C++

Introduction

I started programming C++, or C at first, in 10^th grade, after a friend of mine, who went to another school, told me they taught C# in one of his classes. I heard of C before, so this wasn’t really new for me, but I thought C to be a quite hard language to learn at all. And yes, if you were only writing python scripts at the time, C really was a new level. So even when I began programming C, and later C++ and eventually C#, I found it really complicated and confusing. So I came to a point where, after I reached a tutorial for programming games with SFML and couldn’t do any minor change without the game crashing as a response, I finally gave up. But luckily for my work experience in 11^th grade I found a company for security solutions, who offered some places for Software Engineering. And since they used mostly C# for their tools, after two weeks of programming and even designing an only internally used tool and a bunch of help by my new co-workers, I was nearly fluid in writing C#. So switching a level lower back to C++ really was no problem. Trained and motivated I returned to my unfinished SFML game and nearly instantly found and fixed my old bugs and continued the game to a point which, in my opinion deserves to be called “finished”.