Would this be a good course to follow if I want to get into

>84 hours individual project work without guidance
You could do this for free on your own time.
I really really hope you didn't pay more than the cost of the textbook for this "course".

>>62170844
>I really really hope you didn't pay more than the cost of the textbook for this "course".
Y-yeah about that...

>>62170912
This is a college level course?
How much are you paying for this?

>>62170819
wait so they expect you to pay for teaching yourself?

I'm all for self-teaching programming, but why would you pay to do it? It defeats the whole point.

You don't need a course, and don't start with C++. It's nightmarishly large, and as someone who has written Java and Python fluently, some JS, and did some Project Euler problems with C, it's a bitch trying to get the hang of C++ because it's probably the only language in which you almost REQUIRE a textbook or formal course to be good at (i.e. not write some C with some C++ autism sprinkled on top like I have been doing).

Courses with someone supervising in any capacity are not optimal. Among other risks, you run the risk of making the learning experience feel like a chore. I prefer online "textbooks" like http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/ and http://eloquentjavascript.net/. Those and youtube videos (like Stanford's "Programming Methodology" course) are all you need. Stack Exchange is a god send. If you run into trouble just google your error message or your general question and 9/10 you'll find a Stack Exchange with the answer. Start with Python, Java, JavaScript, or maybe C if you feel edgy. Then find something you actually want to do (4chan browser, OSRS bot, IRC bot, a clock program, a chess game, etc) and then break that down into steps, and then those into steps until you get down to steps that you can approach and solve with the help of google.

Also don't get meme'd into trying Scheme like /g/ might try. It's fun but non C-like languages are for academia and neckbeards.

>>62171425
C++ really isn't that hard to learn, it's basically C with a bunch of abstraction garbage that isn't hard to learn unless you didn't know what you were doing in C to begin with.

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>>62171425
>This absolutely outstanding advice
10/10; I love you.

>>62171425
>a common complaint of stackoverflow is people don't answer how to solve a problem using the way the question specifies but goes on some weird tangent suggesting something unrelated
>this post praises stackoverflow and also does the exact same thing, linking resources to java and javascript when the thread asks about C++
the memes are too much for me