Why do you want to learn c++?
Commercial necessity basically. We’re a development services house that specialises in embedded software. Our engineers need to be capable in a variety of low and high level languages.
C is extremely common in our field and everyone here is very experienced in that, but C++ is becoming increasingly common too and I’d like to get them beyond the “C with classes” mindset.
Personally I’m fairly experienced in C++, though I’ve not had a chance to use many of the newer (C++11 and beyond) features in anger.
I was run through the selected “training” to see if it was any good. It wasn’t.
Why would a free course be any good
Cos there’s a lot of good free stuff on t’internet. 😀
Personally I’d be happy to pay for training but the company takes a different view: an engineer sat doing non-billable training is already costing them a lot of money without additional fees on top.