We have to remember, the tech sector did a lot of over-hiring which didn’t meet growth. Saying it’s because AI automation is nowadays a get-out-of-jail-card for companies to adjust their staff size without a huge drop in value.

True, it was just a recommendation because for me it made more sense this way around. Like objects are just structs with function pointers and some compiler magic to ensure private and publicness, polymorphism is just unions etc.

Honestly C and C++ code are the same. You can use C++ function calls and objects when needed and have everything else pure C. Don’t think of them as two completely different languages, C++ is more of an “object oriented framework for c” than its own language. That is a gross oversimplification but you get what I mean.

As C++ is a superset of C, I reckon you should start with C, as many concepts of C++ are translatable to C, which is what the first C++ compiler did.

I still use fprintf instead of cout because it feels more “proper”