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I think that teaching myself C++ in the late 90’s was a mistake. I remember going through an entire textbook, not being able to do anything with it and stopped
by heyoni 8y ago
I think that teaching myself C++ in the late 90’s was a mistake. I remember going through an entire textbook, not being able to do anything with it and stopped programming for years.
- speedplane 8y agoI learned C++ in the late 90s and also struggled. I now barely use it at all, mostly relying on garbage collecting languages. But knowing how memory is managed, that it's a resource that can easily be abused, even in a garbage collecting environment has been a huge boon to how I architect projects.
- pjmlp 8y agoDepends pretty much on each one. Coming from Turbo Pascal 6.0, it provided me a world with access to C based tools, without having to endure typical C unsafe code.
- heyoni 8y agoAbsolutely. For me it was something I was doing for fun when I was about 13 and was my second intro to programming after qbasic.