Learning a bit about... C++

Introduction

I've been spending my Saturdays doing tutorials on languages I'm curious about. This week it's C++.

What I knew about the language before I started

Nothing.

What I did

The first 20 minutes of C++ Crash Course For Beginners. Then Simple Snake Game in C++ Console

The crash course was interesting to hear about the background to the language, but then it was just "this is a variable, this is a loop" etc and it was pretty similar to other languages, so I skipped all that. I was glad I had that background for the snake game.

The hardest part of the snake game was getting my head around the logic. It ends up with a good game, although since it's old I had to look up how to do the sleep part, to slow it down. And I got annoyed that the fruit always went to the same places in the same order (which seemed to be near the walls far too often) so I looked up how to make the randoming more random.

The big problem I had with it was the screen flickering, which he said at the start wouldn't be a problem by the end, but he never fixed it. So it's hard to play because looking at a flickering console is not fun.

What I thought about the language

I thought it was a really hard language, that would be nothing like anything else. But it wasn't at all. It was just yet another similar language. I was expecting to hate it, but I didn't.

I was mostly excited by Visual Studio filling in all the switch options for me. Which isn't really language-related, just Visual Studio-related.