The Unix Command Line

• Accessing the command line on Linux, Windows, or Mac
• Basic commands ls, cd, mkdir, rm

Optional Command Line Topics

• Using a terminal text editor nano, vim
• Infiles, outfiles, and piping < > |
• Shell scripting script.sh

C Programming

• Writing Hello World
• Compiling & Running Hello World gcc, ./a.out
• Variables int x;
• Basic Input & Output printf, scanf
• Macros #define X
• Operators & Expressions + - / * ++ -- +=
• Functions void func_name(void);
• Function Macros #define F(X) X
• Control Flow if, else, while, for, goto, switch
• Scope and Duration {}, static
• Data Types unsigned, const, char, short, long, float, double
• Using multiple .c and .h files extern, static, #include
• Compound Data Types struct, union, enum, typedef
• Pointers int *ptr = &x;
• Arrays int arr[x];
• Multi-dimensional Arrays int arr[x][y];
• Standard Input & Output stdin, stdout
• Error Handling stderr, exit
• Dynamic memory management malloc, calloc, free

Optional C Programming Topics

• Reading and Writing TEXT Files fopen, fprintf, fscanf, fclose
• Reading and Writing BINARY Files fread, fwrite
• Bitwise Operators & Bit Flags | & ~
• Bit Fields struct{int x : bits;}
• Inline Functions inline void func(void);
• Function Pointers return_type (*ptr_name)(args...);
• main() arguments int argc, char **argv

Libraries in C/C++

• Header Files #include <header.h>
• Linking gcc ... -lLIBRARY_NAME

C/C++ Development Tools

• Debugging with GDB

SDL (easy stuff honestly once you know C)

• Creating a window SDL_Window
• Rendering points and rectangles SDL_Renderer, SDL_Rect
• Loading and rendering images SDL_Surface, SDL_Texture, SDL_RenderCopy
• Handling user input SDL_Event
• Keyboard events
• Mouse events
• Gamepad events
• Playing sound effects Mix_Chunk
• Playing music Mix_Music

Optional SDL Topics

• Using sprite fonts
• Using TTF fonts SDL_ttf

Emscripten (C & C++ compiler for Web)

• Installing Emscripten emsdk
• Testing Emscripten apache2
• Compiling with Emscripten emcc
• Porting your game to Emscripten
• Customizing the Emscripten HTML page

General Game Programming (technically language independent, but of course I'll be showing you it in C)

• Game loop(s)
• Basic entity system
• Creating a player
• Creating enemies
• Collision with projectiles
• Basic tile system
• Tile map & editor
• Title screens
• Credits scrolls
• Dialogue system
• Cutscene system
• Saving & loading maps
• Saving & loading games

C++ Programming (optional & builds on C)

• Differences between C and C++
• Namespaces namespace name{}
• Using directives using namespace name; using type = alias;
• Standard Input & Output iostream, cout, cin, cerr
• Casting static_cast, const_cast, reinterpret_cast
• Constants constexpr, consteval, inline
• Templates template <typename T>
• Classes class, struct, public, private, protected
• Constructors and Destructors class_name(), ~class_name()
• Inheritance class x : public y
• Virtual functions virtual void func();
• Pure virtual functions virtual void func() = 0;