C++, this is the course for you!

There are no course prerequisites, though it'll help if you're comfortable installing new software and excited to learn programming!

All students have access to the Q&A forums where our Instructors, Teaching Assistants and Community are ready to help answer your questions and cheer on your success.

1. Codename: First Concepts
2. Section Intro - First Concepts
3. PC: Installation And Setup
4. Mac: Installation And Setup
5. Linux: Installation And Setup
6. The Main Function
7. Your First Program
8. Compiler
9. Community & Support
10. Accessing Our Projects
11. Axe Game
12. Creating A Popup Window
13. Data Types and Variables
14. Data Types and Variables 2
15. Debugging
16. Comparison Operators
17. Loops
18. Clear Background
19. Function Return Values
20. Drawing A Circle
21. Moving The Circle
22. Logical AND
23. Drawing The Axe
24. Logical OR
25. Collision Detection
26. The else Statement
27. Finishing The Game
28. Dapper Dasher
29. Section Intro - Dapper Dasher
30. Setting Up dasher.cpp
31. Velocity and Jumping
32. Gravity And Acceleration
33. Preventing Air Jumping
34. Sprite Sheets And Animation
35. Drawing From Sprite Sheets
36. Delta Time
37. Animating Scarfy
38. Hazards
39. Moving The Hazard
40. Animating The Hazard
41. Multiple Nebula Hazards
42. Custom Data Types
43. More On Custom Data Types
44. Using AnimData
45. Arrays
46. Array Of Nebula Hazards
47. For Loops
48. Looping Through The Hazards
49. Lots Of Nebulae
50. Functions
51. Refactoring
52. Update Animation Data
53. Scrolling Background
54. Duplicating The Background
55. Drawing Midground And Foreground
56. Finish Line
57. Collision Detection
58. Winning And Losing
59. Classy Clash
60. Section Intro And Map Creation
61. Top Down Game Setup
62. Vectors
63. Movement
64. Drawing The Character
65. Animating The Character
66. Classes
67. Getters And Setters
68. Scope
69. The Tick Function
70. Character Instance
71. Header Files And Constructors
72. Checking The Map Bounds
73. Constructor Arguments
74. The Prop Class
75. Rendering Props
76. Prop Collision
77. Enemy Class
78. Class Inheritance
79. Inheriting From BaseCharacter
80. Overriding Functions
81. Variable Addresses
82. Enemy Screen Position
83. Enemy AI
84. Enemy Run Animation
85. Drawing The Sword
86. Attack!
87. Health And Damage
88. Strings And Displaying Health
89. Multiple Enemies And Course Wrap-Up
90. Continuing Your GameDev Journey
91. Bonus Lecture

Welcome to the C++ 20 Masterclass! A course designed to teach you cutting edge modern C++ from the absolute beginning all the way to very advanced topics, the topics you need in areas where C++ is used massively in modern times. Want to be a confident game developer? High performance applications in the financial sector, how about powerful software modules on top of which server systems, network infrastructure, database systems, even operating systems themselves run on top of? Well C++ is the dominant language used in these areas and many more! C++ is the programming language even other programming languages and technologies like NodeJS, PHP, Java, JavaScript and many more are written in.

By learning modern C++, you will be setting yourself up for success in writing software that runs devices ranging from bare metal embedded devices,  to mainstream electronic tech products like fridges, toasters, to networking infrastructure like routers and switches, all the way to power plants, manufacturing facilities and medical equipment. C++ is simply everywhere!

This course was carefully designed in a way  that it  will make you ready to take on technologies  and industries where C++ is widely used, by teaching you Modern C++ the way it is used in industry, and you will learn and master how to use shiny new features from the latest C++ standard (C++20) like ranges, modules coroutines, concepts, the three way comparison infrastructure and many more features spread out through out chapters and lectures in the course.

