TwinklebearDev-Lessons

Source code and assets for the TwinklebearDev SDL 2.0 Lessons. The full lesson text is available at my site.

Lesson Index:

• Lesson 0: Setting up SDL:
  • A simple program to make sure you've set up SDL correctly
• Lesson 1: Hello World:
  • The standard Hello World program, for SDL 2.0
• Lesson 2: Don't Put Everything in Main
  • An introduction to creating some functions to help us with writing better and reusable code.
• Lesson 3: SDL Extension Libraries
  • An introduction to the various extension libraries that are available for SDL in this lesson we cover usage of SDL_image to load non-BMP images
• Lesson 4: Handling Events
  • An introduction to using SDL's event system to get user input from the window, mouse and keyboard
• Lesson 5: Clipping Sprite Sheets
  • An introduction to selecting specific subsets of an image sheet, ie. sprite sheet, that we want to draw
• Lesson 6: True Type Fonts with SDL_ttf
  • An introduction to using the SDL_ttf extension library to render true type fonts

Other Language Bindings

• Go: mbenkmann has SDL2 bindings for Go and ported these tutorials to Go.