c++

starting to learn programming with C++; this shit is a bitch. i've been wanting to learn, so i can begin to develop a game using the source engine, but damn, any tips?

It's better than C because it has EXCEPTIONS and thousands of other great high-level language features that really fucking belong in the high-level language area while still forcing you to carefully discern . and -> and be very mindful about where it stores your bits and which entity is responsible for their deallocation.  It feels like being a CTO in a large technological company and in addition to your primary tasks like architecture or strategic planning having to micromanage every single employee to stop them from eating glue.

And if you forget to add const or * in one single place in your code g++ will spam you with at least 10kb of indecipherable error messages, and at most, well, I don't know, my personal record is 763 kilobytes of error messages because of a single forgotten token.