Welcome to C++

hey what's up guys my name is Aero and welcome to a brand new series this series is going to teach you everything you need to know about C++ we're going to learn C++ specifically in the context of game development however it's not just going to apply to game development or game programming we're just going to use games as an example this series is going to apply to pretty much everyone whether you're a beginner or you're Advanced we'll cover the basics of the language but we'll be quite concise with that so basically if you are a beginner you can still follow along with this series but you're going to have to be able to Google things and do some research and find find some of the basics out for yourself basically just be a normal person and Google things that you don't understand I don't want to dwell on the basics for too long and cover them in extreme detail so just make sure you Google things and you'll be fine so now the question is why why would I want to learn C++ isn't C++ kind of an outdated language why what good is there in learning C++ nowadays so C++ is still pretty much the most used language when you need to write fast code that performs well or if you're writing for a weird AR arure or a platform and you need the code to run natively if you want direct control over Hardware C++ is for you the games industry for example uses C++ extensively and gam and game engines like Unity unreal frostbite they're all written in C++ so the question is why why would we want direct access to Hardware why are all of these game engines written in C++ why not use another language the biggest reason for using C++ is the direct control over Hardware let's talk a little bit about how C++ works so you write your code in C++ you pass your code into compiler and that compiler will output machine code for your Target platform machine code is the actual instructions that your devic's CPU will actually perform so using C++ we can literally control every single instruction that your CPU executes