To start off, I'm assuming that you've read Ernest Pazera's introduction-and-setup articles about SDL (well, not really, since I haven't read them... but you get the idea). I just want you to have the ...
Really, all you need is to understand that we're rendering text in this example. If you want to have the code working, you'll need SDL, SDL_TTF, and a compiler :-) A special thank-you to Ernest Pazera ...