Current Events > Have any of you ever taken a course in C++?

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or , know how to program in C++ etc....?

Self taught. C++ is easy

C++ is not easy lol it's such a complicated mess of a language

I've slowly picked up bits and pieces over the years, I currently occasionally need to do it for work so I have a rough idea of how it works but I'm by no means an expert

half a year in highschool

switched to almost all java after that, until recently trying to learn C# for unity.

Yea, all the first year intro programming courses at my college were in C++

I liked the professor a lot, but she had a lot of stipulations, like we HAD to use emacs/vim and almost no standard library imports. I got a good foundation, but it made it kinda harder to adjust to more modern programming standards.

I was coding back on the Playstation 2 in C++, with a controller and an on-screen keyboard.

I did a little bit in high school and college

so, you dudes think there are much superior coding languages, to C++?

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so, you dudes think there are much superior coding languages, to C++?

Really depends on how you define superior. The strong points of C++ are that it is very versatile, it's fast, it's portable, it has a very low-level connection to linux/OS stuff, and it's been around for a long time, which means there are countless libraries and language feature additions and etc.

The weak points of it are that it's not type safe or memory safe, which means it's more error prone, it has some pretty complicated build process for larger projects, it has random inconsistencies across different compilers, and that it's been around for a long time which means there are countless additions to the language that you might have to potentially understand to try and work with.

Nowadays I'm not sure I'd really recommend it to anyone. It's not a great beginner language because it is liable to get you too focused on the nitty-gritty rather than the larger-scale view of how programming works. And for non-beginners, if you aren't experienced enough to realize when you might want to use C++ then you're not experienced enough to really make using it a good idea anyway. Not to say it's a useless language but the people who need it already know they need it, they don't need anyone recommending it to them