Chapter 2 talks about conditional statements, such as IF, WHILE, SWITCH functions. I’ve used those alot with Javascript and PHP pages. So; for the most part, I plan on skimming this section. I did see a simple SWITCH program I wanted to run. It looked like fun. I had a weird thing happen though. My C/C++ Development Environment (CDT) went missing. I saw that the C++ plugins were showing, but I couldn’t get that perspective up and running. In the end, I simply uninstalled/reinstlled “eclipse-cdt” and it was back to normal. Something must have conflicted during the last system update.

I marked my spot on page 46. It’s been a long day and I have no energy left to work on programming. I took the kids to the pool twice. Today’s high was about 90 degrees and I walked them to the pool, on their bikes, so that took a while. It was a pretty chill time though. No rush. We swam around and Leeanne needed to use the potty. So; I took them to the door and the door wouldn’t open. I swiped our card a couple times, but nothing budged.  So; this meant we had to cut it short and take the troops back home… on their bikes! Oh boy was the trip home, no fun.

I fed them and we all took a nap. After we got up, I took them again to the pool and they had a great time. As for me, I’m tired beyond relief.

Back to My IDE-woahs!

I continued to have problems with my Integrated Development Environment (IDE). After I build the program and try to run it I get an error message. I forget what it was, but I’m guessing since I had to reinstall my CDT, I might need to resintall or reconnect the GCC compiler. Good night folks, this looks like a job for tomorrow.

I’m back on page 20 – variables. This part of the chapter is dealing with calculations, enumerators, etc. I finished chapter one and realized it might take me two weeks to complete a chapter, instead of one.

Chapter Two

Chapter two has my interest because it looks like he’ll talk about the “game loop”. When I took programming, back in college, I recall thinking about how these functions worked together. You can only have one main function and I thought about how what happens after the game finishes or after you “save and quit”. I came up with the term “game loop” – not knowing it was already a term. It’s pretty obvious that’s what it’d be called, but I’m happy I was able to figure it out – before someone told me.

Now that I have the basics, of this CDT, I’m back to reading the book. I believe I ended off declaring variables. I created a variable.cpp file and began working with the editor. Very nice how it helps.  Oh boy, I left it at page 20. I’m too tired to continue.