Beginning C++ Game Programming - Third Edition

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Object-Oriented Programming – Starting the Pong Game

In this chapter, there’s a little bit of theory, but the theory will give us the knowledge that we need to start using Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). OOP helps us organize our code into human-recognizable structures and handle complexity. We will not waste any time in putting that theory to good use as we will use it to code the next project, a Pong game. We will get to look behind the scenes at how we can create new C++ types that we can use as objects. We will achieve this by coding our first class. To get started, we will look at a simplified Pong game scenario so that we can learn about some class basics, and then we will start again and code a Pong game for real using the principles ...