This tutorial covers the basics of using function templates in C++. It shows you how to create themplates and how they work.

The Minimax Game Tree is used for programming computers to play games in which there are two players taking turns to play moves. In the most basic sense, the minimax tree is just a tree of all possible moves. For instance, take a look at the following minimax tree of all the possible first two moves of Tic-Tac-Toe (the tree has been simplified by removing symmetrical positions

I am not, and will not claim to be an expert with C, C++ or CGI. For a programmer, there are many ways to achieve the same result, and many are going to be better than mine. The examples on this page are intended to illustrate a point, and I do not claim them to be efficient or even beautiful examples of good coding practice. I have learned quite a bit more over the past year (Updated 06/10/98) and I hope to get some of my information posted whenever I can find the time to do so.

Enumerates all CD-ROM drives and allows them to be opened and closed at the touch of a button.

Loops are used to repeat a block of code. Being able to have your program repeatedly execute a block of code is one of the most basic but useful tasks in programming -- many programs or websites that produce extremely complex output (such as a message board) are really only executing a single task many times. (They may be executing a small number of tasks, but in principle, to produce a list of messages only requires repeating the operation of reading in some data and displaying it.) Now, think about what this means: a loop lets you write a very simple statement to produce a significantly greater result simply by repetition.

Pointers to Member Functions are one of C++'s more rarely used features, and are often not well understood even by experienced developers. This is understandable, as their syntax is necessarily rather clumsy and obscure.While they do not have wide applicability, sometimes member function pointers are useful to solve certain problems, and when they do apply they are often the perfect choice, both for improved performance and to make the code sensible. They work very well to cache the result of a frequently made decision, and to implement a different sort of polymorphism.

Before discussing classes, this lesson will be an introduction to data structures similar to classes. Structures are a way of storing many different values in variables of potentially different types under the same name. This makes it a more modular program, which is easier to modify because its design makes things more compact. Structs are generally useful whenever a lot of data needs to be grouped together--for instance, they can be used to hold records from a database or to store information about contacts in an address book. In the contacts example, a struct could be used that would hold all of the information about a single contact--name, address, phone number, and so forth.

The ability to control the flow of your program, letting it make decisions on what code to execute, is valuable to the programmer. The if statement allows you to control if a program enters a section of code or not based on whether a given condition is true or false. One of the important functions of the if statement is that it allows the program to select an action based upon the user's input. For example, by using an if statement to check a user entered password, your program can decide whether a user is allowed access to the program.

An intermediate tutorial designed for experienced C++ programmers.

A guide to the famous printf() function in C. Shows you how to output data in several ways. The tutorial is not yet complete but will be continued soon.