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Learning C++ but wanting to develop iOS Apps

I'm a computer engineering student and taking my second programming class. I'm learning C++ using "C++ Primer Plus" 5th edition by Prata. I want to develop for iOS. I understand the main language for ...
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How do I find the angle required to point to another object?

I am making an air combat game, where you can fly a ship in a 3D space. There is an opponent that flies around as well. When the opponent is not on screen, I want to display an arrow pointing in the ...
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Are C and Objective-C sufficient for creating games on the iOS?

These days, I'm focusing on games development on the iOS. C++ is the lingua franca for games development but seriously, I prefer to code in C programming language, not in C++. So for iOS games ...
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Can I develop games for mobile platforms in C++?

I have a good grasp in C++ and C and have also experience developing AAA game using C++. Now, I'm shamelessly thinking to dive into mobile game development either in iOS or Android. Unfortunately, I ...
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Objective C and C++ for Game Development

I'm trying to figure out which language I should begin learning. I've only been programming for about 6 months, with languages like PHP, Java, and C#. I want to learn how to dev games, and while I ...
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OpenGL ES Framebuffer creation problem

I'm having some problems porting my D3D code to OpenGL ES. I have a Graphics Device class that encapsulates all rendering commands. The code below is in an ObjC++ file. The problem code is the called ...
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Objective-C or C++ for iOS games?

I'm pretty confident programming in Objective-C and C++, but I find Objective-C to be somewhat easier to use and more flexible and dynamic in nature. What would be the pros and cons when using C++ ...
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How to use Irrlicht with Objective-C?

Irrlicht uses namespaces, a C++ feature not available in Objective-C: /* In the Irrlicht Engine, everything can be found in the namespace 'irr'. So if you want to use a class of the engine, you have ...
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Sending a struct containing a string over network

I'm trying to send structs as neatly sorted packets using iPhone Game Kit.. I have a struct which looks like: typedef struct { int coolStuff; char playerID[100]; } MyStruct; Then I'm using ...