hokay, it's almost done. i'll come back and finish it up tonight

Well Intel HD are not even cards, they're just chips so they won't help you with gaming. Like Streetwalker said, the best you can do is gather parts and build it yourself.

that is not at all true. ivy bridge's hd4000 can handle his mentioned games, and haswell has improved on that performance again, with the high-end iris chips nearly doubling performance. yes, there are plenty of dedicated cards that are much better, but it is no longer true that intel's integrated graphics are "worthless" (and they're a particularly nice choice for linux/bsd/etc users)

as for putting together your own computer, that is definitely the best way to lower prices, but it takes a lot of patience and experience to find the right parts at good prices and make sure everything fits together properly in the end. that's not to say that you shouldn't try =)

Indeed, C++ has fewer, and different, abstractions than TI-BASIC has. They tackle different use cases and learning curves.

they're definitely different, but i'd say that it abstracts to a far greater degree than any form of BASIC. what comparison is there to be made to a language with function and class templates?

also, if we're handing out tutorial links, i'd point to this .

that looks amazing. i want to try making something like it now =D

Who needs that much ram and that much space

people who watch and listen to lots of things and also like to keep backups of stuff. i have about 6TB of storage, and it's ~75% full. when dealing with huge chunks of storage, your RAM gets filled up to be used as cache very quickly, so the more you have the faster things work.

if you already have one thread dedicated to you asking for python help (here), please don't open a duplicate. that being said, i'm glad people were able to help you out =)

this isn't at all the sort of thing that c++ is designed to do. c++ is a language made to work with complex, constantly changing projects in a way that remains both fast and reliable. furthermore, c++ is not at all a good language for a beginner, as it is jammed full of advanced features that are fantastic for professionals but make it very difficult to understand for anyone else. you have to approach the language holistically, learning basically everything at once, or you'll never get what things are doing.

if you really want to learn c++, my suggestion would be to first master c, so that you at least know how basic program flow, like loops, conditionals, breaks, and cases; basic pointers; scope; headers; functions; and data structures, like arrays, structs, enums, etc, work. if you don't understand all of those perfectly you'll never get anywhere with c++ and will end up abusing it in ways it's not meant to be used. (EDIT: if you happen to have a calculator, then axe is an even better place to start, from which you can move on to c and then to c++, because the simplified instruction set and easier to understand approach to pointers [possible because of the calculator's simpler memory layout] are more beginner-friendly) if you want to write a program like this one, though, that's mostly text manipulation, go use a high-level scripting language. i'd recommend perl, because i hate python, but most people disagree with that

EDIT: also, as a word of warning:
if (torch == 0)
{
            cout << "The tunnel is too dark to explore.\n";
            goto ex;
}is the usual way of writing a statement like this, and
if (torch == 0) {
            cout << "The tunnel is too dark to explore.\n";
            goto ex;
}is also acceptable (and the way i prefer it). even
if (torch == 0) { cout << "The tunnel is too dark to explore.\n"; goto ex; }is sometimes used for really small statements. if you ever send a program with
if (torch == 0)
{cout << "The tunnel is too dark to explore.\n";
goto ex;}in it to another programmer, however, he will almost certainly label you as an idiot.