This course will teach you modern C++ from the absolute beginning all the way to a point where you can use advanced features like function templates, class templates, polymorphism, move semantics, functors , callbacks, STL container, iterators and algorithms, I will even show you how to build iterators for your own collection types, giving you the tools to  plug into the infrastructure provided by the C++ standard library to tune it to your own needs. Here are some of the things you'll get to master through this course : 

• C++20

• C++17

• C++14

• C++11

• C++98

• Ranges

• Modules

• Concepts

• Coroutines

• Classes

• Variables and data types

• Functions

• Inheritance

• Polymorphism

• Const correctness

• Static variables

• Storage duration

• Linkage

• One Definition rule

• Operator Overloading

• Three way comparison infrastructure

• Function like entities

• Move semantics

• STL containers, iterators and algorithms

• And much more!

By the time you're done with the course, you will be ready to use modern C++ with standards C++ 11,C++14, C++17 and C++ 20,  but you will also have the tools necessary to read, understand and work with older C++ code bases with C++98 and below out there, making your  C++ skills valuable across a wide range of areas regardless of the C++ standard in use.

The course was designed with complete beginners in mind. So if you have never programmed a computer before, don't worry, I will be with you every step of the way, showing you around, teaching you the tools, constructs and mechanisms necessary to build real C++ projects.

Existing C++ developers or experienced developers from other programming languages will also get a lot of value from the course as we cover advanced topics not covered in other online courses and books as far as I can tell. These include things like building  your own iterators, callback functions and many more.

Now C++ is a very powerful language used by big companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, NASA, and many more across a wide range  of products and I can talk about it all day. I am privileged to have been using it in my daily work for the last decade and I am  excited to share my accumulated knowledge with you in this course.

If you are serious about learning and mastering cutting edge modern C++, then this course is designed with the skill, the patience and the depth needed to get there as efficiently as possible. Please check some of the preview lectures, and lets get you started with modern C++ development, using C++ 20 as our base standard.

