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by peter_retief 3419 days ago
Its not the language that is difficult its the underlying systems that are complex. What do you want to do with it? What is your passion? The language is just a tool
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Sure. I find the education system very straightforward and downright boring, to be frank, being a high school student, however, I am constricted to it on a day-to-day basis.

I love real-world application and so I see coding and development in general as the way forward for me personally - to be honest the whole world of startups.

I'm currently running a start-up company and learning code on the side. I guess the end goal is to be able to develop world-class applications? That's why I want to learn C++.

So lets push this a little farther. What type of "world-class" application? Do you want to do a mobile app, web app, desktop?

C++ is an amazing language, and I use it almost everyday. However, I develop most of my applications with JavaScript, and that includes web, mobile, and desktop applications. I am using C++ in my application with Nodejs for my more computational heavy operations.

The more specific you are, and I know you are excited and have all the wonder in world, but it will allow this community to help you. Best of luck!