Joshie, no double posting please. If you have something to add to your post and it hasn't been at least 24 hours, you should edit your post with the new information. Thanks.

Exactly this. It looks like you've been in good hands with David and Tanner, who are still learning and somewhat still learning respectively, which is good. Do you still have any outstanding unanswered questions at the moment?

EDIT: fixed, yay me! I had to change the file to a C++ source file, instead of a blank document. Hmph

This is starting to stress me out
I'ts now giving me errors when I build/run, that have no reason for being there. I just got an error for using this..

Code:

I even tried to run the program I wrote yesterday, that I know 150% was working yesterday, and those same errors again :S

Those are valid C++ things, but if you're compiling it as C instead of C++, you have to use:


Code:
I assume you're likely accidentally compiling as C. What compiler are you using? You probably already said and I missed it in the thread.

I am using Code::Blocks with GNU compiler, as suggested by scoutdavid, and many thanks to him, because it works awesome it seems the only problems I have had with the problem are through my own ignorance of C

UPDATE: so far in my C++ book, I am on page 160/1192, and I have covered variables, equations, and right now am on loop statements. I plan to finish the book by the end of july-ish, and then I will start coding my very first game, which I am hoping to be a tower defence game

Honestly I wouldn't start with a game, you will end up setting your hopes to high, then get upset because you probably won't be able to do it.

OK little bit of confusion... Pointers!
I don't get the point of pointers (redundancy pun lol).
Why not just use int/long/double/etc?
why use a pointer? makes no sense to me

A pointer is actually very useful I'm no C expert, but I can tell you that many aspects of lower-level C coding use them, as well as higher-level concepts as well. Strings for one can be manipulated with them. You can use them to write to other files. You can store things in actual places in memory rather than random-area ints. The possibilities are endless

So if you were to say... Save a highscore; you would use a pointer, and not a int/double/long/etc?

Because storing big things on the stack is incredibly stupid. You don't use pointers to an int, long, double, etc..., you use them for structs, arrays, and classes.

More reasons to use pointers:

>> Dynamic allocation! You can't very well compose and restructure any kind data structure including trees, linked lists, queues, stacks, you name it without either dynamic memory allocation or super-awkward hacks with large, fixed-size, inefficient reservation in the stack or heap.

>> Passing mutable data to functions: Say you want a function to change the value of an integer. Passing an int won't help, because that's a pass-by-value. Passing a pointer to an int will definitely help. C++ has nifty pass-by-reference syntax, but C lacks it, so pointers are your friend.

Pretty much any advanced programming concepts and moderately complex C/C++ program uses pointers, and the languages would be much much less powerful without them.