https://blog.maceage.com/tags/cplusplus/Recent content in Cplusplus on Maceage's BlogHugoen-au© Graham MaceSun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.maceage.com/posts/2025/delving-into-c-plus-plus/Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.maceage.com/posts/2025/delving-into-c-plus-plus/<p>As <a href="https://blog.maceage.com/posts/2025/learning-unreal-engine/">mentioned previously</a>, a prerequisite of the <a href="https://www.cgspectrum.com" target="_blank">CG Spectrum</a> <a href="https://www.cgspectrum.com/courses/game-programming-foundations" target="_blank">Game Programming Foundations</a> course is a basic understanding of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B" target="_blank">C++ programming language</a>.</p> <p>My programming experience has mostly been with higher-level languages. I started with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_%28classic%29" target="_blank">Visual Basic</a> before moving on to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28programming_language%29" target="_blank">Java</a> and then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_%28programming_language%29" target="_blank">C#</a>.</p> <p>Of those, I&rsquo;ve always found C# particularly intuitive, but I&rsquo;ve also wanted to learn C++ for a long time.</p> <p>Since I already had a solid understanding of the core principles, I saw little value in taking extensive notes on concepts I was already familiar with, and instead committed code to:</p>