alt Hacker News- stupid question, since we are on the topic of c++, i finished reading through learncpp.com
- how do I take this from 0 to the guy that builds a play station 3 emulator?
- like seriously what kind of step by step projects or learning experiences in increasing order of difficulty do you recommend to get really really good at c++
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I would recommend reconsidering the "PS3" part. I had to revisit a codebase that supported the beast more than a decade ago recently, and I was in shock at how weird the PS3 bits were. As for "really good", I would dodge that since I have only been using C++ for like 25 years =)
Getting very good at C++ takes more than a decade. There are no shortcuts. You will have to start by getting in the trenches and write some code.
You don’t need to be really good at cpp to write a crappy emulator. All the “really good” stuff is about eeking out performance. If you want to build an emulator start with a qt gui and go from there. By the time you’re done you’ll be good enough
The fun thing about C++ is that it’s really hard. The even more fun thing is that the domain knowledge behind is even harder - game engines, high performance clusters, emulators, real time simulations, rendering engines, high frequency trading - so more often than not most C++ devs commit to learning a language subset and then focus their energy on the task at hand. A PS3 emulator might be a switch statement (not really, but you get the point)