Back in 2013 I decided to give a try in programming. I did not have much self confidence throughout my life so it was a major decision. Since I wanted to do ga

Back in 2013 I decided to give a try in programming. I did not have much self confidence throughout my life so it was a major decision. Since I wanted to do game programming I taught myself C++. I still remember the three books I borrowed, one is Deitel's "C++ How to program", one is "C++ Primer" and the third is "Walls and mirrors", a book about data structure and algorithms. I read about 60% into the first two books and half into the third one, did a few trivial game projects, eventually stopped at writing a 2D tile based rpg engine. I was thinking a little too complex at the moment, that I would like to implement a scripting language amd an editor inside of the engine (NWN is a major inspiration). Eventually I got a basic editor running up and sort of xml-like configuration language for scripting, but the project is too messy so I stopped working on it. Anyway that is probably the most complicated project I worked on. I took a second shot last year, taking another route using MapEditor as the map editor and implemented shadow casting. But then I dropped the project again. It was not as interesting as it was 10 years ago.