I have been programing for a long time today - i found the Code::Blocks IDE almost as useful as Visual C++. There are some flaws and things that are not as good as I am used to, but it does the job. This will allow me to work on the project easier - I do not need to use my mom's computer for it anymore.
I have been having a lot of problems today which required a LOT of additional research. Some of the problems I still have not found the answers to. It would make it a lot easier if I had someone that knows C++ and Windows Programing from whom I could ask advice.
Fortunately, most of the problems I cant find solutions to, I either may still find them in the upcoming chapter of the tutorial, or they are related to things that I probably will not be using in the final game.
One very useful thing that I have found today was a conversion between a number and a string (a set of characters creating a word/words). This is certainly useful for a lot of things, mostly notifying the user of some in-game parameter. Surprisingly I found it outside of MSDN where I spent a lot of time trying to find a good answer to it and failed. I should remember for the future not to limit myself to it.