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...with a sidenote on why I think C++ is actually a good programming language for beginners

So it's been a little over a year since my last post here and at that time I though I was going full steam on self-teaching to become a web developer and/or programmer. Then I'm not sure what happened, I guess I lost impulse, tried applying for a few web development jobs here and there, didn't get any, so I took a job as an interpreter. Which is not too bad, but it's also not exactly a dream job (which I'm not even sure exists anymore). After a few months of almost no programming, for some reason I got intrigued by C++, so I've been learning that for about a month now. I've been on and off trying to learn programming for about a decade now and each time I leave it for some time, then I come back and have forgotten most of it, but a little bit remains. One example is, I had never been able to understand classes before, when learning Python and later JavaScript; also function returns, when a function is supposed to return something and when not. The fact that C++ is strongly typed helps a lot to understand many concepts like that, as well as some other things that make C++ (superficially) more complicated, but the advantage is that it makes everything more explicit. sidenote: that is why I think C++ is actually a very good language for beginners. But it does requiere more patience and commitment to get to a point where you can do something “useful”.