Posts by TimeFractal

Read Alf Steinbach's tutorial. It walks you through getting and setting up a C++ environment as well as providing a fun introduction to c++ programming.

http://home.no.net/dubjai/win32cpptut/html/

I highly recommend buying "Accelerated C++" by Koenig and Moo. It's an awesome book, fun problems and an introduction to STL make this a great learning experience.

Other than that, yea, find a fun project you want to work on and get started.

Hello,

If you want to encode/decode pixel values into an image, I recommend the EasyBMP library (http://easybmp.sourceforge.net/) .

If you are looking to encrypt/decrypt a file, any file, I recommend using the zlib compression library (http://www.zlib.net/)

Addendum, if you are looking to write your own image encoder/decoder, Wotsit's File Format repository is invaluable (http://www.wotsit.org/). Understand that writing a good library will be very hard though.

Also, if you are looking for a comprehensive image library Magick++, the C++ wrapper for ImageMagick, is a very good choice. http://www.imagemagick.org/Magick++/

Also, Cairo (http://cairographics.org/) is a good choice.