1. Welcome
2. Welcome
3. Getting the most out of the course
4. Source code, Slides and Questions [IMPORTANT]
5. Environment Setup - [Windows - Linux - Mac]
6. The Tools
7. Environment setup - Windows
8. Windows setup introduction
9. Install and setup VS Code on Windows
10. Microsoft Visual Studio Install - Windows
11. VS Code setup with MSVC
12. Install GCC & Clang - Windows
13. Configure VS Code for GCC - Windows
14. Configure VS Code for Clang - Windows
15. Windows template project - All compilers
16. Windows Development Environment setup - Summary
17. Environment setup - Linux
18. Linux environment setup - Introduction
19. Install & setup VS Code on Linux
20. Install GCC on Linux
21. Configure VS Code for GCC - Linux
22. Install Clang on Linux
23. Configure VS Code for Clang - Linux
24. Template Project - All compilers - Linux
25. Environment setup - Mac
26. Introduction
27. Install and Setup Visual Studio Code
28. Install GCC and Clang
29. Configure VS Code for gcc
30. Configure VS Code for Clang
31. Template Project - All compilers
32. Environmet setup - Other options
33. Online Compilers
34. About other IDEs
35. So you think you know more about C++, let's find out!
36. Diving In
37. Project Template
38. Your First C++ Program
39. Comments
40. Errors
41. Statements and Functions
42. Data input and output
43. Data Output
44. C++ Program Execution Model
45. C++ core language Vs Standard library Vs STL
46. Program Structure
47. The program wants to know where you live
48. Summary
49. Variables and Data Types
50. Introduction
51. Number Systems
52. Decimals and Integers
53. Integer Modifiers
54. Fractional Numbers
55. Declare and initialize variables
56. Booleans
57. Characters And Text
58. Auto
59. Assignments
60. Data Representation in memory
61. Number systems
62. Auto
63. Let's see how you'd use your data types
64. Summary
65. Operations on Data
66. Introduction
67. Basic Operations
68. Precedence and Associativity
69. Prefix/Postfix Increment & Decrement
70. Compound Assignment Operators
71. RelationalOperators
72. Logical Operators
73. Output formatting
74. Numeric Limits
75. Math Functions
76. Area of a hexagon
77. Weird Integral Types
78. Celcius to Fahrenheit
79. Area and Volume of a Box
80. So you think you know more about C++. Let's find out
81. Summary
82. Literals and Constants
83. Introduction
84. Literals
85. Constants
86. Constant Expressions
87. constinit
88. So you think you know more about C++? Let's find out!
89. Summary
90. Data Conversions : Overflow & Underflow
91. Introduction
92. Implicit Data Conversions
93. Explicit Data Conversions
94. Overflow and Underflow
95. So you think you know a bit more about C++? Let's find out!
96. Summary
97. Bitwise Operators
98. Introduction
99. Printing Integers in Binary
100. Shift Operators
101. Logical Bitwise Operators
102. Compound Bitwise and Assignment Operators
103. Masks
104. Mask Example
105. Packing Color Information
106. So you think you know moare about C++? Let's find out!
107. Summary
108. Variable Lifetime and Scope
109. Variable Lifetime
110. Variable Scope
111. So you think you know a little more about C++? Let's find out!
112. Control Flow
113. Introduction
114. If Statements
115. Else If
116. Switch
117. Leap Years
118. Short Circuit Evaluations
119. Integral Logic Conditions
120. Ternary Operators
121. If constexpr
122. If with Initializer
123. Switch with Initializer
124. Variable Scope Revisited
125. Switch Scope
126. Is it even ? Or could it be odd?
127. Will you get the treatment ?
128. Is the day valid?
129. Hunt for a day in the past
130. Are you completely surrounded?
131. Summary
132. Loops
133. Introduction
134. For Loop
135. So you think you have a better idea about loops in C++? Let's find out!
136. Can you sum up to 99?
137. For Loop : Multiple Declarations
138. Print upper case characters
139. Comma Operator
140. Range Based For Loop
141. Filter in multiples of 3
142. While Loop
143. I am stingy! I want to pay as less as possible
144. Huge Loops with Output
145. Do while loop
146. Multiples of 19
147. Infinite loops
148. Infinite Loops Practice
149. Decrementing Loops
150. Throwing you off :-)
151. Nested Loops
152. Break and Continue
153. Fix the Calculator
154. For Loop with Init condition
155. Year Calendar
156. Summary
157. Arrays
158. Introduction
159. Declaring and using arrays
160. Eliminating duplicates
161. Size of an array
162. The collection is sorted
163. Arrays of characters
164. Hunt for vowels
165. Array Bounds
166. Array bounds. Why care?
167. Generating Random Numbers
168. Fun with character arrays : Fortune Teller V1
169. What do we have in common?
170. Multi dimensional arrays
171. Multi dimensional arrays of characters
172. Fun with multi dimensional arrays of characters : Fortune Teller V2
173. The Calculator
174. Summary
175. Pointers
176. Introduction
177. Declaring and using pointers
178. Pointer to char
179. So you think you know more about pointers now? Let's find out!
180. Arrays of pointer to char
181. const pointer and pointer to const
182. Array of const pointer to const char
183. Pointers and arrays
184. Where does the big guy live?
185. Swapping array data : A demo
186. Pointer arithmetic : Introduction
187. Pointer Arithmetic : Navigation
188. Shoot forward
189. Pointer arithmetic : Distance between elements
190. Finding Nemo : The little guy!
191. Pointer Arithmetic : Comparing Pointers
192. Swapping array data : Pointer arithmetic
193. Program Memory Map Revisited
194. Dynamic Memory Allocation
195. Dangling Pointers
196. So you think you know a bit more about dangling pointers? Let's find out!
197. When new fails
198. Null pointer safety
199. Memory Leaks
200. Dynamically allocated arrays