ArcticCode

Cmon, this game of photoshop tennis can't possibly be finished Someone could use their imagination to come up with something else.

Wow... that is ridiculous. It took me forever to get to level 7 and then a quit. None of my friends have reached any level above 35 yet so getting to 999 will be insane. I doubt anyone could reach the new level cap within the next year without having to use cheats.

This is what I was able to create with your tutorial. I am pretty amazed at the results. When I follow tutorials, I usually finish with a product looking completely different than that of the tutorial so I must compliment you. Thank you for the tutorial, it was very easy. Your voice was clear and easy to understand. :)I have a feeling that I am probably gonna use this later someday for something. By the way, the effect looks exactly like the Vista Aero effect.

xDDDD, since I made this a loading screen to a game two days ago, I thought that I would put it onto a computer screen. Maybe the next person can edit the vista taskbar at the bottom. It also looks like whoever is playing the game seems to be getting cheating with CE. Hopefully this will provide more room for photoshop tennis since the loading screen was getting a bit packed. Now, you have the entire desktop in your hands

It looks like it turns out only to be a loading screen to some game.

I personally really like the Shiny theme. It is not too complicated and not too boring. The main reason why I probably like it is the way the tabs look. I also like the choice of gradients in the background and the Google logo. The logo looks really awesome with the reflection and the shine. Other than that, I like the Ninja theme. I had it for a while until I got bored of it.

I have to try xmarks when I get my site hosted and ready to go. About how many people need to bookmark your page before it starts to show publicly? It looks pretty interesting but I am not exactly how it works and how effective it is.

CPALead is one of the most annoying things I have ever encountered on the web. When I think that I have found something that I have been searching for, one of those CPALead thingies pop up out of nowhere asking me to fill out a survey. My guess is that CPALead became popular after people starting abusing it on facebook with all of these fan pages that require you to fill out a survey befor you can see something that was not worth your time.

Real instruments will be the best kind of instruments for a really long time. In my opinion, I can't stand the sound of the MIDI virtual instruments like in Finale Notepad, Noteworthy Composer, etc. I have to give some virtual instruments credit like some VST synthesizers, pianos, and drums but it there is no emotion when listening to the music. Sure that you can add dynamics into the software but it is not exactly like hearing an instrument live. For example, I once had the breathy flute VST for FL Studio. It sounded great, but it lacked properties of a real instrument. No matter what kind of advanced software there is, you cannot simulate real instruments.In my eyes, I prefer real instruments but there are many uses for virtual instruments as well. For example, I think that they could be used for practice beats, composition (being able to listen to the score), and for video game OSTs like Mario, Kingdom Hearts, etc. Also, if you pay attention to some albums, you can notice that some drums are produced by the computer. Still, nothing beats hearing drums in real life.

I believe that one point in time around 2 years ago, it was possible to create a bank account online at Netspend or ING to verify your paypal account. If you attempt this method now, paypal will just bounce the deposit from these banks. I was able to do this once with my paypal account then but I forgot the account information.

That feeling of wanting to make a game was the spark of my motivation to start learning C++ a few months ago. I researched a ton of game engines and Panda3D caught my eye. When I become proficient in writing C++, I might integrate Panda3D in my code along with some Cinema4D (CAD program) models I have created to make a single level game. I had my eyes set on that goal. :)It's too bad that I found out later that it takes lots of skill and dedication to even create the foundation of the game. That is why I put in a lot more time into reading my C++ book.

Not at all. I started reading the book with absolutely no programming experience whatsoever. I had no idea what a compiler was, source code, etc. As long as you don't tend to skim books like I do sometimes (accidentally), you should have no problem picking up the concepts. I recommend that you should manually enter each and every one of the examples into your compiler and compile it yourself. After that, you should try changing some lines and see what it does. C++ and Visual C++ is no different from each other. Visual C++ is referring to the Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler. Books shouldn't be all geared towards Windows programming because it would be harder to teach C++ like that. Instead, the books teach you concepts through console programs (the little programs that run under the command prompt). Windows programs are large and complex by nature (few hundred lines of code) so it would be difficult to teach C++ with 80% of the book containing code. After mastering all the basics of C++ through console programming, you can move on to Win32 (Windows) programming which you could easily adapt to by putting it all together. Some code is cross-platform. If your code can be compiled on different operating systems and machines without error, your code is considered "portable". You may want to put some research into which headers and functions are portable and which aren't. As for system("pause"); or system("ANYTHING"), you should avoid this line because it isn't portable and it sometimes triggers the antivirus. It is also a heavy function. What it does is halt the program for a bit, go to the operating system, do all this stuff, exit OS, and return to program. I would assume that you use this line to keep the console window open. You should use cin.get(); at the end of your code (once or twice depending how the compiler you are using compiles code). All this does is wait for you to press the RETURN key. I agree that this is a lot of knowledge but if you can use it in your program, it can be really fun. Also, the reason a lot of games are programmed and compiled in Visual C++ is because the compiler is amazing. There are many options on the compilation, linking, etc. I forgot to mention another book that is free for download from the MSDN website called C++ Beginner's Guide by Herbert Schildt. He is a pretty well known programmer author who writes books on Java, C#, and other languages. I thought that the book was a much less intimidating book to read. It is an ebook and can be found here: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-express/ I wish you luck in your programming. Maybe you'll come up with something promising in the future

Congratz to Spain. Andres Iniesta must have been feeling pretty awesome when he scored. I watched some of the match at my friends house. They were pretty crazy about FIFA so they made me watch some. I pretty much popped in and out of the room every few minutes to watch for a little bit. The only thing that bothers me about FIFA is that it takes forever for one team to score a goal. It was 0-0 when the game went overtime.

Yes. This method does prove working but the only thing about it is that it only works in some countries. I believe that you could so that in the US in an earlier time period but paypal changed the US method of account verification. These two methods include successfully applying for the Paypal Debit Card or verifying your bank account. Linking a visa/mastercard debit card will, however, increase your spending limit from $0 to $2000 USD. The only problem is that your paypal account will remain unverified. This means that you can spend your money to any individual/business that accepts payment from unverified paypal accounts.

I would highly recommend C++ Primer Plus (not C Primer Plus) 5th Edition by Stephen Prata for around 30-40 USD. The book consists of around 1200 pages. It assumes that you know nothing about programming. By the time you finish reading the book, you are an accomplished C++ programmer (taken that you completed all of the programming exercises at the end of the chapters to demonstrate that you understand the concepts). You say that you are reading Principles and Practice using C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup so I guess you can sort of skim through the C++ Primer Plus book looking for new concepts. C++ Primer Plus teaches you Object-Oriented Programming more advanced features of the C++ language.If you want to learn how to program games, I would recommend reading C++ Primer Plus 5th Edition and continuing your education with Windows Programming and DirectX 9 or 10 depending on your OS at http://www.directxtutorial.com/