[nergal]

from what I've read in the alliedmodders wiki, I have the choice of making plugins in sourcepawn or C++ itself am I correct?

also, does anyone know a great place where I can learn C++? my teach also reccommends that I learn vanilla C so I can get an better understanding.

the only language I know is Lua and sourcemod can't even utilize it, so i might as well learn C/C++

[Mitchell]

I learnd sourcepawn and im starting to learn c
I would start with the idiots guide to c++, that's what I might do.

[asherkin]

Don't learn C if you want to write C++, learn C++.
Learn C if you want to write C.

SourceMod plugin are strictly SourcePawn, but you can write SourceMod Extensions and Metamod:Source plugins in C++, you're just sacrificing all of SourceMod's helpers and friendliness.

[nergal]

Originally Posted by asherkin Don't learn C if you want to write C++, learn C++. Learn C if you want to write C. SourceMod plugin are strictly SourcePawn, but you can write SourceMod Extensions and Metamod:Source plugins in C++, you're just sacrificing all of SourceMod's helpers and friendliness.

I really like all the plugins you guys write, but the extensions are hawt.

[VJScope]

C++ might be a good way to start coding but here's tutorial for sourcemod (first part).

[nergal]

amazing how time flies. was learning C++ at this time and made nothing more than a crappy command based program that calculated the cash for tf2 keys.

Now I'm making virtual machines and compiler frontends