C++ stuffs

a big thing is how you prefer to learn – some ppl like learning from tutorials but I don't, cos idc about learning anything for its own sake anymore, cos pure maths is just much nicer than all other theory :P

so it's worth considering how you learnt other languages (max, or vb, or latex)

I self-teach tons of stuff but always with an application in mind, so I think like "what interesting project could teach me c++?"

I checked out max's min-devkit and it looks a bit too mysterious, like I can't tell what the example code's meant to be doing cos it hides the basics behind lots of API features and weird idioms

but if you have an idea for what you'd do with it, a nice project could be making a toy version that outputs some representation of the real thing, but built from scratch with standard c++ features so you learn c++ itself

if you like tutorials, there are those (idk about them). if you like semi-applied, you could try algorithms theory, e.g. implementing depth-first search, or solving problems. websites like hackerrank and codility are good for that, and you can wrap algos up into nice classes as well if you then take it offline

the applied way is literally google everything, mostly answers from stack overflow :P getting started is simplest by keeping everyth in 1 file and calling compiler + running from command line, I think. I use VSCode and install its C++ extension to detect errors

so that's a few options, lmk what you're thinking. I quite like helping out with this stuff ^ _ ^