To add a contrasting opinion I started off with C++ because I heard that's what games were written in and I wanted to learn games. I picked up C++ Primer in Jun

To add a contrasting opinion I started off with C++ because I heard that's what games were written in and I wanted to learn games. I picked up C++ Primer in Junior year of high school, got some text printing to command line and was fucking ecstatic. I eventually got stuck and had no one to really give me guidance, but it did make me decide to pursue a degree in Computer Science instead of English. Despite loving to write at the time, the brief exposure to programming made to so damn curious that I felt completed to break out of my comfort for writing and try something different.