There is a function gethostbyname for getting the ip address using Winsock. This function will retrieve the ip address details into a variable of type "structure hostent". Read for more info at <a href=http://www.codersource.net/win32_socket_ip_address.html>IP Address Retrieval</a>

Tutorial and sample codes to calculate the distance between two locations. Free sample source codes in PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, C/C++, C#, Java, Perl, Visual Basic and Javascript. Longitude and latitude for United States ZIP Code and Canadian Postal Code are available in database subscription.

The rand() function in C/C++ and other languages gives predictable results. This guide shows you how to use atmospheric radiation to generate really random numbers.

C# 2.0 introduces several language extensions, the most important of which are Generics, Anonymous Methods, Iterators, and Partial Types. The language extensions in C# 2.0 were designed to ensure maximum compatibility with existing code. For example, even though C# 2.0 gives special meaning to the words where, yield, and partial in certain contexts, these words can still be used as identifiers. Indeed, C# 2.0 adds no new keywords as such keywords could conflict with identifiers in existing code.

The new C++ standard is full of powerful additions to the language: templates, run-time type identification (RTTI), namespaces, and exceptions to name a few. This tutorial discusses one of the minor extensions: the new C++ casting operators.

There are a number of tutorials available for the intermediate game programmer, but there are very few good tutorials for beginners who have never drawn a pixel on the screen. A quick search on the net reveals hundreds of sites devoted to 3D, polygons, texture- mapping and other advance topics, but the beginner has no where to get started. This tutorial is for C programmers who want to start learning game programming.

A tutorial to help C++ programmers who are new to DirectX get acquainted with the libraries, in particular DirectDraw and DirectInput.

This tutorial will teach you how to create some graphics over C++ and Pascal. It requires some programming knowledge.

This is a comprehensive tutorial to guide newcomers to game programming and Allegro through the process of writing a simple game. Allegro is a game programming library.