Piggybacking on this:
I've been wanting to learn C++ as well. I am very experienced with JavaScript, and also am very fluent with Arduino. I've messed around with actual C++ before but I get lost with all the pointers, header files, and memory allocation stuff.
Are there any resources y'all would recommend to someone who has all of the programming fundamentals, but wants to learn the specifics of C++?
You and me both! My usual handle has been sherbethead for at least 15 years. Decided to switch it up to my artist name when I moved to Lemmy though. Boards has been my favorite group since I heard 1969 on Yahoo launchcast back in 2003 haha.
My all-time-favorite band, hands down. I always upvote boards.
Might I recommend:
...just to name a few. I could go on and on.
Holy diver.
Plaid is one of my all time favorites! Got to see them a few years back. If you like them, check out an artist called IDGlitch on SoundCloud. Super underrated and the closest thing I've heard to plaid:
Programmer here.
Infected Mushroom or Eskimo for when I'm in the zone and pumping out code.
For debugging: Boards of Canada, Plaid, Lone, Ciaran Byrne
Came here to recommend DIYPerks. Love his stuff.
I believe the scientific name is biggus dickus
100%
Era Vulgaris is by far my favorite album of theirs.
I'd have to disagree with QotSA, but I can definitely see why. I'm a huuuge fan of theirs, but for some reason every new QotSA album seems to take years for me to fully appreciate. I absolutely hated Era Vulgaris when it first came out. It's by far my favorite album of theirs now. Even ...like clockwork is barely starting to really grow on me, but I'm definitely coming around. I haven't even bothered to listen to their newest one yet.
Thanks for the very thorough response! I will absolutely check this out. I would say I have a fair bit of experience in OO programming. A decent amount from JS and also a good bit from C#, which I dabbled in for a good while during my "I'm going to make a game in unity" phase haha.
I know enough C++ to get myself in trouble, but it seems every time I have to use it I get super frustrated that things aren't as simple as they are in other languages I'm familiar with. That, and I never seem to know the exact terminology to look up my particular issue (which is half the battle anyways).
I actually needed to write a UDF in C for my mariadb instance just the other day. It ended up taking me several hours for something that would have taken me just minutes in JS or C#. It ended up being a pointer + memory allocation issue. Basically I wasn't clearing the allocated memory and resetting the index between function calls. It also frustrates me to no end that I can't just array.push() to add a new char to the end of a char array lol.
I also wrote a VST with Juce in C++ a few years back. I got it working eventually, but God I remember it being an absolute nightmare.
I guess really I have a hard time understanding when and why it's even necessary to use pointers etc since that stuff has been abstracted away in the higher level languages I know. It seems like you could essentially get the same functionality by just knowing when things are passed by value vs passed by reference.