Thread: Tell me about C++ Programming

Historically, C ruled up on high for games
reason being, while C++ was good, as a language
the compilers weren't quite as good as their C counterparts
and programming in C gave you better (more optimised) binaries

This is not the case today
today, C & C++ compilers generate equally good binaries

C, however, still has the edge on program memory footprints
but this is not a concern for anything outside of embedded systems

Game engines (or anything needing raw speed) written in either language are equally viable

If you have no programing expierence, i would suggest learning a easier language first like C# or java (C# for games, java for w/e else, they are about the same) C# is almost just as good as C++ now without all the niky syntax. First language i learned that was OPP was java and it was fairly easy. Id suggest that or C# if you don't know how to program and want to learn OOP.