Why SFML and Asteroids Clone

Hello, my name is Catrina and I'm going to blog about my experience learning SFML here. I'm trying to learn SFML (Simple Fast Media Library, a media library for C++) so I can start programming games. Over the summer I tried learning Python and Pygame, but got side tracked so I didn't get very far. I decided to switch over to SFML and C++ because I have taken a C++ intro course and am also taking a C++ Data Structures course. With Python/Pygame, I had to teach myself both as I went along which wasn't going well for me.

So this isn't my first time trying SFML, I attempted to use it back when I was taking my C++ intro course, but decided it was too advanced for me at the time. So after a few weeks into my Data Structures course I decided to try and learn SFML again. This went much better than last time. The first time I tried learning SFML, I was treating the SFML tutorials like a step - by - step guide on how to make a game or application, following each one in sequential order. This time I realized they were more like guidelines of what you could do in SFML, so I jumped around to the different tutorials I needed at the time, and was able to start the beginning of my first SFML project, an Asteroids clone.

After a couple of weeks (and many headaches mostly from installing SFML), I have a SFML application that creates a window with a black background, and loads a sprite, the ship, that can rotate and move forward. Unfortunately, I'm now stuck. I was recently taught about classes and how to use them in my C++ class, but we haven't gone over including multiple header files or including guards or header guards. The answer to my problems is probably found here : http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/10627/ , but I have yet to read that through.

Hopefully, by my next post I will have working bullets and have figured out the header and include problems.