- 26 Aug 2018
Over the course of the 2018 r/roguelikedev Tutorial Tuesday Challenge I decided to invest some time learning some fundamental programming concepts that I probably should have learned years ago. The fun (and challenging) part of being a hobby programmer is that most of my learning comes from books, and then random tutorials on the internet. Somewhere in the course of my “education” I never learned about basic data structures and how they can be used.
Around week three of the challenge I decided to implement a scheduling system for Barbarian - which led me to learn about creating lists and priority queues. STL has std::priority_queue, but like many STL classes never seems to want to play nicely with my code. Again, likely a byproduct of me learning C++ from a book and probably not the fault of STL.
This is my very first attempt at writing a tutorial - expect some errors and feel free to comment with any corrections.
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