{"id":186,"date":"2023-03-01T10:29:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T10:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2023-03-02T01:08:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T01:08:15","slug":"i-finished-my-first-c-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"I finished my first C++ Course!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe I actually finished a C++ course in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/?project=cloud-and-code-home-lab\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/?project=cloud-and-code-home-lab\">Cloud and Code Home Lab<\/a>! I&#8217;ve been doing basic coding with C++ on and off for a long time but I had never completed anything substantial (I equate it to knowing my &#8220;ABCs&#8221; but never learning any English). I&#8217;m looking at a combination of factors that has led me to this point:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Having had a long career in IT operations<\/strong>. I think all the concepts that I&#8217;ve learned with virtual machines, networking and how computers actually work (i.e memory addresses, active vs. passive storage) gave me an &#8220;under-the-hood&#8221; understanding of what I&#8217;m doing in scripting and programming.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Powershell and Python scripting<\/strong>. I definitely have used Powershell more in the real world (Office 365 scripting and PowerCLI for VMware) but actually having that hands-on practice with loops and variables really gave me a better understanding of both the logic as well as (really important) the syntax of different scripting and programming languages.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Teachers<\/strong>. Teachers definitely make a big difference. I really need to come up with a good set of teachers that I&#8217;ve encountered in my life. But Mike Dane on Free Code Camp helped me get a handle on Python a couple of years back and he got me understanding C++. Mike has his own channel on YouTube but if you search &#8220;freecodecamp Mike Dane&#8221; in YouTube, you can pull up the material he teaches and helped me.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Maturity<\/strong>. When I was younger, I definitely was more rebellious. I would ask a lot of &#8220;Why&#8221; questions and if I did not get satisfactory answers, I would tune out the person talking to me. I didn&#8217;t understand classes, inheritance, pointers, and especially C++ syntax. As I&#8217;ve gotten older, I&#8217;ve realized that a lot of what I needed is self-paced learning (so I could repeat the video over and over) as well as learning to take material as it comes and writing a lot of commentary on that material. I&#8217;ve noted that my C++ programs are more commentary on what is going on vs. actual code that executes. Even when I don&#8217;t fully understand the code, that commentary has helped me to debate with myself so that I can get to the point where I have some clarity with the material.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, it definitely feels cool to actual complete a C++ class. C++ has always been one of those truly intimidating things to me in IT&#8230;it&#8217;s a little less intimidating now. Thanks Mike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a link to the class I just finished: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vLnPwxZdW4Y&amp;t=3011s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">C++ Tutorial for Beginners<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of you curious to look at my code: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mcswing1\/noobCode\/tree\/master\/C%2B%2B\/freeCodeCamp\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mcswing1\/noobCode\/tree\/master\/C%2B%2B\/freeCodeCamp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My GitHub<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I actually finished a C++ course in my Cloud and Code Home Lab! I&#8217;ve been doing basic coding with C++ on and off for a long time but I had never completed anything substantial (I equate it to knowing my &#8220;ABCs&#8221; but never learning any English). I&#8217;m looking at a combination of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[19,4,18,29,3],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coding","tag-c","tag-code","tag-coding","tag-github","tag-programming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hello-world.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moseschung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}