You sound like you might still in college or recently graduated. I would give you my suggestion for whatever it's worth. People use C++ mostly for two reasons:

You sound like you might still in college or recently graduated. I would give you my suggestion for whatever it's worth. People use C++ mostly for two reasons: 1. Performance 2. Legacy code. If you want to be in C++ space in a few years, you really want to know how to write code that's fast. To make a program fast, you have to at least have a basic understanding of hardware and parallelism. Look at Martin Thompson's blog "Mechanical Sympathy" and listen to his talk "It's all a numbers game " at last year's GOTO conference and see if these materials interests you.If not, you might be better off not solely focusing on C++.