This tutorial will guide you through the following steps:
Make sure you have the following software installed:
The final project is a hybrid of C++ and JavaScript. A JavaScript only version of this tutorial is available here.
This tutorial is mostly based on pure JavaScript, so people can have a deeper understanding of the language and its dynamics. In addition, this tutorial makes a great practice on how to build a nice architecture for complex systems, which can then be expanded and maintained with ease. Yes, it is specifically designed for games, but I truly believe that video games can easily get messed up if not planned and designed properly in terms of object oriented relationships. They are naturally more complicated then any web-app you gonna see out there, so if you can create a game engine and understand its flow, creating a web-app would be a piece of cake for you. By the end of this tutorial, your general sense for programming should be enhanced greatly.
So hopefully that I got you pumped up by now, let's get started!