C++ Projects: Programming with Text-Based Games

Description

C++ Projects: Programming with Text-Based Games is a short text that offers fun C++ game programming examples, with detailed explanations, as a way to explore standard C++ programming topics. Each chapter focuses on one or two topics and presents a single game program that shows the topics in action. The book is designed to be paired with any popular primary C++ text.

CONTENTS:

1. Variables and Standard I/O: Lost Fortune.

2. Truth and Branching: Guess My Number.

3. For Loops and Arrays: Word Jumble.

4. Functions and References: Mad Libs.

5. Pointers: Inventory.

6. Classes, Part 1: Critter Caretaker.

7. Classes, Part 2: Tic-Tac-Toe 1.0.

8. Separate Compilation: Tic-Tac-Toe 2.0.

9. Files and Streams: Trivia Challenge.

10. Dynamically Allocated Memory and Linked Lists: Fox, Chicken and Grain.

11. Inheritance and Polymorphism: Tic-Tac-Toe 3.0.

12. Recursion and Binary Trees: Twenty Questions.

13. Standard Template Library: Blackjack.

14. Templates and Exceptions.