How do you program applications/games in C++?

[edson1314]

ver the past couple of months I have been learning the C++ programming language on my Mac OS X using Xcode. So far I have only been able to make command line applications that run through Terminal, but I have heard that there are massively complete games and applications that are written in C++. How exactly are such games and applications written? Please include any downloads I might need and possibly some good tutorials on the subject.
If programming games and applications on a Mac OS X is impossible without help from another language such as Cocoa or Carbon (understand that I am not really interested in learning such a language, I want to know if there is a way to write games and applications purely in C++ or possibly with the help of an application meant to facilitate the process of game/application development) then could you please answer a second question of mine, which is: can you program applications and games on a computer running Windows? If this is so please include any downloads I may need develop such games and/or applications and some good tutorials on the subject.
-Note: on my Windows computer I am using Code::Blocks and a GNU C++ compiler

Thank you in advance!

[akac]

Well first Cocoa and Carbon are not languages. They are frameworks. Carbon uses C/C++. Cocoa uses Objective-C which is a superset of C. You could use Objective-C++ which is a superset of C++.

You have no choice but to use Carbon or Cocoa if you want a GUI of any kind on Mac OS X, kind of like you have no choice but to use Win32 on Windows if you want to make a window there. Or X11 and I can go on.

For stuff like apps, you really must learn Cocoa or in some cases you can use QT which is a C++ framework that uses Cocoa underneath.

But if you are writing a game, you learn just enough Cocoa to create a window with an OpenGL view, and then the rest of your game is in C++ and OpenGL.