   Michael Morrisons Beginning Programming Book of errors
  Are any of you familiar with this book? I am trying to run a few of the programs there and they give errors when certain actions are done. For example , I am on chapter 17 the Meteor Defense game. I can't play it because I get errors right from the beginning. When the missile impacts the meteor the game crashes withExpression: ("this ->Has_Container()",0)  // When run in VC++ express 2008or Expression: ("this ->MyCont !=NULL",0) //When run in VC++ 2005 professionalAnyone familiar with how I can  go about getting rid of this error, or just deleting whatever is causing it to complete the rest of my assignment?   
  I found the problem but not sure why it works. Instead of using debug, I used release build and it works fine. Anyone know why and when to use either ways?   ;  I got that book when I was learning C++ at 11. It is my favorite book on game programming. Not only that, but it also gives guidelines on the design as well and builds it up to the finished product. I recommend it.   ;  at 11? Are you talking 11yrs old? What other books do you recommend? I was thinking of doing the Game Institute classes to further myself.   ;  Yeah, 11 years old. :]The other kids would pull out the Hardy Boys or something and I'd pull out that big 'ol thing. :DAnother good book is Sams Teach Yourself "C Linux Programming". It's not C++ but I felt more confident with my programming skills reading that and then diving immediately into ( I'm trying to remember the exact name ) Sams Teach Yourself "C++ In 24 Hours". So technically, anything with "Sams Teach Yourself" and the word "programming" is a thumbs up in my book.Then I also picked up "Beginning Game Programming C++" and "Beginning OpenGL Game Programming".From there I read articles and what-not on the internet.   ;  Might want to check for missing graphics or incorrect paths.From what I remember when I read that book was that there was little to no error checking at all and the bitmap load the author wrote was pretty buggy.The book author used to have a forum where he answered questions like this about the book but he took it down a while back and has moved on to web programming it looks like.;  Ah, age 11. Thats when I thought my parents were going to bring me home a REAL computer but instead brought home a smith corona word processor : / Of course that was 16 years ago. Your very lucky to be able to have the opportunity to program at that age. I didn't get to start until I was 18 but I had the sams teach yourself C++ and it wasn't bad.I prefer this book though:http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Problem-Analysis-Program-Design/dp/1423902092/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240909364&sr=8-2 Very expensive, and very worth every penny.(Sorry OP I couldn't help with your original question but I thought Id throw in a recommendation since you asked for one earlier)EDIT: Ok for some reason my clickable link isnt working but it works just fine if you copy and paste into the browser window.   ;  I have exactly the same problem. You can overcome the problem by changing the GameEngine::deleteSprite  method. But I can't be sure all the sprites in the vector are getting deleted. Hope this helps   