I started about 10 years ago with modding games. C++ is what everyone used (and mostly still uses) to write mods/cheats, dll injections, and so on. There were s

I started about 10 years ago with modding games. C++ is what everyone used (and mostly still uses) to write mods/cheats, dll injections, and so on. There were some shared online that I used as reference to learn how it was done. Looking up everything I didn't understand, reading hundreds of forum posts, blogs and stackoverflow. Modifying it to do silly things. It's a really steep difficulty curve to start like this, but it'll immediately force you to understand all the low level fundamentals if you want to accomplish anything. You can't make a functioning mod if you don't understand the memory model of the game and engine you're messing with, or what your code is actually doing. So you build a really strong foundation by force, and everything after comes naturally. Now I work at a AAA game studio and it's really fun to be able to easily make large changes to the engine as needed. Sometimes you have to write complicated generic code, and sometimes you get to write really fast and simple code. You always understand what happens behind the scenes, how the computer will represent your data and how it processes it. How different threads interact when accessing shared data. There's not really anything that can't be figured out. Somehow I never cared for any courses or books. They all want you to make boring things, and that's the best way to get disinterested and give up. Wanting to get a particular thing to work can be incredible motivation to keep digging at it for weeks and learn large amounts of trivia along the way. I think my suggestion would be don't try to learn C++. Find something you actually want to do (maybe you want to make a game?) and use C++ to do that. At least that's what worked for me. Also, this meme is very much true. Try to stay clear of "modern c++" template over engineering. There's a reason why no game studio uses the STL. https://twitter.com/nice_byte/status/1466940940229046273 https://twitter.com/nice_byte/status/1466940940229046273